Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-10
Idaho Senator DeIuged With
Letters From All Over the
Country Applauding Position
He Has Taken.
MANY WOMEN OPPOSE
ENTANGLING ALLIANCE
One Correspondent Declares
Pact "Most Dangerous Prop
osition Ever Advanced
Menace to Americanism.

WeIldCe u AIHcTICdIllSIns
Capital News Special Service.)
Washington. March 10-A backfirs
from the nation In opposition to any
such International ENHANCEMENT as
that feared possible in the constitu-
ton of the league of nations is re-
Elected in the correspondence Of the
three senator's who have attacked the
document.
Not in patches but in bales the let
ters and kilograms are piled in the
offices of Senators Borah. Idaho;
Poindexter. Wash. and Reed, Mo.
It has been veritable avalanche of
congratulations to the senators who
have assailed the league. More than
95 per cent of the communications
are commendatory in form and phrase.
Other senators at the same time have
been besieged by their correspondents
among constituents giving or seeking
advice, and the same flavor is MAIN
tained in this correspondence as in
that which the three speakers have
received.
EXCERPTS FROM BoRAH
LETTERS.
AS illustrative of the general tenor OF
the correspondence the following brief
excerpts from the correspondence OF
Senator Borah discloses the feeling
throughout the United States The Sc
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except that an effort has been made
to present those which show the scope
of the opposition geographically.
The following paragraphs were adj
dressed to Senator Borah by a novel;
ist and writer of popularity in New
York. He was a member of the group
of supporters of the cause Of America
in the recent war who designated
themselves the vigilantes and gave
time and effort to helping the nation
in the great fight. The written says:
I have never doubted your sin
cerity. I believed that you would
hit the league of nations q hard
blow. did not even hope that you
would rise so greatly to the oc-
casion and hit the foolish thing
quite SO severely. I believe that we
SHOulu Interfere NCIy NlOtSHtly III
European politics whenever these
politics menace our peace and
contentment.
With a president who knows
the difference between black and
white and right and wrong the
moment case is presented AM
erica is as big force for peace
as the world needs and England
hav hot cha will 1ta
down under injustice. That's
enough We want to be q little
more careful what men we put in
high office. That is all.
NEW YORKER IS STIRRED.
A manufacturers agent in New York
in letter approving the Idaho sena-
tors warning that little league of
nations was a dangerous thing. said:
In the minds of many thousands
of Americans, Wilson's Ideas as
regards the league OF nations will
be a terrible blow to the future
success of this country and drag
us into everlasting war. Wilson
appears to be doing everything he
can to make an easy, soft settle
ment for, Germany.
He seems to have forgotten the
great sufferings France and Bel
GUM endured at the hands Of tho
Germans. Now he Is crying for
no indemnities and endeavoring to
let Germany off easy.
1t Is an outrage and a disgrace
and shame that he should be al
lowed to attempt to represent that
his personal ideas are the senti-
ments Of this country. He was
the man who formerly used the
phrase too proud to fight and he
is the man who was elected by
the women -en the basis OF he
kept us out of war;
Is the United States congress-
going to back up Wilson's per-
sonai Ideas that are undoubtedly
opposed by very great majority
of the voters of this country. who
look to congress to defeat Wilson's
league OF nations and hts desire to
protect Germany at the expense of
France and Belgium.
A Kansas attorney wrote,
The Wilson-Taft league of ma.
tions for us Is the most dangerous
proposition ever advanced. It is In
violation of all that our indepen-
dent republic has ever maintained
or attained In war and peace. II
subverts all we havs ever gained