Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-12
.BORAH SAYS ADOPTION
OF PEACE OUTLINED
WOULD Be TREASON

'OSt, Is Oh special interest at this time
n view of Senator Borahs threat te
cave the Republican party if it shall
auction the peace terms as at present
utlined:
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
prospective chairman of the for
eign relations committee of the
next senate and leader of the ma
jority party in the United States,
is not satisfied with the revised
league of nations covenant. AL
though he declines at this time to
make full statement and hopes
to see his colleagues give careful
study to the revised draft, Sena-
tor Lodge said enough last night
to show definitely that he cannot
approve of it as 1t stands.
I am not prepared to make a
statement in regard to the new
draft at this moment, because I
desire to examine it very carefully
and compare it with the former
draft, and also to confer with my
colleagues, for it is obvious that
1t will require further amend
ments If it is to promote peace
and not endanger certain rights
of the United States which should
never be placed in jeopardy"
The statement of the majority
leader, who admittedly can con-
troll enough votes to swamp any
and all attempts to force the pres
ent covenant through the senate,
came as q distinct shock and sur
prise to those administration sup
porters who have publicly stated
that the revised covenant would
go through swimmingly and that
Senator Lodge would be glad of
the opportunity OF retreating from
his position of opposition.
ENCOURAGEMENT IN TELEGRAM
These league at-any-price sup
porters thought there was encour-
agement in the text of the follow
ing telegram which went out to
Republican senators from Senator
Lodge and Senator Curtis, of Kan
sas, Republican whip:
1--WE suggest that Republican
senators reserve final expressions
of opinion respecting the amended
league covenant until the latest
draft has been carefully studied
and until there has been an oppor-
tunity for conference"
A meeting between Senator
Lodge and Senator Borah, of
Idaho, at Senator Lodges home
was also interpreted as a favor
able sign for the league-at any
price champions and gossip was
that the Massachusetts leader
was attempting to persuade Sena-
tor Borah to make the best of a
bad bargain and accept the coven-
ant which was not subject to
change.
Coincident with this came re-
ports that certain members of the
Republican national committee
were urging senators to let the
covenant go through and then be
in position to win support in
1920 from the entanglements and
complications certain to arise from
this great national blunder, which
would be directly chargeable to the
Democrats.
REFUSE PARTISAN ADVANTAGE
From a partisan viewpoint there
are admittedly alluring tempta-
tions to let the covenant pass
and capitalize when the American
people begin to realize what has
been done at their expense. But
men like Senator Lodge and Sena-
tor Borah and others are made of
sterner stuff than this. They are
perhaps fully aware of the politi-
cal harvest they might reap hy
helping deceive the American peo-
pie, Intentionally or otherwise, but
they are the type of men who have
risen to their present positions be-
cause they have thought of the
nations welfare first and their
personal interests afterward.
If they knew that their political
effacement were to follow newt
ably through opposing the present
covenant, they would still oppose
1t rather than place the freedom
and welfare of the United States
in jeopardy.
WHERE BoRAH SEES TREASON
Senator Borah, after his inter-
view with Senator Lodge, charac-
teriZed article X of the revised
covenant, forcing all nations. in
Guiding the United States, to, if
necessary, go to war to preserve
territorial integrity from foreign
aggression in all parts of the
world as "infamous"-the most
infamous thing ever written by the
hand of man." ITO vote for this"
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