The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-13
THE PEOPLE ASK FOR
: POPULAR VOTE ON
NATIONS LEAGUE
Senators Campaign Awak-
ems Country on Peace
Treaty
WANT A REFERENDUM
Borah Says Whole Country Opposes
Covenant in It's
Entirety

WASHINGTON, March 13-On
his return to Washington Tuesday
after week of stump-speaking a.
gainst the League of Nations in New
York, Brooklyn, Boston and other
cities, Senator Borah of Idaho de-
clared he had found that the people
of the country are awakening to
feeling that the League, as adopted at
the Paris Conference, ought not to be
accepted by the Senate, either as
part of the treaty of peace or indie
pendently.
He described the attitude of the
crowds before whom he spoke as
being opposed to the League because
it put the United States in danger
>ous, entangling alliances. His de-
claration that the League surrender
ed the sovereignty of the United
States, he said, was applauded every
where. In no city, he said, did he
detect any resentment against the eff
forts of himself and ether antagon-
lists of the League to defeat it when
it comes up in the Senate.
'sThe greatest thing that confronts
the Republican Party right now is
that it accepts no compromise on the
League of Nations said Mr.. Borah
"If it does, the party will destroy it
self. The people demand our immed-
late withdrawal from European af-
fairs. They do not want entangling
alliances.
"They have awakened to a keen
sense of realization that this League
of Nations idea means the sacrifice
of the sovereignty, the independence
of America in its affairs with other
nations. This they will not tolerate.
I have found out the temper Of the
people on my trip, and / know the
League of Nations does not strike a
responsive chord with them.''
He spoke bitterly of any attempt
at compromise by Republicans in the
Senate.
81 intend to do some plain talking
to my Republican colleagues who ap-
pear to think the way to meet this
question is to compromise" he re-
. marked.
The Idaho Senator will resume his
stumping trip on Saturday, speaking
that night at Troy On Sunday he
will speak at Rochester. After that
he will turn westward and speak in
the cities visited by former President
Taft in his recent "swing- g-around-the-
circle"
Senator Borah will find woman suf-
fragists after him when he starts on
his next trip they having announced
this week that they would interrupt
every meeting at which he spoke.
This is in revenge for his refusal to
support the. woman suffrage amend
ment to the Constitution when it
came up the last time in the Senate
for vote and when one more vote
would have carried it.
Mr.. Borah said he intended to offer
bill in the Senate as soon as Con
gress reconvenes providing for ma
tionwide referendum on the League.
He believes advocates of the League
will not dare oppose it. In his
speeches Mr.. Borah Is contending
that the peole will have no say what
ever in the relations of America with
other nations, once the League of
Nations is in effect. If the people
sufficiently realized that the United
/ States would turn over the entire re-
gulation of affairs with other nations
/ to those nations themselves, he said,
the whole country would be opposed
to the covenant in its entirety. He
believed the people would embrace
an opportunity to express their opin-
ion by ballot and that the referendum
idea would find responsiveness
throughout the nation.
Senator Borah also allowed it to
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