The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-08-01
TRYING TO KILL
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Senators Ar ResoetiaQ 70 the Old
Parliamentary Device ~ Killing
BY Amendment

nant is plain to the view. They are
trying to kill the League Of Nations-
The law assumes that mon intend
the necessary consequences Of their
own acts. II the action these Sena-
tors urge upon the Senate Is taken, |
it will necessarily destroy the League.
They do not even seek to conceal |
their purpose. They are resorting |
to the old parliamentary device Of
killing by amendment. Mr.. Knox's
hostile resolution. which has gone to
its death, has been abandoned for .
qualifying resolution" 1t Is intended
that the Senate shall declare in this
resolution that its ratification Of the
Treaty Of Peace, SO far as it applies
to the League of Nations. shall be
without effect 80 far as the United
States is concerned until the other
nations signing the Treaty shall agree
to certain reservations, which are to
be substantially those recommended
by Senator Root. The Warrington
correspondent of The Times asked
Senator Knox what would happen II
the allied nations decline to accept
these reservations. THE United
States in that event would be outside
the League Of Nations" Mr.. Knox
replied, with a smile. Without the
United States the League would be
a lame and impotent organization; in
all probability it would fall to pieces.
Therefore, we may start from the
postulate that Senator Knox. Senator
Lodge, Senator Borah, Senator John
son and their associates fully intend
the death Of the League Of Nations
and are taking measures to that end.
But what is their Interior aim?
Merely to prevent the erection OF
safeguards against the greatest cause
of human suffering cannot be tho
whole end and aim of their plotting.
We know that they have political
purpose-to express their hatred of
PRESIDENT WILSON, to discredit
him and thereby advance the fortunes
of the Republican party. Their tao
tics and their utterances disclose that
\ motive, it is charged against them by
responsible leaders of their own
party. But by what strange perverted
H process Of argument have they per
suaded themselves that the success OF
+ their desperate plot against the
/ League Covenant would improve the
j chances Of the Republicans in the
Presidential election next year?
The country is against them. The
great sober minded. reasonable, and
patriotic mass Of their own party is
against them. is practically certain
that they cannot command the sup
port of the majority of the Republican
Senators in their desperate adventure
That the Republican party at large
condemns their procedure is made
evident by authoritative utterances in
many States of the Union. An ex-
President and an ex-Altorney-General
of their own party have condemned
them. More than a score of repre-
sentative Republicans in this city
united the other day in remon
STRANGE against the course they are
pursuing. In the West, newspapers o.
4 high standing and of unquestionet
loyalty to the party are outspoken il
denunciation of the thing they arr
trying to do. The st. Louis Globe
| Democrat, great and Influential
newspaper of answering fidelity tt
Republican principles, declares tina
"a large proportion of the Republican
press favors the League, and Their
are but few important Republican
newspapers that are uncompromisingl
against it." In support of this asser
ton it reproduces upon it's editoria
page in it's issue Of June %, five col
umns of editorial expressions fror
Republican newspapers of promi
nence, all deploring the unwise an
dangerous course of the Senatoria
opponents of the League. Anon
these newspapers are The Lo
Angeles Times, The Portland Oregon
ian, one of the great papers of tn
Pacific coast; The Des Moines Reg
I lister, a representative Republica
II paper; The Salt Lake Tribune, an
other sound Republican newspape
] The Topeka Capital and the Globe
l Democrat.
The Globe-Democrat calls attentio
to the adoption Of resolutions eI
dorsing the League Covenant by tn
representative vote of 29,75O to A.
by the American Federation of Labor
to the resolution of the Federation {
Women's Clubs, representing 100000
women, declaring its approval Of II
revised Covenant of the League;
points out that in canvass of agr
cultural papers published in fort.
three States, only one of siXty-eigl
opposed ratification of the Treat
with the League and sixty-four III
qualifiedly favored it. The attituC
of the Church in favor of the Gov
nant has been made known from HUI
dreds of pulpits. Says the Glob
Democrat. Here we have labC