The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-09-10
WEDNESDAY,, SEPT. 10. 1919.
BOTH ENDS AGAINST
THE MIDDLE

When President Wilson announced
that he would carry the fight for the
League of Nations to the people, the
opponents were glad of it. While the
z president had been in France, the
Senators at home had their ears to
the ground and their fingers on the
pulse of the nation. and they knew
that the peopl ewanted none of the
/. foreign alliance that the president
+ was forming on the other side. 1t is,
therefore, interesting to read the re-
ports of the reception he Is receiving
along the line. The following, written
by newspaper correspondents, whose
papers are heartily in favor Of the
League and who cannot be accused of
prejudice against the president tell
the story that the people are not raj
lying to the standard of the president
as he anticipated:
Reports which so far have come
back from along the route indicate
that the president has not yet emerg-
ed from the zone in which, as his OPP
ponents would say, he is known and
understood. 1t is not necessary to
examine between lines of the dispat-'
ches of the most reliable newspaper
! correspondents of the presidential
encourage to see that the going is
not yet good"
1t is significant enough when Dav-
Id Lawrence, faithful friend Of the
president and representative Of the
New York Evening Post, strong for
the league of nations. writes Of the
presidents greeting at Columbus,
Ohio:
''He got more attention in that
very city seven years ago as an un-
, known candidate"
Robert T. Small. for years with
the Associated Press and whose en-
tire newspaper training has been
away from partisanship, says in his
report of the first day:
"It required but one day Of travel
in the near west to make 1t apparent
that President Wilson in taking the
league of nations fight to the people
of the country must combat very
( definite amount of apathy"
And it must be remembered that
Mr.. Small represents on this trip tie
Philadelphia Public Ledger, which
would be glad to hear from its cor
respondent that the presidents re-
marks received unanimous approval
along the route. ...-
DEPRESSING from his account of the
reception at St. Louis yesterday, the
same correspondent said:
1.-The democrats in this section feel
that they need whatever benefit may
accrue to the party from the presi-
dents tour. They are very low in
their spirits just now, and while they
say the republican radicals in the
senate are hurting the party by their
fantastic tactics with the league Of
nations, still the ears of the demo-
cratic donkey out here are not flapp-
ing defiantly in the breeze. There is
a considerable drop to them, and the
tail has a tendency to sag between
the legs"
This sheds some interesting light
on the partisan aspects of this non
partisan tour.
The fact is that the president, to
paraphrase the old but sententious
remark, has been playing both ends
against the middle class. 1t is now the
middle class that has got in tie way
of some of Mr.. Wilson's enterprises
both at home and abroad. @
He has pleased on the one hand
and placated Wall street on the other.
and he is now out on the platform to
induce that great big middle class to
subscribe to his personal ideas.
has satisfied labor by helping sett'"
some wage disputes it's way, and he
flattered the large financial interests
by taking two members of j. p. Mo-
gan & Co. along with him to Paris TO
frame the financial provisions OF the
peace treaty to their liking.
But in dealing with these two eX-
. tremes, the middle class, comprising
more than three-fourths of the peo-
Pile has been, as Senator john SHARP
Z Williams said the other day. crushed
between the upper and neither mill
stone. 1t is, therefore, the dispnei-