The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-10
REED APoTHEGMs ON LEAGUE


Asserting that the league will bring
universal peace, the president yet de-
mands a standing army of half mil
lion men.
Insisting that war will be no more
he urges the doctrine of universal mil
itary training.
Proclaiming that the day has come
when swords are to be beaten into
plowshares, he demands millions for
a navy.
He advocates freedom of the seas,
but consents that England shall re-
main mistress of the waters of the
world.
He chafes at being kept at his
presidential duties in Washington
when he has been in this country only
sixty days in the past nine months
He makes a speech declaring his
own opinions and the next day asserts
that his own speech is solemn in
struction by the people which he is
dutifully carrying into effect
He hears the echo of his own words,
and the next day proclaims them the
voice of God.
He denounces secret treaties, yet
seeks to engage his country in con-
tract ratifying and confirming secret
and cruel treaties by which our own
allies have been despoiled.
He breaches open covenants, openly
arrived at, yet goes into secret con-
claves and seizes cable lines and per-
mits censorship of European news.
He refuses to inform the senate con-
corning his vote on racial equality
pleading that he would thereby dis
close secrets which would cause inter
national embarrassment, although the
public statement of the Japanese
statesman Baron Goto that Wilson
and House had both voted with Japan
on racial equality has for weeks gone
unchallenged and undisputed l shall
insert that interview as a part of my
remarks.
Because the members of the senate
have not in answer to his dictation
Immediately approved the treaty he
has in substance charged them with
reasonable practices by intimating
that they are now conspiring with
Germany, country with which we are
still technically at war.
The statement is as false as it is
infamous.
He goes about the country denounc-
ing the senate for the delay in pass
ing upon the treaty, yet he refused to
give to the senate the practically COM
pleted draft of the treaty, altho it was
in possession of all the chancelleries
of Europe and was being sold upon
| the streets of Berlin and authenticated
copies of it were in the hands of the
great bankers of New York City
He complains of delay, yet his adj
! herents in the senate conducted fill
buster to prevent the publication in
the Congressional Record and to the
country of an advance copy of the
treaty.
He complains of delay, yet he with
| held from the senate the French
treaty, which by express terms was
| to be laid before the senate at the
same time the German treaty was
submitted.
He complains of delay, yet he ever
now withholds documents important
to the proper understanding of the
treaties pending before the senate.
The president talks much of "duty
of sacrifice" but even while he speaks
he at government expense rides or
special trains; sails upon magnificent
ships, fitted with special glass pavil-
ions; lives in the palaces of princes;
receives presents from foreign no.
bility worth hundreds of thousands OF
dollars; commanders entire hotels;
summons armies of retainers; creates
diplomats without law; and wages wal
without authority.
Out of the public funds he provides
the keep of his retainers. He compels
the American taxpayer to furnish
their food and wash their dirty linen,
He talks of sacrifices, but the sacri-
fees are to be made by American
boys who perish in the SHOWS of 81
IBERIA or who are yet to die beneath
the suns of the equator.
The time has come when we will
determine whether the senate of the
United States is a part of the gov
eminent set up by the people of the
United States, and whether it shall
proceed to exercise its functions with
out fear or favor, without coercion,
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