Evening journal., 1919-03-18

n America is TO defeat the Wilson
scheme for a League OK Nations II must
defeat 10 through the organized forces
Of the Republican party. The Demo-
cratic forces are already lined up in its
support as a party measure. No newly
formed organization can have the force
TO stand up against the great Demo-
cratic party.
All the speeches OF United States
Senator's against the Wilson scheme
Will count for little If not backed up
by organization-the organization of
the Republican party. This is so
clear a fact that IL needs no buttress-
ing argument and yet there are men
in the Republican party still urging
that this league scheme should not
become party issue.
Indeed. within ten days Mr.. Charles
z. Hughes, no less a man than the Re
publican Presidential nominee in 1916,
so argued in a speech before the New
York County Bar Association. 10 may
well be that utterances of this kind are
at this iuncture more dangerous to
American independence than the open
support Of the Wilson League by Mr..
Taft. The fact is. Mr.. Hughes, that the
Wilson League is already political
issue and the biggest political issue
since the days OF slavery, The fact Is,
Mr.. Hughes, that it is not only a po-
litical issue, but has been a political
issue since Mr.. Wilson set foot in Bos-
ton, with this pernicious covenant IN
his pocket for the denationalizing OF
America.
Something like two or three weeks
ago The Sun said edltoriany that the
League Of Nations compact, as IL then
stood, and now stands, ought not 20
make for party cleavage. The thought
Of The sun was that all Americans, dr-
respective OF party, should be against
IL; the thought Of The sun was that
there was every reason why the coun-
tries of Europe and Of the Far East
should be for IL as a grand good thing
for them, but that there was every rea-
son why all America should be against
10.
Since the appearance Of that editorial
article the League Of Nations has made
a century Of history. 10 has stirred the
people OF this entire country TO depth
OF discussion and feeling that has not
been approached since the close OF the
civil war. 10 thrust itself into the fore
ground overnight as an overshadowins
national issue. IL couldn't have done
otherwise, in fact, conceived by the
greatest politician Of all time and fore-
eds upon the Peace Commission by the
same politician, Woodrow Wilson, Pres
ident OF the United States.
II the scheme was 10 be effectively
opposed by America obviously the op-
position had to come from the Repub-
lcan party. There was no other way
OF meeting the organized forces Of the
Democratic party already lined up with /
the President. at his command, to back
him up in America and 10 back him up
with the other nations OF the world.
ORGANIZATION must be met with or
ganizaton. There is no other way
There is no other force save the Repub-
lican party capable OF meeting the
Democratic hordes on the nelds Of COM
bat and scattering them 10 the four
winds. Disorganized opposition TO the
Wilson League will count for nothing
against the highly organized Democrat
10 party. answering 10 the party whip
welded by the strong right hand Of the
President
To say at this stage OF the proceed
ings that the Wilson League scheme
should not become a party issue when