Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
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LEAGUE Of llnolss
Senators Are Resorting to the Old
Parliamentary Device Of Killing
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by Amendment

The immediate aim of the Senator
ial plotters against the League Cove
nant is plain to the view. They are
trying to kill the League of Nations,
The law assumes that men intend
the necessary consequences Of their
;own acts. If the action these Sena-
tors urge upon the Senate is taken.
1T will necessarily destroy the League.
They do not even seek to conceal
their purpose. They are resortine
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" It is intended
that the Senate shall declare in this
resolution that it's ratification of the
Treaty of Peace, so far as it applies
to the League Of Nations, shall he
without effect so far as the United
States is concerned until the other
nations signing the Treaty shall agree
to certain reservations. which are to
he substantially those recommended
by Senator Root. The Washington
correspondent of The Times asked
Senator Knox what would happen if
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 smile. Without the
United States the League would be
a lame and impotant 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, the
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 |
process of argument have they per-
suaded themselves that the success of
their desperate plot against the
League Covenant would improve the
chances of the Republicans in the |
Presidential election next year?
The country is against them. The
great minded, reasonable, and
patriotic mass of their own party is
against them. J. is practically certain !,
that they cannot command the sup
port of the majority of the Republican i
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-Attorney-G 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 Of |
high standing and of unquestioned
loyalty to the party are outspoken in
denunciation of the thing they are |
trying to do. The St. Louis Globe
Democrat, great and influential |
newspaper of answering fidelity to
Republican principles, declares that |
"a large proportion of the Republican
press favors the League. and there
are but few important Republican
newspapers that are uncompromisingly
against it." In support of this asser-
ton it reproduces upon its editorial
page in it's issue of June %, five col
umns of editorial expressions from
Republican newspapers Of promi- i
.oroo oil doplor;no tho ,,nwioo and |