The Washington herald., 1919-03-05
BOURNE CLAIMS
c. 0. P SOLoNS
KILLED LEAGUE
Republican Leader Declares
Declaration Of 1919"
Immortal.
CHARGES BRITISH PLOT
Lauds Protesting Senators
as Protectors of u. S.
Liberty.

Ex-senator Jonathan Bourne char
acterizes the opposition Of Republi-
can Senators to the league of ma
tions as the Declaration of 191s,"
and compares 1t to the famous 177s
instrument of liberty.
In a statement, issued as president
OF the Republican Publicity Associa-
tion, last night, he declares the
''British-Wilsonian" league of nations
is dead through the concerted ac-
tion of the Republican members of
Congress. The statement says:
The British Wilsonian league of
nations is dead, killed by the coara-
geous action of the Republicans of
the Senate in rising up at the criti-
cal moment and signing their names
to document that amounts to a
promise not to vote for the league
If it Is presented to that body for
ratification.
"Party of Protection,
The reference to the Republican
party as the Party of Protection
takes on a new significance in tho
light of its demand that the United
states must be saved from the fatal
blight of the Wilson league. Here
tofore the slogan of the Republicans
has been protection to American in
dustries from destructive foreign COM
petition. Still adhering to that prin-
ciple, the party now assumes the
new role of protector OF American
liberty itself. Under the leadership
of Lincoln the Republican party saw
ed the Union in the eventful days
NJ -
to the rescue of our imperilled in
sttutions and proclaimed to the
world that government of the peo-
pie, for the people, and by the peo-
pie shall remain the birthright of
Americans.
Like a second declaration of in
dependence rings the phrases of the
resolutions to which thirty-seven
Republicans of the next Senate sign
ed their names in the closing hours
of the most momentous Congress in
the history of the country. In one
sense it is a document of far greater
import than the declaration that
gave freedom to the American col
onists. The population of the coun-
try at that time was less than g.
900, 900. possessed of a national
wealth utterly insignificant when
compared with our present accumu-
lations. Now there are 10000, 900
souls within our boundaries and 800
billions is not an overestimate of
our national resources.
Sees Liberty Saved.
The declaration of rs gave lib
erty from foreign oppression to our
forefathers. bequeathed by them to
their
The declaration of '19 assures the
country of a continuance of that
liberty despite the attempts of men
now in temporary control of the eX-
ecutive to revert to the conditions
before the Revolution. The tre-
mendous development of the re-
sources of America that our laws
and institutions have made possible
are to be preserved for ourselves
and our children; our Constitution
is to remain the supreme law of the
land, untrammeled by any regula-
tions of a superstate; and the peo-
pie, through their representatives in
Congress, will continue to exercise
the powers with which they are
clothed, unhampered by limitations
sought to be placed upon them by
foreign schemers. assisted by re-
pudiated theorists from our own
land.
THE declaration of '76 saved the
country from foes from without.
The declaration of 10 preserves the
country from the insidious poison
injected into our veins by foes with
in our gates. The vile nostrums
which the present day quacks put
forth as a vaccination against the
ills of the future have been detect
ed and denounced before they had
time to work their malign influence
and break down the structure upon
which our very life as a nation
hangs. The men who signed that
document will go down in history
with the famous signers of the dec
Iaration that brought the United
States into being. and the marplots
who would appoint European trus-
tees for our liberties and wealth
will fade into the oblivion from
which they came"