The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-21
BEWARE OF FALSE
TEACHERS.

Although the fight against the
League Of ations and the peace
treaty is being supported by a
few democratic senators who have
personal grudges against Presi-
dent Wilson, it seems clear that
in the main the opposition is par
tisan. Senators Lodge, Borah,
johnson, and others are evidently
determined to make political is
sue Of the matter and their con-
suming ambition is to discredit
the work Of the president
That the republican party has
some notable achievements re-
corded in its history, may be ad-
mitted even by one who has never
affiliated with it and likewise it
may be fairly admitted that it
has had many leaders who
showed constructive statesman
ship of a high order but, in our
Judgment the future historian
will pronounce a verdict which
will put unmitigated shame upon
the part the politicians are play
ing in the senate at the present
time.
In their insane desire to de-
stroy the president, the Lodges,
Borahs, johnson S ct al, are al
lowing no scruples Of any sort to
interfere with their plans They
have resorted to every species of
sophistry and misrepresentation
to put the covenant Of the League
Of Nations before the people in a
false light. They have even gone
so far as to raise the bugaboo Of
big business" declaring that
the interests are backing the
League of Nations for their own
selfish purposes and the amazing
thing is that they stand up in the
senate and make such preposter-
Gus assertions with serious faces.
Mr. Taft and many other great
men IN the republican party who
place their country above parti-
san ambitions have shown clearly
that the objections raised against
the covenant are groundless, al
though conceding that the docu-
ment is open to minor criticism.
Senator McCumber of North Da-
kota, is one member Of the ma
jority who refuses to have the
party halter put around his neck.
In the senate a few days ago he
said;
"ln twenty years Of service in
the senate, have known but one
instrument whose terms have
been so wilfully misinterpreted
and so grossly misrepresented as
the covenant Of the League Of
Nations. That some of it is vague.
! know, and some portions are OBJ
.jectionable from particular view
points. But that it discriminates
against us, is unfair in its treat
ment Of our country, or that it |
imposes on us. any obligations or
burden that is not equally borne |
by every other nation. / must
emphatically deny 1t is regret
table that the mighty power of |
eloquence is used to defame and |
distort the true meaning of am
instrument, the most important |
that ever appealed to the heart or
the soul.
Suppose we now refuse. to |
JOIN with tire rest of the world in
some scheme to prevent war. |
what happens2 AS surely as the !
sun shall rise every great nation
will proceed to devise means for
the wholesale destruction of ma
tions. So desperate will be the
next war shat all the hate and all
the venom created by this strug
gle will be infinitesimal compared
with the next. And, against what
race will all these weapons of
death be used Against the white
race.
With the testimony of the
North Dakota senator before
them, the American people may
well be slow to swallow the
dope" which the foes of the
president are putting out to