The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-03-13
P|ITED
AGAINST EAST
ON NEW PACT
Avalanche of Letters Rolling.
Into Washington Shows Chief
Opposition to League Of Ma
tons In Western States.
BY United Press.

sTly to PRESIDENT Wilson'S Invitation
20 discuss the League Of Nations.
While controversies over war policies
drew a tremendous number Of letters,
nothing In the memory Of men now in
congress eaualed the present avalanche
of mail at their offices. Senators
haven't been able to read half tho
letters addressed to them on the sub
tect. they said today. But what let
ters ave been read show n thing
clearly-that the country realizes the
vast Importance OF the question.
Forty-seven hundred letters chosen
from the files of 10 senators repre-
:senting every section Of the country.
and both political parties, readily as
serted themselves in four classes:
First, those unqualifiedly for he
league az now proposed. 1928.
Second, those for the league with
qualifications. LAO.
Third, those expressing no opinion.
but asking information. 264.
Fourth. those unqualifiedly against
tho league in it's present form, 1850.
Business Men Approve.
More than half the letters In the first
class came from professional and BUSH
ness men. Clergymcn, scholars, edu-
Gators, lawyers, writer's n many big
business men apparently approve very
heartily Of the draft of the league con-
stitutlon as it now stands. The rest
of the letters In the first class based
their approval on faith in President
Wilson. 1t may be significant that
most Of the letters in Glass 1 came
from the east, New England and the
south.
West is Critical.
The vast ulk Of the other three
CLASSES came from the middle and far
west. Through the Glass 2 letters ran
the strain 1--WE want an end to war,
but"-and the writers then expressed
in various ways their fears that the
proposed league would enmesh the
United States too deeply in foreign af-
fairs. The Monroe doctrine, American
sovereignty and all the other objec-
tions already urged were covered In
these letters. Many OF them com
planned that President Wilson's atti-
tude is that of a man assuming su-
perior wisdom and unwilling to come
down to cases In giving reasons for
various provisions.
Glass three, the smallest. came
largely from school teachers ard
women generally. Men apparently
have made up their minds rather
thoroughly on the league. The infor-
nation asked was chiefly along the
lines of he objections raised against
the league in the senate.
Some Letters Bitter.
Class four contained some bitter let
tiers. In them president Wilson was
vigorously assailed. Senators criticiz-
Ing the league were a~ppiauded, and in
q number more or less thinly yelled
threats were made against the gov
m If the league compact is rati-
lied. Most of the letters of this class,
however, struck the same note that
ran through all the others-"let us
prevent war forever"
Offer Substitutes.
Scores Of the letters offered substi-
tutes for the proposed league. ranging
from a policy Of complete American
Isolation maintained by force. il neces-
sary, to a policy Of diplomacy, the
chief feature Of which would be keep
ing European nations constantly in
rows with one another SO this country
would be let alone.
BRITISH NOT TO NEEDLE.
London Times cable service tcopyright 1919. by
Public Ledger Col to The Sioux City Tribune.
LONDON, March l1.-There is little
comment here upon President Wilson's
differences with the republican sena-
tors, although all the important news
papers arc receiving long dispatches
from New York and Washington. Such
editorials as have appeared in the las
rev days have been little mere thar
summaries Of the situation in America
as CLEANED from their special CORE
s~pondents' Interpretation Of events. The
British press is again showing its rec
ognition Of the fact that it has no busl-
ness meddling with American interra
politics, although succeeding events
\ ave been most keenly watched.
The League OF Nations, probably the
greatest OF these new aspirations, Dorr
OF 10000 graveyards, is essentially ar
American idea. The universal feeling
here among al thinking men is thai
such a league in some form or Other
is tia only salvation for modern civil
zation-just as all thinking men here
now realize tina the cordial co-opera,
ton of America and Britain is ne
longer a matter OF policy or anniabilitA
or friendship or mutual profit, bat al
absolute duty towards mankind.
HlTcHcocK-LcDGE DEBATE.
BY Associated Press.
Washington. March 1o.-one of thu
features or the countrywide discus
sion Of the league OF nations during
the congressional recess probably vii
be a joint debate at Newark, r. j., be
tween Hitchcock, OF Nebraska, retir
ing chairman OF the Senate foreign re
latlons coMmittee, and Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts,. who will be chair
man OF the committee IN the new con
grcss. A date for the meeting has no
been fixed but it is bang planned 70
between April Sand 10.
Senator Hitchcock Is arranging t
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