The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-12-06
Tall Still Urges
Surrender

its president HI Jonathan llourne
Jr. today gave out the following
statement from it's Washington head
quarters:
The League to Enforce Peace
appears to have credit balance in
its Golfers. Instead of shutting up
shop and retiring from business when
its protege, the league covenant, suf
fered an unexpected death at the
hands OF its Democratic friends in
the Senate. 1t has issued a broadside
outlining it's policy for the future.
The statement does not gain in i'm
pressiveness when one reads the sig
natures appended to II. The Taft
family is Represented by William II.
and Henry W.. and Herbert Hoover.
Oscar Straus, Edward Filene and
Herbert Houston, the leagues secre-
tary. cofplete the list Those six
men undertake to express the sur
prise and indignation, with which
the defeat Of the treaty was received
by the people, who 'longed for and
expected ratification before adjourn
ment nj the Senate
The question Is asked Shall fif-
teen Senator'S decide where America
shall stand in this world crisis?' or
course that query is intended as a.
reductio de absurdum. but the fact
Is that thirty nine Democratic SEN
ators were lined up In opposition to
the Americanized treaty, and In fla
vor of the continuance OF a state of
war rather than disobey the mandate
of their party leader in the White
House. Had twenty-three of those
Senators needed the call for peacs,
which Mr.. Taft's league says is .,
strong throughout the land. the tr "a
ty would have been ratified, but they
refused to break the bonds OF parts
anship and the country is still tech
nically at war.
Thn eli. NIL Ha NJ In haf hn M A
on the ratification resolution was not
a vote on the treaty at all. II was
essentially vote on Americanism,
With that issue removed. the vote
disclosed that eighty Senators were
prepared to vote for the treaty, tho
league and peace. Because 4 ma
jority OF the Senate has Insisted on
certain reservations that preserved
inviolate the principles upon whlSh
Americanism was founded and las
thrived, thirty-nine Democrats deter
mined to desert the treaty and the
league and deny peace to the cor1-
try, 1t is astounding but true that
when Senate majority denied 10
those Senators the privilege of sur
rendering the nations most precious
heritages to the dictates of foreisn
cabel, they refused to permit The
treaty to become a fact,
The League to Enforce Peace
shrleks compromise The words
Democrat or Republican do not ap-
pear at all in its pronunciamento
The entire outgiving masquerade
under the veil OF nonpartisanship
But anybody who knows what the
league Id knows that its every effor
has been directed towards the rati
ficatlon OF the league covenant a
drawn and that all Its attacks hav'
been directed against the Republi
cans in the Senate who have stoo'
out against the miasma of interna
tionalism. To Mr.. Taft's leagu
compromise is synonymous wit
Republican SURRENDER American
ism can never be compromised
: There are no degrees OF patriotism
A real American is for his countr!
. first, last and all the time. M
: merely when that Is the easie'
| course or when Il does not happen
, come into conflict with the plans
! foreign nations.
} ut is indeed an unenyieole pos