The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-08-08
TRYING TO KILL
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ssasssp Are Nsssrtlns to The Old
Parliamentary Device Of killing
BY Amendment

The Immediate aim Of the Senator
ial plot,en aEainss the League Cove
nant is plain TO the view. They are
trying to I'M the League Of Naticns.
The Law assumes tAat men ihtene
the necessary consequences Of their
own acts. n the action these senA.
tors urse upon the Senate is taken,
Il vim necessarily destroy the League.
They do not even seek 10 conceal
their purpose. They are resorting
to the old parliamentary dcviee OF
killing by amendment Mr. Knoxr
hostile resolution. which has some to
ia death. has been abandoned for q
qualifying resolution II IL intended
that the Senate shall declare in this
resolution that Ia ratification OF the
Treaty Of Peace. so FAR as Il applies
20 the League OF Nations, shall be
without effect 40 far as the United
States Ia concerned until tho other
nations signing the Treaty shall agree
10 certain reservations, which are TO
be substantially those recommended
hy Senator Root. The Washington
eorrespondent OF The Times asked
Senator Knox what would happen u
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
q lame and impotent organization; In
all nrnbabiiity Il would fall 70. pieces.
Therefors. ws may start from the
posiulate 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 10 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
express their hatred Of
WILSON. 10 dlscredit
him and thereby advance the fortunes
Of the Republican party. Their tac-
ties and their utterances disclose that
motive. Il Ia charged against them by
responsible leaders Of their own
party. But by what strange perverted
process OF argument have they per-
,uaded themselves that the success OF
heir desperate plot against the
League Covenant would improve the
chances OF the Republicans in the
election next year?
The country is against them. The
reat sober-minded. reasonable. and
'atriotic mass OF their own party is
gainst them. Is practically certain
hat they cannot command the sup
'ort OF the majority Of the Republican
'enators In their desperate adventure.
hat the Republican party at large
ondemns their procedure IN made
xident by authoritative utterances In
many States OF the Union. An en- .
resident and an ex-Attorney- General
their own party have condemned
tem. More than a score Of repre-
sntative Republicans In this city 1
nited the other day In remon-
rance against the course they are
nrsuIng. In the West, newspapers OF 4
Igh standing and OF unquestioned 4
'yaity to the party are outspoken In ]
Of the thing they are
ying 20 do. The 81. Louis Globe Z
emocrat, o great and influential Z
,wspaper OF answering fidelity 10 :
epubiican principles. declares that
large proportion Of the Republican 4
'ess fayors the League, and there z
e but few important Republican )
wspapers that are uncompromlsingly y
,ainst IT," In support OF this asser- 4,
10 Il reproduces upon It's editorial 3
ga In It's issue Of June 20. fve col ,
ans Of editorial expressions from y
.pubIican newspapers OF promi- q
nee. all deploring the unwise and q:
ngerous course OF the Senatorial =
ponents OF the League. Among =
ese newspapers are The Los z
gcles Times. The Portland Oregon 3.
!, one OF the great papers OF the y
cifc coast; The Des Moines Reg &
Or, 8 representative Republican e
per; The Salt Lake Tribune, an q
Ter sound Republican newspaper, ~
. Topeka Capital and the Globe Il
W
me Globe Democrat calls attention y
the adoption Of resolutiens en- q
sing the League Covenant BY the y
resentstiyc vote Of 2e,75O to 420 ~
the American Federation OF Labor; "
the resolution Of the Federation Of 81
mems Clubs, representing 100000 ~
men, declaring its approval OF the ~
ised Covenant Of the Leagues 1t II
ats out that in canvass Of agri- "a
turai papers published In forty ~
20 States. only one Of sixty eight -