The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-19
people didn't quit. Somebody else
Self Determination Forgotten.

arately and securely disturb the peace
of the world. He never mentioned
it again In Paris. The American peo-
pie didn't quit. Somebody else ala.
He said, my friends, self-determination,
self-determination for all the peoples
Of the earth, and every one Of US be
lieved in that doctrine. We all huZ-
Zaed and we said: we will Stanc
behind you four square for self-de-
termination but he left it. The Amer
lean people didn't quit. Who quit!
"He said there can be no league or
alliance or special covenants and un-
derstandings within the general ana
common family of the League OF Ma
tons, and her Clemenceau made a
grimace and then we had an offensive
and defensive alliance with France
brought to us. The American people
didn't quit because they were behind
him in his statement. Somebody else
was the gutter.
"He said to us as he went abroad
that no people can be forced to I'VE
under a sovereignty under which 1t
Ices not wish to live. But Japan, with
an immObIle ~cOuntenance, shook her
head and the American people didn't
quit, but somebody else quit
Cheer for American Troops.
Senator Johnson provoked a demon
stration when he referred TO the Amer
lean forces finally stopping the great
German drive on Paris.
'"They required no League Of Nations
10 do IT," he exclaimed. 81 have heard
of men placing themselves in he hands
of their creditors, but | have never yet
heard Of a man placing himself In the
hands Of his debtors. There is just one
going, solvent national concern in all
this world, and II is your country and
my country. Why does the greatest
solvent national concern on earth have
to enter into a partnership with four
bankruptS?
Just think Of 1t, my friends, in the
assembly of the League of Nations, the
United States, your country and mine,
the most powerful on the a of the
earth, the richest In all the world, is
given one vote TO Great Britain'S six
votes.
Harsh Names Do Not Brighten.
you cannot brighten the American
people any longer by calling names.
The time has passed when calling
harsh names Of men who do not agree
with those for u brief period in power
can deter or restrain them from doing
their duty as they see 1t, n when
the president descended TO that meth
cd Of argument in Minnesota yester-
day and the day before in another city
he forgot his high Office; he forgot the
truth that should be ever upon his lips,
the truth alone.
my friends, do you realize what the
president was up against? l think |
do, and ne did not. His good intentions
did not protect him from the European
diplomacy. He used beautiful phrases
while they sat with their pockets bulg-
ing with the contracts signed, sealed
and delivered for carving the world.
When they got all through he had his
beautiful phrases and they a the
countries and the peoples for whom
they had bargained long before we en-
tered the war. He brought home just
what was handed to him.
Picking Pockets to Poison Mind.
Senator Borah declared the peoples
taxes during the last few years had
been spent on propaganda dedicated
to telling them how powerful the peo-
pie In power have been.
I'VE have been picking u pockets"
he said, "to poison our minds"
Senator BOrah opened his speech by
saying he would attempt to discuss
the question as broadly as "a man
can do who has a pigmy mind.
"Now, our honored president has
said in his appeal at Columbus, o.,
that If you have not time to e the
treaty for yourselves, that he feels that
YOU are under obligation to take the
view and construction Of those who
wrote the treaty" Senator Borah con
tinued. "That, my friends, 1t seems to
me, is open to legitimate objection. In
the first place, there are no two men
who helped to write the treaty that
now agree as to what It means.
"Our honored president said that
the treaty is a mere moral obligation.
When Clemenceau heard that he came
very near having paralysis. You know,
my friends. there Is no agreement
among those who are anointed at Yer
~sailles. Even ex-President Taft had
an entirely different view as to some
Of the terms Of the treaty to that Of
the president. So, my friends, it isn't
quite fair, 1t seems to me, with all due
respect to the president, for us to ac-
cept the treaty without looking In 1t.
1t might be different If we felt abso-
lutely sure that the president was al
ways going to be here, but after we
have passed away, If this league Is
adopted, some unconscionable diplo-
matte scoundrel in Europe will be on
STRUNG II. And what we want to do
is look at 1t now, and If there Is any