The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1919-04-10
ASWELL ON THE LEAGUE
OF NATIONS

The American people are most tole.-
ant They permit much of all sorts Of
liberty. 1t is interesting to note how
little people here in Washington get q
the real sentiment of the country.
Official Washington sometimes reveais
provincia,ism, while the country laughs
and lets some Of US convince ourselvcs.
We have in America superabundancc
of certain kinds of liberty. A group
of gentlemen may back themselves up
against the wall, and here appoint
themselves a committee to run thing,
and nobody cares if they convince then
selves of super-importance, or it NAV
believed here that local criticisms ot
Wilson express American sentlment,
while the evidence lisa cumulative th2t
the country is back of Wilson end the
League Of Nations.
Certain gentlemen in both Houses
who hate the President because he did
not let them name the patronage" in
their states or in the interest of fac
tional politics. may successfully cen
vince themselves within the walls Of
their little offices that they are killing
the Nations by oratorically pointing crt
"grave and serious dangers to the Mon
roe Doctrine and to our liberties in free
dom Of action" while personally and
politically they are not fighting the
League Of Nations. They are fightia&
Woodrow Wilson-the one man whom
they most fear and, therefore, logic
ally hate to the fullest, because they
know the country knows he is their
superior.
1t is g pin-headed statesman who be-
lieves the American people can be fool
ed. The League of Nations should not
be in the interest of the fortunes OF any
man. 1t is not a question of the glory
or failure of men, but one vitality af-
fecting US in choosing the prospect O.
prominent peace or other certain cruel
and horrible wars. The mothers and
fathers of the men who suffered or dep
in France are vastly more important
than any Senator or politician. Ninety
per cent of the mothers and fathers are
for the League of Nations, because they
are anxious to try it out, as nothing
better had been proposed for their coUn.
try, its future and their boys. Senator
Lodge suggested two years ago that If
a league of nations would not prevent
future wars, nothing else could. The
mothers and fathers have no patience
with delays and silly chickering's for
this or that amendment. They want
sane action now to give hope for per-
manet peace.
The poor, misguided. and politically
befuddled brains, for the sake of eupho-
nv. sometimes called intellects. utterly
failing to swing the country against
Wilson and the League Of Nations III
the interest of personal hatred or cheop
partisan politics, are now amusing the
country by ''throwing pillows out OF the
window" each time they talk, to pre-
pare soft places to land wheh they Try
to lump to safety on the side OF the
League of Nations. This performance
by certain wonld-be statesmen, here
during the Wilson administration -as
grown monotonous. See the fyir z
| pillows'' of Senator Lodge, the ablest
critic of them all. At the proper time,
| watch him leap to safety. Poor Reed
| and Borah! The one, politically,
without country, the other, up a
tree" AS to Mccormick, although re-
puted to possess much wealth and a
newspaper, yet no one except Mediil
takes him seriously. l pity them when
their constituents get another chance,
because among their constituents evil
IDENTIFY are mothers and fathers OF the
men who have suffered in France the
men who know most of war and want
| no more of it. If you have doubts as
to the impelling necessity of league
to prevent future wars and give definite
hope of permanent peace, ask any
mother or returning soldier from the
arena where Americas name was made
immortal throughout the world by the
courage and daring of invincible Amer
leans. But the politician who tries to
capitalize this American heroism in his
vn interest and thus make likely the
necessity of reretition of it, is foo
and deserves humiliation. = Every hu-
man being in all the world except the
criminal and the insane should be and
most of them are anxious to work ard
pray for peace az against the barba-
rism Of future wars.