South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-29
MARCH 20. 1910.
LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE REPLIES
TO ANTI-WH- SON "JUNKERS" WITH A
FRANK EXPOSITION OF THEIR LIES


year ago. at this time. we were carrying
~ daily column exposing what then So
4 \ called German Lies" Matched up
understood it, and probably Alright. to discourage
Americans and hamper America in the conduct Of
the war They were lies. anyhow and pro-German
lies IN effect. that IS tending TO aid Germany rath-
America. whether they were German made
or not. We mention It merely in passing intro
ductory the statement that though those lies
German made, and probably by Germans az their
worst the wave Of prevaricaton that passing
the country just from ant-administrauon
sources. hypercriticaI of the Paris peace confer
ence. OF the League OF Nations covenant, and mis-
representing and maltreating the presidents every
move, and the public attitude toward them simply
goes 10 show that Germany. lie hard she may has
nothing for untruthfuness on some Of our very
active Americans and OF them active in high
places
These anti-wilson "junkers" and that is
practical degree all they are, have lately become
so active. seeking justify themselves by exag-
gerations Of existing anti-administraton. and anti
league approval that they have dragged the League
10 Enforce Peace an American non-partsan
ganization into their whirlpool of untruthfulness
and the league has found it necessary to issue a
bulletin IN self-defense. This league. though head
ed BY ex-Prest Taft is strongly behind Prest Will
son on his peace program. and of course. TO a mad
thing that is against il must be foored
The story that has been circulated. the "junkers"
employing the press associations for dissemination
Of their lies. been that since Mr. Tafts Metro
pOlitan Opera house speech in New York he has
been deluged with letters denouncing his course
that the league rent with doubt over the pro-
posed Paris covenant; that the American organiza-
ton is actually breaking up because Of the attitude
Of its leaders, that the league is finding it imposs
the president in h.s course; that members are
signing from the league by wholesale. and that Of
ncers OF the league are quitting it in hordes.
The leagues appears i'm the next column
under heading "Other Editors Than Ours"
and will be interesting reading for those who have
been mislead by the anu'wilson "junker" lies
likewise now. the anu-Taft '.iunkers." They re-
sembe the so-caIed German Lies of a year ago
very distinctly but these are American Lies mind
YOU. quite without question. The league goes even
farther bulletin disprove the anti-wilson--
or anti-eague-claims Of support reporting sew
votes" that have taken of news
paper editors and others i'm the south middle
west north and west. the editors i'm all these sec
lions fayoring the league by IS TO 80 percent One
republican editor has this say. which signi-
acant due to that party's claim that the league
covenant is not party
I'VE have been constant pluggers for the
determined stand against il 10y the leaders of
the republican party and out-and out fight
against 10 by Sen. Lodge have been pulling
in our claws and using no editorials the sub
Ject all. In politics strong republi-
and do not want TO take back-watcr
when the presidential campaign opens up
Incident TO that statement isn't il apparent that
the republican editors have some tip from
headquarters 20 how they had better conduot
themselves anticipation of the league as the next
presidential issue? The League Bulletin adds that
out I'm Oregon a straw vote" taken run 1895 in
favor and 100 against the league while in Des
Aloines Ia. another vote stood 1921 for to So
ed that If Sens. Borah Reed. Chamberlain, Lodge.
Knox Poindexter New Watson and their asso-
cistes who are clamoring FOR popular referendum
are really in earnest
They can obtain a popular vote i'm their
districts by simple method. Let IN resign
and stand for recollection the League OF
Nations issue. The result would show very
clearly how the people OF their states like
their opposition the league
Precedent for this course s found in
OF Sen. Conkling and PIatt O New York. when
they resigned because Priest Garfield had made
appointment 20 the colectorship of the
port. which Objectionable 20 them. Their
referendum went 90 the state legislature. and
both defeated. The senator's who
opposed the League o. Nations are not re-
ton II they have the courage back up ora
tory with action. they appeal directly 20
the people"
Furthermore. such process would be more
.naniy and American. than that OF their propagan-
diHts seekul, 10 throw about than "a urofactorafe