South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-05


ity-by the blare of personal political
benefit possible to accrue.-are none the less
traitors because they fools and dupes.
We have had too much experience with Ger
many during the past few years to further excuse
Americans who succumb to her insidious wiles.
Henceforth when the American people-em-
phasizing the American send men to the
United States senate, he will be supposed ntelli-
gent enough not to swallow the poison of a Hob
enzollern. or become his dupe
Those who dc, now. are no less culpabe
than they would be if their treason were deliber-
And. indeed, there are some evidences that it
is deliberate. We might as well face the ugly
fact. The only power on earth that is anxious
for the United States to kill the Paris treaty.
which the senate, Hndenburglike, would butcher
by way of the League of Nations.-is the Ger
many that has slain 65 900 American boys on
the fields of France.
Read your Congressional Record. Go to the
public library and read it The senatorial enc
mics Of the league have attacked France; they
attacked England, Belgium. Japan, Canada, Aus
traia-everybody who has fought at Americas
side over there'-but not one of them has
spoken of Germany or boshevik Russia. save in
terms of tenderness and commiseration They
have tears to shed for American dead.
I'LL
IST to the line-that F1ndenburg line
l. roarI There are few democrats half
dozen, at most--as well lots of republicans;
approximately a score-and- a-haf-who consti-
tute the Germanian guns. Follow their dope.
Jim Reeds and Blind" Cores pro-German-
ism is too we'll known to call for comment here,
but Hoke Smith of Georgia. and Sen Thomas Of
Colorado, have voices somewhat newer.
Smith makes secret OF the fact that when
he talks reservations he talks to kill the league
and reject the treaty, and Thomas says:
My opinion is that this is a vctor's treaty,
a treaty of force, a treaty Of punishments, a
treaty burdened by conditions and accepted
by the vanquished only at the point of the
sword.
Too bad, isn't it2 Wonder if he ever read the
terms of peace that Germany stood ready pro-
pose to the allies in case Germany won2
That all other peace treaties following wars
that have not ended in a draw, including that
with Spain, this kind of a treaty. makes
difference. Germany it seems, for her gentiity
of n1ethods-angeic brutality-and tenderness
of ambition toward world despotism. deserves
something better. and generous. than has
been accorded to other vanquished nations.
You may remember Germany's proposed
peace terms distributed from Berlin and the
severity with which the allies to pay the bill,
and forever guarantee the integrity of her wanted
place in the sum-
You may remember it, if you try real hard
barking your memory back to a couple of years
ago, when Germany thought she was winning;
remember it, even though Sen Thomas in his
pro-German forgetfulness Doesn't
"
60 much for the democrats-alleged democrats
~ allies of the score-and-a-half of Germany
serving republicans 1t a republican you
know, who set the pace in this pleading of Ger
man propaganda; Sen. Phlander C. Knox of
Pennsylvania.
His speech advocating rejection Of the treaty
is the most rabid policeman utterance that any
American has dared make since America entered
the war, and this does not exclude Eugene V.
Debs, Big Bill Hayward Victer Berger-say
nothing of Sen. Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin,
Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago.
The whole burden of it is condemnation for
England France, Belgium, Japan-and especial
ly the United States-for having made treaty
with Germany that is hard and cruel. Poor
gentle, peace-loving Germany
Sen Fall too is outraged. He says Germany
accepted this treaty at the point of the sword
and our own senator. James Eli Watson, Tuning
mad tacks on this sancthed Amen:
Japan took advantage of the first oppor-
tunity to rob Germany of her Chinese pos
sessions, =
vhereupon, what else could you expect. but that
Hi Johnson would lose his head, and likewise
Bill Borah his2
Any irsinuation that Japan has taken advant-
age of somebody-and especially to rob Ger
many; sweet, gentle, politically phianthropic
Germany who took those possessions from
China they seemingly would have think,
present to the Chnese.-is always enough to
touch of those two bundles of combustibles
That China ceded Shantung 10 the Germans
does not count; that Germany forced the cession