The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-14
Senator Borah Answers Question Pro-
pounded by an Eminent Divine

OF justice and freedom Is 10 peSoIHe
of the human race? BE not deceived
God is not Knocked; for whatsoever
man soweth that shall he also reap"
England standing for the protection
of weak nations! Do you know that
the people Of Egypt are now In
state of incipient revolution and are
force: that they asked for a hearing,
simply a hearing, before this confer
ence which created the league of ma
tons and they were denied even a
hearing? Do you know that India is
saturated with discomfort and revolu-
ton, that they asked for hearing and
were denied a. hearing? Do you know
that Ireland has been struggling for
her independence seven hundred
years, that her people are now being
held down at the point of the bayonet
that the right of trial by jury and the
writ of habeas corpus are being de-
MED them, that men and women are
thrown into prison under conditions
such as you would not permit your
dog to suffer over night? This is one
of the nations which stand for right
eousness and the protection of weak
nations and innocent peoples. Do you
know that the Koreans in last des-
perate effort to get their cause before
the world stole like hunted fugitives
to Versailles supposng there before
the moral leaders of the world and the
movers of new era they would be
heard. Nay not so. Their despotic
ruler sat at that conference and for
bade their appearance. And you ask
me to vote to hold them in eternal
bondage or at least until Japan shall
have completed her scheme of exter-
mination.
| should like to ameliorate the con-
dition of the oppressed everywhere. ]
trust / sympathize with and like your
self would serve those who have been
unfortunate in the struggle of life or
who are composed of the great and
whom are now engaged in depressing
and decimating weak nations and in
nocent peoples, and with those peo-
pie you ask me to form a permanent
combination and bring this republic
down to that low level of debauchery
and shame. In other words, as l view
1t, instead of going into combina-
ton wherein the weak and oppressed
peoples have protection or wherein
the principle of self determination
could be applied you are asking us to
join a combination which will result
in their permanent oppression and in
holding them as subject nations and
subject peoples for all time to come
There is not a word or a phrase or a
clause in your league of nations by
and under which those subject peo-
pies can ever be heard.
To be entirely sincere as you ask me
to be and without rejecting on others,
] think it is nothing less than treason
to this republic. and the people of the
United States. l haven't any more
patience with man who win ask me
to join Japan and connive at the de-
struction of Korea and the ruin of
China than i would have for a man
who would ask me to do any other
wholly unrighteous and unpatriotic
act. | am utterly opposed to our join
ing in any permanent alliance or any
league with those powers whatever
Their standards and conception of civ
ilization and their theory of govern
ment are wholly at war with ours.
If it seems strange to you that |
should entertain such views | beg to
suggest that it was the view of Wash
ngton of Jefferson, of Lincoln, of Nc
<inley, of Roosevelt and of Woodrow
Wilson until a very short time ago.
You may think me lonesome but / am
sure you will think my company en-
rely respectable. ! trust / have made
myself clear.
Very respectfully,
WIN. f. BORAH.