South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-21

demand of exclusive Interpretation on our part as
for instance, might encourage US to extend that
doctrine to take N England. China South Africa,
or the North and South Poles
Any lawyer, except political shyster, will tell
you that law aPPropriates only those powers
preSSly delegated to it. and that everything out
side those delegated powers reserved a
matter Of course. Reservations. such as the sen
ate has submitted are therefore, absolutely sense
less except as they are calculated to kill the
League, by serving notice that the United States,
regardless of her membership, is a cowardly quit
ter and Will take hand IN nothing.
VII
ONE more, and it completes a review of all the
~ reservations submitted from the per
sonal attacks on the president introducing the per
sonal element appeal to the prejudice OF
these ultra-partisans who so dearly love to hate
him.
1t Is the first of them but saved to the last, be
cause it Is a real climax 1t says:
THE United States reserves TO itself the unconditional
withdraw the League Nations the
notice provided in Art OF said treaty Of peace with
Germany"
Great The United States reserves the right to
withdraw from the League upon the notice there
IN provided for its withdrawal! Some reservation
One may well ask with Old Josh Billings: eff
it is waste Of lather to shave an ass why waste
time exposing the rambling idiosyncrasies of the
idot?"
Will
\ ND so there you have it; all there Is to Art X,
and all there is to the Pettifogc reservations
that the United States senate has submitted to the
League covenants IN general.
1t is a full and complete answer; not only
& al I b,v4o h
perhdy that is being employed by more or less
traitorous skallawags in an effort to defeat it
which includes Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, chair
man of the foreign relations committee of the
ate, SEN James Eli Watson addressing the barbe-
cue INDUCED by Gods Own Party at Crown
Point last Sunday, and the like of Sens. Hi John
son and VIM. E. Borah, running up and down the
country ''Ii5e roaring lions seeking whom they
may devour."
1t is interesting too, the kind Of following they
are developing-the German reichstag, for in
stance; the bolsheviks, l. w. VS., pro-Germans,
ignoramuses too brsinless and lazy to inform
themselves and the ultra-partisan poisoned
with hate for the president that they would rather
see the whole world plunged into puTgatory than
admit virtue in anything he is connected with
No wonder Germany has not ratified the Paris
treaty under her new constitution, and declares
that she will not until the Unitel States does From
Berlin comes the word that she anticipates that
the United States will not ratify it and that she
can enter into a separate peace with this country
in keeping with the Knox denunciation of the
present treaty's Cruelty"
Such peace would make the United States
virtually an ally Of Germany as against pres
ent allies in the enforcement of the peace Of Par
IS and an ally Of bolshevik Russia, and Of Ire
land, and certain Balkan powers with whom the
Teutons In the absence OF League Of Nations,
hopes to build UP a balance of power"
Germany admits that hope. The opponents Of
the League of Nations then playing directly
into her hands, and from some appearances
designedly
AS Pres't Wilson well put it in his address at
San Francisco not an argument has been raised
against the Paris treaty and League of Nations
aside from the perhdious pretense of super-sov-
ereignty,-thst did not originate IN Berlin; we are
as hard UP against pro- Germanism today as we
ever were, previous to or during the war
And we have great political party here, with
its leaders championing that pro-Germanism;
seeking to make partisan issue of the treaty and
the League and taking up Germany's side-lit-
orally endeavoring to cut the heart and soul out
of both, and not only out Of the League and the
treaty, but out Of America, and of the world.
The question is are you for Germany, or are
you against her? Let your senators know. II you
are for throwing down the bars again, and literally
inviting the Teutons to resume their conquest of
place n the sun, well then, don't pretend
that you are an American!
Just admit that you are Prussianesque cop
perhesd' and let it go at that; admit that you