South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-11
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The reactonaries of the United States senate dy
ing hard splitting forth their spleen the president
at every step of his triumphant progress toward the
contamination of international program that prom
ises for the and of mankind than
any other ever before devised by the wit of
The latest contributor reactionary propaganda
is Sen Moses (republcan) of New Hampshire upon
whose shoulders fallen reactionary mantle OF
the "nobles Roman Of them ALL the late Sen Gallinger
times sinister interests Mr. Roosevelt had something
say in 1912.
In a speech senate he undertakes to show that
pretensions quite noble heard previous the
notorious congress of Vienna the close of the Ma
poleonic and finds in Alexander of Russia the
Wilson of the period ans in czartorski the most in
casion And doing so he refers sneeringly to the
program proposedly by Alexander and incidentally
the presidents program the remedy for all the
ills from which mankind suffer"
Primarily that is false Neither did Alexander
Wilson submit program that proposes anything of
the sort or remotely So But Alexander did propose as
Wilson does today program that would long
toward the establishment of the reign of inter
national justice and toward the intimidation of the
probability Of wars
Perhaps have read the histories that the
Ireactionary from New Hampshire draws but in
all have read the impression conveyed that Alex
ander the noble figure In the congress Of
Vienna and that he was defeated through The over
whelmng predominance OF scamps and scoundrels OF
the type Of Metternich and Talleyrand.
Perhaps the senator's speech is more arragnment
of the honesty of Lloyd George, Clemenceau. Sonnno
and Vandervede than Of the of the president
But probable it is that Moses prefers the
Taleyands to the Aexanders the powers OF plage to
the powers Of light. the reactonary the liberal.
Certainly-and this is significant in getting at the
motive of such Moses-hs speech does not in
would the disappointed IL the
congress of Paris should degenerate into another
gress of Vienna-excOrated by history the most
dastardy conspiracy against the and liberties Of
men that met.
The weakness of the comparison made between the
Alexander and Wilson is that 1t does not
consider the points OF vantage OF the two men,-one
speaking an autOcratc monarch, the other the
chosen representative of a free people Nor does he
take consideration the progress that the world
has made in a hundred years
Lloyd George differs from the infamous Castereagh
the English representative Vienna-as day from
darkness
Clemenceau differs from Talleyrand radically as
the honest differs from the scoundrel
And the England, France, Italy, Belgium OF today
differs beyond from those countries of
century
When Woodrow Wilson appeared in the house Of
deputies and mounted the tribune-somethng
that no one a member has done in 20 years-the
deputies o a hear him standing He mo-
toned for them 10 take their seats.
NO. no, will hear you standing, the
unanimous response.
He appealed the president OF the chamber have
them seat themselves but he acknowledged his in
ability to do
if Alexander would have been accorded
such honor in the law making body Of the France
of Talleyrand and Louis XVIII