The Redwood gazette., 1919-10-29
The Issue Cleared
Kent Perkins in the New York Even-
ing Post

In the language that best suits Wild.
Bill Borah and He'll Roaring Hiram
Johnson I'VE gotta hand - TO the
Battalion of Death.
| For the peace-slayers have reaca-
ed a point near victory that seemed
| impossible to friends of 4meI1 a and
humanity three months age today,
when they began their hold-up. after
campaign of super-skiled misre-
| presentation multiform, multicharge,
Irapid-fire lying and baseless villfica-
tion Of president of the United States
unequaled since the war of slandar ana
detraction waged against George 8.
Washington the Battalion of beats,
has scored these triumpns
The treaty has been blocked Tor
three months.
are still starving.
| Armenia is three months nearer ex-
termination.
Stricken, beleaguered Poland is no
nearer safety or rehabilitation.
An Italian adventurer has grabbed
Fiume and defied the world
Bulgaria, encouraged by this rob
berry, threatens to arms her popula-
tion and fight the peace treaty,
The whole Balkan powder magazine
is ready for another explosion and sew
eral lighted matches are nearing it.
! The Germans are still bedeviling
the Baltic provinces.
Lenine and Trotzsky are still throt-
ting Russia, and with the output of
their ruble printery are helping their
allies, the American Battalion of
Death, to kill the league Covenant.
Chief Peace-Slayer Lodge, despit@ -
/ the. slap on the wrist given him by the
1 Republican convention of Massachu-
sets, feels so strong that he defies
the friends of the treaty to try sub
stituting mild reservation forhisd death
dealing amendments.
In the vernacular of the Wild Bills.
these are some triumphs! But where
do they land the United States? Let
US see.
By keeping the treaty "out of poll
tics" IN their own clever way peace
slayers have jockeyed our political
situation into a mess only equaled by
the soviet Russian stew Humiliat-
ing as this is for all but He'll Roarers
and Sim Feiners, "we gotta hand it to
'em again, because they have made
the issue clear No man has an ex-
cuse longer to be confused over it.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts has
1 helped to bring the situation to a
lclimax and clarity the issue by his
object surrender to Sim Fein, his ioin-
ing with the hedgerow assassins and
| pro-German ploters of Ireland against
the highest and best interest of Am
erica.
The question each man must ask
himself now is not: Am / Republi-
can of Democrat?" but "Am I an
American or am an Irish-Sinn FeF
American, or Italo-Fiume Americs9
or a Chinese-Shantung American. Or
German7Junker American, or a Greek
Thracian American, or red-bloode, 4
antI-American, or a hell-roaring AM
erican?"
The choice is easy for the align
ment is clear. On one side the intel
ligent, forward looking, pledge-keep-
ing Americans, Republicans and Dem
ocrats. who believe that, having spent
4 billions of money and thousands of
Lives to kill the old rule of force and
fraud in the world we should stick
on the job until the beasts are buried
forever. Under that banner are the
4 churches, the colleges, the women, the
business men, the American Fedora
/ ton Of Labor
i. On the other side stand in luminous
motley array Leninism, that steals all
it can and kills all who resist; Sinn
i Feinism, that shoots its enemies
through cottage windows at night:
Junkerisnn, whose unspeakable crimes
the whole world knows; all the pea
nut and machine politicians, from
Nachant, Mass, to Boise, Idaho; all
the senator's and representatives, VIII;
represent not the public but special in
Iterests. and, last and greatest of a
the main bunch-the extreme protef
tive tariff exploiters Of the AmericsA
public through inflated prices and !, :
American labor through low wages. M,