New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Hays Outlines
Peace POlicv
OF Republicans
Rejects Challenge to Make
League Partisan Issue;
Declares War on Reds;
Assails "Paternalism''

FORT WAYNE, Ind. June 13-Will
II. Hays, chairman of the National
Committee of the Republican party, in
an address tonight rejected the chal-
lenge of Homer S. Cummings. chairman
Of the Democratic National Committee,
recently made in Chicago that the Re-
publicans make partisan issue of the
league of nations. Mr.. Hays, without
naming the league, nevertheless said:
THE conclusion Of the treaty of
peace, including all its provisions
when we know what they are-is in
no sense partisan question. 1t is an
American question. In the same spirit
in which Republicans during the recent
war measured their every act by how
they could contribute most to effective
action, so now they are determined to
meet this new phase of the war prob
lem in that revived spirit of fervent
Americansm which is the glorified re-
suit of our experience of fire and blood,
moving with a full appreciation of this
country's duty as responsible factor
in the world of to-day and tomorrow,
with the earnest determination to do
all that can possibly be done toward
the maintenance Of peace without sac
rificing our own supreme nationalsm,
the preservation of which in its integ-
rity is the greatest safeguard for the
future, not only for the citizens of this
country, but for all peoples every
where"
Back to Peace Limitations
Speaking for his party, which now
controls both branches of Congress- Mr..
Hays declared eve shall bring this gov
ernment back to the limitations of the
Constitution in times of peace"
Among his declarations were the fol-
lowing:
with all our power we will strive to
prevent the further spread of Social
ism.
1--WE have promised forward step
ping as we'll as forward looking pro.
gramme for labor, for business and for
the farmer, and those promises we will
keep"
"That criminal element. organized or
unorganized, called l. w. w., or any
thing else that goes about this coun-
try seeking whom it can destroy-that
thing is traitor to this country, moth
ing else, and should be treated as such"
"The Republican party will not for
get, in the stress Of other matters,
that it's protective tariff policies have
made the wages of our laborers the
highest in the world"
"In tho rroot rooj ;nctr,op+ ,J
business must have sympathetic help,
not antagonistic curtailment."
Pedagogic Paternalism Opposed
There must be strong Federal regu-
lation, but not Federal ownership"
I'VE are against paternalism in
government, and we are against that
form of pedagogic paternalism that
has developed recently in this coun-
try"
1--WE will not forget that while we
tight to make certain the rights of free
government in the world we have a
republic to preserve in this country;
tnat we are representative govern
ment, not Bolshevist syncopation."
Shame on US for tolerating in our
body polite an undigested mass max
ing for nothing but internal disorder
II man is loyal to any other flag
foreign, red or black-he is disloyal
to the Stars and Stripes. Either these
men are Americans or they are trait
ors. If they are traitors they should
De lnterned, deported or shot"
Live Patriotism Daily
There is no zone Of twilight in poll
t'cs or public affairs" said Mr.. Hays
right is right and wrong is wrong
and the same strict standard OF
morals, equity and justice must obtain
as in any private business or profes-
sional matter. When we get our poll
tics entirely on this basis, when we
live our patriotism daily we will do Il
citizens full duty, and not until then
Let us have patriotism Of Abra-
ham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt
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