The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-22
SENATOR'S FROM OHIO. MISSISSlP.
ri AND KENTUCKY SPEAK
FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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appeal to YOU to meet the issue in III,
open. Do not put yourselves in the at
titude of voting reservations that ar,
meaningless or ratify it with strin!
tied to ii, such a string that will stran
gle it,"
The reservations urged by Chairman
Hays and other republican leaders, Sen
ator Harrison said, are not only unnec
essary, but would require consideration
of the treaty by all the signatories ant
destroy the hope of mankind for worlds
peace.
The republican leaders he charged
with having sought to arouse racial
labor, religious, Irish and other preju
dces in their partisan opposition. Their
real opposition, however, he declared
was because President Wilson had a
hand in making it," and because they
objected to the disarmament and com
mercial equality clauses. In this con
nection he pointed out that munitions
industries are important in the states
of prominent senators attacking the
treaty.
mo argument has been too fallacious,
no illustration too far-fetChed," said Mr.
Harrison, for you to seize upon in
your desperate efforts to becloud the
issue. They became jealous of the
growing ascendency of this man pres
ident Wilson,. He was becoming too
popular, too influential Your opposi-
tion arose simply and merely because he
happened to be the spokesman and
leader Of another political party. | had
never believed partisanship would be
come so acute that jealous leaders would
rather see the star of their country
dimmed than to witness the ascendency
of one individual simply because he was
of different political faith.
Tried to Embarrass Wilson
you tried by every possible means
to embarrass him. No task was ever ac-
complished against such unfavorable
odds; in a foreign country, against a
propaganda conceived by men in this
chamber, adequately financed and con
sstently prosecuted that his influence
might be destroyed and his plans de
feated, he won.
And now, with the work finished and
signatures of these able statesmen of
the allied countries attached, you have
organized the machinery of this body
that their work might be undone. Bar
gaining has been INDUCED in and com
promises effected that you might car
ry out your nefarious schemes. The
erstwhile pretended progressives of the
republican party buried all their differ.
ences and solidly voted for the sen.
ators from Pennsylvania Q'enrose) and
Wyoming (Warren) as chairmen of the
finance and appropriations committees.
While it appeared an awakening at the
time, subsequent events and the de-
liberate stacking of the foreign rela-
tions committee against this treaty of
peace, including the League of Nations,
explain everything.
Not content with leveiling your mud
batteries on the league Of nations Gov
enant, when you failed, you continued
to take issue with your representatives
at Versailles on practically every i'm
portant question"
Senator Harrison quoted an address
by Republican Leader Lodge support
ing ltaly's claim to Fiume, and con
tinued:
When China, stirred and influenced
by expressions emanating from you
leaders, refused to sign the peace treaty.
they received the most sincere cooper
alton and sympathy from you. While
the representatives of America We're
doing everything within their power,
with right and justice,
to compromise our differences with
Japan, your leaders famed the fires of
iiscontent and did everything to widen
the breach. You are still doing it.
Before Germany signed the treaty,
'our leaders in this chamber by elo.
iuence that sounded to German ears,
showed them opposition that was sym
pathetic and akin. Nothing has been
eft undone by you to have failure
written over the conference door at
Versailles. Your action is only com.
parable to the conduct of the never ceas-
ng hellhounds Milton stationed at the
nfernal gates"
Objections Made to Deceive
The objections raised over the Mon
'oe doctrine, withdrawal from the
eague, and racial and religious ques-
ions, Senator Harrison said, had been |
made ito allure and deceive the unsus-
'ecting public" He denied that Great |
Britain could dominate the league, or |
hat the Monroe doctrine was not safe |
guarded. Referring to charges that the |
lack race would control the league, he |
ontinued:
THE black man at no place and at no |
ime in history where he and the white |
nan sat at the same council table dom |
mated or controlled
THE opponents also have appealed |
o the religious prejudice of the peo-
lie, saying that the papacy might con-
rol. / am a Protestant. but denounce
s unfair, unjust and infamous such ar
against the League of Nations.
You have tried to arouse the Irish of
he nation into believing that, IL the
league of Nations is adopted. Ireland's