French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-24
JULY "a, 1919
OUTLOOK FOR THE LEAGUE

It's a bit interesting to find the
New York Outlook, of which Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt was associate
editor prior to his death, take issue
with Lodge, BOrah, LaFollette & Com
paly in their position on the League
OF Nations Covenant. The July num-
Der of this magazine, a Roosevelt
Celebration" edition, carries fine color
portraits Of tile Colonel on it's front
and fourth RACES and placed the ex-
Presidents name alongside of Wash
ingtOn, Jefferson and Lincoln in the
list CT great american statesmen. In
an editorial entitled, 1.-The Tactical
Rlu'licr OF the Republicans" the Out
look speaks rs mind on the stand
leaders CT It's party in the United
States Senate have taken in opposi-
ton to the ratification of the Treaty of
Peace recently + esented by President
Wilson as spokesman for America
abroad. II says:
+sThe League of Nations is very
likely to be the issue of the 1926
Presidential campaign. And some
gOOd Political 5:.ges prophecy that
Mr.. Wilson may accept the challenge
and run fer & third term on that is
sue. We do aOt believe that he will
seek reelection On the ground that
he should be rewarded as one of the
authors of the plan. But if the Repub-
lica-,s persist in aItaC King, opposing,
or eElascElat:ag tie Treaty which has
been framed by the five chief Allies, it
would not be unnatural for him to take
a third term nomination in order to
defend what he has consistently as
serted 60 be the great issue before the
civilized world.
1t is cur belief that as the people
OF the United States continue to think
about the matter they will say to
themselves: The proposed League
dc'ibtless has defects: like the Con-
stituUion, it may need ultimate amend
ments as the result of practical ex-
perience. But we are tired of fight
ing and appeals to force, and We
want TO try any reasonable experiment
that will give us some escape from
such catastrOphes as that which has
just overwhelmed us. If we don't try
this eXpA;iiaent now, nobody knows
Wien we sail have 2 ether oppLs
:un;ty. We Gcnt propose to jeopar-
die this chance by further discus
sion and criticism. We want to get
TO work and do our tinkering later
From the point of view of political
exreGIcncy tbs sole question is:
Which is the largest body of Amer1-
cans, those vic Want &C try this ex-
pertinent or those who 40 net?
Whatever the answer may be, it
lie admIIted that Senators
Lodge. Knox. 3:orah, and Johnson
have raised This Lrt"L.on.
Here, it seems to us. has been their
great tactical mistake. They would
have been far wiser, we think, and
far surer of success, if they had gone
to The country with an appeal in sub
stance like this:
We join unhesitatingly with the
Democrats in ratifying the Treaty anG
the ERgue of Nations Covenant. The
ratification is not a partisan issue.
The administration of the Treaty and
the League is. Neither document is
worth the paper it is written on un-
less the most efficient men and the
ablest. minds are devoted to admins
tering the League. If the appoint
ments to the Assembly and the Coun~
eli OF the League are not of the high
est order, the League will be a dis
NAL and probably dangerous failure.
You know the general character or
appointments under the Democratic
Administration. You know the many
and great failures of efficiency of that
Administration in the conduct of the
war. It will be a bigger and more
p~erplexing job to run the League than
to run the war. If you are dissatis-
fed, as we believe you are, with the
general wal record of the Democrats,
Va ask you to give your mandate to
the Republican party to carry on the
League, to enforce the Treaty of
Peace, and to direct on your behalf the
work Of National and international