The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-09-19
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says:
Neither does it believe the Ban
ner's gratuitous assertion shat the
republicans know that the Germans
are opposed to the league of nations,
and they have the German vote in
the United States. There is not the
slightest reason to believe that the
sO-called German vote in this country
is opposed to the league, and the
Banner should remember that Ger
many has ratified the treaty which
creates the league of nations"
True. But Germany signed under
compulsion and few things would
give that nation more qualification
than to see the league defeated.
The opposition the league is re-
ceiving~fn this country and. especially
in the senate Is playing into German
hands,
The Herald says there is not the
slightest reason to believe that the
so-caIled German vote in this country
is opposed to the leagues rati1ca
ton,
The Herald shonld wake up!
Then it says that the Banner is. all
wrong in saying that the republicans
are coddIing the Irish in order tc
catch their vote Ia the presidential
election Of 1920
We quote: I'll, -.
Senator Hitchcock made some such
an insinuation in the senate a few
days ago. lie was Immediately chal-i
lenged by che executive. committee or,
one of the slargesta branches of the
Friends of irish Freedom which
showed that the Organization COM
prises hundreds of thousands of men
and women in this c6untry, and that
nearly every branch of the organiza,
ton has been on record as opposed
to the league of nations. It asserted
that seventy-dve per cent OF the peo-
pie Of Irish blood id this country
were opposed to the league. All OF
which shows how far the Banner has
wondered from the facts when it as
serts that the republicans are trying
to win the Irish vote BY pretence."
The Irish want a separate and in
dependent government and because
they were not given. distinct recOgni-
ton in the league of nations those
of them in this country are opposed
to it's ratification by the senate ana
the republicans are patting them on
the back and flattering and coddling
them in every way, pretending that
they favor all the" Irish claim in order
as before stated,and we now repeat,
TO capture the Irish vote in the presi-
Dental election of 1920,
Instead of wandering from the facts
as presented by the Herald, the Ban
ner in its contention sAems stre1g-a
ened by them f4
The Banner may be ignorant OF the
provisions of the league. and the tenn
per of the American people as insinu-
ated by the Herald but 1t would rath-
er be led by Woodrow Wilson. How
ard Taft, -Chas. z. Hughes. Lyme
Abbott. Alton B. Parker Oscar Straus
John Sharp Williams. Gilbert NJ.
Hitchcock, Porter is McCumber,
Claude A. Swanson, Atiee Pomerene.
Key Pittman. Duncan IT, Fletcher.
and those democrats in congress who
have all along held up the hands or
the administration in it's marvellous
achievements than to be guided by
Henry Cabot Lodge, william E. Bor-
ah, Smoot. Poindexter, naFollette and
that bunch the Herald is training
with.
We do not know and do not so ac-.
cuse nor charge, but the partisan tinge
of hostility and BITTERNESS given to
the discussion of the league of ma
tons by the republican leaders in
the senate. ana the OPPOSITION mani
tested against its ratification by al
few democratic newspapers scattered
over the country. have made the lead
ers of the republican party boasttul
even of carrying Florida in the 1920
election by majority of 10000
The PRINCIPAL OF Tuskegee insti-
tute-the successor Of Booker T.
Washiugton-is out in printed
statement depIoring the fact that
there is manifested On the part Of the
coiored race a more intense preju-
dice and hatred toward the whste
race now than at any time in history,
and the labor problem throughout the
nation is in more chaotic state. Ca
ever before known