The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-10-07
HOW DOES PRESIDENT GRANT
KNOW?

According to press reports President
Grant at the conference just closed urged
the ratification of the Peace Treaty and
the League of Nations without reserva-
tons, claiming that they could not be
changed without submitting them to Ger
many, and that to his mind would be a
calamity. Sn7
Now no citizen Of this country will
rightfully attempt to shackle President
Grant in his opinion in this matter, and all
good citizens should admire him for his
manly and courageous stand in the mat
ter. He is certainly entitled to his opin-
ion, but after all is that not all there is to
it, and again is his opinion of any more
consequence in the matter than the opin-
ion of Senator Lodge, Senator Reed, Sem
ator Cummins, Senator Spencer, Senator
Smoot, Senator Thomas and score of
others who are "on the ground" so to
speak, and who are giving this momen-
tuous question all their time and study.
Again how does he know that if sub
mitted again to Germany it will "be cal
amity." He says it will. The President
says likewise and the President said many
things one day and reversed himself soon
thereafter. The senators above named
says otherwise and there you are. Citi-
Zens will remember just a short time ago
Major Clark, well posted and educated on
the subject, appeared against the coven-
ant. He had been 'on the ground" for a
long time and had mastered the situation,
in consequece thereof he delivered d
clean, inoffensive argument against the
covenant. Then towering high above the
others arose Lieutenant Brigham H. Rob-
erts who announced that he would answ-
er Major Clark from the same platform
on specified date. The date came arovnd
and the invincible Lieutenant appeared,
and the sorry spectacle he made of him.
self is now matter of regrettable his
tory. Not being capable of answering in
gentlemanly argument he launched off
into personalities and ridicule. We men,
ton this to show that those ION the
ground" have the advantage of the other
fellow, and although President Grants
opinion is weighty of course, it is simply
the opinion of one of our good fellow cit
liens out of the one hundred million that
is not "on the ground" On the other
hand there are those close to him in the
Presidency and in the Apostleship whom
we are informed incline to the opposite
view, and they, too, simply-voice the opln-
ion of the man far away from the smoke
of battle, all entitled to their opinions
and convictions as all good Americans
are After all it is like the gospel, mat
ter of individual salvation, so it behoves
us all to study at the question as best We
can and decide. for ourselves. At the pres
ent time at this distance one fellows
guess is as good as the other fellows, but
always the chances are in favor of the fel
low that more strictly stands for America
SAFETY OF "UNION" AT STAKE
The steel strike has thrown 400,00(
men out of owrk.
The point at issue is the refusal of the
steel company to recognize the union il
preference to any other honest Americas
workman
The fight is on for the closed shop
whereby a free man in America mus
ioin CLASS organization before he car
work, and an employer is denied the rich
Of hiring 4. competent workman who doe
not belong to such an organization
This is not fight on union ideas; it j
a fight for the preservation of freedom
of the individual in America.
If by superior arguments all the stee
workers can be induced to join the union
there is no reasonable grounds for c I'M
plant and if the union and the steel com
pany fail to settle grievances, the uniol