The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1919-11-22

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States propose to enter the league
of nations absolved from all those
obligations to it's associates which
they have undertaken to observe
toward it. 1t accepts their guaran
ties and declines to give any.
The United States, having de.
manded the freedom of Poland,
Czecho-Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Bel
GUM, Alsace-Lorraine and other
countries and provinces ruled or
occupied by the enemy, now de-
clares it will assume no response
bility for protecting them in their
newly won independence.
T he United States, having warred
against the spirit of aggression
and the right of title through con-
quest, now declines to pledge its
aid in preventing the revival of
that spirit and the exercise of that
right.
And this acceptance Of the obi
cations of other states toward
America, with denial of America 5
obligations toward other states ;
this refusal to share any response
bility for the security Of the in.
FAINT nations, whose freedom it de-
manded; this abandonment of ef-
fective opposition to the spirit of
aggression and the right of con-
quest-these things are called
"Americanizing" the treaty.
Such is the definition of Ameri-
canism that the United States Sen.
ate proposes to give the world.
And there is every reason to
fear it will amplify this definition
by approving other reservations of
like sort, as, for example, the fol.
lowing:
"The United States reserves the
right to permit, in it's discretion,
the nationals Of a covenant-break-
ing state, as defined in Article 16
of the covenant of the league of
nations, to continue their CONNER
cial, financial and personal rela-
tions with the nationals of the
United States.''
'Americanizing" the treaty will
thus come to mean that the United
States reserves the right to remain
on amicable terms and to maintain
the fullest intercourse with a state
that has broken it's pledges to the
league and to the world by declar-
ing war in violation of it's solemn
engagements.
If this be Americanism we have
Travelled far from those ideals I'M
der whose impulse we made the
great decision in April, 1917. The
Post cannot believe that the Sen
ate majority is truly expressing
the will and sentiment of the
American people in giving this in
depreciation of the American
spirit to the world. When a full
realization of what they are being
made to say and to do by these re-
servations dawns upon them we
are convinced they will repudiate
Indignantly the attitude of their
representatives.
1t seems that "politics in the
United States Senate-not among
the mass Of the people of the
United States-is destined to de-
feat the peace treaty and the
League of Nations. And with
their defeat will begin the making
of alliances between the different
nations Of the world and a race in
manufacturing guns, explosives,
poison gas, submarines, airplanes,
and everything that will destroy
human lives surely and in the
greatest numbers.
The cranks, demagogues and
fools in the United States Sen
ate are determined to undo all
the good things done by the two
million Americans and many other
millions of men in the ranks of the
allies. and set the world back again
to the place it was before the be-
ginning of the great world war.
We fought-at least our boys
fought-for the purpose of ending
wars. Now few idiots in the
United States Senate throw away
all that we might have gained by
the sacrifice of lives and the great
expenditure of money during the
war. By their action they make
new wars-or a greater war than
ever has been fought certainty
The names of those who defeat
the peace treaty and the League
of Nations should be preserved,
apd i,,ct hafora enterinp into the