The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-07-25
TRYING TO KILL
! LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Resorting to athe Old
Senstors Ar no,,,. = ,,u,u
FArIiamentary
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oont is nlajn to.the view. They "ie
irving TO kill thetLeague- Of ,Natio -
rho ,.p assumes that men intem
the necessary consequences tof tnelf |
own acts IF the action. these Sena-
tors urge upon the senate as TAKEN
# will necessarily destroy the%Aeague'
They do not even SEEK to- conceai
heir purpose. They are resoruns
TO the old parliamentary device oi
l,iuiro nv amendment. Mr.. knoxs
hostile resolution, which has~gone TO
it's death. has been Abandoned lor
ooualifving resolutions" 1t is intended
that the Senate shall dec, are III ms
resolution that its ratihcatA3n On Oh the
Treaty of Peace, so far as n applies
to the League of Nations, 81 an D9
without effect SO far as the D. u'eu
States is concerned until the o1 ~
nations signing the Treaty shall agre
to certain reservations, which are 10
be substantially those recommended
nv Senator Root. The Washington
correspondent of The Times asked
Senator Knox what would happen IL
the allied nations decline to accepd
thesa reservations. "The United
states in that event would be outside
the League of Nations" Mr.. Knox
replied, with a smile. Without the
United States the League would be
lame and impotent organization; IN
all probability it would fall to pieces.
Therefore, we may start from the
postulate that Senator Knox, Senator
Lodge, Senator Borah, Senator john
son and their associates fully intend
the death of the League of Nations
and are taking measures to that end.
But what is their ulterior aim!
Merely to prevent the erection OF
safeguards against the greatest cause
of human suffering cannot be the
whole end and aim of their plotting.
We know that they have a political
purpose-to express their hatred OF
PRESIDENT WILSON, to discredit
him and thereby advance the fortunes
of the Republican party. Their tac-
tics and their utterances disclose that
motive, it is charged against them by
responsible leaders Of their own
party. But by what strange perverted
process Of argument have they per-
suaded themselves that the success OF
their desperate plot against the
League. Covenant would improve the
chances of the Republicans in the
Presidential election next year?
The country is against them. The
great sober-minded, reasonable, and
patriotic mass of their own party is
against them. is practically certain
that they cannot command the sup
mort of the majority of the Republican
Senators in their desperate adventure
That the Republican party at large
condemns their procedure is made
evident by authoritative utterances in
many States Of the Union An ex-
President and an ex-Attorney-General
of their own party have condemned
them. More than score of repre-
sentative Republicans in this city
united the other day in remon-
STRANGE against the course they are
pursuing. In the West, newspapers oi
high standing and of unquestioned
loyalty to the party are outspoken ir
denunciation of the thing they are
trying to do. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat, a great and influential
newspaper of answering fidelity tc
Republican principles, declares that
"a large proportion of the Republican
press favors the League, and there
are but few important Republican
newspapers that are uncompromisingly
against it." In support of this asser-
ton it reproduces upon its editorial
page in its issue Of June %, five col
umns of editorial expressions from
Republican newspapers of promi-
nence, all deploring the unwise and
dangerous course of the Senatorial
opponents of the League. Among
these newspapers are The Los
Angeles Times The Portland Oregon
lam one of the great papers of the
Pacific coast; The Des Moines Reg
lster, representative Republican
paper, IDe salt Lake 1TlDuu6s du'
other sound Republican newspaper
The Topeka Capital and the Globe
Democrat.
she Globe-Democrat calls attention
to the adoption Of resolutions en-
iorsing the League Covenant by the
representative vote of 29.75O to 42(
by the American Federation of Labor
to the resolution of the Federation o.
Women's' Clubs, representing 100000
Woheh, declaring its approval of tn,
fevised Covenant of the League; i
poiats'out that in a canvass of agri-
scultural papers published in forty
three States, only one of sixty7eigh
opposed ratification of the Treaty
with the League and sixty-four un-
dualifedly favored it. The attitude
of the ChuEch in favor of the Cove
nant has been made known from hun
dreds of pulpits. Says the Globe
Democrat: Here we have labor
agriculture, the Church, the women
and probably business, supporting tht
League From what source would the
Republican Party draw a conquerins