The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-23
A WE
SACRIFICE AMERICAN

Never before has the chief execu.
tive Of the nation openly proposed to
sacrifice IL, and asked the support oil
its own people to accomplish thai
object
Shall we sacrifice America? That
II the issue in this campaign; 80 de-
clarsd by President Wilson himself
In specific terms, on March 5. 1919.
President Wilson represented to the
European and Asiatic nations that he
was authorized by the people OF the
Tinted States to commit this sacri.
nee by giving up our separate ma
tional fortunes and Joining bur for
tunes with the fortunes Of men every
where" He was not SO authorized
Whether he or his %ccess Ii to be
30 authorized. 10 to be determined In
this election. He cannot claim that
the world government he proposes,
under the name of the Constitution
Of the League Of Nations, Is to be q
benefit to America; for he has ex-
prsssly designated 1t as a supreme
sacrifce." The senate alone stood
between US and this sacrifice and
saved us from It; and the senate
alone may be called upon to stand
between us and this same supreme
sacrifice" In the next congress.
One vote may determine the fate of
the nation. The election OF one
Democratic senator. pledged to fol
low his party In the sacrifice OF his
tai union with Europe and Asia. By
the election of a Republican senator
In any one state, pledged to oppose
this sacrifice, our independence and
the chief hope Of the world for liberty
and peace. may be preserved. The
senate Is the high court of final de-
cision . and the action Of the
senate may be determined by a single
vote.
In the face of this issue we can
not a1ord to allow personal prefer
ences, II they exist, to override prin-
cfple. The consequences are too
vital.
Our soldiers went to war to defeat
the purpose Of Germany ito join the
fortunes OF men everywhere" We
sent U SOM to Europe to fight for
national independence; and we will
break faith with those who died and
those that live II we now sacrifice
the nation for which they fought to
the principle Of internationalism.
In the process of supreme sacri-
nee" the Democratic party has re-
pudiated its solemn pledge and inter
the Panama Canal: de-
nying nj people any greater privi-
leges in the canal they had built than
those enjoyed by other nations that
never contributed a dollar nor owned
, foot of its soil.
As a further step in this process of
Joining our fortunes with the for
tunes of men everywhere" the Prtsi-
dent purposes the removal of eco
nomic barriers" which IL applied as
would open u ports, as he
has opened the canal, to foreign
goods on the same terms as our own.
It Is a process of destruction and well
ienominated by him "a supreme
I~acri1ce."
Under the name of mandates" of
srnment is being imposed upon Meso-
and Syria. 1t may be eces-
sary; but it Is neither necessary nor
proper that the United States shall
become a party to it. Whether we
shall or not may be finally deter
mined by the senate. and by a single
vote In the senate.
The Republican party proposes to
those separate fortunes for
which our fathers fought. American
Independence of Europe has meant
much for the world as well as for
ourselves, and its sacrifice would be
! sacrifice for all mankind as we'll
for ourselves.
II disarmament can be brought
about 1t will be by friendly agree
ment, as with Canada, and not by a
military league. as established at
II the future peace Of the world
Is to be encouraged. 1t will be by the
of international law and
the establishment of a court of law
judges. to which the nations, in a free
will submit disputes.
Only war will come from the setting
up Of a centralized military power,
which by its assembly, exercising. as
the President has said, "the major
forces of mankind" will subject the
world to an INSCRIPTIONS and ire
political and military des-
potism.
The Democratic party will deny
that such a power will be unscrupu-
lous or despotic. The history of the
world proves that 1t will be.
The safeguard Of the nation is the
election of q senate pledged to sup
port our Constitution. our interests.
and Jul American policies Of peace
and friendship with all nations and
governmental union with none. We
have fought four wars with European
nations to prevent the control of
American affairs by Europe. and won
them all. 1t is certain that II the
League of Nations had been In exist
ence We would never have gained our
independence. Do not let us now CON-
NIT the supreme folly and the "su-
preme sacrifice" of voluntarily sur
rendering the independence and sepa-
rate station in the world which we
have won.-[Miles Poindexter.
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