Imperial Valley press., 1920-07-22

ference with American questions, but
this doctrine of our brings with it not
only its benefits but it's duties. The
condition of Mexico, owing in large
measure to the shortcomings of our
government, could not we'll be worse,
and we must make up our minds that
we not only owe it to ourselves to
protect there, as all over the world,
American rights and interests so long
neglected, but to reach out helping
hand to the Mexican people to the end
that law and order may be established
in that country which has been
plunged into anarchy and cursed with
continuous civil war. 1t is of the
highest Importance to the United
States that Mexico should be both
prosperous and peaceful and we must
face the fact that without our aid
the Mexican people cannot properly or
speedily, bring about the improved
conditions and the reign of law and
peace, which, we are convinced, they
desire as much as we do.
In defense of freedom and civiliza-
ton and to vindicate our own invaded
rights we entered upon the war with
Germany and although we were tardv
in taking part in that great conflict
we came upon the field of action in
time to turn the scale for right and
liberty. Not content with aiding
Europe to bring to pass the peace
which all desired after victory was
won, Mr.. Wilson undertook to make
us members of an alliance with for
eign powers indefinite in extent and
containing provisions which threao-
ened the independence, the sovereign
ty and the safety of the United
States. This effort on the part of TIE
president was arrested by the action
Of the republicans of the senate who
proposed protecting reserva 0 n
which he defeated together with the
treaty itself. In that work, you, sir,
took a conspicuous part and we know
that you were in full accord with the
belief of your republican colleagues
that the League of Nations as pro-
posed by Mr.. Wilson and upon which
he and his party still insist ought
never to be accepted by the American
people. We have been and are quite
ready to Join in agreement with other
nations, for the extension of the
Hague conventions; for the upbuild-
ing and codification of international
law and the establishment of world
court of justice; international confer
ences in regard to non-iusticiable
questions, and for arrangements to
bring about general reduction of
armamcntS. All these constructive
measures are in accord with the ira
ditional policy Of the republican party
which has done so much in the past
to forward the cause of international
arbitration. But when we are called
upon to become an integral part of a
permanent allinace of foreign powers,
to put ourselves in a position where
the youth Of the country can be sum-
mOned by foreign nations to fight and
die in quarrels not their own, to en-
tangle ourselves in all the conflicts
and disputes OF Europe where we
have no interest, TO permit foreign in
terferenee with our domestic ques-
tions and with the Monroe Doctrine,
and to sit in an assembly where our
vote is not the equal of that of every
other country, we absolutely decline
the proposition. We stand for the
policies of Washington and the doc
trine of Monroe, and against the
internationalism and the permanent al
lance with foreign nations proposed
by the president. F the world needs
US as they needed up in 1917 we shall
not fail in our duty, but we can help
other nations far better if we are free
and untrammeled and do not permit
our strength and our resources to be
wasted and worn away and the lives
of our young men to be sacrificed II
endless hostilities with which we have
no concern. Such has been the policy
Of the republican party as presented
in the senate ard such IT'S policy Will
remain. We are certain chat you whcl
helped so larged to frame this policy
will, when the executive authority