The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-03-05

Politics or party affiliation
often has much to do with our
views on public questions, with
many it has all to do, due to the fact
that too great a number follow those
who are recognized party leaders, and
this is not so strange when one takes
into consideration how few are the
numbers who have accessible records
and opportunities for making studies
Tor themselves. We are inclined to
take the position of the average
client, that is, let the lawyer en-
ployed do the scientific thinking for
us, which is most generally the aver
age citizens position upon intricate
National questions. We feel that
It is our Representatives special du-
ty and business to act for us, hence
the layman follows his leader or lead
ers, frequently without question,
but occasionally he rebels and if he
follows at all ii is without endorsing
the course persued and with much
misgivings as to the ultimate out
come, the final result to be attained
by a certain line of action-This
brings us up to what we started out
to say, viz: We have privately
talked with a number of the best in
formed of both political parties, resi-
dent of our little section, and we be-
lieve that we truthfully state fact,
when we say that those of President
Wilson's party, who unqualifiedly en-
dorse the League of Nations, in its
entirety just as it was originally made
and handed to the Senate, do not
amount to as much as twenty per cent
of that party. Some have expressed
themselves as being against 1t in
any form, while others, many others.
do not object, if the reservations are
made. To use the language of one
of the best informed, he said, lit was
like taking a dose of medicine for
certain ailments which the Doctor
said contained curative properties.
but there was also a drug contained
in the dose that might kill, the truth
was, he did not know just what the
result would be, at the same time
he probably knew how and where to
procure the thing he needed, without
the deadly drug, and he would either
do that or reject the whole concoc-
ton. He would most certainly not
take the added risk simply because
the man of physics prescribed.
Within the last few days we see UNI
mistakable evidence that the Demo
cratic Press would be glad to see the
League adopted, even with the reser-
vations. The Louisville Courier
Journal in considera BILE section of
very lengthy editorial even admits
that it would approve that sort of
action upon the part of the Demo-
cratic Senators. And why not? Does
not a clear majority in the Senate un-
questionably stand for reservations?
Senator Beckham was one of seven
teen Democrats who voted for reser-
vations Monday, as affecting the Mon
roe doctrine or creed, and that has
been, next to article 10, one of the
chief bones of contention. We be-
lieve we see unmistakable signs of the
minority yielding to what, as every
body knows it to be, the majority
We have not been quite able to un-
derstand just why all of this abuse
should be heaped upon the majority
for wanting things just as they want
ed them, and that has not been the
real case, because many concessions
have been made, reservations have
been scaled in several instances, and
many that members of the majority
party were for have been rejected
altogether. The group of .reserva-
lions commonly called the Lodge
reservations in fact represents many
compromises. Our opinion, it is true,
is not worth much, but it looks to us
as though the whole thing may be
behind us at no distant date, at least
out of the Senate, with its approval,
in some shape.