Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-22

the shortcomings of our govern
ment, could not we'll be worse, and
we must make up our minds that we
not only owe it to ourselves to pro-
tect there, as all over the world,
American rights and interests so
long neglected, but to reach out a
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. It
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 con-
WINGED, they desire as much as we
do.
In defense of freedom and civil
cation and to vindicate our own in
vaded rights we entered upon the
war with Germany and although we
were tardy 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 vic
tory was won, Mr.. Wilson undertook
to make US members of an alliance
with foreign powers indefinite in eX-
tent and containing provisions which
threatened the independence, thb
sovereignty and the safety of the
United States. This effort on the
part of the president was arrested by
the action of the Republicans of the
Senate who proposed protecting res
ervations 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 Repub-
lican colleagues that the League of
Nations as proposed 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 upbuilding and condifcation
of international law and the estab-
lishment of a world court of justice ;;
for international conferences in re-
gard to non-justicable questions, and
for arrangements to bring about a
general reduction of ornaments. All
these constructive measures are in
accord with the traditional 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 be-
come an integral part of a perma-
nent alliance 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 entangle ourselves in all the con-
fiicts and disputes of Europe where
we have no interest, to permit for
eign interference with our domestic
questions and with the Monroe doc
trine, and to sit in an ass 4mbly where
our vote is not the equal 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 in
ternationalism and the permanent al
lace with foreign nations proposed
by the president. If the world reeds
us as they needed us in 1917, We
shall not. fail in our duty, bit we can
help other nations far better if we
are flee and untrammeled and DO
not permit our strength and our re-
sources to be wasted and worn away
and he lives of our young men to be
sacrificed in endless hostilities with
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been the policy of the Republican
party as represented in the Senate
and such its policy will remain. We
are certain that you who helped so
largely to frame this policy will.
when the executive authority comes
into your hands, carry it out in such
manner that we can fulfill all our
responsibilities to the world without
binding ourselves by any obligations
to League which as submitted by
the president is but another name
for the evil combination which was
attempted a hundred years ago by
the ill-omened Holy Alliance.
No national campaign for the pres
idency has ever involved graver is
sues than this one, which now lies
before US. Upon you, sir, will rest
the great duty and heavy burden of
executive authority. We look to you
in full confidence to lead us and the
people of our beloved country out
from the darkness and confusion
which the war has brought upon man
kind into the LIGHT which shines
where peace reigns and the love of
justice, of law and of order rules
in the hearts of the people. Then we
can again take up the work of adj
vancing the United States along the
broad road that leads to success, the
road which we have followed for
more than a century, Then indeed
we shall not only rise to still loftier
heights of achievement for ourselves,
but be enabled to render the largest