Republican farmer., 1920-07-02

Unspeakab1e Turkey and-the Unlted States of America
 It is ont yet too late. Let us stand with the forces of civilization The choice is plain. It Is between the Democratic Party's support of the League of Nations, with it's program of peace, disarmament and world fra ternity, and the Republican ParHss platform of repudiation, provincial ism, nilitarism and world chaos.
 Equality of Voting
 There is great pretense of alarm because the United States has but one vote in the international assem- bly,, against the six votes of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zea- land. South kfrica and India This popular argument against the League of Nations is an insincere it is superficial. It ignores the fact that the Executive Council, and not the Assembly, is the governing body of the League, and that our country is one of the five countries having per- mament membership in the Council. The colonial votes exist only in the Assembly.
 Nor should we forget that France has but one vote; Italy has but one vote; and Japan has but one vote. If there were any injustice in the ar rangement, surely these nations " "OOid AdSS SCiIoSo IL dllo ObJSCl60 IO it. No affirmative action can be talk en in any essential matter without a unanimous vote of all members of the Council of the League. No de- cision of the League, if America joined it. could be made effective or even promulgated without our con-. sent. Like every other nation, we have a veto power upon every res- olution or act of the League. We can be involved in no enterprise ex- cept of our own choosing; and if we are not satisfied with the League, we can sever our connection with it upon two years notice. The risk exists only in the imagination, the service is incalculable.
 Moreover, the United States in sisted that Cuba, Haiti, Liberia, Pan anna, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guat-
 eInala should each be given a vote
 we'll as the nations of South Amer ica, great and small. Including the nations which are bound by vital in
 terests to the United States, or, in-
 deed, directly under our tutelage, we
 have more votes in the League of Nations than any other nation. How
 could we, in good faith, urge that these nations be given a voice and
 deny voice to such se1f-governing nations Canada, New Zealand and the rest, which relatively speaking, made far more sacrifices in the war than our own country? It is desir- able that all countries should have an opportunity to be heard in the League; and the safety of each nation resides in the fact that 10 action can
 be taken without the consent of all Responsibility for the Defeat of the Treaty
 It was the design of Senator Lodge, from the outset, to mutilate the Treaty and to frustrate the pur- poses of the Administration. And yet Senator Lodge, with the help of the l irreconcilables, having torn the Treaty 1 to tatters and thrown it's fragments l in the face of the world, has the eff l frontery to suggest, in his address at Chicago, that the President blocked l ratification and postponed peace. The trouble with the Treaty of | Peace is that it was negotiated by l a Democratic President. It is not l difficult to assess the responsibility l for it's defeat The responsibility
 rests, not upon it's friends, but upon 1 it's enemies.
 The Foreign Relations Committee, l immediately following the last cleo 1 tion, was reorganized with a person
 nel consisting of the open foes of the l Treaty Amongst the number was i Senator Borah, who declared that he would not be for a League of Ma 1 tions, were the Savior of mankind to | advocate it. Senator Johnson, Sem l ator Knox and Senator Moses, whose
 hatred of the President amounts to 1 an obsession, were also members; and | Senator Lodge was chairman.
 The Treaty was referred to the l Committee thus studiously prepared for it's hostile reception. The mem bers of this committee adopted every | subterfuge to misrepresent the docu- | ment which they were supposed to | be considering as statesmen. Depu- 1 tations of foreign born citizens were
 brought to Washington in an eI1orr
 to color and exaggerate the impress sion of popular opposition
 The Senate had even begun the 1 discussion of the Treaty months be- 1 fore it's negotiations was concluded, ] and did not terminate it's debate un- l til nine months after the submission of the Treaty. It took the Senate 1 nearly three times as long to kill the i Treaty by protracted debate and by confusing and nullify1ng amen dnents
 and reservations as it took the repre- sentatives of the allied governments to draft it.
 It was not the business of the President, when he brought this
 Treaty back from France, to join with MT. Lodge and other Republi-
 can leaders in their deliberate pur-
 pose to destroy it. Had he initiated, suggested or assented to changes which would have substantially all
 tered it's nature, it would have been
 a distinct breach of faith with his associates of the Peace Council and a violation of American pledges.
 Everyone acquainted with diplomatic
 usages, or with the plain requirem ents of honesty, understands this. The
 foolish invention that the President , refused to permit the dotting of an
 "i' or the crossing of a "t' has been ! so often repeated that many honest people believe in it's truth.
 In every speech made during his tour the President stated entire will
 lingness to accept any and all re- servations not incompatible with Americas honor and true interests. It is the plain intent of the covenant