Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-01
An Appeal to Independents to Vote for COX

of washing our hands of Europe's
leftover war problems results, as it
may, in bankruptcy and inability
therefor to pay us back some of the
ten billions borrowed Of us.
If we don't ratify, we shall have
innumerab.e private lawsuits of
American citizens against Germany
which we can't prosecute with sue
cess, and Of German citizens against
the United states.
Let Us take q concrete case. A
young American Oh the Sussex, tor
in the water four hours AM contract
ed pnuemcnia, which led TO tubercu-
losis. He is entitled to d, images of
say S50,0C0 which could be assessed
and collected under the Treaty of
Versailles but, without it. he can do
little more than whistle for them. Is
that the sort of protection to our
citizens afforded by the Republicans ?
These complications could be multi
piled indefinitely
Only One Way Out.
The Republicans have gotten them
selves into an impossible situation.
There is only one practicable bust
ness like thing to do and that is to
ratify.
The League cannot be dissectcd
out of the treaty, and if it could no
other of the thirty-seven nations now
in the League would consent. No
workable plan is possible by which we
accept the treaty without the League
while the rest of the world accepts
it with the League, any more than
one man on an athletic team could
r,ay football while the rest were
playing baseball.
The League had to be part of
the Treaty of Versailles. At first
many of the trainers of the treaty
thought to have peace and the League
later, as Senator Harding now pro
poses. But they soon saw that this
was impracticablc. The leftover war
problems were so numerous, compli-
Gated and vast, and their Immediate
and complete solution so impossible.
that the League came at once to be
recognized as an indispensable me-
chanism to be first erected, so that
through 1T the problems could be
worked out deliberately and proper
~ S ei,ieS icaSoiiS LOT VOClng Tor
Cox and Roosevelt, namely. III to
insure our entering the League. fs9
TO check the Senate oigarchy and
90 to uphold the honor of the ma
ton, are the great and compelling
ones. There are many minor ones
such as:
no insure progressive legislation.
Inns is period of reconstruction
where the watchwort should he
progress" Governor Cox is prog
ressive and constructive. Senator
Harding and the group whose crca-
lure he IS and whose tool he will be
are reactionary. The Republican plat
form is full of the word init" It is
little less than negaton, criticism
complaint, hatred.
vote for Harding is really for
renrose and his group, denounced as
the worst of reactionaries by Thco-
dore Roosevelt, which means n re.
turn OF the old scandal of special in
terests to be protected" in return
Tor campaign contributions.
is said that Harding will sur-
round himself by men ADLER than he
, But when IL weak man. naturalJv
vaciliating and without guiding ide. =
OF his own, is surrounded bv ableI.
men That he, who know exactly what
tney want but aren't responsible for
the action which they induce. the re-
suits are not promising even if there
be the best of intentions.
One of Mr.. Coxs bitterest nol;t;
cal enemies in Ohio said to me. az
must confess voted for him the last
time because he gave. us the hest
government the State ever had. He
enforced the law without fear of IA
vor and whether he PERSONALLY an
proved of it or not"
has the Republican Party lost its
soul in the death of Roosevelt 7
shudder at the cynicism of one of
the Republican leaders who soid.
The people are more interested in
thelr stomachs than in the heart nf
t the world" If our boys at Chateau
merry had been more interested IN
t thelr stomachs than in the heart of
IN the world, they would have run a,v,W
. ihey wiped away that very reproach
which had been hurled at us dnr;n.r
the three long weary wears GeIHEs
~ when England and France did
ehe fighting for us and kent bani t
,he Hun at the cost of millions of
lives and billions of treasure and
now now that they are exhausted heco anu
,tney defended us we are asked to
desert them as "a bankrupt conce,.,, ~