Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-09-24

upon which it relied had cavcd in.
wisconsin had destroyed German
faith that might makes right
wisconsin carried to Paris new
creed of international fnith cmbody-
ing the highest aspirations of the
best elements of the American pco-
plo, without distinction of pnrty-a
program approved. before it was
made mn issue of politics, by mnny
leaders who are now, for selfish
reasons masked in II cloak of pseudo
patriotism, its bittercst enemies. Will
sonism single-handed, but backed by
the worlds conscience, crammed this
creed down the thronts of unwilling
European statesmen who hnd hoped
to set up on the smoking ruins an
other edilice based on concert of
power, secret diplomacy and military
supremacy.
wisconsin was handicapped in its
efforts to achieve an enduring peace
rather thnn II temporary mnkcshift
by secret plotting and open reaction
ary defiance ut home Even while
the President wns struggling To com
nit European chancellcrics to the
embodiment of the League of Ma
tions in the peace treaty, the treaty
wrcckcrs, in the Senate strengthened
the hands of lustful imperialism
abroad, by serving formal notice
that the Senate would vote down
ratitications. notwithstanding this
backiire, wisconsin emerged trump
hnnt from the Paris conference. For
the time beng. the power of culight-
ened public opinion was victorious.
The suffering people of Europe knew
what they wanted; their rulers were
afraid to deny ii 10 them.
Wilsoa'sm having . .ccessfully pro-
secuted war which ended In u blaze
of glory Tor American arms. thus
successfully framed peace which
kept its solemn pledge to the people
that the blOc.i of American soldiers
shed on the battlciic,ds of France
should not be spilled in vain. Down
with wisconsin and up with Repub-
licanism. which shamclessly proposes
the reputation of the nati0ns con-
tract with the widow and the orphan,
the halt, the lame and the blind!
wisconsin has sought to lead this
country along the paths of Justice
and equity to moral heights which
make dizzy the greedy, the selfish
and the INSCRIPTIONS, whose mate
rial interests and illicit ambitions
have suffered in the progress of the
march. BY tireless energy, forced on
by an indomitable will, wisconsin
achieved progressive program OF
domestic advancement in six years
that outstrips the Legislative record
OF any preceding generation. Unable
TO thwart il mt home, the sinister
forces that banker for n return to
tho good old days of invisible gov
ernment found more promising
Held for thenr subtcrranean operat-
IONS IN the peace program of Will
sonism, and have thus far succeeded.
mt the expense of truth, decency,
patriotism and honor, in baking it.
The probability is that the leaders
of the Old Guard, the Senate obli-
garchy, do not care fig for the
J League of Nations one way or the
other. Neither the ratification nor
the rejection of the peace treaty
would put penny in their pockets
or an additional ldacc on their pat
ronage rolls. Their real interests are
sordid. They have seen in the League
Covenant convenient means of hu
initiating and furnishing the man to
whom they owe the loss of their
power as brokers and solicitors for
Big Business in tho Legislative mart.
adm an easy instrument with which
to dclude and divert the people. And
so, with the League as thenr putn-
tive objective, they raise the cry:
Down with Wilsonism"
BY all means let us return to the
good old days when tho rcactionaries
rode rough-shod over the popular
will and controlled the making, the
Interpretation and tho execution of
onc-sided laws. We cannot strike
down the man who has served, shaved
and sacrificed for us except by strik
ing at his cherished ideals-so let us
elect, the safe, plant, reactionary
Harding, whose every u,tterancc
proves his innocence of n single con-
structive idea and his ponderous
platitudinosity. Through him we can
smite the forces of progress hip and
thigh, crow dour way back to the
iicshpots and reap the legitimate
fruits of "normaley."
Down with Wilsonism!"
1t is an alluring program. The tri-
II.