Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-06-08
Country Must
Drive Wilson
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-. exist, would disappear under
..nsme and nothing would be left
- =. peOple except the duty of pay
,.res to support the roads.
w. so~ar 500 Americans have been
Nsarss in Mexico. Carranza insult
nu H. American government in every
su ;nie nj way and still nothing was
- We fell so low that when an
ss .~.sr;can was seized by one of the
hands Of brigands and held for
.on n.s all that the government of
ls9Iid Trnited States would do, was to
~ w.. 10 be the channel for conveying
s,'' ~ ransom of their citizens to the
ssshway men who had seized them.
watched Long Enough
ave have watched and waited long
nvb We need a firm hand at the
helm. The time has come to put an
"a IA N this Mexican situation, which
shame TO the United States and
s;sgrace TO civilization. If we are
= ,ake part in pacifying and helping
.Ss world, let us begin here at home
in Mexico
pret the Mexicans choose as their
,recident some strong and upright
IAN who is friendly to the United
states and determined to establish
srasr and then the United States give
sim real and cordial support, and SO
strengthen and uphold him that he
wIll be able to exterminate the band
Hs and put an end to the unceasing
civil war.
Never Accept Treaty
nThe republicans of the senate, per-
eeiying the dangers of the league, de-
tsrmined TO resist Mr.. Wilson's de-
mand. The American people will new
ar accept that alliance with foreign
nations proposed by the president. The
president meantime has remained in
flexible. He is determined to have
that treaty as he brought it back or
nothing, and to that imperious de-
mand, the people will reply in tones
which cannot be misunderstood.
I'VE have stopped Mr.. Wilson's
treaty and the question goes to the
peope in 1915 Mr. Wilson won on the
ihe cry that he had kept us out of
war he now demands the approval
Of the American people for his party
and his administration on the ground
that he has kept us out of peace.
THE league must be discussed in
every district and in every state and
We desire to have the verdict so clear
represent the people in the senate, in
the house or in any place or in any
degree can have the slightest doubt
as to his duty.
League the Issue
I'VE make the issue; we ask appro-
baton for what we have done. The
Eeople will now tell US what they
think of Mr.. Wilson's league and its
sacrifice of America.
'They (the people, will tear aside
the veil of words woven to blind and
deceive and come down to the essen
tia and vital point--Mr. Wilson'S
plan on one side and the independ-
ence and safety of the United States
on the other,
"All Americans must join together
IN their own way and with their own
Arguments defeat Mr.. Wilson'S lea
que as he desires 1t, whether amend
ed by him or in its pristine simplic-
iH." y a{Szs4 4M
Senator Lodge charged the demo-
cratic party with responsibility for
the "perilous conditions of the hour"
and said, if the republican party fails
10 grapple it effectively, "the Rus
sian descent into barbarism will be-
gin to draw near" y
A beginning had been made, he
said, by a republican congress in re-
Storing economic conditions working
under all the difficulties and opposi-
lion imposed by hostile executive"
He enumerated various beneficial
measures, adding that the estimates
had been reduced over a billion dol
lars,
Peace Treaty Course
When the armistice with Germany
was signed the course to be pursued
was clear That course was 70
make the peace with Germany at
once and then take up for reasonable
consideration the question of estab-
fishing such future relations with our
associates in the war as would make
lor the future peace of the world.
lhls, Mr.. Wilson prevented. He went
to Europe.
He had apparently only one aim,
% De the maker Of league of which
ne should be the head He was deter
mined that there should be a league
q nations then and there and in or
Ger to nullify the powers of the SEN
ave given by the constitution of the
United States, he decided to make the
sague an integral part of the treaty
" peace with Germany. Thus he pre-
sented to the senate, and intended TO