The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02
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tContin ed from rage onesl
to the treaty, the now Republican chair
man Of the senate foreign irelaGOns COM
nittee publicly proclaimed that any pro
position for a separate peace with Ger
many, such he and his party associates
thereafter reported to the SENATE, would
make Us guilty of the blacklist crime"
On May 10 last, the Knox substitute Tor
the Versailles treaty was passed by the
can cOntriye no more fitting characteriza-
ton Of its obloquy than that made in the
Forum magazine of December, 1918, by
Henry Cabot Lodge, when he said:
The intent of congress and the intent
of the president that there could be
no peace until we could create a situation
where such war as this could not occur.
We could not make peace except in COM
pany with a1lies.''
We endorse the presidents view Of our
international obligations and his firm
stand against reservations designed 10 cut
to pieces the vital provisions Of the
Versailles treaty and we commend the
Democrats in congress for voting against
resolutions for separate peace. We aLfvo-
cate the Immediate rattficGtion OF the
treaty without reservations which would
impair its essential integrity; but do not
oppose the acceptance of my reservations
tons of the United States to the 1eague
associates Only by doing this WY we
among the powers of the eHrth md recover
the moral leadership which President Will
son won and which Republican politicians
/ at Washington sacrificed.
We reject as utterly vain, If not vicious,
the Republican assumption that ratffica-
ton of the treaty and membership in the
League of Nations would in anv wise i'm
pair the integrity or independence of our
country The president repeEtedly has
declared, and this convention reaffirms,
that all our duties and obligations ms a
menibeP of the league must be fulfilled in
strict conformity with the constitution Of
the United States, embodied in which is
the fundamental requirement Of declara-
tory action by the congress before this ma
tlon may become participant in any war.
Conduct OF the War.
During the war, President Wilson ex-
hibited the very broadcast conception of
liberal Americanism- He invited to Wash
hundreds of the most prominent and pro-
noHnced Republicans in the country
The Republican party in congress meanly
requfted the considerate course of the chief
magistrate by saTagely defamfng the COM
mander chief of the army and navy and
by ASSUMING nearly every public officer
of every branch of the service intimately
concerned in winning the war.
We express TO the soldiers and sailors of
America me admiration OF their fellow
countrymen.
Financial AcFievements.
A review of the record Of the Democratic
party during the Wilson administration
presents "A chapter of financial achieve
ments unsurpassed in the history OF the
Republic BY the enactment OF the fed
eral reserve act, the old system which
bred panics, was replaced by q new sys-
TEN. which insured confidence 1t was an
indispensable factor in winning the war
and today 1T is the hope and inspiration
Cnder Democratic leadership, the Amer
lean people successfully financed their stu
pendous part IN the greatest war of all
ing the war upon meeting an adequate por-
ton Of the war expenditures from
current taxes and the bulk of the balance
from popular loans, aad during de first