The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-07-01

liquor issue.
He referred to the Irish problem
only incidentally. During a discus
sion of the republican platform, ne
said:
"It contains no message or hope
for Ireland"
"The republican platform, reaction
airy and provincial" he said, lis the
very apotheosis Of political exped1-
ency. Filled with premeditated sland-
ers and vague promises, it will be
searched in vain for one constructive
suggestion for the reformation OF the
conditions which it cr1tlc1Zes and de-
plores. The oppressed peoples OF the
earth will look to it in vain. 1t con-
tains no message of hope for Ireland;
no word of mercy for Armenia; and
it conceals sword for Mexico"
The democratic party, he said, be-
fore the outbreak Of the war, enacted
more effective, constructive and
remedial legislation than the repubE-
can party had enacted in genera
ton"
The income tax, he said, relieved
the law of the reproach of being I'M
Justly burdensome to the poor; non
partisan tariff commission, he said,
will provide scientific revision of the
tariff hereafter. Pan-Americanism
was encouraged; Alaska was opened
to commerce and development; dollar
diplomacy was destroyed; a corrupt
lobby driven from the national capitol;
an effective seamen's act adopted; the
federal trade commission created;
child labor legislation enacted; par,
cells post developed; a secretary OF Ia
Dor seated in the cabinet; eight
hour laws adopted; labor was remov-
ed from the category of commodities
by the Clayton amendment; corrupt
practice act adopted and the federal
reserve system established he said.
eff the democratic party had accom-
plished nothing more than the pass
age of the federal reserve act, it
would be entitled to the enduring
gratitude of the nation" Cummings
said. "Panics," he aid, "are now but
a memory.
Under the republican system there
was an average of one bank failure
every Fl days for period of nearly
40 years After passage 0 the ederal re-
serve system there were in 1915 four
bank failures; in 1916 and 1917 three
bank failures; in 1918 one bank fail
ure, and in 1919 no bank failure at
all"
Passing to the record of the repub-
lican congress, he said it had ignored
the presidents recommendations for
measures relating to profiteering, :1x-
alton, appropriate action relative to
the returning soldiers" etc. He
termed the session barren of achieve
ment, shameless in waste of time and
money"
Cummings launched. into a detailed
defense Of the treaty and the league
of nations. He said America is in
honor bound to ratify the treaty and
cited events in chronological order to
prove his point.
''Thus, before we entered the war,
we made the pledge, during the war
we restated the pledge and when the
armistice was signed all the nations,
ourselves included, renewed the
pledge; and it was upon the faith of
these promises that Germany laid
uOWu u0F uG SdlU.
He called the league of nations cove
nant the Monroe Doctrine of the
world and said it's purpose is "to give
notice that if any nation raises it's
bloody hand and seeks to cross the
line into any other country the forces
of civilization will be aroused to sup
press the common enemy of peace"
Such a covenant, he said, would
have prevented the world war.
He defended the league along much
the same lines as were followed by
President Wilson before his Sickness
He attacked the republican members
of the senate foreign relations COM
mittee as "designing from the outset
to mutilate the treaty" because il
was negotiated by a democratic pres
ident." He said Senator Lodge had
refused to suggest amendments 20 the
treaty, but that President WilsI1 HAD
seen to it that amendments offered by
Taft, Root and Hughes had been IN
corporated.
Regarding the senate foreign rela-
ton committe, he said:
'The foreign relations committee,
following the last cleo
ton, was reorganized with a person
mel consisting of the open foes of the
treaty. Amongst the number was Sen !!
ator Borah, who declared that he
would not vote for league of nations
were the Savior of Mankind to advo-
cate it. Senator Johnson, Senator |
Knox and Senator Moses, whose ha-
tired of the president amounts to an |
obsession, were also members and
Senator Lodge was chairman.
THE treaty was referred to the |
committee thus studlously prepared |
for its hostile reception These mem
bers Of this committee adopted every
subterfuge to misrepresent the dacu-
ment which they were supposed to be |
considering as statesman. The senate |