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Senator Beveridge in Lincoln
Address States That Decu-
liarity of Race Here For
bids Joining League.
Must Not Be Intrigued

Lincoln, Oct. 4.-(Special Tele-
gram y" Harding and Coolidge will
have the biggest majority i'll the
history of the country" was the in
formation given out this evening by
Senator Albert ]. Beveridge to
newspaper men before the meeting
tonight, in which he addressed a
large crowd at the City auditorium.
Everybody is disgusted with the
present administration and our is
sues appeal to the voters" he said.
Our majority in the senate will be
increased at least by five and prob
ably eight, if not more
The senator spoke at Convocation
at the university at noon and then
in company with Frank P. Corrick
of the state republican committee
drove to Hickman to hear A. {.
Townley, Nonpartisan league leader,
whom he was anxious to see and
get his arguments first-handed.
In his address at the Auditorium
tonight Senator Beveridge said:
America First.
'ln every deal, arrangement and
secret or open treaty before, during
and since the war, excepting only
conferences for purely military pur-
poses, British statesmen were watch
tul of and strove to advance Brit
iSh interests only, and they succeed
ed and are still succeeding. French
statesmen were watchful of and
strove to advance French interests
only, and they succeeded and are
still succeeding, Italian statesmen
were watchful of and strovc to ad-
vance Italian interests only, and
they succeeded and are still succeed
ing; japanese statesmen were
watchful of and strove to advance
Japanese interests only, and their
success was pre-eminent and con-
tinues to increase. Wherefore, un-
less America is to become merely
the dupe and drudge of world poll
tics, it now becomes the supreme
duty Of the American people to
place the American government in
charge of statesmen who will be
watchful of and strive to advance
American interests only.
Unlike other nations we are not
yet people in the sense that the
French, the Italians, the English,
the Germans and the Japanese are
poples. We are, instead. a collec-
ton of racial groups, distinctly sep
arated from one another by racial
lines.
Cannot Be Involved.
THAT is why we Americans, for
Gu own good and that of the world,
cannot take any political part in
the affairs of other nations-cannot
become a political factor in foreign
ententes or alliances, cannot be-
come politically involved in the
plots or intrigues, the ambitions or
an',nosities of distant peoples.
1T would be ruinous for the
United States to make such polti-
cal relationships with other nations,
as those other nations, because OF
their geography and history, are i'm
PEELED to make, and, because of their
racial solidarity, can safely make
with one another. The moment
America takes sides politically in
any foreign complication whatever,
our people are torn asunder by the
explosions of racial attachments and
animosities.
Will Not Mean Isolation.
ITO remain free frSn foreign as
sociations, to see to it that we are
not soiled by the historic ambitions,
hatreds, plots and intrigues of other
nations, does not mean our isolation
from the common affairs of man.
kind. On the contrary. our political
detachment is priceless advantage
for all economic and social inter
course with other countries. Foreign
trade is our most serious problem,
and will soon be our greatest need;
yet international commerce is not ad-
vanced but actually hindered by
political alliances. There is not
government in Europe or Asia that
would form any political association
with any other government what
ever If geographical and historical
reasons did not compel it as mat
ter of prudence and safety.
by entering an international
scheme, we act precisely as if we
were a physical geographical part of
Europe or Asia. We become a party
to all the historic racial, economic
and political complications of the
old world. Already we are pro-
French, pro-Irish, pro-ltalian, pro-
British, pro-German, pro-everything
except pro-American. Already are
we so passionately attached to the
fortunes of other various countries
that we question the intelligence and
even the loyalty of our fellow
citizens who assert their exclusive
devotion to the American nation.
Country Threatened.
The political qualification of ra-
eia. groups in American citizenship,
which, even now, is rapidly going on
before our very eyes, is the gravest
peril that ever appeared in Ameri-
can life. 1t now 1nenaces and, un-
less stopped, surely will destroy our
rational unity. 1t now threatens and,
II not overcome, surely will dissolve
the very foundations OF that inter
nal concord so indispensable to our
prosperity and happiness as peo-
pie, and Our safety, power and influ-
ence as nation.