East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-06-16


bian Child Welfare Association.
to pay for the support OF Micha1le
foSN year.
stands for agreement among the na-
tions to preserve the peace of the
" world!"
Think of a party which alienated
for the United States the confidence,
respect and friendship of the world by
| keeping this country out of the league
which itself had proposed and de-
manded saying this: after period
of unexampled sacrifice our motives
are suspected, our moral influence i'm
paired and our government stands dis
credited and friendless among the a
Ito of the world" A party holding up
the shameful fruit of its own perfidy
as a reason why it should not be re-
warded and trusted,
Think of a party declaring that the
league covenant ignored the univer-
sal sentiments of America for genera
tions past in favor of international
law and arbitration" in the face of
Article Fourteen of the covenant,
which provides:
'-The council shall formulate and
submit to the members of the league
| for their adoption plans for the estab-
lishment of a permanent court of in
ternational Justice. The court shall be
competent to hear and determine any
dispute of an international chara cter
to which the parties thereto submit it.
The court may also give an advisory
opinion upon any dispute or question
referred to it by the council or by the
assembly"
Wonder, too, that the republican
platform declaration is made in the
face of the further fact that Elihu
Root as the invited guest of the Brit
ish and French governments, has sail
ed for London to help formulate plans
for "a permanent court of information
al justice as provided under Article
Fourteeni
Think of party taking the stand
this platform takes adopting a reso-
luton depioring the death of Theo-
dore Roosevelt as an ''irreparable
loss" when it was Roosevelt who
wrote, while the war was in progress: |
Merely to bring about n peace at |
the present moment without providing |
for the elimination of the causes OF /
war would accomplish nothing OF per- |
manent value. The one permanent |
move for obtaining peace which has
yet been suggested with any reason |
able chance of obtaining its object Is
by an agreement among the great
powers. in which each should pledge
itself not only to abide by the deci-
sions of a common tribunal but to
back with force the decisions OF that
common tribunal. The great civilized
nations of the world which do possess
force, actual or immediately potential,
should combine by solemn agreement
in a great wrld league for the peace
of Righteousness. L earnestly hope
that we shall become one of the joint
yuarantors of world peace under such
a plan. The league should lay down
he rule that the territorial integrity
of each nation was inviolate; that II
sovereign rights"
That is the great and noble plan for
the peace of righteousness that Roose-
veilt preached. 1t is the plan that Taft
preached. 1t is the plan Woodrow
Wilson proclaimed and that this re-
public adopted as its own when it en-
tered the war. 1t is the plan against
which no republican voice was lifted
IN opposition until the war was won.
It is the plan that was embodied in
he terms of the armistice which Ger
many accepted. 1t is the plan that
vas written into the treaty of peace &C
,epted and ratified by every other bel
igerent but ourselves and by more
han a score of neutral nations. And
t is the plan against which the repub-
can party-the party that deplores
he death of Roosevelt as an irrepar-
bile loss-today sets its face and its
eart like flint.
Because now we alone, thanks to
he shortcomings of republican states
have refused to accept that
Ian and use it for the salvation of civ
ization from destruction by war, we
-uly. as the republican platform says.
stand friendless and discredited am
ng the nations of the world"
Reward us. therefore" cry Lodge
nd Borah and johnson and Penrose
nd Brandegee and Sherman and
moot and other senatorial conspira-
RS who have brought the country to
ch a pass. reward us by delivering
'er to US the offices and the power