The Washington times., 1920-10-31
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see q tremendous Harding land
slide are compelled to see II.
For instance, the New York
Evening Post. II Is owned by Mr..
Lamont, Of the firm Of ]. p. Nor
gan 4 Co.. and therefore Is for
Mr.. Cox. Il wants q League OF
Nations that would guarantee, at
public expense, the speculations
and gambling of international
banking houses of the Morgan h
But the Evening Post. which
hires some able newspapermen,
knows that It isn't going 10 get
Mr.. Cox, or the League Of Ma
tons, and its forecast yesterday,
In big type, was:
Cox, l79; Harding, 1852.
That Is what q Cox newspaper
says. What do you suppose the
real Harding vote will be?
In harding's landslide many
Liberty bond owners viii be rep
resented. They remember prom
ises mad0 when they bought Lib
erty honda They know that Ad-
ministration handling Of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank, on q basis OF
usury, making z per cent the mini
mum, hSs cut about $50 off the
value Of each bond.
Administration members that
bought g few. Liberty bonds, and
hastily sold them for about par,
will know next Tuesday how the
men feel that bought bonds and
kept them.
II doesn't pay 10 bankrupt your
customers. When this Administrs-
tion continued at war when 1t was
all over, and continued its block
ade against Russia and Central
Europe, 1t condemned many
women and children to starvation,
but 1t did more.
It cut down the buying and con-
suning power Of the world. It
prevented buying, shipping, and
using cotton and all farm products
by the half-naked, half-starved
people Of Europe.
Farmers out West talk about
burning corn instead of coal, be-
cause corn and coal cost about the
same per ton and the corn is al
ready on the farm.
Cotton growers in the South sec
burning cotton gins and the night
riders. Farmers, North and South,
can thank a Democratic Admins
tration that preferred silly con-
tinuation Of q state Of war, and
cruel enforcement of q blockade,
to world commerce and the
buying of American goods. by those
sadly in need Of them.
The same Evening Post, which
deserves credit for printing news
that It doesnt like, predicts . Re-
pphlicsn maj Irity u seigEt iissthe
SenaL 1t. should be bigger than
that, but that will suffice to bury
the League Of Nations with utmost
decency-to put an end to the war
and make peace with Germany,
without giving Europe any League
Of Nations string on the United
State Treasury, and to end the
stupid pretension of this country
to the right to tell Russia how
she shall govern herself.
The end of interference with
Russia will very probably come too
late. The world is apt to see In
the downfall Of the present Boil
shevist government q world disas-
ter more horrible than anything
seen in all history since the black
death killed half the people Of Eu-
rope.
There is hunger now in the Rus
sian cities. starvation here and
there. When anarchy and no gov
ernment follow Bolshevism in Rus
sia, there will be most horrible
starvation, cannibalism, murder,
robbery. civil war between villages
"a state Of affairs that will last
until absolute exhaustion brings
another dictator to the surface.
Much of the responsibility will
rest with this country, which has
done all that 1t could to make
stable government in Russia i'm
possible.
Eight as a Republican majority
in the Senate will end the interest
ing situation which now makes Of
Senator LaFollette practically Sen
ate dictator. The nominal Repub-
lican majority now Is two, but Of
the two, Senator Newberry, from
Michigan, Is not voting, for good
and sufficient reasons. The other
Is the stormy petrol, LaFollette,
which with a vengeance is making
the stone which the builders re-
fused the headstone OF the corner.
After next Wednesday, when re-
freshing news will be announced.
and some that wanted a solemn
public referendum" will have had
1t, Il will no longer be necessary to
write about politics. What q
blessed relief that will be. Many
things have happened that should
have been mentioned I'm telling
daily news, which, to the worlds
history. is what the second hand
is to the watch. The second hand
makes q great fuss about the six