Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-08-09


bungiing piece Of diplomacy, bur
plain. unauthorized DISHONEST, as
well.
No less an authority than Senator
Lodge said, before the heat OF re-
cent controversy. that 10 make peace
except in company with the Allies
would brand US everlasringly with
disnonor and bring ruin TO US
And then after peace IS made with
Germany. Senator Harding would. ne
says. hopefully approach the ma
tons OF Europe ana Of the earth
proposing that understanding which
makes rs a willing participant in, the
conservation Of nations 70 a new re-
latipnsnip'
IN short, America. refusing 20 enter
the League Of Nations now alreadr
established by twenty-niue nations
and bearing and deserving the con-
entirely new project. This act would
either be regarded as arranf madness
or International bossism.
The plain truth is. that the Repub-
iican leaders. obsessed with a deter
nination 70 win the presidential
election, have attempted 70 satisfy
TOO many divergent views. Inconsis-
tercies inevitable under the circum-
stances. rIss 10 haunt them on every
hand. and they ind themselves ar
rayed N public thought al least.
against a great principle More than
thai. their conduct is opposed 10 the
ldeaiiSrn upon which their party
prospered IN other days.
Illustrating these observations by
concrete facts. let II be- remembered
thar those now inVeighing against
an interest IN affairs outside of
America. criticised Presi dent Wilson
IN unmeasured terms for not resent
ing the INVASION Of Belgium IN 1914
They term the League OF Nations 4
military alliance, which. except for
their opposition. would envelope our
/ country, when. As a matter nj truth.
the subject of a League III Nations
mas claimed the best thought If
America for years ana. the League
/ 10 Enforce Peace was presided over
! by so distinguished a Republican as
, Ex-P-esident Taft. who before audi
ences n every section advocated the
Tincipie ana the plan Of The present
League. They charge experiment
/ tation. when we have as historIca!
precedent the Monroe Doctrine.
which is the Very essence OF Article
y Of the Versailles covenant.
Skeptics viewed Monroe nandst1
2 with
wars in defense of Central ana South
American states. whose guardians
they alleged we need nor be. And
J YET not a shot mas been fired In al
/ most one hundred Years in preserv-
ing sovereign rights on this herni-
sphere They hypocr:tically claim
that the League of Nations will re-
suit in our boys being drawn into
military service. but they fail TO
realize hat every high school young
! srer n The and knows that no treaty
/ can override our Constitution. which
reserves 20 Congress. and TO Con-
gress alone. The power 20 declare war.
they preach AnerIcanism with a
meaning OF their own invention. ana
arrfuily appeal 20 a selfish and pro-
Vlnc:al spirit. forgetting that Lincoln
fought a war over the purely moral
I question NJ SLAYER, and that Nc
kinney broke the letters Of our 5oun-
darT lines. spoke the freedom ~
cuba. ana carried the torch ~
American ideaiism 10 the benighte,i
Philippines. They lose nerncrv of
Garieids prophecy that America
Under The blessings Of God-g!ver op-
: portunity, would by her moral lead
ership ana cooperation BECOME 4
Messiah among the nations of the
earth
( These are fateful times. Organized
government has a definite duty all
over the word. The house Of civil
Z ization IS 20 De put in order. -hI
supreme ISSUE Of the centurv is he
fore LIS and the nation that ha!ts and
delays Is playing with FIRE. The finest
! Impulses Of humanity, rising above
national lines. merely seek 20 make
another horrible war Impossible. Tn
der me old order If international
anarchy war came overnight. and the
world was On FIRE before we knew II.
II sickens our senses 10 think of
another. We saw one comic. into
which modern science brought new
forms Of destruction in great GUNS.
submarines. airshIps and poison
gases II IS 40 secret that our chem
lists had perfected. when the contest
came 20 a precipirate close. gases 50
deadly that whole cities could be
wiped out. armies DESTROYED. ana
. the crews Of battleships snothered.
Tie public prints are filed with The
opinions Of military men that n
future wars the method. more effect
i've than gases or bombs, will be the
employment Of the germs of diseases.
CARRYING pestilence and destruction.
Any nation prepared under these
conditions. as Germany was euIlippsi
! IN 1914. could conquer the world IN q
( year.
It IS planned now 70 make this i'm
possible A definite plan has been
agreed upon. The League Of Nations
Is IN operation. A very important
work. under It's control. lust COM
pieted. was participated IN by tbs
Hon Elihu Root. Secretary of State
under the Roosevelt administration,
At meeting Of the Council If the
League Of Nations. February II. an
organizing committee Of twelve Of
the most eminent jurtsts in the world
was selected The duty Of this group
was TO devise a plan for the estab-
I hsnnent Of a Permanent Court Of