The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-24
THE LEAGUE WILL LIVE


Savoyard. eminent writer or
! Washington. who perhaps has as
keen insight into the pohIicai
situation as any one. declares
in an article in the Nashviiie
Banner that the 'eague OF na-
tions will live. His masterful ar
tice on the subject OF the league
and Harding Is as follows:
1t would require the interpretation
of divine miracle 10 elevate Warren
c. Harding to the dead level oil
hopeless mental nediocrity. lntelil-
gently he is the weakest man either
party ever named for President OF the
United States. He is respectable in
social way; he is successful in po-
litical way; he is patriot according
to his lights he is a Christian gen
tleman in a religious sense, but TO
class him as a leader is an absurdity.
There is nothing original in his make
up. and his chief accomplishment con-
sists of the fact that he can say
an undisputed thing with just alittle
bit more solemn air than any OF his
fellows. Utterly incapable of the in
ltldllNe, ne Is uhtNise iuuSiouSiS
clumsy in exploit of the reflective
Plutarch shows us how much history
loves the comparative; if Harding is
chosen president we shall see how
fond history is of contrast for we
then will have opportunity to measure
the vast chasm that separates the
gigantic mental equipment Of Wood
, row Wilson from the pigmy mental
proportions of Warren G. Harding.
The G. o. p. has long claimed
practical monopoly of Americas
, stores of wisdom as we'll as an entire
monopoly of Americas stores of vir-
tue; but we have fallen on times
when great republican leaders, such
r as Penrose. Lodge, Watson, Hughes,
and others, sneer at intellect in the
White House at Washington. Impo-
l tent to combat in debate the MASTER
T full logic of President Wilson, they
, scott at the beauty, brilliance and per-
fection of his state papers, written
and spoken, which will be civic clas-
sizes for the guide Of free govern
ment in ages yet to come. Never be-
fore in all political history, ancient
, or modern was inferiority so venom
Gus and so Jealous in its railings at
superiority as we now see II prac-
ticed when the G. o. p. gives exhi-
bition of its great stunt OF 'cussing
Wilson. Abuse OF Wilson may not
be the only political principles
the party of great moral ideas" has
in stock, but ii is become the chief
the paramount principle it proclaims.
We hear heap about America
I first" and some of these days II is
t my purpose to preach sermon from
$ that text. Everybody with a spark OF
loyalty to our flag wishes America to
ica first is not TO copy the boast OF
[ ic afirst is not to copy the boast OF
e the German junker, who made the
f world an enemy by the constant and
blatant vulgarity of Deutchand Uber
Allies and that is precisely what
Harding is doing and all he is doing
when he prattles of America first
! the way he puts it,
;, Woodrow Wilson made America
first at the world congress at Ver-
sailles; Henry Cabot Lodge made
=. America last when he forbade Amer
u lea to be party TO avert world wars.
d Theodore Roosevelt in Norway in
> 1910 invented Article Y. Henry Cabot
Lodge in 1915, parrot-like, echoed
him, but when Wilson put it in the
treaty of peace-the very thing. the
e identical thing Roosevelt and Lodge
n had preached-then Mr.. Lodge sud-
e denly discovered that 1t was horri-
e Bile.
Suppose the thirty-seven nations
already in the league make a success
n of the league, and that they will do
j. as surelyl as good must ultimately pre-
If vail over evil where will America be
D then? Not first, but last, in the es-
e. TEEN Of all the virtuous Of the hu-
!" man family, not only abroad, but right
here at home. The preservation of
! peace between all nations Is the SUI
l. perlative blessing that possibly could
n betide mankind and shall our great,
9 powerful, opulent. progressive, glorious
=, union have no part or lot in thai, the
g. grandest conception Of human philan-
thropy that ever inspired the heart
and exalted the mind of man. Forbid
it, Almighty God.
ihNo'NH iNbiotcio oiiu uCu CuOclcS
I'd whenever an American sneers at the
r. league Of nations. Here is one Of our
2, German-American fellow citizens, Nor.
n timer L. Schiff, Of great banking
ne establishment in New York, just back
g. from Europe, tauntng the league in
IL this fashion, as appears from q clip
n. ping from the Minneapolis Tribune
as which prints his picture.
IS, The majority Of the people of Eu-
'e rope new regard the league OF na-
he tons as Utopian dream which can.
not solve problems"
Then what was Elihu Root doing
over there In the employ of the
IS league? The late Teddy Roosevelt
held Root 10 be the wisest OF Ameri-
can statesmen. He is become the pos
litical hope OF the republican party.
He has been in Europe. where he has
helped to fashion and organize the
court provided for In Article XIV of
this horrible Wilson league. Would
he play that part II Europe had no
confidence in the league?
al And again, II this here Mr. Schlff ia
IT. right what becomes Of all that howl
ny by Borah, Hi" Johnson, Jim Watson
to a Co., who proclaim that the league
tie is cunning scheme OF Europe 10
us ruin the United Statesy If that was
their motive II is inconceivable that
In European peoples would deride the
ot- league, as Schiff reports they do. The
ar tact ls that the logic Of Borah 4 Co.
he Is as silly a. the assertion OF Schiff
w. IL mendaclous
Ise The league s alive and daily and