Republican farmer., 1920-07-09

League Of Nations.
 The Dem ocratie party favors the League Of Nattoug as the surest, if not the only. practicable means oi maintaining the permanent peace of the world and terminating the in- sufferable burden of great military and naval establishments. It was for this that America broke away from traditional isolation and spent her blood and treasure to crush a col losal scheme Of conquest. It was upon this basis that the President of the United States in. fe-arrange- ment with our allies, consented to 0 suspension Of hostiiities against the Imperial German government; the armisttce was granted and treaty of peace negotiated upon the definite assurance to Germany as well as to the powers pittea against Germany, that "a general associati of nations must be formed, under specific cove nants. for the purpose of afferdins mutual guara52tees of political inda- perdence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike" Hence we not only congratulate tho presi- dent on the vision manifested and the vfgor exhibited in the prosecution of the war but we felicitate him and his associates oa the exceptional
  adoption of a league and treaty so near akin to previously expressed American ideals and so intirla tsly related to the aspirations of civilized peoples everywhere.
 We commend the President for his courage and his high conception of good faith in steAdfastly standing for the covenant agreed to by all the as- sociated and allied nations at war with Germany and we condemn the Republican Senate for its refusal to ratify the treaty merely because il was the product of Dem state nanship, thus in-erposing partisa n envy aaadop psfsohaI lfatred7 in tho way of the peace and renewed prosperity of the world.
 By every accepted standard of in- ternational morality the President is justified in asserting that the honor of the country is involved in this busin ess; and we point to the accus- ing fact that before 1t was determin- ed to initiate political antagonisIn to the treaty, the now Republican chair man of the Senate Foreign Relations ed that any proposition for a separate peace with Germany such as he and his party associates thereafter report ed to the Senate, would make us guilty of the blackest crime"
 On May 18th last the Knox substi- tute for the Versailles treaty was passed by the Republican Senate; and this convention can eontrive no more fitting characterization of its ohloQuy than that made In the Forum Maga- zine of December. 1918, by Henry Cabot Lodge, when he said:
 If we send our armies and young men abroad to be killed and wounded In northern France and Flanders with no result but this. our entrance into war with such an intention was a crime which nothing can justify"
 The intent of Congress and the in tent of the president was that there could ba no peace until we could create a situation where no such war as this could recur- We cannot make peace axrept in company with OUT al- Iies It would brand us with ever lasting dishonor and bring ruin to us also If we undertook to make a separate peace
 Thus to that which MT. Lodge in sauar uDtnenta conzid cred "the black est lcrtms'' he and his party in mad ness thought to give the Nsanctity oi law; that which Is months ago was "everlastinx dishonor-" The Repub- 1fcan party and fts candidates today accept as the essence of faith.
 We endorse the presidents view o1 our international obligations and hi. firm stand against reservations de- signed to cut to pieces the vital pro- visions of the Versailles treaty and we commend the Democrats in Con gress for vVtimx against resolutions for separate peace which would dis grace tho nation We advocate thu immediate ratification of the treaty without reservations which would i'm pair its essential integrity; but do no oppose the acceptance of any reserva tions making clearer or more specih' the obligations of the United State to the league associates.
 Only by doing this may we retriev the reputation of this nation amon1 the powers of the earth and recogniz the moral leadership which Presiden Wilson won and which Republican politicians at Washington sacrificed Only by doing this may we hope t aid effectively in the restoration O order throughout the world and t take the place which we should as srrne in the front rank of spiritua cornsn erciaf and industrial advance Iaent- 11f t-' % y'' < Y
 We reject as utterly vain. if nc vfcious, the Republican assunaptio that ratification of the treaty an membership in the League of Nation would in any way impair the integrit or independence of our country Tn fact that the covenant has been er tered into by 20 nations all as Jealou of their independence as we are ( ours, is a sufficient refutation of sue charge. The president repeatedly Ina declared and this convention real firms, that all our duties and obliga lions as a member of the league mu: be fulfilled in strict conformity wit the constitution of the United State embodied in which Is the fundament' recufrement of declaratory action | the Congress before this nation ma become a participant in any war.
 IRELAND.
 The great principle of national SC. determination has received constal reiteration as one of the chief octe' lives for which this country entere inc war and victory established tn principle.
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