Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-07-08
A STRONG
INDICTMENT

licans of the U. S. senate i
their handling of the Versail
les treaty and the League o
Nations covenant played wit
the peace of the world fo
partisan advantage.
All their shuffling an,
special pleading cannot dis
guise that fact.
In our opinion the Demo
cratic convention at San Fran
cisco could have done bet
ter job in some respects, bu
it did a good job in showing
up the hypocrisy of the Re
publicans in the matter o.
league and treaty.
Here is the platform ex
preston on the subject:
"The democratic party fav.
ors the league of nations as
the surest, if not the only
practicable means of main.
tanning the permanent peace
of the world and terminating
the insufferable burden of
great military and naval es-
tablishments. It was for this
that America broke away
from traditional isolation and
spent her blood and treasure
to crush a colossal scheme of
conquest. 1t was upon this
basis that the president of the
United States in pre-arrange-
ment with our allies, consent
ed to suspension of hostilities
against the imperial German
government; the armistice was
granted and treaty of peace
negotiated upon the definite
assurance to Germany, as we'll
as to the powers pitted
against Germany, that "a gen.
eral association of nations
must be formed under specific
covenants, for the purpose of
affording mutual guarantees
of political independence and
territorial integrity to great
and small states alike HENCE
we not ehty congratulate the
president on the vision mani
tested and the vigor exhibit
ed in the prosecution Of the
war; but we felicitate him and
his associates on the excep-
tional achievement at Paris
involved in the adoption of a
league and a treaty so near
akin to previously expressed
American ideals and so init,
mately related to the aspira-
tions of civilized peoples
everywhere:
We commend the president
for his courage and his high
conception Of good faith in
steadfastly standing fer the
eeven Mt agreed to by all the
associated and allied nations
at war with Germany, and we
condemn the republican sen
ate for its refusal to ratify the
treaty merely because it was
the product of democratic
craftsmanship, thus imposing
partisan envy and personal
hatred in the way of the peace
and renewed prosperity of the
world.
By every accepted standard
of international morality the
president is justified in assert
ing that the honor of the
country is involved in this
business; and we point to The
accusing fact that before it
was determined to Initiate
political antagonism into the
treaty, the now republican
chairman of the senate foreign
relations committee publicly
proclaimed that any PROPOSE
ton for a separate peace with
Germany such as he and his
party associates thereafter re-
ported to the senate, would
make us guilty of the black
est crime"
On May Is last, the Knox
substitute for the Versailles
treaty was passed by the re-
publican senate; and this con-
vention can contrive no more
fitting characterization of
it's obloquoy than that made
in the Forum magazine Of De-
tember, 1918, BY Henry Cab9t
Lodge when be said;
"4f we send our armies and
yaung men ahraad to be killed
and wounded in northern
France and Flanders with no
result but this, our entrance
into war with such intention
was crime which nothing
can justify. The intent of
congress and the intent of the
president was that there s9hld
be ao peace until we e8uld
create a situation where no
such war as this could reeur.