Republican farmer., 1920-07-02
CUMMINGS CHAMPIONS|
 LEAGUE COVENANT

Eodxe. invited the latter to suggest constructive amendments which the Presldsnt might incorporate in the draft but he refused to do so. Al no fi1uee Ras he offered construct1rS nmsndnents At no time has he fail- ed to offer destructive criticism. So tntolerant was his attitude that he would not oven consider compro- rntse proposed by former President Taft of his own party and which was assured of tho srof>ort of forty Hs mos ratio Senator's Se@stor Lodge .xnew that he controlled the Senate au1u that in his own time and way, sss would destroy the Treaty.
 sshis is the sordid story of it's de- xcAt- No blacker crime against civ sS4satiou has ever soiled the pages of our history. The last chapter was written at Chicago.
 The Republican platform not only repudfates the League of Nations, but praises, without discrimination. all of gNe Republican Senators who pa-tic- s1ated in it's defeat Its words of 'benediction fall alike upon the ire concludes, the Lodge reservation ists, the mild reservationsts, and those who proposed separate peace with Germany. It Is consistent in one thing only, the recognition of the fact that the open foes of the Treaty the secret foes of the Treaty, and the apparent friends of the Treaty who conspired with it's enemies. are equal ly responsible for the destruction of the instrument itself. It would be idle to inquire by what political leg erdemain this meaningless and yet omnibus declaration was prepared. It is enough to know that the "OId Guard sold the honor of America for the privilege of nominating a reac- tionary for President.
 The Cause of Peace
 The war had set a. great task for statesmanship. The best thought of the world demanded that a serious attempt be made by the leaders of the allied governments to formulate a Treaty of Peace which should prevent the recurrence of war. Every right full impulse of the human heart was in accord with that purpose. From time immemorial, men have dreamed of peace; poets have sung of it; phil osophers have written about it; states men have discussed it; men every where have hoped and prayed that the day might come when wars would no lonAor be necessary in the settlement of international differen- ces.
 For the first time in the turbulent the repudiation of the Peace Treaty or to any process by which it is whit tied down to the vanishing point. We decline to compromise our principles or pawn our immortal souls for sel- fish purposes We do not turn our backs upon the history of the last three years. We seek no avenue of umphantly home. But I have never witnessed these inspiring sights with in iYp nf ha Ton come home. They do not rest as strangers in a strange land-these soldiers of liberty. The women and the children of France cover their graves with flowers and water them with tears. Destiny seized these lads and led them far from home to die for an ideal. And yet they live and speak to us here in the Homeland, not of trivial things but of immortal things Reverence and pity and high resolve--surely these remain to us. In the heart of hearts where the great works of man are wrought, there can be no forgetting. Oh, God, release the imprisoned soul of America, touch once more the hidden springs of the spirit and reveal us to ourselves!
 Let the true purpose of our party be clearly understood. We stand squarely for the same ideals of peace as those. for which the war was fought. We support without finch ing the only feasible plan for peace and justice. We will not submit tc annals of the human race, such a project had become feasible. The destruction of militarism, the crumb- ling of thrones, the dissolution of dy. nasties, the worldwide appreciation of the inner meaning of war and the final triumph of democracy had a last made it possible to realize the dearest dream that ever crossed the night of mans dark mind. The opportunity for service was as grea Ns the need of the world and the fail ure to render it must stand as a re- proach for all time.
 It is said that if the dead who diet In the Great War were placed heac to feet, they would stretch from New York to San Francisco, and from Sa1 Francisco back again to New York and 'f those who perished from star vation and from other causes colla teral to the war were placed head t, feet, they would reach around tn globe itself. At this very hour, mil lions of men and women and littl children are the victims of our hesi tancy. How can the heart of Ameri ca be closed to these things?
 I have been many miles in thi country and it has been my forum to visit most of the States of the Un lon. It has so happened that I hay been in many of these States whel the boys were coming from the from have seen the great avenues of ou splendid American cities lined wit the populace, cheering and cheerin again as these brave lads marche
 by, happy that they had come tri retreat. We insist that the forwar
 course is the only righteous course
 We seek to re-esta blish the fruit
 of victory, to reinstate the good fait
 of our country, and to restore it t
 it's rightful place among the nation of the earth. Our cause constitute a summons to duty. The heart c
 America stirs again. The ancien
 faith revives. The immortal part c
 man speaks for us. The services C
 the past, the sacrifices of the wal
 the hopes of the future, constitut
 a spiritual force gathering about o,,