Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-01
STRONG APPEAL
TO INDEPENDENTS
Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale,
Outlines Reasons Why United
States Should Enter League
of Nations ut Once.

By PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER
of Yale University AMI of the Com.
mittee of Pro-Lcague Repuali-
cans and Independents.
l have always practiccd and preach
ed independence II voting. There will
probably be more independent voting
TINS Fall than at any time since The
civil war, and for three chief reasons.
FIRST, the great war has loosencd
ana opened mems minds; secondly.
the League Of Nations is so colossal
an issue that it will inevitably throw
thousands, if not millions, of votes
across party lines; thirdly, there will
be some ten million new women
voters who have not yet formed any
real party affiliations.
Pro-Lcague Republicans and indie
pendents arc getting together TO
form an organization in October.
nm getting letters every day favor
ing such nm organization. Among
those Republicans and independents
VINO favor the election of Cox and
roosevelt ON the Lcague issue are:
theodore Marburg Republican Min
m ,ster to Belgium under President
Hamilton Holt, editor of The In
dependent.
Professor Charles Seymour of
Yale, author of Diplomatic Back
ground of the War;" called bv Mr..
Taft the most Illuminating book ON
the war;
John f. Moors, Boston, Mass.
Charles w. Eliot, ex-Prcsident of
Harvard.
Caroline Hazard, cx-Prcsident of
Wellesley.
Henry G. King, President of Ober-
lin College.
Mary e. Wooley, President of
Mount Holyolsc.
Katherine Lee Bates, Professor ut
Wellesley and author of America.
the Beautiful" which might be called
now one of our national anthems.
James Tourney, Dean of Yale For
cstry School.
Professor Schlesinger, President of
the American Astronomical Society.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New York
The Rev. Henry A. Stimson, New
York City.
Mooriield Society, Boston, Mass.
ElcctlOn Is Referendum.
This is no ordinary campaign. Not
since the Declaration of Independence
has America been called upon to take
as serious II step MS that of joining
the League of Na.lons. The voter
should vote not for IL party to be in
power four years but for policy To
be in force 400 years.
The election is Il rcfercf, lum. Mr.
Lodge and Mr.. Wilson have Bu.h mp.
penlcd to The country.
NO such solemn referendum should
be decided by mere thoughtless tra-
ditional voting rs for the party for
which our grandfathcrs voted because
once there was IL civil war; much
less should it be decided by the i'm
pulses of personal passion about
President Wilson or any body elsc
AS i see the picture, the facts arc
us follows:
MIR. Wilson brought back from
Paris the grentest document for safe.
guarding civilization since the Magma
Charta. Ex-President Taft, Elihu
Root, Judge Hughes and other Re.
publicans seemed TO so regard it.
Governor Coolidge of Massachu-
sets, now the Vice Presidential nom.
I inee of the Republican party, in ar
address of welcome at Boston tc
President Wilson on his return trir
from France said:
/ I'VE welcome him with reception
more marked than even that which
was accorded to General George
Washington, more united than could
have been given at any time during
his life to President Abraham Lin.
coin. Wo welcome him as the repre-
sentative of great people, as a
great statesman, as one to whom VIC
have intrusted our destiny and one
whom we assure we will support in
the future in the working out Of that
destiny as Massachusetts has sup
ported him in the past" But Gov
crnor Coolidge did not reckon with
an oifened group of Senators whose
advice" according to one intcrprc-
tation of the Constitution, the Pres
ident should have sought more
promptly and more formally than he
did.
Mr.. Taft, the leading authority on
the League and as sincere man as
we ever had in political life, favored
ratifying the final draft without re-
servations and without delay.
But Republican party politicians
saw that if they did that, Mr.. Will
son would seem to be another George
Washington and the Democratic par
ty might win the coming election and
perhaps stay in power Indefinitely.
If these men sincerely believed that
by opposing or belittling the League
they were patriotically saving their
country from terrible mistake, they
had perfect right to protest. If
their motive was merely to help
discredit Wilson by discrcditing a
League, which they, with Mr.. Taft,
believed to be "great boon for the
world and this country" they were
little short of criminal.
What Percentage of sincerity7
That there was certain percen-