The Carlisle independent., 1920-01-08
Leagues Two Groups of Enemies


contains items dealing with the
fight on the league Of nations by
agencies that would refuse to as
sociate openly, albeit they are
, working towards the same end.
The two developments fit in per-
fectly, justifying completely the
statement that the real purpose
of the open enemies of the cove
nant as directed primarily to-
wards other ends than the destruc
ton of the league itself. The ami
mostly that inspires the opposition
has been aroused by other things
and will not be satisfied even
should it enable to tear down the
whole league structure.
Rabbi Stephen Wise, who was in
Paris during the peace negotia-
tions, makes some interesting rev.
Citations about the fight that was
made there chiefly against Pres
dent Wilson. The enemies of the
president at home attempted to
exert an influenre abroad in order
| to discredit him and to prevent
him securing things for which
America sacrificed her sons and
her money in the great war. In
every way possible these enemies
| of Woodrow Wilson tried to make
the delegates of the other allied
countries believe that the chief
American delegate In no way rep
resented the sentiment OF his coun-
try. Certain publications without
repute or standing appear in Par
/ is and all of these united in effort
to prove that the Republican par
ty and not President Wilson was
the real spokesman for the Amer
lean people. Where the money
came from that kept these publ
cations alive has not yet been re-
vealed, but it can be imagined, If
we consider who would have been
the beneficiaries of their propo-
ganda.
It made no difference to these
opponents of internal dissention
in the United States that
they were playing Germany 5
game or that if they had succeed
ed we would have lost the war al
ter winning it. 1t became clear
to Rabbi Wise from his experience
in Paris that the political oppo-
nents of the league of nations
were fighting 1t not because it was
the work Of European statesmen
but because it was the inspiration
of Woodrow Wilson. They ac-
cepted everything that the other
allies wrote in treaty and that
President Wilson opposed even
though it smacked of conquest
and was vioIative of the spirit III
which we waged the war. On the
contrary, everything the president
favored they opposed.
From an entirely different an
gle came the opposition Of Lin
coin SSeffens, Bullitt and all the
others whose sympathies went out
to the Russian Bolsheyiki and who
favored he SOVIET form OF govern
ment. Rabbi Wise classed these
Senate opponents in the same cat
egory with the radicals, both of
whom were fighting the president
who represented and continues
to represent the moral genius, the
idealism and the noblest aspira-
tons of America. The truth of
his deductions finds support in
some of the documents that were
secured in the recent raids on
communist headquarters throuh
out the country One paper dis
covered in "a nest of these enemies
of government refers to the
league covenant as being a del
uge Of pacifist phrase mongering
a desperate effort made to pull to-
gether the tumbling system.
| Gradually is the opposition to
the league being made clearcut
and distinct. 1t includes two well
defined groups. One of these
would destroy President Wilson,
the other would destroy the Uni
ted States government-Com-
mercial Appeal.
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