The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-15

sch q way as to make it more desir-
ale, no one but Republican can see,
and just how it will Americanize the
legue. even if the representatives OF
Cnada, Australia, New Zealand,
Suth Africa, and India are put out of
t3e assembly unless the United States
\ given six votes, no one but a Re-
udblican can see. We would still be
4 pitiable minority. having only
De vote out of "a instead Of 20. and
Ills minority would become more and
nore pitiable by every entrance of a
NV member into the league. We
en- not hope to have Is votes and the
cher nations combined only IA. al
hough the arguments OF some of the
lsaders point that way. 1t doesn't
eem to me that this would be Amer
banking the league. according to the
true meaning of the word. American
lie. But ! will admit it would Amer
icanize it into an autocratic American
empire.
When Senator Harding says Europe
understands the Republican position
and when 1t is claimed that Elihu
Root Is the representative Of the Re-
publican party in Europe, and is at
the present time preparing the way
for this new Republican league, we
are amazed that those who are sup
posed to uphold the constitution of
the United States can make such an
audacious claim and not know that it
does not reflect credit on either the
Republican senate or the Republican
party leaders if such is the situation.
And we are more than shocked to
hear such a confession of secret
diplomacy from those who condemned
so loudly the proceedings of the SUI.
lish broadcast each day its decisions
while they were in the process of
formation
Now as to the other branch of gov
eminent as found in the league: It
depends upon how this branch of gov
eminent is constituted as to whether
supplementary.
The council of the league Of nations
is pre-eminently the point of attack.
the duties of the council and all other
nations were excluded, then the
league would be super.empire.
Harding, in his speech of Aug %,
quotes Viscount Grey as saying that
the Americans must be told that If
they will only join the league they
can practically name their own terms,
and Harding asks: ''Is there any
good reason why we should not avail
ourselves of this privilege? Would
not Great Britain under like circum-
stances exercise such a prerogative?'
And, just at this same time, we heard
about a Republican league" a Hard
ing league" etc. Now, just what does
Harding mean? Has there been
Matched another dream of world en-
pire, camouflaged under the cry of
Amerizanize? If the council is to be
abolished, is its place to be taken by
the senate foreign committee headed
by Lodge or by the same group as
head the Republican party? Why OBJ.
ject to the plan of five great nations
and four small nations for the council
when this same apportionment in the
league court has their approval? The
council of the league is the point OF
attack. What is to take it's place in
the proposed new league? America?
1t would be another Napoleonic OF
HohenZollern dream of world empire
for the United States to take lone
position in the council, even if it has
a democratic form Of government.
The Wilson league Gas the Repub
licans have named it) has nine ma
lions represented in the council, and
therefore, can never be any kind OF
empire. The fact is, the Wilson league
is the embodiment of a dream OF
world freedom and world democracy
so constituted that it never can be
anything more than a super-democ'
racy, never reaching the dangers of a
super-empire.
MRS. STEPHEN G. MARKLEY.
Charlotte Bronte's writing was Sc
small that it appeared to have been
traced with a needle