The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-25
EDITORIALS.
] aKEEPING OUT POLITICS"

To the unsiphsticated mind there naturally
arises an inquiry why the leaders of both Democratic
and Republican Parties whether in the Senate out
of it keeny anxious that the peace treaty shall
be ratified before the general election?
Such mind asks at once why should not the
treaty be "rnade the football of politics?" as dis
claimed for the Democratic senators by Senator
Hitchcock last Saturday? Why the rush advocated
by former Senator Elihu B. Root, in his speech
chairman of the New York Republican convention
last week advocating immediate ratification Of the
treaty with reservations? If the treaty, with it's
League of Nations is such wonderfully good thing
forthe United States and its people, why not let those
very American people express their approval at the
polls? The very reluctance Of leaders on both sides
to let this great question OF League of Nations go
to the people causes the ordinary American to give
pause and it suggests that perhaps the "btter end
ers' may be right and that the treaty ought not'be
ratified; that the League of Nations would be mis-
take est
This great fear of getting into politics any great
question that to the fore occasionally is
thing that this editor cannot understand It is by
the contention of political parties that the people of
a free nation govern themselves. And whenever
politician is who fears to 60 to the people for
his Inspiration, dares not submit to the people his
concepts, there is always room for suspicion that
there is somethino crooLed in what he advocates,
whether he is in vilao2 olitioe town noli+ics
ty politics, state politics or national politics.
That recalls that there Z, '~'oof +o'< wet nov
for business man for President this time. The s.
urday Evening Post of last week would relegate to
the rear political candidates in both parties and have
them unite on Mr.. Hoover as the joint candidate.
Now, then, will someone tell who it is that profits
by misgovernrnent but the crooked business man?
And is a business man in the presidency going to
catch him and punish him any quicker than poti-
clan? ,seez q as ~ 81
President Wilson was never numbered among
politicians. In fact it the head of great bust
institution (Princeton University that he at
tracted attention Of the country and was made first
governor of New Jersey, then President on account
OF the great of the great business qualifications he
manifested. Yet he could not prevent the Hog Island
shpyard deal wherein Republican business man
entrusted with authority reputed to have made ten
or twelve million dol'Hrs the famous spruce
lands deal in Warrington where Democratic busi-
ness man is reputed to have drawn down new rail
road as his reward f"r serving dollar year
patriot; was he awarded ? medal Of honor besides?
In the editorial columns of "The Oasis" yester-
day there presented excerpt from speech
by Senator Capper Of Kansas, charging that in
suit of clothing that costs $10O there but $737
worth of WOOL Five or six years ago the same kind
of suit did not cost to exceed $4O maybe less The
wOogrower gets but little more for his product than
when the suit was at the lowest price Who are
gouging the American cons lmer out of the $50?
Why, a lot of American business men, beginning
with the wool commission merchants, and ending
with the jobber (Our local retail clothiers assure
the writer that they get no part Of the great ad-
vance quoted). Yet we are told now that the
remedy for all that is to elect President business
man." Would Hoover or any other business man be
any more successful against the system under which
the American people are suffering, than Wilson has
been, Hughes would have been had he been elected
in 1916?
How supremely ridiculous is all this talk about
doing away with politics and politicians. Wherein is
the business man who is not a pol
itician any better than the professional
politician, when he gets into power?
That was seen in the Mckinley administration.
Mark Hanna, the business who put Mckinley