Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-06

Democratic solons proclaim that the
United States, with its slow burning
construction, should at once 60 into
the business Of insuring both the tin
der boxes.
II cannot emphasize too strongly the
difference between an association In
which each nation agrees for itself to
follow a certain course of national con-
duct and an alliance In which each ma
tion binds itself to unite with some
nations in affecting the conduct Of
others. In the latter case it is rcla-
lively unimportant what agency Is en-
ployed. 1t may be military or naval
force; it may be a whitening boycott.
The point Is that we must not bind
ourselves to unite with some nations
to coerce others upon underlined issues
OF the merits Of which we can as yet
know nothing.
This is the central vice Of the league.
This Is fundamentally the issue BY which
We are confronted. This Is why the
President and those who are like minded
have always declared that Article Y
Is the cornerstone Of the structure. This
Is why reservation corrective of Ar
ticle y Is necessarily nullifying reser-
vation.
The President tells us that prompt
ratification is required by the American
code Of honor. This is upon the theory
that we were committed to ratification
by what happened at Versailles. But in
the same breath he affirms that IL we
were in the league Congress would be
absolutely free to act In opposition to
z commitment at Geneva. If our own
President can call US ignorant and i'm =
pudent because We want Congress to re
wise his hasty judgment, what would a
hostile world say Of us II, in a great
emergency, Congress dared to differ with
the Council Of the League?
Nations Cry to Us
| '"There has been too much talk abou,
breaking the heart Of the world. The
situation is not one in which the Dem
ocratic candidate wishes to be kind tc
the world while the Republican candi
date wishes to treat it with cruelty
It is rather a situation in which per-
picked and hnrrassed nations have beer
encouraged to cry for something which
IL is not possible for America to do,
namely, to preserve for all time the
territorial integrity and the political in =
dependence Of each of the sufferers as
against everything that can be defined
as external aggression.
Candidate Cox thinks ii kindness
to quiet the clamor by promising to dc
what the children cry for, with full con
sciousness that the promise cannot be
kept and ought not 20 be performed II
II could be.
Senator Harding Is of opinion that
America will best deserve the lasting
gratitude of the rest of the nations II
she refuses to give them what they CRY
! for and reasons with them until they arr
satisfied with something better.
81 deplOre also the too frequent at
tempts to make 1t appear as If vot,
for the Democratic ticket is debt OF
honor that we owe to the men who fell
in France. This is form Of sacrilegs
which makes my blood boil.
1T is the base political! artifce o.
those who never had the experience o.
losing In battle some one far dearer thar
life itself. 1t Is the kind of contention
that marks the man who utters it will
the brand of Cain. 1t calls for a mani
festation Of righteous anger. 1t sum.
mons us to smite our adversaries hiI
and thigh.
..This battle is not yet won. Penn.
sylvania Is safe; but the states which
border upon it are the states which ma.
determine the election.
You men have connections and in
duence in every neighboring common
wealth. / call upon you to invoke you
convictions and to use your influence.
exhort you to manifest the spirit that 1
your glory.
members Of the Union League
Shake off all indifference, all semblanc
to lethargy. Up Be strong Quit your
selves like men