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Tn evcrv sp,och tbeir spok esmen have

In every speech tboir spokesman have
delivered hore they have hailed Coionei
Roosevelt. greeted his name with salvos oil
cheers. Even the standard bearer, Just
few DAVIS ago, Colonel Roosevolts birth
day, folt it advisable to devote an entire
address To n eulogy of the great Amori-
can Yet eight years ago, Theodore Roose-
Welt was comparable TO ono character ID
our history. Aaron Burr" traitor.
let us for n minute oXamro carefully
the following words of Colonel Roosevelt,
from an address delivered in Chrlstiania,
Norway, May 10, 1910:
.rrhe one permanent move for obtain
ing peace which has yet been suggested
is by an agreement ainoi inc
great Powers, in which each should pledge
| itself not only to abide by the decisions
| of a common tribunal, but to back with
| force the decisions of that common
! tribunal The great civilized nations oil
| the world which do possess force
| should combire by solemn agreement IN
| y great world league for the peace OF
| righteousness.
Then. and most important, the nations
| should severalv guarantee to use their
nitro military force il necessary, against
any nation which defied the DEGREES OF
| tho tribunal or which violated any OF
| their rights the rights TO their
territorial integrity aud the like.
Now let us examine carefully the %
words that constitute Article 10:
The members of the League under
take 10 respect aud preserve as agar st
extornal aggression the territorial IN
tcgritv ard existit political indepond cncc
| OF all members of the League In case
of any such aggression or IN case OF any
threat or dal ger of such aggression tho
Cour ell shall advise upon the meai by
which he obligation shall be fulilled
Former President y llliam Howard lait
has Repeatedly declared that the League
would have been acceptable to him as
drafted In AN address IN New YORK on
| March !. 1919, he said:
III President Wilson insists, as hope
he will that the League will be lncorporat-
ed in the Peace Treaty and brings u
back Then the Responsibility for Post
noning Peace is with the Body that he
fuses to Ratify It.
AGAIN Mr.. Taft said: ''If Washington
lived today he would be one Of the most
earnest and pressing advocates OF the
covenant.
Speaking before the Bar Association Of
Wisconsin last wear Mir TAFT said:
There are certain issues thatjrlse above
I marty. that transcend all parties and party
triumphs that are merely temporary
This issue is rs fundamental as the de
claration Of Independence, the constitu-
ton of the United States or the issues OF
the Civil War.
SDeakinr of the attitude Of the service
men on the League. Mr. Taft said on March
10. 1919. During the war committees
were sent over TO Europe with the sane
, ton of the President To confer az 70 the
League Of Nations. | know that the
soldiers we're enthusiastic for IT, because
thew conceived il as q means OF lnsurine
: lasting peace.
Let Us see what Republican paper
the Philadelphia Evening Ledger, SAID
81 the failure Of the Republican Senate
10 ratifv the treaty and the League. Or
, March 20. 1920. the day after the 'Sena-
torial olgarchy" defeated the treaty W.
I read !,
"Failure Of the Senate 70 ratify thu
treaty of peace puts a new low water mari
IN American craftsmanship II Is the mos
! humiliatirg collapse q American polio,
! in hundred and forty years OF lndepen
3 dence.
lefcat the paper said IN the same editor
ial Mr. Lodge. who might have woun'
:. ,lp a long career III the Senate IN blaz
] az glory, chose the course Of vacillatlo'
] and barter and will go down IN history a
statesman OF minus capacity
] Men and women who served III caus
! greater than the narrow confines OF
] national boundary line, let US tomorrow
= reafirm our faith in the high prli clples
that + spired out effort in 1917 and 1912
let us restore America to her traditions
= Dlace a. the great moral leader OF IN
. world.
: Let us repudiate the flthv campalg
! Of vindictiveness directed agalTst 8 gres
I idealis+. great leader and q great Pres
dent. Woodrow " WILSON,
IN all this campaigu have failed TO hes
Raepubhcan speaker express word I
sympathy for the president IN his tryln
i illness. Yet in October, 1912, when 20
- oDel Roosevelt was shot III Milwaukee
al the heighth Of the campaign, Noodro
= Wilson wired offering 10 remain on II
4 stump until his opponent had sufficient
e recovered 10 again take an active part
the campaign
T Md for Us Of the service, one lncldeI
= will show the President personal ieell'
y toward US While Ii France at Chris
y mas. 1918. he visited the ankee Dlvlslo
: then billeted IN the vicinity OF Chaumon
y At the President request dinner vi
arranged with the enlisted men OF II
"a ! division
% II was to have been served on Christine
y dav at Montiguy-le-RoI. Two DAYS beto
Z wire from G H Q changed the plans al
70 it was arranged that instead Of eating wit
~ the enlisted men the President would dII
= with picked company Of officers. I
J. came. ate aud left the big mess hall, di
M appointed saving no word through Il
az meal except Goodbye, as he vas leavin
70 In the last issue Of the Stars and STRIPE
IL published June ID, 1919, we read, VIII
10 each one Of us should regard as our declar
ton Of faith:
. I'VE can help build League Of Natio
, with such sinews Of war and such CO
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