Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-13
Dr.. |. POWEA's GREAT
PLEA FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS

ne mas not CONSUMED WITH the SenaL
as much as he might have. done tact
fully, grant that he has taken upon
himself too much a share of thi
great world responsibility, grant tina
he made a mistake in writing lette
to the nation asking that the coun
try should return a Democratic ma
1 jority in order that the great work. O.
the war should be brought to its. full
lfllment and contamination, grant any
thing except that he is criminal apC
say to you, what has that got to dc
with the truth of the League of Ma
i tons and its 20 articles, and yet the
whole issue in this campaign is wheth
er on not anything connected with
Woodrow Wilson his heirs. or assigns
his sentiments, his gospel, his policy
anything, the League of Nations, the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, heaven OF
hell, whatever is connected with
| Woodrow Wilson, DOWN WITH IT.
cannot conceive of aAy worse bolshe-
vism / know anything about.
| have tried my best in talking tc
my Republican friends. Won't you
| try to be sincere and try to forget
| anything about the Democratic party
try to forget all about, if you want
TO, its splendid record of achievement
whether during these two administers
lions of Woodrow Wilson, or not, and
forget. for Gods sake. Woodrow Viii
son when he was going around in this
speech making and broke himself
down in making his plea for the peo-
pie to be good enough to divorce ''my
personality from the League of Ma
tons and consider it on its merits, +"
and | say to my Republican friends:
Can you find one single objection to
The league, as it speaks for itself :?
What are your objections? You can
come back and say, But Mr.. Wood
row Wilson did this" Grant it. The
issue is the League of Nations, and
not Woodrow Wilson. Now, let's get
that clear and good. What I want to
say is, l want you to know [ honor no
man more than l do Mr.. Wilson, and
the time will come-mark my words
-the time Will come when this nation
sill share among its tributes of
achievement under this Democratic
president of the United States this
monumental achievement, which he
almost single-handed and alone has
pulled eff the face of opposition of
he European nations, the League of
IaticA-, to have it Incorporated as
n integral part of the peace pact.
he landed on the soil of Europe than
sactfully was he trying always to get
his concert of nations and actually
ncolI crate it in the peace pact, in
he peace treaty ITSELF and which was
lone finally.
Now, L want to argue with them,
{ anybody here is doubtful about it.
want to say am asking YOU as
honest men and women to consider
he League Of Nations on it's merits
part from yC;lr political traditions
nd assumed threatening symptoms,
nd apart, certainly from anything
whatsoever that Woodrow Wilson has
do with the making Of the league
n point of fact, if we are to believe
Gr. Wilson himself, he is responsible
My for the one article that has rails
d all this nonsensical attack on the
hole 26 articles, and this Article X,
xcepting If Article X, if any mani
airy that League of Nations around
my pocket the fact of the busi-
ess is, as soon as this election is over
am going to go crazy on this
-eague of Nations. 1t is getting to
an obsession, and l want you to
now this, that / would not be max
lg these speeches for any political
'voived, or if what you call pOliti-
Al issue. simply would not try to
ear myself out in behalf of one ol~
he other of the parties, but here is
lie situation. Politics has sought to
gploit these principles of the Gospel
f Jesus Christ which are information
| and the church has been brought
ito the arena, and here is the situa-
on, so far as the preachers are con-
arned of all the churches in christen-
om, all the churches in this broad
md of ours. There has been no re-
gious body-I think l speak truly
hen l say, representing the smallest
nominations in this America of ours
rat has not before this thing was
rought into the Lo'itical arena that
as not formerly approved and en-
orsed the League of Nations. Pray
rs have been offered that it might be |
atifed by our country, and that
An1eri'-S having once held the moral |
eaas4SA.Y of the world, should not |
arrow IL aside by her refusal to stand |
ut here in company with the only
1ree nations that have not gone in,
lexico, Turkey and Russi" 7 cannot
ee how any rYeacher care
that his nrE''N4. ami. ii0ns have
~SAA III IltC pctSt-L CStil' p1lly |
,ow any christian n&.a .1.." Il pain, |
nipple moral i as be- |
ore him to dec;cs 1si November 2
an vote any other than the Demo- |
ratio ticket want you to speak to
our consciences, my friends, if there
anybody hesitating about voting.
am awfully glad that Mr.. Harding
anne out and made it perfectly plain
nat no man who stood for ga
,eague cf Nations, or "any" League
f Nations whatsoever-to say moth
1g of "the" League of Nations so far
ould find any sympathy from him,
Or he was opposed to any league, to |
! reservations qualifying or other
Use. That thing is settled. Now,
on are Up against it. Here is this
4eague of Nations, which, as I say,
celates to the preservation of the hon
Or of America, and the real issue is
this: Are we going into the League of
Natipns, whether we shall be true to
our Allies. to our pledged word, and
cary on this good wors for humanity.
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