New-York tribune., 1920-10-09
L Parsolas Quits
Harding: g G, TO
Vote fon. Cox


not what honor or the peace of
the world requires but what he will
be squeezed into doing by the oppos-
ing pressures of the conflicting forces
supporting him. 1t may be nothing
at all so long as it serves as a compro-
mise to preserve harmony in the Re-
puDNcan party and make possible cor
tlnued Republican control Of the SEN
ate. In politics the man who is ignor-
ant or = straddler or a scntimentalist
by whlch mean a man who is upc-
tuous IN talk but cipher in action
compromises only one way and that is
the way of those who know what thev
want and are determined to have it.
Harding's delay and faulty will re-
suit IN the scrappng of the league if
Americas abstainlng from 1t can SCRAP
IT, for he will be willing to sacrifice
the league, even the world court as
part of 1t, to the comfort of harmony
nc cause, the greatest in our dav.
cails Tor the aggressive, positive lead
ershlp of Cox, not the self-confessed
ignorance of Harding. No straddler
can lead a cause
The many years of hard work that
have given to the Republican marty
the honors which it has bestowed unon
nee, the confidence that many of it's
friendebins tba+ my 'nc Faiueu
its active ,ron1S.s .'.aoe among
struggles for hettor mo 'me sp.enula
improved conditions in which | have
engaged with you and others have
made me reluctant to take this step.
But before the war | was for a
League of Nations My experiences
were At fairly close moo o4 naom'
ened this conviction and rroa+od j., ,r,o rr'
an intense desire TO do vhat ca,,il
to prevent futuro vor ond tborosoro
since the war have heer for 40 no
League of Nations.
Nations Must Unite
can international court is not svf1i-
cient. 1t would not have stopped the
great war. One nation cannot prevent
war. The nations must unite. Most Of
trem have. To insist that the thirty
eight who have now Joined the league
Of nations vbieb ;s 70 ' he J"sionod 'oi'ou,oll
along American lines when Harding
discovers what those are is no way
to promote friendly relations between
them ana US, even if they could be per-
suaded to put up with such t0pl0ftiness
OIL our part. The way to promote
friendly relations is to act, to join
the league with such reservations as
we thiNk ought to be made in fairness
to ourselves.
The issue is not between the league
as Wilson brought it and the league
with reservations. The situation in
the Senate is such that. the treaty can
not be ratified in the form in which
Wilson brought it. There viii be rcser-
vations such as will relieve America
of obligations, even moral, under Arti-
Gle X, and viii render Congress wholly
free to declare war or not in any given
case. The issue to the American voter
is between going into the league with
reservations and not goinr into it at
ALL Harding is and Will be for not
going into it at all. The only hkeli-
hood that the United States viii, under
Harding, enter the league is that he
Will find it impossible to erect an as
sociation of nations or new league,
and SO viii have to crawl into this one
u,.,,
VIII NoIe ior IoN
"To ne it is monstrousiy immoral
not to go into the league at all and to
let slip this one opportunity to join in
a great effort to prevent future war
| shall vote, therefore, for Cox as the
certain way to have the United States
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