East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-10-27
DEMOCRATS HAVE STRONG LOCAL MEN IN THE FIELD

IOn OF senator I1dTutHe uuAtoS NHoS0
splendid republicans who aided the
democrats eight years ago in recover
ing the government, join us now In
holding popular control through the
election of Governor Cox,
How TO Pay Out.
Upon the presidential election there
are other issues of the first magnitude
involved.
First. there is the question as to
how the big war debt is to be paid.
That Of the Civil war when Wall street
dominated our financial policies was
laid upon the common people, includ-
ing the poorest of the poor.
Scarcely a penny of it was ever
charged to the incomes or fortunes of
the rich
But it was levied upon the sugar for
our coffee. the tobacco for our pipes,
and upon the clothing and the various
other articles of common consumption.
This war. on the contrary. is being
paid for largely out of the fortunes OF
the rich and from incomes that arose
from war conditions.
Tho League Issue.
But the crowning issue of this cam
paign and the major problem Of the
world is that of the future interna-
tional relations of mankind.
The position which We are to take
now in our relationship to other ma
tions may turn the tide Of the worlds
future in a measure no less marked
than American soldiers decided the re-
suit of the World War.
Since. as n people. the blood Of the
Ientire white world constitutes our cit
lizenship, there are bonds of sympa-
thy eminating from us that encircle
and embrace the whole of civilization.
We alone among the nations have
1.-THE brains, the wealth, the numbers,
the morals and the sympathy needed
to stabilize a world so recently and SC
terribly torn by ruthless conflict
The moral effect of our presence In
1.-THE League of Nations. it stands to rea-
son. would exert a greater effect upon
1.-THE future peace of the world than any
other possible human influence
So predominating by reason of this
moral and material power of ours
would Americas presence be. that the
results of the war would be accepted
Without our presence 1T is more
than likely that the central power:
will again divide the world into military
camps in preparation for another ant
more deadly war to escape the penal
ties of this war.
Another era of competition in mill
tarism could not possibly benefit thi
nation, or any nation-not even tn,
central powers, so much as to accep
and secure the results of this wa
however imperfect its settlements ma
be.
Under the guarantee of the Leagu
of Nations all could set their faces
the future without fear of external ag
gression. All could lay down thei
! arms and all take up the implement
of peace. Relieved of the deadly fea
of the past and freed from the heav
/, cost of militarism all the peoples coul
go forward discharging their debts an
achieving greater heights of prosper
: ity an happiness.
The Yellow Peril.
There lies across the Pacific
mighty sleeping giant. For centurit
she slept undisturbed by, and uncor
scious of, Western civilization. He
e own subjects remained at home an
i, she admitted no foreigners. Her pol
ulation, numbering four hundred mi
: lon people, possesses great natur;
/ power of endurance and are suscel
tbile of receiving high degree Of II
, dustrial and military learning. In e.
, tent of territory and natural resource
she is power of the first rank.
religion she is pagan nation. HI
heart is a heart of stone, cold an
without human sympathy. Her PEI
pie are of the same race as those I
Japan. The aggressions of the Wes
ern military powers have annoye
her. They have set her an example I
conquest which some day not far di
tant she may follow unless the whi
nations destroy the whole destructiv
vicious system of militarism no
while they have the opportunity.
Her sturdy. aggressive little neigl
Dor, japan is a growing military pov
Ter. Her subjects are most prolifi
She is oyer-running her own boundai
les. AS a nation she has no scrupl'
about the ethics of foreign conques
The advance tides of her populate
already have flowed in large number
into several OF our Pacific coast state
Wherever her subjects go they will,
allowed to acquire property, absor
the very cream of our land and otht
productive resources. This is so bC
, cause her standard of living is lowe
J than ours. When a high standard {
/, living and low one, existing side b
. side. compete with each other in tn
business world, the people of the lo'
: standard IL equally efficient, will 500
acquire by reason of their larger say
ing power the means TO buy out thos
of the high standard.
Due to this law and to the hig
birth rate of the Japanese, we dar
mot admit them to our shores.
Yet Japan bitterly resents exclusion
and she is one of the great powers o
Earth.
Standing alone in the Pacific as al
unfriendly power she would be dan
gerous neighbor. Allied with Chin
she might become invincible.
For we can have no assurance tina
China may not transform hersel
within a generation or two as did ia
pan
In that event. there would be pittet
against us in a race war four hundred
and fifty million people with resources
equal 10 our own.
How to Avert Danger.