Gunnison news-champion., 1920-11-26
ROOTS rxrossrBE PUPIL

New York World y
Senator Harding's rear platform
speeches thru Texas furnishes convsnc-
ing evidence that he has not yet begun
70 consult the best minds Of the Re
publican party IN regard TO the League
OF Nafions-in fact he has not vet be
gun to consult any minds at all.
Too much shouldn't be expected of :
president-elect who is taking = vaca-
ton, but those who hoped that the
election would priuce . change in the
utterance Of the Republican candi-
dates are doomed to disappointment.
The Harding references 70 the League
OF Nations since election are quite a
fantastic IS the Harding references "a
the League Of Nations were before
election.
The oaly contribution TO the subject
is published by David Lawrence, who
printed in the Evening World, Elihu
koot's telegram Of warning to Senator
Harding which was sent from Loadnn
in August after the author had finish
ed his work in helping 70 draft the
plan for the Permanent Court Of In
ternatioaal Justice, provided for BY
the League According 70 the text Of
the telegram, Mr.. Roof insisted that
~lt is very unwise to declare that the
League IL dead" because 1T would not
be true" He added the further COM
ment that . new deal here from the
beginning by abandoning the versail-
les Treaty il impossible, and "to at
tempt il would bring chaos and entire
loss Of the results Of the war and Z
general disaster involving the United
States"
This is elementary. II is known 70
everybody except Republicans, and Il
is known to many Of them. There has
been nothing so extraordinary thruout
the controversy as the quality Of the
Republican mind, and in particular,
the senatorial mind, which assumes
that the peace of the world can be
Juggled indefinitely to suit the exigen-
cies of partisan politics in the United
States.
Senator Harding, himself, is one Of
these partisans who lack the faintest
notion Of the price Of blood and treas
ure that the allied nations paid for
the treaty Of Versailles, however un-
satisfactory that treaty may be. In
stead Of spending his vacation in
Texas, IT would have been better II
Senator Harding could have spent it
in France, in viewing the military
cemeteries in which hundreds Of thous-
auds Of French, British and American
dead are buried. He might then be
able to arrive at some sort of under
standing Of what that treaty has cost
and what il would mean to try to re-
open the whole question Of the peace
Of Europe, however fiimsy the peace
may seem. He might also learn what
the League Of Nations means and
what President Wilson has been seek
ing to attain thruout this long contro-
versy against the reaction and militar-
ism that are now seeking TO substitute
q new Imperialism for the imperial
ism that was drowned in sea of
blood.
There was good advice in Mr.. Roots
telegram to Senator Harding, but
there is nothing TO show that the Sem
etor followed It during the campaign,
and his most recent remarks indicate
that II he learned anything from Mr..
Root, he has already forgotten it. The
man who still babbles that America
does not need any meeting Of foreign
powers to tell US Whist our moral obi
cations are, does not know what the
war was about, or what the peace was
about or what has happened in the
world since June %, 1914. Mr.. Root
has pupil who still defies all the pro-
cesses Of human education.