The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-05-28
BRYAN FAVORS
| RATIFICATION
Would Have Treaty
Signed Immediately
With Reservations
By WILLIAM J. BRYAN

81 By WILLIAM J. BRYAN
"a Formerly Secretary of State in
q Wilson's Cabinet and Delegate to
n the San Francisco Convention
d Specially Written for Universal
Il Service).
II NEW YORK; am in favor of
the immediate and final ratification
Of the peace treaty with the reser-
vations already agreed upon by, a de-
cisive majority Of the entire senate
and by more than two-thirds Of
those favoring ratification. Any
needed changes can be made in the
league. / shall oppose any and ev-
cry attempt to make the reserva-
tons q campaign issue.
No party, least Of all the Demo-
cratic party, can afford to claim
for majority Of the senate the
right to declare a policy Of the ma
ton.
To deny ratification and make the
treaty partisan issue will be a
crime against our own nation, which
has pressing domestic problems to
meet and against the world that
needs our counsel and advice in the
league to save civilization from the
horrors Of another war.
I am in favor Of electing our rep
srecentatives to the league by popu-
lar vote and believe that they should
be instructed to favor the immediate
admission Of Germany to the league,
the immediate reduction of arma-
ments in all nations and a referen-
dunn on war except in case OF actual
invasion. World peace is possible
only on the basis Of brotherhood.
Does President Wilson know that
while the senate wrangles over the
phraseology of resolutions, newly es-
tablished republics are threatened
ON the one side with returning mon
archy and on the other side by the
chaos of bolshevism?
Does he know Of the unrest in
our own country and the reasons for
it?
Does he know that the profiteer,
with an appetite whetted by glut-
tony is bleeding our nation white?
Does he know to what extent the
tax eaters are fattening at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers?
Does he know that big business is
attempting to transfer the burdens
Of the government from the should
ers of the rich to the backs of the
poor?
Does he know that the benefici-
aries of private monopoly are mass
ing for combined attack upon the
right of the people to use their own
government for their own protec-
ton?
Does he know that the antagonism
between capital and labor is grow
ing and that the failure of the old
parties to grapple successfully with
this menace to industrial peace is
swelling the ranks of socialism?
Does he know that the governor
of his own state is leading revolt
against an amendment to the con-
stitution ratified by As states Of the
union, including every Democratic
state?
Does he know that his own state
and a number of other states are
deliberately trying to nullify the pro-
enforcement law, placed on
the statute books by the vote Of more
than two-thirds of it's members Of
both houses. He cannot be indif-
ferent to this attempt to overthrow
the nations greatest moral reform.
II he were physically able to con-
fer with his fellow officials at Wash
lngton and learn the views Of his fell
low patriots throughout the country !
he would not ask the members of
the Democratic party to drag the
treaty into politics and make reser-
vations partisan ISSUE.
The treaty should be ratified i'm.
with the reservations al
ready agreed upon, leaving the ma
ion to secure afterward in the
league such changes as may be
leemed necessary.
The Democratic party cannot die;
t must help solve the problems of
.oday; Democratic friends of the
eague of nations should join Repub-
lean friends Of the league, and by
loing so take the issue out of the
and speak peace to war
distracted Europe.
rHEIY WENT ON REAL EASY