Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-30
VICTORY
ATPOLLS MEANS
INVISIBLE RULE
Morgenthau DenOunces Re
publican Senate and Plat
form of Harding.
WILL AID ROOSEVELT

sweeping denunciation Of the group OF
senators who. he said. had obstructed
the passage Of the peace treaty and
league of nations, Henry Morganthau to-
day asserted that the United States again
faced. in the event of a republican cleo
tion next November. the rule OF in
visible government" from which the
whole world fought TO free itself in the
war.
Mr.. Morgenthau made these statements
after he had called on Franklin Roose-
welt at Camp ObeIIo Island to assure him
Of his earnest support in the fight OF
the democratic party to indorse the
league.
when the thinking people of this
country read Senator Harding's accept
ance speech" said Mr.. Morgenthau,
they hung their heads in shame, and
asked, has il come to this?
"The small group Of senators who
dictated Harding's nomination. and by
whom. according TO his own frank ad-
mission, he will be advised. represent q
clique which plans TO govern the United
States.
people, not by the republican party, 70
this eminenee. but by themselves.
NEGATIoN OF
'gTheir methods and purposes are the
negatfon of true democracy, and repre-
sent, In fact, the very things which the
world fought Germany to prevent
autocracy, selfishness and the determi-
nation to perpetuate hereditary power.
'eThese are not the characteristics OF
Americanism, but those Of an ohgarehy
which, out of hatred Of Wilson and de-
termination to dictate themselves the
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Sd the treaty Of peace and the league oil
nations.
But they are going to find it difficult
TO explain their actions 20 the public or
nislsad the nation as to the real issues
1.-THE boys who fought and the labor
ers who toiled to win the war for lasting
peace viii never tolerate them as guar
dams Of Americans destiny in the devel-
opment Of a civilization based on moral
ity. nor viii the peace of this land sub
scribe to the workings Of Invisible gov
eminent.
Mr.. Harding's supporters are princi-
2DaIly those who have so misunderstood
prour national spirit that they think they
can gain their object by throwing the
public into a state OF indifference and
complaeency with the pap Of former
years.
'The clock viii never go back TO the
DAYS Of Mark Hanna.
The American people. whose sober
second thought is always right, will cry
shame upon the professional politicians
who. in the face Of our phenomenal
achievement in the war, would for party
purposes and profit befoul their own
nest
1T is strange to an objective OBJ
server. and particularly to one who
knows and believes in the American
PEOPLE, that these men fail to realize
how deeply resentful the American PEG
pie viii be at the attempt to represent
them to the world as CUTTERS
when has America ever. stopped In a
task she undertook"
What has our nations youth done 70
merit such an accusation?
The Inconsistency of those who trade
on insincere professions of patriotism
and the like is so glaringly apparent
that the most cursory examination OF
their acts convict them.
Does not everyone recall their per-
sistent and almost venomous criticism OF
the president when he refused to plunge
the nation into the war hurriedly and
without preparation on the invasion of
Belgium, and later on the ocea sion Of the
Lusitsnia atroeity?
Yet these are the very people who are
obstructing the passage Of treaty
framed to guarantee Belgium and all
other nations, great and small, against
those very disasters with which they pro-
fessed such vehement sympathy.
'Mr. Wilson may have made mistakes.
EVERY ONE has
MADE MISTAKES.
NO human being has failed to do
that In the execution Of tasks mucA
smaller than his since the world began.
But what words can describe the ac-
tions Of senators who were willing to
make the greatest document since the
Magma Charta a football in the arena OF
politics?
these men have talked of autocracy
in the whitehouse.
The makers OF our constitution took
great care that the president should be
deprived Of the possibility Of exerting
autocratic power, were that his dearest
wish.
Neither did they intend that the leg
isIative houses should usurp the powers
Of the executive.
The people OF the United States will
recoi at the thought OF government by
the cloakroom Of the senate.
what is going to become Of thu world
II we turn our back on 1t now-f Amer
lea, the one virile, resourceful nation left
after the war, is to desert her allies AMI
neighbors in their need, and erect against
them a wall as high and thick as party
politics can make it.
"one-half Of the population of Europe
between the ages Of 10 and 20 has been
killed or invalided by the conflict.
The percentage Of children between
the ages Of . and Z years, who will
never attain physical and mental ma
turity because Of undertaking and CON
ditions incidental to the struggle is
greater. very much greater.
"a little group OF politicians continues
70 falsify every generous sentiment, aim
and ideal of this great people," Morgen'
THAI concluded.
ssBut the tide is turning.
America is awakening from the shor;
rest she took from her mighty exertions
in the war. She will resume her on
ward march before Nov. 2, 1920"
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