The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-01-09

foe: stand by us y Irenos VI La
favette. against the unextinguished,
impenitent spirit of the Hun" Great
britain. our nearest Of kin, vindi-
Gated by the loyalty of every colony
and every possession in her far
funp empire from Canada to the
barbaric east, undaunted to the
finish, never forgetting her proper
self respect,yet submitted her earnest
request: 'Friends and relatives OF
the great democracy of the west, we
stagger under heavy burdens, but by
YOUR good help we may establish a
league of nations in the interest OF
lasting peace. You see what nodded
at our feet"
Italy, where our religion was first
fostered, proclaimed our commander
in-chief as a second Messiah. Heroic
Belgium wet the folds of Old Glory
with grateful and conf1ing tears.
Beaten Germany and Austria
grovelled at our feet
At that moment sympathetic
prompt reply from our senate had
held the world in awe. At that mo-
ments eleven-twelfths of us had upon
our lips: Why, God bless you, do you
think that we will go back upon you
now, we have only begun to help.
But it was not so to be. Listen:
Out of New England, sprung from
the loins of the Puritans, with the
entree to the best society on earth,
your country's history familiar as
a. B. c., the friend Of Lincoln's friend,
the Incompatible peacemaker, John
Hay, yourself with a name to con-
jure by, Henry Cabot Lodge, you
came, a man mature, eloquent re-
sourceful, capable in your position OF
rendering felt help to every man,
woman and child in suffering
world. Here was your golden op-
portunity. But alas! pride ruled,
and you regarded your commander
in-chief with an envious, strong dis
like. Alas! God pity you, you We're
devoted not to humanity, not to
your country, but, first of all, to the
discredited wing Of a great political
party, now suffering in the eclipse OF
temporary defeat.
To the temptation of the devil you
yielded. You revoked your former
admirable deliverances; you ad-
jured your earlier wisdom; with the
wicked arts Of a political lovelace
you set about to seduce the pure
hearts of your nation. You abstract
ed a page from the ex-kaiser's note
book and translated it into America
for Americans only. You wresteo
an unwarranted meaning from the
words of Washington. You ap'
pealed to ignorance, prejudice, raw
youth and dull sepility. You go
about you a motely group of spirits
just enough like you to be your fol
lowing. Your common slogan Il
!, America for Americans" whicl
with you does not mean even decen
/. Chinese isolation, but that ever.
; American shall enjoy, the freedom o
every city and Of every country o.
earth without any corresponding
/ obligations either. to God or mar
Europe and the Near East have fal
J, len among thieves, and you wit
: your band of Levites, with forbid
d ding gestures to all your country
n men, pass by on the other side. En-
e boldened by temporary success, 70
} have kicked the Magma Charta, nc
= of England, but of the nations. abor
r the floor Of the U. S. senate, as if
e We're a copy of LaFollette's wal
r time addresses. ,.-
n You can offer no apology. You a,
f not handicapped by the limite
+ knowledge of Borah. You are no
n like johnson, the product Of p'
r culiar sectional surroundings. Yo
: are not like Knox, bewildere
h special pleader amusing mankir