Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-09-21
HISTORY OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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Gals or statesmen. We have either
got to be ostriches or eagles"
In another speech. in st. Paul. on
the same evening, he again discovered
a "pro-German" basis for the oppo-
sition, saying:
That hyphen which looked to us
like a snake the hyphen between Ger.
man and American, has reared it's
ugly head again. You hear the hiss
of its purpose, and what is that pur-
pose?
1T is to keep America out of the
concert of nations in order that Amer
lea and Germany, being out of that
concert, may some time in their mis-
taken dream unite to dominate the
world, or at any rate the one to as
sist the other in holding the nations
of the world while it's ambitions are
realized"
How preposterous even to suggest
that the senate majority should be
part of such a fantastic German
American pregnant"
AS he proceeded westward, the pres
ident's bitterness grew, particularly
against the senate. He resented the
senates part in treaty-making and
left no doubt in the minds of his
hearers that only the specific pro-
vision of the constitution could in
duce him to permit the senate to re-
view his handiwork On the return
trip from the Pacific coast, at Chey-
enne, Wyoming, he warned the senate
that he would regard the adoption
of reservations to Article 10 as tanta-
mount to a rejection of the entire
treaty and that this would mean the
negotiation of separate peace with
Germany. 1t was in this speech that
he also said:
my friends-I use the word adj
visedly-the only organized forces in
this country, outside of congressional
halls, against this treaty, are the
forces of hyphenated Americans.
At Denver, September %, he was
more emphatic in his suggestion of
presidential rejection" of the SEN
ate advice.
81 challenge the opponents of this
treaty to show cause why there
should be any hesitation in ratifying
it. | do understand delays. I do not
understand covert processes of oppo-
sition. 1t is time that we know where
we shall stand, for observe, my fell
low citizens, the negotiation of treat
les rests upon the executive of the
United States. When the senate has
acted it will be for me to determine
whether its action constitutes an
adoption or rejection, and l beg the
gentlemen who are responsible for
the action of the United States senate
to make it perfectly clear whether it
is an adoption or rejection"
The strain of the trip, increased by
the fact that his cause was making
no Roadway, had been telling on the
president To this must be ascribed
much of his bitterness and license of
language. At Pueblo, Col. September
25, the president again charged that
the opposition to his treaty program
was the result of pro-German propa-
ganda. He said
"Any man who carries a hyphen
about him carries a dagger which he
is ready to plunge into the vitals of
the republic. If I catch a man with
a hyphen in this great contest, l will
know that I have caught an enemy
of the republic. My fellow citizens,
it is only certain bodies of foreign
sympathies, certain bodies of sympa-
thy with foreign nations, that are or
ganized against this great document
which the American representatives
have brought back from Paris"
It was a rambling speech and far
below the level Of the presidents
usual rhetoric. Speaking of the Paris
he revealed this interest
ing fact-if it was fact:
"There was not man at that table
who did not admit the sacredness of
The right of seIf-determination the
of the right of any body
Of people to say that they would not
continue to live under the government