The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1920-10-28

/ irope's leftover war problems results
: rs il may, in bankruptcy and inabilitl
therefore TO pay US back some of tn,
: ten billions borrowed of US.
> II we don't ratify, we shall have I'm
I Vulnerable private lawsuits OF Amer
? lean citizens against Germany which
/ Se can't prosecute with success, and
of German citizens against the United
States.
Let us take a concrete case. A
young American on the Sussex. tor
)edoed by a German submarine, was
the water four hours and con-
racted pneumonia, which led TO ta-
3erculosis. He is entitled to daml
ages of say $4,000, which could be
assessed and collected under the trea-
y OF Versailles but without 1t, he can
! 10 little more than whistle for them
Is that the sort OF protection to our
.itizen afforded by the republicans?
These complications could be multi
piled Indefinitely.
Only One Way Out.
The republicans have gotten them
selves into an impossible situation
There is only one practicable bust
ness-like thing to do and that Is to<
ratify.
The league cannot be dissected out
If the treaty, and IL IL could no Other
If the thirty-seven nations now in
he league would consent No work
able plan is possible by which we ac-
'ept the treaty without the league
while the rest of the world accepts IL
With the league, any more than one
nan on an athletic team could plav
football while the rest were olaylhx
The legaue had to be a part of the
reaty OF Versailles. At first many 81
he trainers of the treaty thought TO
AVE peace and the league late-. as
'enatOr Harding now proposes. But
hey soon say that this was imprac-
cable. The ieft-oy er war PROBLEMS
ERE so numerous, complicated and
asst, and their immediate and com
lete solution 20 impossible, that the
ague came at cnce to be recognized
J an indispensable mechanism to be
rst erected, so that through ir the
'oblems could be worked out delhi
ately and properly.
These three reasons for 2otiny for
* and Roosevelt. namely, ~ TO
sure our entering the league, (2) to
eek the senate oligarchy and 90 to
hold the honor of the nation. are
e great and compelling ones. There
e many minor ones such as:
To insure progressive Legislation.
is is a period of reconstruction
ere the watchword should be
rogress." Governor Cox is pro-
'ssive and constructive. Senator
riding and the group whose crea-
e he is and whose tool he will he
reactionary. The republican plat
m is full of the word mot" IL is
lie else than negation, criticism.
lplaint, hatred.
vote for Harding is really for
rose and his group, denounced as
worst of reactionaries by Tbeo-
e Roosevelt, which means a return
he old scandal of special interests
'e protected" in return tor cam
m contributions.
is said that Harding will sur
nd himself by men ADLER than lie
when a weak man, naturally
Hating and without guiding ideas
lis own, is surrounded by ADLER
than he, who know exactly what
want but aren't responsible for
action which they induce, the re-
are not promising even if there
lie best of intentions.
lie OF Mr.. Cox's bitterest political
lies in Ohio said to me: II must
'ss voted for him the last time
Use he gave us the best govern
the state ever had. He enforced
aw without (, ar or favor and
her he personally approved of
not"
$ the republican party lost its
in the death of Roosevelt? |
Ter at the cynicism of one of the
lican leaders who said: "The
are more interested in their
chs than in the hearts of the
III our boys at Chateau
" mad been more Interested in
stomachs than in the heart of
)rld, they would have run away.
wiped away that very reprOach
had been hurled at us during
roe long. weary years G9f4-
hen England and France did
'nting for us and kept back the
the cost of millions of lives
lions of treasure, and now that
re exhausted because they de-
us we are asked to desert
s a bankrupt concrn."
mel House recently said of Eu.
Inc feeling is general that
a mas shirked her responsible
d has deserted the world az 4
time and for selfish reasons.
eel that IL Europe goes down
will go with her, no matter
ri she tries to hold aloof A..
yelling of the statue of the
humane and universally below
lcoln. Premier Lloyd Georgia
nee to the feeling lying deep
hearts of all when he said:
rn and bleeding earth is cali
ay for the America of Abra-
ncoln.'"
ew of the logic of events
that the foundations which
he republican voter 10 his
re crumbling away as the
q side is loosened by the