The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-10-16


can present to me any Legislation
that is good for the farmer and the
laborer and just to other people, they
will have no more ardent supporter
than | am. am opposed to |. w.
Wism because it don't get anywhere.
You cannot settle anything by force
and violence.
"There are a lot of you who say
you want change. That is the only
republican argument that l have
heard that appeals to me. | want a
change. In our home it has been
our policy to feed every hungry man
who comes for fear we might other
wise turn away some worthy per-
son and my wife being practical has
made these men work for their meals,
chopping the wood. During the re-
publican times we had lots of split
wood at our house but during. recent
years there has not been tramp at
our house and | have had to perform
the work of a tramp and split the
wood. | want a change. Outside of
that argument, it is the only one |
have heard in favor of voting the re-
publican ticket"
Mr.. Cotteril speaking on the
League of Nations gave the following
illustrations: "Day before yesterday
as | was coming through the great
wheat belt of our state, this illustra-
ton came to me as l looked out on
the fields on either side: Here is
farmer, he has great stretch of
acres to put in grain, he sows, he
cultivates, he labors. He uses his
own labor, the labor of his family
and the labor of the men he hires
through all the months of the work.
ing season. They labor and sacrifice
and he risks his all on that land. 1t
comes to the time of the harvest and
there is a great field of golden grain
ready to be gathered in for his
profit and that of his people and for
the uses of humanity. Then for
getting the labor, he turns away
from it and says it is not worth
while, he was just doing it for ex-
ercise and he runs away from it and
lets it rot. That would be, yea, it
is exactly what America is con-
demned to at this moment by the re-
lection of the League of Nations and
what it stands for, by the republican
majority in the U. S. senate. Our
nation three years ago faced SUI
preme duty and in the war sacrificed
$4,000 lives and fifty billions of trea-
sure, 30 billions of which is debt and
which will for generations be bur-
den upon our people and what was
victory which we should gain and
which we did gain magnificently,
there should come as result
sacred compact among the nations
that would tend to prevent wars
by resorting to a league to settle
the disputes of nations. Then when
the time came to ratify the league
of nations America alone among
the civilized people of earth stands
out and refuses, letting the golden
harvest of safety go ungathered,
while we make miserable political
campaign about it. Because there
was a majority of one republican in
the senate, the republicans We're able
to organize the senate and manhandle
the ratification of the League of Ma
tions and reject it in order to take
away from democratic president the
little fame that might come to him.
They were willing to do that even
though it risked the whole future of
civilization and our country. And the
republican party is telling the people
today that if they continue to hold
the majority in the senate and elect
a president, that they will have moth
ing to do with the league. They say
that they have scrapped the league.
If they could, what a junk pile of
destruction they would have made for
our own country and humanity.
There is only one way by which
America can do her duty and that
is by the people of this state and
other states voting to place in the
senate and in the presidency those
who say that America shall go in and
do her duty by this pledge given our
boys and their mothers"
Geo. w. Cotterill presented the two
things which in his mind should turn
the votes to the democrats, first the
League of Nations and second pro-
gressivism in politics.
Eight years ago, we saw great
movement growing out of the re-
publican party under the name of the
progressive party. 1t has gone out
of existence and where its rank and
file has gone, we will know more
after the coming election. The re-
publican party in its platforms and
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