The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-28
.LENROOT MUST
BE REELECTED
A Republican Congress
Will Be Able to Block Plan
of InternatiOnalism.

(By Miles Poindexter, chairman of
the Republican Senatorial Committee.)
| Never before has the chief executive
of the nation openly proposed to sacri-
flee it, and asked the support of its own
people to accomplish that object.
Shall we sacrifice America? That is
the issue in this campaign; so declared
by President Wilson himself, in specific
terms, on March 5, 1919.
President Wilson represented to the
European and Asiatic nations that he
was authorized by the people of the
United States to commit this sacrifice
by giving up our separate national for
tunes and "joining our fortunes with
the fortunes Of men everywhere" He
was not so authorized. Whether he or
his successor is to be so authorized, is
to be determined in this election. He
cannot claim that the world govern
ment he proposes, under the name of
the constitution of the League Of Ma
tions, is to be benefit to America;
for he has expressly designated it as
a supreme sacrifice" The senate
alone stood between US and this sacri-
fee and saved us from it; and the
senate alone may be called upon to
stand between US and this same "su-
preme sacrifice" in the next congress.
One vote may determine the fate of
the nation. The election of one Demo
cratic senator, pledged to follow his
party in the sacrifice Of his country,
may unite us in governmental union
with Europe and Asia. BY the election
of Republican senator in any one
state, pledged to oppose this sacrifice,
our independence and the chief hope
of the world for liberty and peace may
U. s. Senator 1. l.. Lenroot.
be preserved. The senate is the high
court of final decision, and the action
Of the senate may be determined by a
single vote.
In the face of this issue, we cannot
afford to allow personal preferences,
if they exist, to override principle.
The consequences are too vital.
Our soldiers went to war to defeat
the purpose of Germany "to join the
fortunes of men everywhere" We sent
our sons to Europe to fight for national
independence; and we will break faith
with those who died and those that
live if we now sacrifice the nation for
which they fought to the principle of
internationalism.
In the process Of Supreme sacrifice"
the Democratic party has repudiated
it's solemn pledge and internationalized
the Panama Canal; denying our people
any greater privileges in the canal they
had built than those enjoyed by other
nations that never contributed dol
lar nor owned a foot of its soil
As further step in this process of
"joining our fortunes with the for
tunes Of men everywhere" the presi-
dent proposes the removal of econom-
ic barriers" which, if applied as stated
would open our ports, as he has opened
the canal, to foreign goods on the same
terms as our own. 1t is process of
destruction and we'll dominated by
him ga supreme sacrifice"
Under the name of "mandates" of
the League of Nations, military gov
eminent is being imposed upon Meso-
potamia and Syria. 1t may be neces-
sary, but it is neither necessary nor
proper that the United States shall
become party to it. Whether we
shall or not may be finally determined
by the senate, and by single vote in
the senate.
The Republican party proposes to
maintain those separate fortunes for
which our fathers fought. American
independence of Europe has meant
much for the world as well as for our
selves, and its sacrifice would be a
sacrifice for all mankind as we'll as for
ourselves.
If disarmament can be brought about
it will be by friendly agreement, as
with Canada, and not by a military
league, as established at Paris.
If the future peace of the world is
to be encouraged, it will be by the
codifcation of international law and
the establishment Of a court of law
judges, to which the nations, in free
association, will submit disputes. Only
war will come from the setting up Of
centralized military power, which by
its assembly, exercising, as the presi-
dent has said, "the major forces of
mankind" will subject the world to an
inscriptions and irresponsible politi-
cal and military despotism.
The Democratic party will deny that
such a power will be INSCRIPTIONS or
despotic. The history of the world
proves that it will be.
The safeguard of the nation is the
election of senate pledged to sup
port our constitution, our interests,
and our American policies Of peace and