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alton and disatribe that unwholy minds
could conceive has been used in every
medium that through Influence %
i politics or money could be indnced
to spread the poisoned darts
among the people to the end that a
great man might be utterly destroyed.
And for what purpose? Simply that
these conspirators might again hold
the reins of power and administer
government in their own way.
It seems hardly possible that such
conspiracy could terminate in think
ing minds, yet the facts as TO the un-
+ reasoning animus of the promoters. on
the lengths to which they would go N
the execution of their work of destruc-
ton can not be set forth in few words
or limited space That il has encom-
passed the defeat of the Peace Treaty
and continued thereby the evils Of
unadjusted war conditions, in order
to destroy the League of Nations as
particularly delicious means OF injur-
/ ing the president whose idealism Sc
cured its adoption, is true.
/ That this particular piece Of par.
tisan disabolism has injured the pres
/ idential prestige temporarily may be
/ true, yet the League of Nations cove
nant has been adopted by all the ma.
tions of the world. both great and
small. excepting China. Russia and the
| United States. Germany being out but
anxious to get in. Thus partisanship
| has scuttled the confidence OF allies
gained in the comradenshiD Of war
and placed the government whose
leader had gained for her a first place
among all the nations OF the earth into
the discard of then regenepte along
with Russia. Germany and China And
even China would have signed had not
the conspirators embroiled her in the
meshes of their doubly damned web,
Have they destroyed WDodrow VIII.
son? Hardly. tho they have DISCOUNT
ed every victory of the heroes OF war
upon land and sea in the mad intent
and fury of their desire TO find some
thing lacking upon which partisan
bias could hang prejudice and passion.
No. Woodrow still lives and win live
in history so long as the doctrine 90
right has weight and idealism can ap-
peal to the thinking men of all races ,
and all time He planted for interf
national comfy and right dealing be
tween nations as between men aud
tho they SOW many tares in the field
yet shall the Righteousness of hts
idealism win even as the righteous
ness of German ambition failed And
as he lives and grows in statue SO
will they shrink and shrivel in public
estimation until they shall be known
no more forever and their biased
partisanship shall be aaa.hema ever
more.
II the partisan De anathema what
shall &c said of the traitor to party
who in season and out "a season Upas
occasion and without. forgetful OF hts
cause as OF his leader makes rancor-
Gus appeal to the basest passions Of
the alien races of our citizenship in
order to soothe some imagined injury
Can be called brave? No more
than. can the slsulking hyena which
in dead of night robs the grave For
,such an one to wrap himself in the
flag of his country and Irate Of Amer
icanism is but the means OF outpour
ing meaningless phrases from his
cornucopia of sound and fury.
The law Of Karma still applies.
/ These braying partisans in their folly
and ignorance of righteous law are
sowing tares and they shall not reap
wheat. vicious partisanship is SOW
ing the wind and it shall reap the
whirlwind And worse yet. if the ma
ton allows these selfish misrepre-
sentative to continue TO sow the seeds
of discord so bounteously at home and
abroad. it shall reap disaster ana
death. Already abroad nations league
against us by reason of the selfish
expressions of these partisans in the
midst of unthinking debate. while az
home rancourous discord has been 80
generously planted that the contracts
between great organizations OF men
have become but as scraps Of paper"
and other men boldly urge the destruc-
tiun OF our government Shall the in-
Negligence Of the nation longer counte-
nance such conspiracy? vote Ne.
~, r. H. wEsTERs