Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-06-18


attempt Of the republican party to win
the sanction of the American people for
its attempted evasion Of these obliga
tions Will be decisively rebnked With
one thing | am fully satisfied-that il
that the republican party in IL platform.
has Joined me in the suggestion | made
IN my letter to the guests al the Jack
son bay dinner in Washington in Janu-
airy last. In that letter | expressed the
hop" that sincere attempt would be
made t. determine the atfitude of the
Ameri' an people on the league of ma
ti"ns by the resort to the genuinely dem
ocratic process If the referendum.
"of course. | have no gay of antici-
pating the probable trend of sentiment
that viii be expressed in the democratic
national convention AZ San Francisco ar
f"rcrasting the ultimate cnnclu usinns of
that body. But ] have every confidence
that the delegates who will sit III that
convention will repeat the challenge
ISSUED {" the republican party and ex-
press their readiness 10 permit the pco-
PIE 4" dccid" between the vague aud am
bi.i,sS declaration ~ the republicans
and positive and definite expression ~
81 inion hy the democratic party. What
ever else the dcm"catic party may ID.
hope that its convention al San Franciscn
will say what il means an every issue
aud that II will not resort ~ ambiguity
or evasion in doing So
This thing tthc league II nationsl
hes ~" deep q" permit of AIRY political
S'iduggery. amy attempt 90 evadc NOR
al and humanitarian responsibilities
MUCH too solemn 10 treat lightly nr i.
more.
II should prefer ~ this time not ~
di>ruSs partisan politics or to venture
any predictions as Ia the probable atti-
tud" that the Democratic convention will
take on any subject
II sincerely brlicve. however. chat
th" vast majority of gentlemen who will
81 IN the San Francisco convention will
apprrriat" III" necessity AMI ornament
value of Keeping the word hat America
has gwen t. the rest of the world.
"Itr thinlv ycilcd rejection az the
principle If the league nf nations by
th" Chicago cSnvention will not fool any
one. The attitude uf Scnatpr. Lodge and
that If Senator Johnson differ only i'm
degree. Both are really opposed to il
IN any form. One of these gentlemen il
diSingenuous and cvasivc ind the other
caDddly hostile.
1T must be trifle discnnrerting IL
some republicans" he added. to have
that which was approved few years
ago hy some IF their most important
Il. \
was when ] returned from Paris finally
in July last. that the people If not only
America. but Of the entire world. are
in favor of the league of nations: that
they would feel greater sense of secur-
ity ii its benefits should be guaranteed:
that they would not approve. with their
votes. ~ the policy of the republican
party. which IL wholly political in intent
and purpose. To- deny them the prntec-
tion that the league of nations assures.
The republican cnngrc ,sional pol
icy. he added. was more significant
for cvaSinna of joint responsibility il
graphing with the problems that con
front the country than for my moral ap-
preciation of the responsibility itself
Republican leaders in congress cried aloud
for the repeal of some of he measures
which they well knew protected the peo-
pie from more serious evils than they
would have the country know
The Lever food cnntra act has prov
ed To- be- one Of the most effective agcn-
cicS in preventing dcprcda;ionS al the
expense ~ III" people. The time fur re-
pcaling il is not vet.
Republicans choruscd ponll ronS
note If protest against thr alminStra-
tion enforcement of the espionage act
and some other measures hat We're of
vital 'ne,rSsiiy during the war Yet I
defy the republicans To prove that the
power given the government during the
war has ever been uniuStly used against
the people: that Il single citizen has been
nnwarrantcdly punished for any act nf
aggression or diSloyaIty against the ma
ri"n: that any man has been punished for
expression his opinion. I have read
charges to the contrary. hut in each in
stance | have had the matter Thoroughly
booked into and am in posiii N 90 contest
the accuracy ~ any statement that the
rights of single citizen have been nm
Justly invaded.
Tho United tSatcs senate has for
eleven months had in its han l. the power
to end conditions that are Enthusiastically
irkSnmc 4" great many ~ our citizens
because with the ratification If the peace
treaty the operation of laws that were
enacted to safeguard the interests "f the
country in the war would auipmaiically
cease.