Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-30
Oben Forum

: Jailed powers have accepted 1t an
X are already at work-alredd.y ee
) ting results. One nationt--hc: I'm
: ted States--did not go into til
leagu. 1t stepped aside white til
, rest went on. Now observe tn
| spokesmen Of one of the politica
subdivisions of that one courtr
vigorously opposing the existin
league OF nations. but glibly prom
ising a league of their own maxim
In return for votes to put them in
to power.
| How will they organize SUCH
league? What nations do the
presume to include in 1t? Do the
assume that the United States cal
or would suggest casting aside th
league already esta ablished for an
other suited to their peculia
whims and at their particular
pleasure?
The league of nations is an ac
complished fact. No other ieagu,
is conceivable. Once affiliated ant
at work, suggestions for improve
ment will, no doubt. be kindly re.
ceived. But the foisting of anothe,
league by the one nation that held
aloof, is unthinkable.
Mr.. Cox stands for the league OF
nations, Mr., Harding against it.
A. REPUBLICAN,.
To the Editor:-Oyer here in the
Hood River valley are some posters
on which is picture of candi-
date for presidents ,and under It are
the words Lets be done with
wigele wobble." Am wondering il
1t means U. s. senator lodging
1853 roll calls when he should be
present and be counted, voting 20
times with the vets and twice with
the drys. one Of the times with the
vets to fasten the American saloon
in the Philippines, denouncing the
farm loan system as sociaIistic,
voting eight times with the labor
element and eleven times against.
or wiggle wobbling fourteen pesi-
tions on the league matter. Think
it over. ALBERT TOItEI..
DcS, OIe5OH, OCt. 20.
An open letter to Robert ". Stan
field, candidate OF senator.
Dear sir:--In support of your
in Tuesdays election, L
have at hand, an elaborate com
from Miles Poindexter.
chairman of the senatorial commit
Tee which is replete with state |
ments belittling the intent of the
League of Nations, and charging
our president with the ambition to |
deliberately sacrifice our country |
and its liberties to European and |
Asiatic nations.
His zeal in becoming your cham
oion prompts him to call attention
10 the endorsement of Harding and !
Coolidge and others who are fight
ng tooth and nail to destroy the
association of forty-three nations
which have welcomed the covenant,
)ainstakingly worked out by the
most scholarly and conscientious
Students OF history, of law, of fl
lance, of economics, of health, of
ransit, and surely not least in i'm
'ortance, an expert advisory COM
on military, naval and aer-
al affairs. whose function it is to
'repare plans for universal disarm-
.ment. ~
Our president has had the heayi.
'st share In this planning OF the
reaty because of the jealousy and
interests of the more
'owerful nations, but because he
vas not claiming for us advantages
10 was unwilling to grant to even
he most humble nation, his sense
Z fairplay won him the confidence
nd admiration of the whole world.
eriiy "a prophet is not without
onor except in his own country"
'hich brings me to the point in
uestion. The coterie of anti-treaty
enators in Washington, who are
uilty of wrecking his health and
reaking the heart of Woodrow
wilson have not, thank God, been
bic to break his will nor his cour-
ge--nor his faith with the Am
riman mothers whose brave sons I
lany of them voluntarily laid down
ieir lives for their friends. One |
our own boys among them
During the fight for the ballot {
,r women in Oregon, l had the
cry great privilege of writing, of {
,eaking for and donating toward ,
lat cause, and rest assured that | ,
lall be well repaid, in the privi- l
ge of casting my ballot against q
'nding one more senator to Wash ,
lgton to join in doing to death a
ian beside whom Washington and y
incoin can scarcely be named in
lie same breath, great tho they
ere, and honored of all, for their
'oblems concerned only our own
comparatively !
nall country 1t was in their time I
lille Woodrow Wilson and the c
eague of Nations has to do not a
lly with our own safety and n
'ace but that of the whole world. t
No, Mr.. Stanfield, you may be h
ected but IL so it will be withou, b
y support. This decision l may
Id, is by one whose forefathers G
far back as the family genoa
ogy is recorded have been repub- 4
ans. II falls to my lot of q wo- 1
nm to break the precedent.
Yours for the League of Natoins.
PEARL NJ. BARTLETT,
Rickreall, Oct. so,