The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-25
SELF RESPECT AND PATRIOTISM.


Gov. Cox may run fast and he may run far.
but he cannot fast enough far enough
to get away from that abatement he made
after leaving the white house conference with
President Wilson last Sunday:
What he promised I shall. II elected,
endcavor with all my strength 10 give"
1t will follow him wherever he goes. II will
plague his waking hours and disturb tho sum-
bers OF his nights. Like Banquo's ghost, It will
not down. Nor should 1t. 1t Ia the keynote of
the campaign. II indisoiubly tics the candidate
and his prospects to tho president and his per-
formances well promises. And 1t conters
the attention OF the whole citizenship upon the
Wilson promises
Whn, were they7 What are they7
lie went abroad "in his own name and by his
own rishiful authority to represent a people
who had Just withheld vote OF confidence In
the thing he contemplated, What he promised
IN the secret meetings OF Versailles while trad
ing with the ablest diplomats OF modern times
is known TO but few men
Much IL suspocted--based altogether on what
IL clearly known concerning tho pledges in the
puct OF Vcrsaios and the obgat ions assumed
In tho separate treaty with England and France.
But that is not ALL No man believes that 1t Is
all. Few men but believe that the most inn
portant and vital part of the promises are
familiar only to a very few men--none OF whom
have ias yet responded to the imperative de-
mands OF patriotism.
How much longer Mr.. Robert Lansing
perhaps the only American who knows all or
nearly ali, OF what transpired on the other side.
remain silent? How much longer will he find It
agreeable to his sense of honor to withhold
vital information?
HIS duty to his chief-has long ago been dis
charged. Is there not n point at which his duty
to his country must inevitably outweigh ali
else? We think there must be- And we think
1t has arrivod--when that country. which did
not hesitate to honor him, is trembling on the
threshold of a destiny that 1t cannot gauge
hut does fear.
Lansing speak out!
The country does know. because II is written
la the record. that he went abroad and en-
gagged as far he possibly could that the
United States should relnqush "A substantial
potion of its national Sovereignty to super
state composed OF foreign nations. would sub
Tit matters OF vital concern to a supreme coun-
ell composed of eight foreigners and only one Of
It's own representatives; to accede to an ar
rangom ment wherein It should have but one vote
IN bouy wherein Its kecnest and most active
rival should have SIX votes.
What additional promises "he" made while
abroad or has since made. we cannot know.
But this is enough. And Governor Cox as the
democratic nominee, OF his own free will "in
his own Person and by his own righttul author.
Nv Wedges himself, IL elected, % deliver the
goods.
What ys the "a United States senator's az
his party who voted against the very thing
the nominee now pledges himself to do? The
record shows that OF As democratic senators
sitting during the league dobatc, "a OF them
voted in one form another to Americanlze
much more than interpretatiye. and that did
to very considerable extent modify the OBJ
legations OF the United States"
Senator owen Of Oklahoma. until recently a
presidential possibility OF his party in the
senate March s. 1920. said:
Every senator comes under the sweeping
condemnation OF the president of tho
United States. because every single sena-
tor. without exception as far as | know has
voted for reservation after reservation. As
far al Article is concerned tho Simmons
reservation, for which all the democrats
stood, is the same as the Lodge reservation.
l will not stultify myself by pretending
! that there is any substantial difference.
Senator owen says every senator without a
single exception" voted for reservation after
! reservation. He should know Our own record