The border vidette., 1920-09-25

desert Allies and sign a separate peace with Germany? My con- tention is that it would not be; that it would be dishonorable thing. Then the candidate says that having done that, then he is going to turn to the nations of the earth and esta blish an en- tlrely new relationship. What nations of the earth will have anything to do with America if she perform a perfectly dishon- orable act? We'll, I will call the roll. If we make a separate peace with Germany we will be popular in certain quarters. Rus sia will sign with us and enter into this new relationship; Rus sia. Turkey and the United States. I don't believe the peo, pie want us to keep that kind of company internationally. That is my deliberate judgment.
 The position of the opposi- ton has been rather singularly changeable. In the Senate the candidate of the Senatorial oli- garchy was for the Lodge reso- lutions. If his speech of ac- ceptance, hew was against the League absolutely. About week ago he came forward with an other change. He advocated the old Hague Tribunal. President Roosevelt, in his observation in 1910, said that the Hague Trib- unal would not be of any force: l that it would be absolutely use less because it had no police ing says that the old Hague Tribunal will be made over. Senator Harding is sincere in his advocacy of reactionary poli- cies. I have known him pleas antly and agreeably for four years. He has fought on one side, l on the other. 1 have been progressive and I have never waivered; he has been reaction ary and has never waivered. But 1 must say to his credit that he is perfectly sincere about it.
 "The reactionary always goes back into the storehouSe of yes terday when he purposes ad- l U I Senator, true to his reactionary form, looks backward again and he plans to re open that old es- tablishment over there. It was , closed years ago, because in it's day the greatest war in all his tory came upon the sons of men on this earth. But now, the Senator says, he is going over there, take down the shutters, drive the bats out of the corri dors, sweep down the corwebs and see wether the old thing can't be turned around and made useful. Then, he says. if there is anything in the machinery ot the League of Nations that will fit in with it, he IS going to tie the two together. That is just as absurd as to attempt to tie together the parts of the first Olds automobile, the single cylin. der type, and expect them to function or synchronise with the parts of a modern automobile.
 "The Republican candidate was forced to take this position under the stress of an adverse public opinion. That was his position when I left Ohio. ] haven't read the evening papers and 1 do not know what his stand on the League of Nations is today. But I will tell you what mine is. I think it was an nounced so plainly on the day that I decided to accept the no- mination that even school child ren knew it's meaning. My plan is this; that as soon after March I, 1921 as it can be done, con- sistent with the large interests at stake and the least Senatorial conversation possible, in your name and in the name of our beloved country, we will enter the League of Nations of the World"