The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-01-23
Was hin gtcn Letter.
AN INSULT TO THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE

AMERICAN PEOPLE
Washington, January 20.-The Re-
publican Publicity Association, by its
President, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
today gave out the following state
ment from it's Washington Headquar-
ters:
writing in the New York Times of
January A, Isaac F. Marcosson says of
the peace treaty at the time of the
Presidents return from Europe, 'De-
spite the disappointment over Presi-
dent Wilson's personal performance
there was still hope that the nation
which sent him abroad would back
him up"
"But the nation did not send him
abroad. He took himself abroad, in
n of all precedent, and against
the judgment of both his political
friends and his political opponents.
Moreover, he had, but few weeks be-
fore, delivered an address to the peo-
pie of the country on the eve of an
election in which he said:
"The return of Republican ma
jority to either House of Congress
would, moreover, certainty be inter
preted on the other side of the water
as reputation of my leadership. If
you have approved of my leadership
and wish me to continue to be your
unembarrassed spokesman in affairs
at home and abroad, I earnestly beg
that you will express yourselves un-
mistakably to that effect by return
ing Democratic majority to both the
Senate and the House of Representa-
tives.'
AFTER making that appeal, Presi-
dent Wilson assured the people, that
he would accept their verdict without
cavil.'
"The result was the substitution of
Republican for a Democratic ma
jority in both houses-a direct and
unmistakable reputation of the Pres
ident's leadership.
"How then, can any intellectually
honest man say that the American
people sent Woodrow Wilson to Eu-
rope to speak for them at the peace
conference? BY every means in their
power, the people told him not to
speak for them. Can Mr.. Marcosson
conceive of any other manner in which
the people could have expressed them
selves?
"And yet he has the effrontry to
say Europe had every right to as
sumo that once our good name was
affixed to the treaty, that name would
not be repudiated.' An insult to the
intelligence of the American people
as well as to the intelligence of the
representatives of European nations
at Paris. There is not school boy
in America and there was not peace
delegate at the conference but knows
that the name Of this country cannot
be affixed to any treaty without the
advice and consent of the Senate. To
accuse his nation of 'repudiating' it's
good name is an offense for which Mr..
Marcosson should be called to account
before the bar of public opinion, if
nowhere else. 1t is upon such talk
that bolshevism feeds. If Mr.. Mar
cosson can accuse his his country of
repudiating its good name, why can
not the bearer of Red Flag do the
same with inpunity? If the people
of this country take the President at
his word and repudiate his leadership
by their votes at a national election,
and then Mr.. Marcosson can be per-
mitted to proclaim that the people
sent Mr.. Wilson to Europe as their
spokesman, why cannot the Red agi-
tator with equal impunity declare
that every victory for law and order
is in reality an endorsement of the
campaign of lawlessness? One would
be just as true as the other, and Mr..
Marcosson knows it.
ITO say that this nation sent Mr..
Wilson to Europe, to say that the
good name of this nation was signed
to the peace treaty, or to say that
this nation has repudiated it's name, is
false, and any man who makes the
statements is menace to orderly con-
stitutional government in the United
States. He is a besmircher of the
good name of the nation under the
protection of whose flag he lives"