Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-30
COX SAYS ARREST
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'But cite in contrast to that, that in
my first speech in the State of Minnesota
an Irishman asked me question. He
asked me how | stood on the Irish ques-
ton, and policeman started To put him
out. / stopped il by saying that we were
in America and not in Russia, and that
believed in free speech and IN the right OF
assembly.
"Now men and women. this IL not a
triIiing circumstance. II the Senatorial
oligarchy, which has been running that
body, and which now attempts To annex
the Presidency of the United States,
won't answer a question now, what sort
of an arbitrary spirit might be expected
after March 4, if the people give To the
Senatorial oligarchy the control not only
of the Senate, but the Presidency as wellY
II is an index to what we might expect.
81 ask you men and women, who are
disposed TO be careful and prudent and
even conservative in your mental process
ses. as you stand confronted with the
greatest responsibilities that any electoral
body has ever been confronted with
ask YOU to reflect upon this; this Is an M
dex tn the arbitrary use OF power that we
might expect unless IL is halted, unless IT -
averted by the prudent exercise OF eau
tion by the great body of American vot-
ers"
Governor Cox WAS asked at Ate hison
and Topeka about his attitude on n
bonus for eS-service men. Senator Cap
per, Republican, is strong advocate of
bonuses. Governor Cox said that he
favored instead n systematic reclamation
svstem which would give soldiers homes.
II believe" said Governor Cox, that
we should stop maintaining large arrna-
ments and that we should reclaim lands
and give to the soldier boys something OF
substance. give every one Of them an op-
portunity TO have a home and a farm OF
his own, which is worth a good deal more
TO any one Of them than is bonus. That
is my plan for the present.
Il do not know whether lt VIII be
acceptable to the Congress and to the
people or not, but, having come from the
West, my notion N that We want To
multiply the owners of homes In America
The more homes we have the better con
tented people We will have. Whenever a
man owns a part Of the earth nc knows
what government is because government
protects him. government enables him To
will it to his children in the next genera
ton, and then he knows what be owes
the government and is more apt to yield
to il larger devotion and better order
of patriotism.
Omaha, Neb., Sept 3O-In state
ment issued yesterday, Governor Cox
said:
s'T'he reason Senator Harding has no
definite plan to offer IN substitution Tor
the League of Nations Is because he does
not dare suggest to the mothers OF Amerir
ca the only alternative there Is, namely a
return to international 'normalcy' of
1914. with autocratic monarchs and sud
den ultimatums and secret diplomacy and
burdensome armaments.
aOf course, the reason why Senator
Harding has no substitute to suggest
for the League of Nations Is because
everything else has been tined and has
failed. The Interparliamentary Union
/ held international conferences for a
1 decade before the great war; The Hague
| Court has been functionlng for more than
Is vears-but both were impotent TO pre-
vent or even postpone the catastrophe.
| And as for the great alliances, instead OF
preventing war by a balance of power,
they provoked war by the multiplication
! of arms and munitions, OF battle fleets and
| standing armies.
1--WE are at the crossroads of destiny
| and must make our decision. We must
/ choose either to retrace our steps over tbs
| broad road of international anarchy
which we have seen leads only to de
struction, or we must choose 10 advancs
and travel along the straight and marrow
path of international justice, patrolled by
the moral might of the civilized nation.
/ of the world.