The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-02

lHeIe cdlue tue NreCh VI Lluelly oohh
values. There came the indefensible
strangling Of industry and business by
depriving them of currency and credit
through the vast draining of loanable
funds by a Treasury which simply
wadded every bank with Government
IOU's.
With all that grewsome background
of incompetence, waste and failure
the Democrats never had chance to
continue in control of any part of the
national Government a minute longer
than the American people could put
all of them out. That is, they never
had chance unless they could set up
another false issue under cover of
which to slip again into the Executive
Government, perhaps into the Legis-
lative Government, as WELL
And so, when Mr.. WILSON was
beaten for the next national election
and knew he was beaten; when the
Democratic leaders in Congress were
beaten for the next national election
and knew they were beaten; when the
Democratic party managers we're beaten
for the next national election and
knew they were beaten, Mr.. WILSON
attempted to save their lost cause
with the last desperate hope of his
fantastic League of Nations. 1t was
a bold stroke with cunning aim.
Adroltly, brilliantly directed as it was
by Mr.. WILSON, the scheme might
have succeeded.
There is no question that for the
moment considerable part of the
American people were dazzled by Mr..
WILSON'S gorgeous pictures of his
League. They had been through the
horrors of the war, They were
grieving for their lost and afflicted
sons and brothers. They were still
shocked by the barbarities of nations
and races. They did not understand
the Covenant. They did not at first
ask themselves how it's promises, as
stated by the eloquent tongue of Mr..
WILSON, could be fulfilled. They only
knew they wanted no more war. They
prayed this might be their deliverance
from it forever and forever. SO they
all listened and many of them were
caught.
At that juncture Mr.. WILSON'S trick
seemed to have worked. But there
were those who realized both its
shams and its dangers. They turned
the calcium light on the League to
make the public understand the
cold truth about Mr.. WILSON'S Cove
nant and Mr.. WILSON'S purpose in
trying to foist it on this country.
Members of the Senate. not only Re
publicans but Democrats, could not
be swept off their feet. They could
not be hoodwinked. They could not
be terrorized. They stood up to fight
to the last ditch this visionary and
un-American, this plausible but wicked
contrivance to save the Democratic
party at whatever cost to the country.
And THE SUN, now The New YORK
HERALD, had its big share to do and,
we are proud to say, did 1t in this
crucial work of enlightenlng the
American people as to the fraud and
the peril In the League.
Then that tide turned. Mr.. WILSON
and his Democratic party began to
whirl back to the political doom which
had been in store for them after 1913.
And as If all this wasn't enough, then
the Democrats gave us Cox.
Nothing that the Republican ma
tional platform said and did, nothing
that any Republican manager said
and did, nothing that any Republican
speaker said and did, nothing that any
Republican statesman or publicist said
and did, nothing that all the Repub-
lican newspapers said and did, nothing
that HARDISG himself said and did,
could count for as much as what Cox
said and did TO clinch the certainty Of
Republican success
1t was after Cox began to reveal
himself to the American people as the
small, sharp adept in the twists and
turns of the ward heller, the four
flusher, that what looked like a ma
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