Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-12

and added insult upon insult against
our national honor and dignity.
We should not recognize any MeX1-
can government unless it be respon-
sible government, willing and able
to give sufficient guarantees that the
lives and property of American citi-
Zens are respected and protected, THU
wrongs will be promptly corrected
and just compensation will be made
for injury sustained. The Republi-
can party pledges itself to a con-
sistent, firm and effective policy to-
wards Mexico that shall enforce re-
spect for the American flag and that
shall protect the rights of American
citizens lawfully in Mexico to secur-
ity of life and enjoyment of property,
in connection with an established in
ternational law and our treaty rights.
The Republican party is sincere
friend of the Mexican people in it's
insistence upon the maintenance of
order for the protection of American
citizens within it's borders, a great
service will be rendered the Mexican
people themselves, for a continuation
of present conditions means disaster
to their interest and patriotic aSpira-
tions.
League of Nations
The foreign policy of the admins
principle and directed by no definite
conception Of our nations rights and
obligations. 1t has been humiliating
to America and irritating to other
nations, with the result that after a
period of unexampled sacrifice, our
motives are suspected, our moral in
f1uence impaired, and our government
stands discredited and friendless
among the nations of the world.
We favor liberal and generous
foreign policy founded upon definite
moral and political principles, char
9atnriZad nv clear understanding
of and firm adhesion to our own
rights, and unfailing respect for the
rights of others. We should afford
full and adequate protection to the
life, liberty and property and al! in
ternationa1 rights of every American
citizen and should require proper
respect for the American flag; but
we should be equally careful to man
ifest a just regard for the rights of
other nations.
A scrupulous observance of our
international engagements when law
fully assumed is essential to our,
own honor and self respect, and the
respect of other nations. Subject TO
a due regard for our international
obliga lions we should leave our coun-
along the lines most conducive to the
happiness and welfare of the people,
and to cast it's influence on the side
of justice and right should occasion
require.
Mandate of Armenia
We condemn President Wilson for
asking congress to empower Min to
acceptance of such mandate would
throw the United States into the very
maelstrom of European quarrels.
According to the estimate of the
Harbord commission, organized by
authority of President Wilson, we
xxyn1I1H no no11n6 send 30 ono
American boys to police Armenia and
to expend $276,000,000 in the first
year and 100000 in five years.
This estimate is made up on the
basis that we would have only row.
ing bands to fight, but in case of
serious trouble with the Turks or
with Russia, force exceeding 20O,-
900 would be necessary.
No more striking illustration can
be found of President Wilson's dis
regard of the lives of American boys
or American interests.
We deeply sympathize with the
people of Armenia and stand ready to
help them in all proper ways, but
the Republican party will oppose now
and hereafter the acceptance of a
mandate for any country in Europe
or Asia.
The Republican party stands for
agreement among the nations to pre-
serve the peace of the world. We
believe that such an international
association must be based upon in
Sternational justice, and must provide
methods which shall maintain the
rule of public right by development
Of law and the decision of impartial
courts, and which shall assure in
slant and general international con-
ference whenever peace shall be
threatened by political action, SO that
the nations pledged to do and insist
upon what is just and fair may eX-
ercise their influence and power for
the prevention of war.
We believe that all this can be
done without the compromise of ma
tional independence, without depr1V-
ing the people of the United States
in advance of the right to determine
for themselves what is just and fair,
when the occasion arises, and with
out involving them as participants
and not as peacemakers in a multi
tude of quarrels, the merits of which
they are unable to judge.
The covenant, signed by the presi-
dent at Paris, failed \signally to &C
complish this purpose, and contained
stipulations not only intolerable for
an independent people but certain to
produce the injustice, hostility and
controversy among nations which 1t
proposed to prevent.
Conduct of Senate Approved
That covenant repudiated to a de-
gree wholly unnecessary and I'M
justifiable the time honored policy
in favor of peace declared by Wash
ington and Jefferson and Monroe and
pursued by all American adminiStra-
tors for more than a century, and it
ignored the universal sentiments of
America for generations past in ia
Yor of international law and arbitra-
ton and it rested the hope of the
future upon mere eXpediency and ne
gotiation.
rDbo ,,nfor+,,po+o ipcic+apoo of tho
president upon having his own way
without any change and without any
regard to the opinion of a majority
of the senate which shares with him
in the treaty making power, and the
presidents demand that the treaty
should be ratified without any modi-
tication, created situation in which
senators were required to vote upon
their consciences and their oaks &C
cording to their judgment upon the
treaty as it was presented, or sub
nit to the commands of a dictator
in a matter where the authority I'M
der the constitution were theirs and
not his.
The senators performed their duty
faithfully. We approve their con-
duct and honor their courage and
fidelity and we pledge the coming
Republican administration to such
agreement with the other nations of
the world as shall meet the full duty
of America to civilization and hu
mainly in accordance with American
ideals and without surrendering the
right of the American people to ex-
ercise it's judgment and it's power in
favor of justice and peace.
Pointing to its history and relying
upon it's fundamental principles we
declare that the Republican party
has the generous courage and con-
structive ability to end executive
usurpation and restore constitutional
governments; to fulfill our world oh.
legations without sacrificing our ma
tional independence; to raise the
y