New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-29

the Senate, would make us guilty of
the blacklist crime
""On Saturday, May Is, this Knox
substitute for the Versailles Treaty
was passed by the Republican Senate;
and this convention can contrive no
more fitting Characterization of its
infamy than that made in the Forum
Magazine of December, 1918, by Henry
Cabot Lodge, when he said
SO If we send our armies and young
men abroad to be killed and wounded
in Northern France and Flanders with
no result but this, our entrance into
war with such an intention was a crime
which nothing can justify. The intent
of Congress and the intent of the
President was that there could be no
peace until we could create situation
where no such war as this could recur
we cannot make peace except in COM
pany with our allies. 1t would brand
us with everlasting dishonor and bring
ruin to US also if we undertook to
make separate peace
Democrats Are Endorsed
Thus to that which the Republic
can leader considered the blacklist
crime his party in Congress would
give the sanctity of law; that which
seventeen months ago was Of ever
/
! gress accepts as the essence of faith
And because Democratic Presi-
dent blocks the way of this immoral
thing he is hated and roviled for his
obduracy!
We indorse the action of Vir-
glnlas Democratic Senators and Rep
resentatives in sustaining the Presi-
dents view of our international obi
cations and for voting against reser-
Vatons designed to cut to pieces the
vital provisions of the Versailles
treaty and against resolutions for
separate peace which would disgrace
the nation. We advocate prompt rati-
ticatlon of the treaty without reserva-
tons which would impair its essen
tial integrity. Only by doing this
may we retrieve the reputation of this
nation among the powers of the earth
and recover the moral leadership
which Wilson won, and which with
amazing indifference paltering Repub.
hcan politicians at Washington
sacrificed. Only by doing this may We
hope TO aid effectively in the restora-
ton of order throughout the worlC
and take the place which we should as
sumo In the front rank of spiritual
commercial and industrial advance
ment."
Financial RANK f'lanneQ
The financial plank, to which tn,
President also refers in his letter tC
Senator Glass, follows:
I'VE condemn the failure of the
present Congress to respond to thu
often repeated demand of the Presi
dent and the Secretaries of the Treas
ury TO revise the existing tax laws
The continuance in force in peace
times of taxes hastily devised under
the pressure of imperative necessit,
10 produce a given amount of revenue
for war purposes is indefensible, an(
can only result in lasting injury t(
the whole people, if, indeed, it does
throttle our economic life. The Re
publican Congress has PERSISTENT!
failed through sheer political cowardic,
adjustment of tax laws which it do
nounced before the last election ant
is now afraid to revise before tn,
next election"
The reconstructed plank referred t;
follows:
Elected upon specific promises t
curtail expenditures and to bring tn,
country back to a status of effectfv,
economy, the Republican party in Con
gress has wasted time and energy 70.
more than a year in vain and extrava
GAM lnNt9tiSaIlohS, costing TWO mi!
lions Of dollars, revealing nothing be
yond the incapacity of Republican pol
ticjans to cope with the gravest prob
lens. 1t has repealed none of the wal
legislation which harnesses bushes.
nor initiated single constructive
measure to help business. 1t has mere
ly busted itself in making a pre-elec-
ton record Of pretended thrift which
has no substantial existence in fact
but is intended momentarily to deceive
the American people. 1t has ragged
against protiteers and the high cost o.
living, but has done nothing to make
the former afraid or to bring the lat
ter within limitations"