South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-17

Justice hostility and controversy among
uons which II proposed to prevent"
We wonder by what providence psychic power
ability telling the republican platform
committee assumes to know that "the covenant
signed BY the president Paris failed signaiIy
accomplish this great purpose-universaI peace as
surance. AS contemporary quotes Il? The
asinnity Of the assertion reminds OF question
once put BY voItaIre a French clerical. whether
he regarded Christianity exemphed by Jesus 10
be feasible In practical life? Nobody knows" said
the priest; 1T has never been tried" and neither
viii anybody ever know. this side OF Omnipotence.
whether the League Of Nations has failed sgnaly
10 accomplish . universal peaee"-unt It has
been given chance.
We knew there a named Lodge. premi-
nsnt in the Chicago convention but we didn't sup
pose II was Sir oliver Lodge yet witness the
dogmauc assurance if authorized from another
world. with which TIE platform tells that the
covenant contains stipulatlons only in
tolerable for independent people. but. certain 20
produce injustice hostility and controversy, just
like that Wouldn't it be great 20 have such store
Of wisdom. always locked Up in ones noodle"
Wherefore our contemporary rambies
THE best thing about the plank $ that it will
allow the presidential nominee should he be
elected sufficient latitude for the performance
the work which Pres't Wilson is unable TO
accomplish in his time. IL states plainly that
administration
son pact into force without removing its dan
gerous stfpuatons. but il allows hexibility in
the formation OF the new foreign policy that Is
desirable"
Indeed. yes, it allows neNibty the formation
OF the new foreign policy that is desrable'-to the
reEublcans-au right, 1t allows whole "gobs' of
nexibiHty"-but not enough, nay verify. to admit
OF any ratification of the Versailles treaty
League even now with the Lodge reservations We
are glad contemporary has been able TO pick
that much real out of the plank; that Is,
sense from the republican viewpoint, the plat
form makers wanted to make the people would
understand il without having TO be told. But that
is "the best thing about the plank" The best
thing that lit will allow the presidential nominee,
should ne be elected, sufficient latitude for per-
Torrance of the work which Prest Wilson is unable
accomplish in his time"
Yes. unable to accomplish" because of republi-
can obstructionism INDUCED 10y the aforesaid psychic
infallibles. but "infables' with alternative IrO-
gram-and no alternative program still There isn't
any question about the plank uffordng the presi-
dental nominee, should he be elected. sufficient
iautude." Anyhow, has all the latitude" there
is. only on this League plank. but on all
the others-the platform as a whole, due to its
indehniteness, lack of constructive statement and
the absence of consequent crcumscriptions resem-
bling in latitude" eypher with the rim rubbed
In other words the party promises nothing for
its presidential nominee, in consequence of which
he do nothing, much, in keeping with the
trend Of public mind, TO the contrary, and can
never be charged with violating anything
1t helps us to understand again contempor-
arys statement that the republicans have
avoided promising beyond their natural expectation
of fulhllment"