The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-20

Really some international guaranty
against a war of Germany upon France
or France upon Germany Is as neces-
sary to the continued existence of Eu-
ropean civilization as a federal consti-
tuition was to the maintenance of the
free existence of the thirteen states Of
1887. All Europe knew that In 1919 as
well as we know it in 1920. And for
the United States to refuse to join a
worlds league in 1920 Is to refuse to do
as important a duty as 1t would have
been in 1917 to stand by and see Ger
many subject all Europe to her linden
burgs and her Ludendorffs
In February, 1919, President Wilson
laid the covenant OF the league before
the senate and asked for comment, A
number Of amendments were suggested
and accepted by him. But the sena-
tors did not accept them. They i'm
mediately set out to befuddle the issue
and to confuse the people. They talked
Of the abandonment OF democratic prin-
ciples at Paris. and yet demanded the
adoption Of autocratic principles on our
part.
In February. 1919, evidence was sub
mitted to the senate committee on
privileges and elections which con-
WINGED all who read 1t that one OF the
new claimants for seat was not really
elected. The lieutenant governor Of
Michigan wrote, as early as Aug. %,
scandal, that Michigan was being de-
bauched. A little later Gov. Chase Os-
born wrote that long before Henry Ford
was thought of as candidate for the
senate. Truman Newberry was spending
huge and unlawful sums to win a seat
in the senate. The whole of Michigan
was scandalized. 1t was indeed new
Lorimer case. What would the SEN
ate do?
The seat was necessary to republican
control of the senate. That Is, II the
foreign relations committee were to be
guided by bitter enemies Of the presi-
dent. a worse than Lorimer must be
seated. What shall one say to a sem
ate that, in the light of recent Amer
lean history, in the face of bitter at
lacks against our government that 1t
Is controlled by money. deliberately
seated a member who has since been
sentenced to the penitentiary for vio-
lation of federal law in securing his
election?
When the senate gathered In May,
1919. to do its righteous work. the man
who Is now under sentence, but who
now receives every social attention, in
Washington, except from administra-
ton circles, was promptly seated. Henry
Ford was not even permitted to con-
test the case until after the league of
nations was sufficiently purified" BY
this act, and because OF the seating of
Newberry, tie foreign relations COM
mittee was made up Of the bitterest
enemies that the senate could discover.
Their work has been done. Let them
boast OF it. They have confused the
public mind.
Honest men do not know the facts
have set forth. They do not know the
reason for the so-called AmericaniSm
of the senate. If they should finally get
at the truth there will be a reckoning.
The people of this country will never
have patience with men who do such
things.
But 1t may take long time, too long
to save those ideals for which men
fought and died In 1918. But one day
the truth will be known Let men re-
member the similar role that was played
With Ifelp Curing his last year in Of
Henry Winter STRAIGHTFORWARD in sim
liar way. They did a terribly wicked
thing to their countrymen They be-
smrched American history as it had
never before been besmrched. Recon-
struction in the broken south was cruel
beyond anything modern history has
known. Lincoln endeavored until his
last breath to avert the policy or ven
geance. The men I have named moved
every instrument in their power to de-
stroy him. He died and they destroyed
his successor; they undld the kindly
work of the greatest man Of bis time.