South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-13
Application of a Bob Jones Sermon That Might
Haze SaUed Republicans at Chicago From, Their
Sorry Plight in League of Nations Controversy

- OBJ JONES preached a sermon one Sunday while
X in South Bend-a TO only.-r-
- which he took for his subject: You can't DO
wrong and get away with should have
ivered that sermon before United States senate
.ong months ago It would have saved much OF tho
aumbug at the republican national convention.
There f. something more than prophetic; some
hing more than aKiomatlc in the Jones' text 1.
law OF fate. II you decry fatalism. then
perhaps law OF Emersonan compensation, or
natural retribution-or a decree Of the Most High.
Anyhow It seems az true as truth can make IT, You
the wind and you Will reap the whirlwnd Better
20 honest with ones self and mistake expediency
than for the sake, OF apparent. Temporary ex-
pediencY be dishonest with one's self and forever
suffer She consequences
Republican leaders have not been honest with
themselves during the preceding this conven-
ton, but1rting with political expediences dedicated
TO humbuggery and fraud. have created condition
from which they now find It difficult 20 extricate
themselves. Their humbuggery and-6raud has been
taken seriously with varying degreesof strength and
accordingly, instead, OF single foiowing-the lie
always breeds Observation-Disclosures has grown up
their wake a multiplicity OF or less deluded
schools thatirefuse-to harmonic.
Taketthe z. o. D. senatorial attitude toward the
Leagueaof Nations against which they turned their
face political expediency hate OF Wilson bid
dngsighFfor every disgruntied and hyph
vote being their motive regardless OF the merits OF
the covenant They tell you the president should
have brought back treaty and League covenant
that the senate could approve-but which branch
Of the senate do you mean In Chicago the very
publican leaders whoshave been berating Wilson
.his point agreement have proven Il impossible
10 agree among themselves
There the Johnson BorafeschooI ana the Lodge
Knox school unable 20 agree upon anything them
selves except that they hate Wilson. and neither
OF them sufficiently OF their ground,
scentiousy certain OF IL. but that they willing
TO compromise a tumble OF words capsule Of
most any old interpretation--just that much more
camouhage with which befuddIe mo unsophist-
Gated public. n
The republican party finds itself today breaking
the rocks OF its own organizations The public
will be informed what those presentations
before the end OF the canvass With the Johnson
Borah 'rreconcilables'' refusing to admit q plank
in the republican platform approving OF che Lodge
reservations do suppo Sc they would have accept
ed the Paris league coven ant, had it been brought
back with the Lodge reservations IN it7 Before the
republicans criticise Wilson not bringing them
a treaty League arrangement that they
agree some rule for the construction Of such
documents themselves
They are'not getting away with II. The g. o. p.
leaders started out notwithstanding and they
the wind and they reaping the whirlwlnd. Truth
and right. and absolute Justice the final VIC
tors in everyscontestSand you can't beat It with all
lies inventable.sO with all genius OF poll
teal machinery OF military force. the power OF
wealth. with these combined.
II this be not true, then the stars IN the hrma-
ment nolonser testify any far or divine event
toward whlch the whole creation moves" and New
stera forth rigible liar The Versailles
treatyand herLeaguescoyenant Incorporated there
IN. may be perfect: probably not perfect.
Thespresident does not, claim they perfect but
theysaret -6ests1hat uId be gotten OF that
Paris conference-at which mind you. Mr.. Wilson
was the sole conferee. the United States-
and Germany and Ireland-the only problems to be
considered. Besides he brought back with him.
part OF that covenant, the machinery for its I'm
provennent. say that such machinery could
work any less harmonious or more acrimonious than
that which the republican national convention
dertook 10 set up-would be 20 impose upon the
common intelligence.
The American people going 20 be made better
acquainted with the Versailles treaty the League
OF Nations covenant-made acquainted IN truth
ana their opponents. realizing the simply
stampeding another at Chicago for a loophole
through which to crawl
T-T SURPRISING CRITICISM.