The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
AMERICANS AT THE CON-
FERENCE

The announcement that President
Harding has selected as American
representatives to the limitation of |
armaments conference in Washington |
in November Secretary of State
Hughes, Elihu Root and Senator
Lodge and Underwood should delight
every sturdy American. Mr.. Hughes
since March 4 has leaped to interma-
tional fame. While asserting Amer
lean rights, respect for them would
logically require equal treatment of
all other countries. With his trained
intellect, he seized on the vital fact
that all that Germany conceded was
the result of being defeated in the
war, as the terms of the armistice
made clear, and that there was no dip
iomatic triumph in the Versailles
treaty. Nations seeking to parcel
out rights conceded to all countries
were acting without authority.
Every move he has made has been a
mastery one. All the straw men that
superficial folk raised have been
brushed aside. All the lions in the
path have disappeared. AS mis-dis-
peller Mr.. Hughes is easily first
among world statesmen. With incom-
parable vision, with honest purpose
and with leonine courage he has been
establishing sanity in war-madden-
ed world.
Elihu Root is chief of our elder
statesmen. Winner Of the Nobel
peace prize he had devoted more at
tention to the manner of promoting
peace than any other statesman in
the world. Age has not take the edge
from his intellect, cooled his heart
or divested him of his tsurdy Amer
icanism. He has suffered in public
opinion from distortions of his re-
marks and from misunderstanding of
his far-sighted policies, but there is
no device Of diplomacy he cannot see
through and there is no bug that can
get under any chip, unobserved by his
, vigilant eyes.
? Senator Lodge needs no introduc
ton to the world. He has been in
: the house or senate for "a years anC
? before that served two terms In the
Massachusetts legislature. He wa
: graduated from Harvard college 81
r years ago, later took his law degree
5 and his degree of doctor of philoso
. ply. He chose literature as his pro
t fession and, beginning with his thesis
e on "The Land Law of the AnglO-SaX
2 ons" in 1876, he has written the mos
n imposing shelf of books to the credi
i of any man in public life. His re
) search has covered the entire field o
o American history. He has the LII. I
o degree from nine of the leading uni
% versities of American. He is also
+ master Of languages and for 20 year
d he spent his summer vacations in tn
s. capitals of Europe, meeting the great
IT est figures and studying conditions q
Ie first hand. He has always been
N sturdy American. His pride has mad
d him Independent Of political consider
a ton in foreign affairs. He was firs
1t to defend President Cleveland's Vene
-e zuelan note, he often differed wit
his bosom friend, Theodore Roosevelt
X on foreign affairs, and opposed man
= features of John Hays treaties h
! felt dangerous to this countryl. HI
- fight on the league Of nations
,f known to all men.
10 Senator Underwood is native Kel
+ tuckian, but he was educated in Al;
n bama, and began his practice of la
az there. He lacks eight years of equs
" ling Senator Lodges continuous co
.e gressional service and he has bee
at IN the senate only six years and
ar few months. He took to the sena
all the prestige he had won in Il
house, a rare achievement. He
recognized as one Of the ablest me
in his party and, but for his residen'
TO in Alabama, might have long as
m been the democratic choice for pres
n dent. While he voted with the Wise
at administration on the league of n
is tions, he clearly showed that he d
n not share the enthusiasm or the stu
A. bornness Of Senator Hitchcock, Il
II minority leader. He recognizes Il
n decision Of the question at the pol
on and is too much Of an American
e. try to injure the Harding program f
at partisan reasons.
ed The country is to be congratulate
e on every member Of the delegatin
" Mr.. Harding has acted with chara