The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-21
THEY ARE ITS KEEPERS
Harding, Hughes, Lodge and Knox
Are Now in Charge OF
"Amcricanism."

Cabot Lodge and Philander Knox lift
ing the senatorial end of it. 1t is re-
solved that. so far as is possible the
deeds of Woodrow Wilson shall be
forgotten. and the ideas of Woodrow
Wilson eliminated, divorced. dissociat-
ed from all American diplomacy deal
ing with the world war. only a while
ago it was proclaimed from all the
housotops that it would be infamy in
tolerable, dishonor indelible, to aban-
don our allies in the world war and,
like Soviet Russia, make a separate
peace with Germany. But now we
are told by Senators Lodge and Knox
that a separate peace with Germany
is not only the profoundest policy as
beautiful ethic as a matter of moral
ity.
The republican party. the republic
can president, the republican secre-
tary of state. have repudiated the
treaty of peace negotiated at Yer
sailles concluding the world war. 1t
is a pity that the republican party did
not have in reservoir the very water
with which Pontius PLATE washed his
hands in which to drink damnation
to wisconsin as wisconsin was writ
in the treaty of Versailles. Colonel
George Harvey, William Randolph
Hearst, Sylvester viereck. Eamonn De
Valera. Tom Watson, Robert NJ. La
Toilette, the parlor socialists of the
parvenu rich, the bolsheviki of our
city slums. the profiteers to whom the
god of war lends the touch of Midas
these and those keep step to the
anti-Wilson piping of Harvard Col
lege, the Union League club. the New
York Tribune, Munsey's Herald and
The Party of Great Moral Ideas"
The French say there are occasions
well believe it when the set name
are in an anti-Wilson orgy. and Henry
Cabot Lodge, washing his hands with
| invisible soap Ii imperceptible water,
cries, aloud In pharisaical strain:
Bless you. my children. Divine Prov
idence is under extreme obligation to
you and to mel" II am guilty Of
any slight plagiarism in that para
graph 1 am sure you will not only
condone it but applaud it.
And here comes in brazen front
| this Internal "Americanism" that
stalked so vociferously and so gar
rulously and so loathsomely in the
senatorial chamber when the league
OF nations was the theme of slander
and stupidity. and upon the raging
stump last year when the, G. o. p.
was mobilizing the rabble who Shrek
ed for the release OF Barabbas. What
is this "Americanism?"
Here is just one specimen OF it
and not the most odious specimen
either. The United States utterly re-
pudiated the treaty of Versailles and
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odious in diplomacy. and yet the
| United States is firmly resolved to
hold on to and demand the execution
of all the manifest advantages that
acquire to US in the terms of that
| treaty. Thus we reap where we do
not sow; pluck figs from this Wilson
thistle; we gather grapes from this
Wilson thorn. we demand and intend
to have all our rights. but we abso-
lutely refuse to perform any duty i'm
posed on us by the stipulations of the
treaty.
There is arrogance for you, the
| arrogance that made the Germany of
the Hohenzollern hateful in the sight
OF world public opinion. 1t is i'm
possible to conceive that a high
minded man would act in a private
walk the part the Knox plan sets for
our glorious union to play as sequel
to the awful world tragedy OF 1914
IS. But Henry Cabot Lodge has
served notice on the world that man
kind has got to accept this vllainous
"Americanism" that grabs everything
and gives nothing. If this sort of
Lodgeism is to become our settled
policy it is only a question OF a short
time when our glorious union viii be-
come completely isolated without one
single friend among all the nations.
And instead OF making America
first. it will make America last, for
America, rich and powerful as she is,
can no more play the part of bully in
the world than Germany could.
What folly! 1t was the European
market that made the United States
rich. Unless that market is restored
and recovered the United States
boundless as is our wealth today. will
grow poor. And should poverty come
to us, revolution viii be in its train
and the wreck and ruin ii will work