Evening star., 1922-11-12
INsTALLMENT No. II.

upon your fiattering invitation to
speak frankly. not in the hope that
7 may in any way enlighten a man of
such experience and success, but that
! may possibly accentuate some point
that you may recognize as important
which, in the rush Of things, might be
overlooked. II should appear in the
least didactic, I beg that you charge
1t to my desire for deflniteness, and
ray inability to give the atmosphere
81 . personal conversation.
The unforgivable sin in our politics
IS a lack of generosity. Smallness,
meanness, extreme partisanship, lit
tleness of any kind-these are
not in accord with the American con-
ception of an American leader. A
clever thing may crafty a mans own
immediate partisan following, but the
impression on the country at large is
not good. We want a full, adequate
appreciation of the fact that there IS
hardly more than a film that divides
republican from democrat; indeed. In
that fact lies our hope Of success. We
must win first voters and independ-
eutS.
Let me be concrete. The war was
won by republicans as well as demo-
Gratis. Therefore, l would say.
give generously of appreciation to the
republicans, who raised liberty loans.
who administered food affairs. who
put their plants at the nations serv-
ice, who directed the various actlVi-
ties, such as airplane making, and
transporting and financing during the
war .
A day has come when partisanshlp
with its personalities and bitterness
does not satisfy the public. We have
seen things on too large a scale now
to believe in the Importance of trlnes'
or in the adequacy of trif1ing men.
We must have men who are large
enough to be internatiu and ma
tionaI at the same time. to be poll
ticians and yet American statesmen,
to subordinate always the inclVlduai
ambition and sthe party advantage to
the national good.
feel that We have not tried to M
terpret the league of nations to our
people in terms of Americas adVan-
tage We democrats are looked upon
as International Missionaries because
we have not been willing to deal prac-
tticaIly with :, practical situation.
The league is not anti-national. 1t is
anti-war; its aim is to defer war and
reduce the chances of war between
nations. This is to be effected, not by
hv d.
ling US to abide by the decisions of a
supernational tribunal, but by estab-
fishing the method and machinery
by which the opinion of the world may
become effective as against those in
cIined toward war.
BY adopting the league, We do not
pledge ourselves to any war under
any circumstances, without the con-
sent of Congress. And because we
have not been willing to say this. we
are not in danger of losing the one
chance the world has had to get the
nations together.
LOYALTY to the Presidents princi-
pies does not mean loyalty to his
methods. They have been wrong as 10
the league, in my opinion. You could
deal with Congress, even a republican
Congress. on this matter. l believe,
and come out with the essen
,i,Is
Don't let Bryan get away from you.
if YOU can help it. because he really
represents a great body of moral force
and opinion. But don't pay the price
TO BRYAN or Wilson or Hearst or Muir
phy or any one else. of being untrue
10 YOUR own belief as to the wise and
practical national policy, that you
may gain their support.
There couldn't be a better year IN
which to lose, for something real.
You cannot win as a Wilson man,
nor rs a Murphy man, nor as a Hearst
man. The nation Is crying out for
leadership, not pussy footing nor pam
dering. Be wrong strongly If you must
he wrong, rather than be right weak
". You can only win as a Cox man,
one who owns himself, has his own
policies, is willing to go along. not
with e bunch Of bosses, but with any
reasonable man; asks for counsel from
all classes of men and women, does
not fear defeat. and expects victory
that will be more a party victory
than q personal one. and more a peo-
pies victory than a partisan one.
Pick a few enemies. and pick them
with discretion. Chiefly be for
things. But be against things and
persons, too, so trat the nation can
visualize you as leading in contest
between the constructive forces and
the destructive critical forces.
And the thing to be against is the
man who is looking backward. who
talks of the good old days." mean
ing (a) money in politics. buying
votes in blocks Of i've; co. human be-
ines as commodities. Homestead
strikes and instructions how to vote
In the pay envelope; Co. privately
controlled national finances as against
the federal reserve system; (d) tax
alton of the poor through indirect
taxes on pretext Of protecting indus
try; (e) 75-cent wheat; (f) dollar
day labor; 60 the saloon-bossed city;
CHI no American merchant marine;
all goods carried abroad under for
eiRn dags-those were the good old
days. for which the standpat repub-
lican is signing. l
But the world has moved in the
past twenty-five years, and America
not only has moved it. but has kept
in the lead.
A greater America-that is our OBJ