The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-04
Harding's Majority Rapidly Dwindlins

Through the Four-Power treaty,
the Republican party Is merely sneak
ing into the League Of Nations through
side-door entrance, Arthur 3. Koontz,
prominent Charleston attorney and re-
cent Democratic nominee for Cover
nor. intimated In a recent Interview
with a capitol city newspaper writer
on the League subject, of which he has
made a study and with which he is
thoroughly con Sersant.
Ultimate complete adoption of the
League OF Nations. as written at Yer
sailles, as a world governing pact
Ii predicted by Mr.. Koontz, who points
TO the rapidly dwindlin- majority
given Harding in 1920 at the close of
a campaign in which the League was
a dominant issue.
1T is being clearly demonstrated by
events from day to day that the
League OF Nations, as q terse express
sion Of intern .tional cooperation, re
fuses to accept the mandate to remain
buried" Mr.. Ko~nN says. Adoption
of the Four-Power treaty with Demo.
Gratis in Congress Joining Republicans !;
the Genoa Conference and the recent
public endorsement, given unequivo-
cally by James NJ. Cox, the Democratic
standard bearer in the last general
election, and othe.' leaders in both par
. ties, all tend to prove that the League
Of Nations, which lay more or less
dormant for year under the weight
Of the 1920 landslide, is again being
brought to the front In world affairs
without any influence whatever ON the
part Of its principal author, Woodrow
Wilson"
Mr.. Cox was not the first political
leader to revive discussion OF Amer-
can entrance into the League. 1t came
from the other side of the political
fence and from the other side of the
water. Recently former Governor
Frank o. Lowden, OF Illinois, one of
the leading candidates for a Repub-
lican nomination In 1920. in an inter.
view from Naples, Italy, after a study
of European conditions, declared:
MANY of our problems would be
more easily solved if we were a mem
Der of the League of Nations"
Mr.. Koontz, who recently returned
to Charleston from n business trip
through the east, where he sounded
out political sentiment as to national
Issues, says that the political signiii-
canoe Is being attached to the LOwden
statement by leaders In both parties
Republicans and Democrats alike
are convinced" Mr.. KoOntz says. that
the League of Nations looms as II
real issue in the presidential campaign
of 1924. These political observers
further agree thft whether il will
be the paramount Issue depends large
ly upon the future international policy
OF the Harding administration"
1t is the opinion of many, Mr..
Koontz adds, that the lines are already
being clearly drawn in the Republican
party for the 1924 campaign with Low
den, as a pro-League candidate, run
ming In opposition to Harding
In discussing the League, Mr..
Koontz said:
II am truly glad that the Democrats
Joined in the adoption of the four
power pact; 1t is what the Republicans
should been big enough to do on the
League Of Nations. When 1 say Re
publicans, I mean the jealous Republi-
can leaders In Congress at the time
the League OF Nations was considered,
and l have no reference to those real
statesmen such as Hughes, Taft, Root
and many others who were above par
dsan politics where the welfare of the
world was involved.
THE conditions through which we
have passed and are passisg in the
United States could have In a large
measure been avoided by the early
settlement Of the Worlds problems.
An curly settlement could have been
made by wise counsel. We are no
longer a nation by ourselves, for our
selves and disconnected from the other
nations Of the world. Our prosperity
depends largely world conditions.
ut is impossible for us to prosper
unless the nations with which we do
business are prospecting. They can
not purchase our goods beyond a Ger.
tain point unless they can pay for
them. They cannot pay for them un-
less they have money or are producing
something which will take the place
Of money.
The evils that have been done by
the delay we are guilty OF can nevr
be repaired. but we can be of assis-
lance in the future both to the world
and In no less measure to ourselves
by Joining around the table and 'help-
Ing to york out the problems which
confront both the individual nations
nad the world at large. Call Il what
you will--i.eague of Nations. Interna-
tlonal Council, or even a Lodge" Pact
let's get In on It and do our duty
and get back into the prosperity list.
We have had too much normalcy
already-may we now have little