Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-03-16
E. P.SAYS
WILSON FUND
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Washington, D. C.-The 'non-parti.
san camou1age which has been used
IN connection with the Woodrow Will
son Foundation movement is growing
thinner and fimsier every day. The
following report is taken from the
local columns of the Minneapolis Jour
nal of recent date:
Election of a Senate that will bring
1.-THE United States into the League of
Nations is one of the aims of the
Woodrow Wilson Democracy. accord
ing to Hamilton Holt, national presi-
dent of the organization, who left
Minneapolis today after giving three
addresses in the Twin Cities.
If anything can bring the United
States into the League of Nations"
said Mr.. Holt, it is the nArroc~e+'c
party. Let us become active in every
state where senator is to oe e..-
this year and elect pro-league sena-
tors. The United States should get in
and play the game with the other ma
tlons of the world. l believe Wood
row Wilson is coming back. Though
Mr.. Wilson may never again take an
active part in politics, the people are
coming to see that he is great ma
tlonal asset. The Democratic party is
coming bark and will have the conf
dence of the people as long as it stands
Tor constructive principles
Mr.. Holt also spoke as executive
director of the Woodrow Wilson Foun-
cation and announced that more than
100000 of the projected S1,0O0,O0O
endowment fund had been raised. The
purpose of the foundation he said is
not only to perpetuate the ideals of
Woodrow Wilson, but to honor him
IN his lifetime. He termed the eight
years of the Wilson administration
the golden age of American states
manship.'
The oposition won the campaign
of 1920 Mr.. Holt said, but Senator
Lodge and his conferees have commit
ted the worst act of any set of public
men in the history of the republic"
Another speaker at this meeting was
John Lind, Democratic leader of pro-
mnence in Minnesota, and one of the
special emissaries whom former Presi-
dent Wilson sent into Mexico.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation
campaign since its inception and thru
out It's progress has been officered by
Democrats and meetings wherever
held have been under the auspices of
Democrats and addressed by Demo-
Gratis. There is growing ssupicion
that the whole proposition is but a
scheme to raise $1,00O,OOO campaign
fund to be used, as Mr.. Holt says, this
year for the purpose of electing a
Democratic Senate that will force the
United States into the League of Ma
tlons. By having such campaign
fund controlled entirely outside the
Democratic party organization it is
argued the Democratic organization
could thereby evade the corrupt prac-
tees acts in the several states as we'll
as the federal laws regarding the ex-
penditure of money in the matter of
election of United States senators.
Events begin to justify the rumor
which has foated around Democratic
circles for some time to the effect that
the filibuster of the Democratic sena-
tors against ratification of the treaties
agreed upon at the armament confer
ence is for the purpose of preventing
final action upon them before the con-
gressional elections. The object of
this would be to throw the discussion
of the treaties into the campaign and
reopen the entire issue of the League
of Nations. Of course, if this is done
there can be no reductions in any of
the naval appropriations or any mill
tary appropriations and there will con-
sequently be no reduction of public
expenditures or taxes during the COM
ing fiscal year