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SENATOR E ISSUE.

SENATOR REEDS ISSUE.
THE following editorial from the
st. Louis Post Dispatch, written be.
fore the passage of the four-Powel
treaty, states the situation so clear.
ly we believe our readers will be in.
terested in it:
Announcing his candidacy for re-
election, Senator James A. Reed said
that the issue upon which the cam
paign would be waged is the utter
failure Of the present national ad-
m~inistration to fulfill its promises and
upon its many breaches of faith"
IF the Senate shall fail to ratify
the four-Power treaty Senator Reed
will havebeen one of the chief con-
tributors to the failure of the best
thing the Harding administration
has attempted, as he was one of the
chief obstacles to the achievement of
n Of the greatest projects for
human welfare by the Wilson admin
~istration.
"lf the peoples ofthe leading naval
nations are not relieved of the crush
ing burdens of huge navies and of
naval competition which leads to
war and if a long step toward main
tanning equity and peace in the Far
East and the Pacific is not taken,
Senator Reed will have a large share
of responsibility.
"The Senator has demonstrated
convincingly that so long as he is in
the Senate he will use all his resour-
ces of opposition and obstruction to
keep the United States from partici-
pating in any effective form of in
ternational cooperation to maintain
peace and check burdensome and
menaeing ornaments. The policy he
advocates is that of complete isola-
ton and the fomenting of distrust
and hatred between nations and thus
inevitably causing wars. In the dis
cussion of the covenant of peace Sem
ator Reed attacked our war associates
as conspirators seeking to gain adj
vantage over the United States and
to destroy and despoil the American
people. President Wilson and his
delegation at Versailles were attack
ed as traitors and betrayers of their
country.
"Not a nation represented at our
own conference for the limitation of
ornaments has escaped Senator
Reeds venom. He has attacked
them, particularly Japan and Great
Britain, as conspirators against the
peace and welfare of America which
have deceived and misled America
into a disgraceful compact of war.
He has attacked M. Hughes and the
members of the delegation, including
a Democratic Senator, as ignorant in
competents who have betrayed their
country.
Senator Reed would bar every
road to amicable international agree
ment and cooperation and damn
every American statesman who tries
to find the path to peace by way of
amicable agreements.
1.-THE Harding administration has
made failures. It has broken PROM
ises and failed to meet public expec-
t%ations, but are we to have nothing
but a discussion of the failures Of the
other party? Is Senator Reed cap
able only Of criticism and destruc-
tive opposition? Is he incapable Of
construction? Is the Democratic
party to be merely a party of oppos-
ition?
THE Senator is fond of quoting
Washington on entangling alliances
in order to destroy peace agreements.
There Is another pregnant sentence
in Washington's farewell address
which it would be well for him to
bear in mind: partly politics is the
curse Of thecountry." This country
has had ample demonstration of the
curse of craftsmanship within the past
three years. We have seer it block
our participation in one of the great
est plans. in history to maintain
and peace in the world set
back world rehabilitation and revival
Of prosperity for an indefinite time,
furthered by the Wilson administra-
lion, an dit nov threatens to destroy
j splendid and beneficient plan to
maintain Justice and peace in the
Pacific. # has barred the achieve
nents Of craftsmanship and pro-
noted petty schemes Of party and !,
ergonaI ambition.
eve have had enough of d~estruc-
We party politics. We need, above ]