The Ocala banner., 1922-03-24
OUR HATRED OF THE MOTHER
COUNTRY

1IAoA 0Sd, VIC MlSnt perhaps nave
peace in Ireland, and incidentally
peace throughout the world
Among other things the distinguish
ed senator said:
But, Mr. President, the other three
parties TO this treaty are France.
Japan, and Great Britain. the last
country unfortunately speaking our
language, loving our literature. origin
ating our law, inspiring our commerce.
but still unfortunately tabooed in Ger
man-American and Irish-American cir
cies All three of these nations
France, Japan. and Great Britain
have signed the treaty of Versailles
with the League of Nations covenant,
as a part of it, and under at least
two clauses of the League of Nations
covenant they are compelled, when
ever they have a controversy with
any other member of the league-and
there are some 40 other members be-
sides them-to make their complaint
to the league, and to have the league
summon the nations in controversy in
to common council for an adjustment
Not only that but they are compelled,
when they have a controversy with
nonmember, to agree to leave it to
the League of Nations.
In the first place, can not imagine
the United States sitting down to a
board when it had a quarrel with any
other nation without inviting that 9TH
er nation to sit down at the same
board. I ask him can you: The SEN
ator remains quiet, from which infer
that his imagination can not stretch
any further than mine does upon that
subject
The other three parties to this
treaty are Japan and France and Great
Britain. By the way, it is a great
pity that Great Britain is a party to
it, because if she were not, all the
German-American and Irish-American
opposition to it would have ceased
long ago. 1t is pity that Great
Britain exists. 1t is a pity that she
and her law and her language and her
literature and her civilization and her
commerce can not be flung out into
the infinite ether and gotten rid of
somehow. That would satisfy certain
extreme elements in the United
States who want no further justifi-
cation for any position they happen
to take than hatred OF England
Mr.. President, / am a Democrat, a
Bourbon Democrat. a plain, blamed
fool Mississippi Democrat. | have no
patience with Republicanism and I
have no patience with partisanship in
connection with international affairs
If Republican President had sent the
Versailles treaty to this body three
fourths of you Republicans would have
voted for it, including the Senator
from Massachusetts (Mr. LODGE. If
Mr.. Wilson had sent these treaties
the one now under consideration, to
this body two-thirds of you Democrats
would have voted for it, including
the Senator from Nebraska (Mr.
Hitchcockl and the Senator from
Montana (Mr. Walsh, and, of course,
my poor little humble self.
Unfortunately you can not get rid
of the other nations except by exter-
minating them, killing them, or push
ing them off the globe, and no legis-
lative method has ever been invented
for doing that. They are there
Turks. Chinese. Japanese, French,
Italians. Greeks. Rumanians, CZechos-
lovakians, Yugosiavians, and even the
British-even the British, poor old
Scotch and English and Welsh from
whom about three-fourths of us are
derived altogether or partially, be-
cause take it that rs per cent of the
people of the United States, though
they may have German or Irish blood
in their veins, have also English,
Scotch, or Welsh blood in the same
veins. Some few Of them have moth
ing else; and, you know. have been
ass enough to pride myself upon that
fact, as far as am concerned individu-
ally: but even those that are OF mix.
ed blood have some English or some
Scotch or some Welsh. But | am
awfully sorry that there is not any
way of pushing Great Britain, incIud-
ing King George and David Lloyd
George and Sir Arthur Balfour. and
all these other fellows, into the mid
die of the Atlantic or Pacific and sink
ing them, so that we could have an
Irish peace somewhere-an Irish peace
somewhere as far as English, Scotch.
and Welsh. being then all drowned.
are concerned.
/ doubt even then whether north
r.