The Republican journal., 1922-12-28
Coaxing Uncle Sam.
From National Republican.

FROM national Republican.
Recently, and on the same day, three
English statesmen renewed their efforts
h Nations. The new premier, Bonar Law,
4 in a public address at Glasgow, said: II
i trust that the time may come, when in
some way or other, it dhe United States)
will be associated with the League of Ma
tons"
Sir George Paish declared that the re-
sponsibiiity for world trade depression
rests with the United States; its refusal
to purchase Europe's goods, and its refusal
to enter the League of Nations.
The retiring British premier, Lloyd
George, in an address in Whitfield Taber-
nacle, London, said: "John Wesley and
george Whitfield will take America by
the hand and lead her into the golden
portals of the League of Nations"
Is it not strange that well-informed
British statesmen are oblivious of the fact
that the American people in 1920 voted to
keep out of the League OF Nations? This
verdict may not have been sufficiently
loud to penetrate London fogs and the
British intelligence office. But the fact
remains that the attitude of a large ma
lorlty OF the American people toward the
League of Nations has not changed in two
years.
Obviously there are powerful reasons
why the statesmen of Great Britain, re-
gardless of party, are anxious to induce
Uncle Sam to put his legs under the round
table of the league, and help carry the
burdens and responsibilities of Europe's
war, and the expenses of the league, with
Its costly machinery.
Lloyd George failed to bring Uncle Sam
across. Bonar Law thinks he would
achleve great triumph and win the ever
lasting gratitude of the British people if
ne could induce Uncle Sam to change his
mind. Politics, the responsibility of
government, including the solution of the
olg problems Lloyd George could not or
did not solve, is back of Premier Laws
touching appeal.
Lloyd George calls upon the spirits of
John Wesley and George Whitfield to
take America by the hand and lead her
INTO the golden portals" Wesley and
whitfield both were Engishmen, and
rendered the American colonies great SER
wee In the realm of religion and spiritual
thought; but to neither does the United
states owe any portion of its independ-
ence, political or industrial
The seeds sown by the colonial divines
were essentially, if not wholly, spiritual,
ana In most cases royal. Most of the SER
mons OF that time were against all thought
OF independence.
", There is no logical connection between
wesley and Whitfield, and Uncle Sans
entrance into the League of Nations.
Lloyd George INDUCED in bit of political
ieeerdemain or spiritual seance when he
INVOKED the aid of two colonial divines,
whose greatest work was in England and
VINO went to the colonies as evangelists,
fields.
americans revere the memory of Whit
ne'u and Wesley, but they revere the
aemory of Washington and Jefferson
nole' who warned against foreign politi-
oal oalentanglements.
or George Paish would make the Unit
" otates responsible for all the woes of
;f economic and financial. He would,
- a. ne could, compel the United States to
ipaouioer pN:t the burden of Europe, while Great
N.uain, the real head of the League of
1rsIons, gathers in the plums
-! cunning and caSm diplomacy the
Rr;tsh RI;t;lsh are noted. When it comes to
NJ usn interests, all English statesmen.
ch,n matter of what party, get together and
fo. fII ~ the same tune. Then is the time
w.le ~. uncle Sam to look wise and keep his
Weather eye open.