The Washington times., 1922-12-27

iGE3 very possibly to
port where
Senator Borah
E2{ 2{E $# does not want
~ & 81 to 20.
The first in.
WALhiA" rsD fluence which 10
assisting Senator Borah's intsrna.
tional conference idea 10 the large
body Of United States Senators who
openly or covertly are favorable to
the League Of Nations, These SEN
ators constitute. In fact, a majority
of the Senate. They include virtual.
ly all of the Democrats and
certain considerable number of the
Republicans Except in SO far as
they may be restrained by party
considerations OF one sort or an
other, all these Senators will vote
for Senator Borah's international
conference In the hope thal II may
somehow become the doormat to the
front door or the hack door or the
side door or any other door of the
temple OF permanent international
conferring at Geneva.
This 10 the first sort Of pressure
which will be exerted from the Sen.
ate on the White House In favor
Of the present international pro-
gram Of the senior Senator from
Idaho, II Is pressure distinctly
calculated to swing the conference
away from the sort Of course the
senior Senator from Idaho would
like 70 see II follow,
The second influence 10 that OF
agrarian Senators who are pro-
foundly impressed with the idea
that millions OF farmers are per.
suaded--or can be induced to be
persuaded--that an international
economic conference for saving Eu-
rope would enable the Europeans
to buy American farm products
more amply and at higher prices.
These Senators would most OF them
Ice perfectly willing to sign an en-
tsngling political compact with Eu'
rope. The most Of them showed
themselves perfectly willing In the
case of the -Four Power Treaty to
aign an entangling political com.
pact In Asia.
Senator Borah voted against thai
Asiatic Pacific compact. These
agrarian Senators-of whom Nc.
Nary of Oregon is q true type-will
| support Senator BOrsh's present idea
not In order to forward his policy
Of getting out Of Europe but In order
TO forward their own policy Of In.
creasipg the exports Of farm prod.
| ucts and Of accepting whatever Eu.
ropean four-power treaty or ten
power treaty or thirty-power treaty
ha fNnnA t&Nlitica lly pacoa
Finally-and above all--there will
in the end be the strongest sort of
I pressure on the White House from
Republican political managers
among whom ii is already being
| whispered that an international
| economic conference 10 a last-gasp
| Republican chance OF defeating the
Democrats In 1924.
1t Is to be understood that the Re.
| publicans are in constant search Of
some method of accomplishing that
highly desired end In 1924. Tenn
peramentally II sometimes seems In
Washington today that the Demo.
Gratis are the party in power and the
Republicans the party in opposition
The Democrats feel themselves al.
ready in office In 1924. and the Re-
publicans often behave a. II they
were constituted principally of a
| sense Of doom.
1t Ia now being said among them:
I'VE are defenseless before these
Democrats on the subject of the
League of Nations. The Democrats
proposed the League Of Nations and
claimed that II would save the world
" the United States entered It. We
nev, al II tony hsxxt e.
1t, and the world is not saved. The
| Democrats In 1924 win say:
1.-The League is the Democratic
solution. What 10 the Republican
slutiony There Is none. The world
" perishing and the Republicans
offer no remedy
That is what the Democrats will
say. Therefore fellow Republicans.
let us hold an International confer.
ence regarding Europe and let us
with the experienced help of Mr..
Root and Mr., Lodge and MIR. Hughes
produce a document. ana let us go
out on the platform in 1924 and
dangle this document before the
voters and say:
Here you are, ladies and gentle.
men. Here's the final genuine Re.
publican idea for rcSenerating
Europe, demonstrating civuixa tion,
reviving hum manity. restoring
Christianity, stabilizins the mark,
improving the Ira, converting the
ruble, uplifting the frame, and rails.
ing the export price of wheat. Vote
for this idea and for us. 4"
Such is the argument which in
| the end IL going to have most
! weight with the Republican Party
in considering Senator Borahs {
present proposal. But It is mani.
| fest that the gentlemen whom the
J Administration will choose to de
wise q compact regarding Europs
| will be as hostile to Senator Borah's
irreconcilable anti'entanglement in
ternational philosophy as the gentle
men were who were chosen by the
Administration to devise a compact
In the recent international con,
ference regarding Asia and the Pa.
cific at Washington. Senator Borah
N proposing a thing which In exc.
| cution viii be possessed by the enc.