The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-28
Trying to Sneak Into the
League of Nations
Harding Administration Succumbs to international
Banking Influence, But People Have Yet
To Be Reckoned With.
the Presid mt on

Saturday, six days before the Congress expires sud
denly requested the Senate to sanction our joining
the League of Nations world court and taking ssak
in the council and assembly of the league for TIE p
pose of choosing the judges of the court. q
In general, the country recognizes this move Tor
what it Is American advocates Of the League st
Nations gleefuly announce that they have discovered
the President trying to crawl into the leagues tent
after the people, by seven million plurality = tie
polls in 1920 forbade him to enter at the main gate
The New York World describes President nd
Secretary as feeby kicking and struggling IN the srp
of the inevitable and making = virtue Of necessity
in that they only yielding, Senator Htchcock
puts it, on the instaIlment plan"
The New York Times, after gently Gliding Sesse
tary Hughes for pretending that the United Stakes
while participating in the work Of the league q nok
really joining the league, thus consoles it, reading
pubIic Inconsistencies and shortcomings ought not
to be d,yelt upon at this juncture. The Administers
ton il bowing to the inevitable. Il is taking the first
great step that counts For that ought to be praised
and aided WHILE WAITING FOR OTHER STEPS
TO FOLLOW"
James M. Cox, Of Ohio, the defeated Democrats
1candidate for President in 1920, who ran upon
League Of Nations platform, wires rumphantly from
Miami that President Harding's action "is another
triumph for public opinion ii American affairs and
demonstration Of the power Of Our religious
thought, when aroused and organized"
Ell is the FIRST step that co.mts. :
The diplomats Of Europe know full wen that, once
they get the United States into the tent, it will not
be long before they have leading the procession
and again footing the bills Within year from
II s. srrNs6 n ~
tional bankers will demand that our armed forcee
enforce it's DEGREES in the four quarters Of the globe
Examine the source of this proposal Itcame from
Secretary Of State Hughes. II i hughes who con
structed and fastened upon this country the Four
Power Treaty, which binds 10 be = partner Of
every militaristic adventure launched by Japan, Great
Britain or France among the islands of the Pacific.
1t is Hughes who framed the ubiquitous naval dis
armament treaty, whereby we destroyed the naval ]
supremacy that would have given US projections For
all time and renounced construction Of those vital
naval bases at Guam and Cavite, which alone would
have given US the power to protect Eastern in
terests.
Finally it is the same Hughes who member
of the committee of thirty-one Republicans in 1920
the committee which publicly announced that the
way to get the United States into the League Of
Nations was to elect Mr.. Harding. y
The people elected Harding for no such purpose.
They registered their inalterabe will not to be parties
to "peace league" designed be the guarantor OF
the wicked spoiIs of an imperialistic war.
Secretary Hughes is master of the English lan-
guage an adept in the spinning of those fine legal
distinctions in which the mind wanders confused
and lost until it at last accepts the lawyers suggestion
as the only way out.
The Secretary of State, versed in the strategy Of
diplomacy has we'll calculated that the last chance
to trick America into the league is to this present
pl;.nt OLD GUARD REPUBLICAN, SENATE-on