Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-05
JAS M. cox, HERE,
PREDICTS DEFEAT
OF ADMINISTRATION
Continued from Page y

ton, as they call it in Europe. And
such a revolution is not far away.
France cannot live without
substantial payment from Germany,
but Germany can make no substan-
tial payment without international
credit, and such credit cannot be OBJ
tanned without a scaling down of the
German reparations.
+ "When I insist on reduction
therefore, l have in my mind as the
primary object the salvation of
France.
! Back of the official mind in
France is a Preparations figure not
yet articulated. This is not a figure
based on what Germany ought to be
made to pay, but what Germany can
afford to pay. This figure was Civ
en- me privately by French states
men with whom 1 discussed the sub
ject. And in this connection [ was
surprised to find that the figure Civ
me by German government heads
was larger than the figure given me
by British statesmen.
"Now, why cannot this situation
be composed? Why is it not com
posed?
Sent Gagged Representative
because America holds the mas
ter key and refuses to use it. Amer
lea wa sthe one nation which went
into the war for no selfish motive
whatsoever. We asked no indemni-
ty. We claimed no foot OF ground
anywehere on earth. All of the
heads OF government with whom L
discussed the matter were eager to
welcome American intervention in
the PREPARATIONS question. The sug-
gestion that Mr.. Hoover act as UNI
pire was agreeable to all.
"Yet when we sent representa-
tive TO the Preparations conference
we did Tot send Mr.. Hoover, but
sent a man whose lips were gagged
and whose hands were tied, and he
amounted to nothing.
eff we had sent Mr.. Hoover and
he had fixed the figure which Ger
many must pay, France and Ger
many would have accepted it, and
England likewise. Arrangements
would have been MADE for bank
ing credit to Germany. The bankers
would have called on the nations to
balance their budgets, and the first
thing necessary to balance the
French budget would have been a
reduction of the French Army. Ger
many would now be purchasing our
cooper, our cotton, numerous other
products. France would now be
using the money collected from Ger
many"
In conclusion, Governor Cox made
an eloquent reply to those who say
that efforts TO prevent war are Tito
plan dreams"
"Standing on the battlefield al
Verdun, where one million men died
in an area smaller than the area OF
Atlanta, and where 100000 were
never buried, 1 did not hear those
shattered Trench veterans assert
that efforts to prevent wan are ITO
plan Dreams" said he. I
STANDING in the ArgOnne, where
the boys Of your state and mine and
many others fought with irresistible
courage, 1 did not hear it said that
efforts to prevent war are Utop!an
dreams"
Not Political Question
mo, [ heard these men utter
prayer that this stupendous ana
overwhelming crime against civiliza-
ton shall never again be perpe-
trated
And [ came away feeling that if
the genius of man can triumph over
the forces of nature in the enter
prises of peace which have now sup
planted the occupations of war, then
triumph over the war-like impulses
of the nations"
Closing. he declared the whole
question of American participation
in world affairs should be lifted
out of politics." He said it ought
never to have allowed to fall into
politics. He said the American peo-
ple were all of one mind in the
great ideal of preserving world peace
until the question was dragged into
the political arena.
81 do not care by what name you
call the League of Nations" he con-
cluded. "The name is unimportant.
But what we must have is an ar
rangement, a policy, u course of ac-
ton. which will enable us to utilize
our moral resources, and which will
perform toward humanity the high
duty we performed so nobly during
the war and deserted so ignOmini-
ously when the war was over
Sees G. o. p. Defeat
Foreign relations will be the dom
inant issue of the presidential cam
paign of 1924, and on that issue .he
Republican party will go down 60
defeat, was in substance the predIc-
ton made by Governor Cox in
newspaper interview preceding his
Kiwanis club address.
"Our chances in 1924 are good
and getting better" said he. 1--WE
have only to stand by our guns The
Republican sins of omission and
commission are leading them to de-
feat. BY 1924 the Republican cam
paign of 1920 will be referred to as
the great Republican fraud.
1.-THE committee of thirty-one,
among whom was Mr.. Hughes, gave
| the American people an absolute
pledge of international cooperation.
This pledge was confirmed by Mr..
Harding. We have had nothing i'll
redemption of that pledge but a
weak, vacillating and inconciusive
foreign policy.
"Ship subsidy will be an issue. So
will the tariff The tariff will be
big issue. 1t is merely another
form of isolation.
prohibition will not be an issue.
There is no more reason for making
the eighteenth amendment an issue
than any other amendment.
Raps Administration
"In 1920 it will be recalled, the