Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-20
cox CITES LEAGUE
AS CURE FOR EVILS
SUCH AS NEAR EAST

LANCASTER, Ohio. jan 1S.-(By
the Associated Press.l-The League
or Nations remains an issue and the
present public indictment is that
general incompetence is enthroned
at Washington, former Governor
James NJ. Cox, of Ohio, Democratic
candidate for president in 1920, de-
clared in an address here last night
on the occasion of a Jacksonian OBJ
Servance.
eve have the presidents own Of
hcial statement that the congress
had passed two measures that
would have bankrupted the treas
ury except for his own interven-
tion," Mr.. Cox said. THE execu-
tive and legislative departments are
equally responsible for a tariff law
that is condemned in every COM
munity. as d menace to our mar
kets, a subsidy to campaign con-
tributors and the certain forerun-
ner of industrial troubles.
More lamentable is the failure in
international affairs. Never since
the dawn of civilization have the
sons of man been so plagued with
conditions that bring disaster to in
dlvidual and uncertainty as to the
very existence Of nations.
What would Andrew Jackson do
now? He would establish relation
ships with the nations of the world
in order to save humanity. Recog-
nlzing the futility of waiting long
er for alternatives he would ask
America to join the only operating
concern created for this critical
need-the League of Nations. A
solemn duty confronts the democ-
racy now and we must not re
treat
The currents of public opinion
are running now against the Re
publican leaders as they did against
the Wings, the speaker continued,
and unless present portents are
misleading the fate that befell the
Wing party may overtake its sue
ceSSor.
MIR. Cox said:
Propaganda reaching to COM
munities has carried the, expression
OFTEN -heaasfzgom partisans that
After all, are we not fortunate to
We had not abandoned a response
bility assumed during the war the
situation in the Near East would
not now be so serious.
There is another phase of the
Near Eastern situation, whether the
administrators attitude of silence
when women were outraged and
thousands of adults and children kill
ed, squares with the time-honored
American policy of protecting relig-
1ous minorities.
When the slaughter of Christians
was at its height, a committee of
church ministers called upon the
president of the United States and
urged some official expression of our
peoples outraged feelings. The exec
utive is quoted as saying that he
did not favor any protest unless we
were in a position to back it up.
Within a fortnight our government
filed a protest, but not in behalf of
human life. Instead, it was entered
to protect oil interests in part of
contested territory"
Secretary Hughes should sanction
without delay the congressional pro-
posal to vitaliZe our participation in
the affairs of the PREPARATION commits
sion, and America should then,
through her representatives, bring
about an economic survey of Ger
many, Mr.. Cox asserted.
eve hear it said that the League
of Nations question was settled in
1920, and that mandate was spoken
against our entering the league" Mr..
Cox continued. "Three distinct
groups voted against our ticket be-
cause of purely racial grievances,
untold thousands against us because
of heavy taxes and others were con-
trolled by a discomfort growing out
of internal war measures. At all
events, the matter stands just as it
was two years ago."
The right to remain an active
member of the reparations commits
sion never was impaired, but 1.-The
administration at Washington has
not awaited itself Of it," the speaker
concluded