Evening star., 1924-06-24

t HARRISON.
these nations that are cooperating
to make il a success and draw to a
broken world the light Of hope and
peace, the same serried ranks in the
United States Senate are pursuing
their same indefensible tactics, bent
on destruction and to reap their VEN
geance-
Hits CoOlidge's Silence
Recently they have gained a
healthy new recruit in 'CaIus Cassius'
Pepper, the distinguished keynoter
and Keystoner. They are not willing
to employ their power and talents
against our country joining the pres
ent world court, but they seek to
chloroform the existing plan, to dis
unholy conspiracy against the peace
of the world is carried forward while
silence, deep and tmpepetrable, broods
over the Potomac For months the
Senate foreign relations committee
had this question before 1t, numer-
Gus plans presented and sharp diff
ferences constantly arising between
the advocates of each And yet the
President through it all did not raise
his voice. No words of reprobation
as the tomb. And not until the COM
mittee had taken action and when
the final curtain was drawn upon the
closing scene of the Congress did he
take the public into his confidence
touching his views. And thus the
claimed by his votanes as golden
Grover Cleveland once said, Tt is not
the mere slothful acceptance OF right
eous political ideas, but the call to
action for their enforcement and ap-
plication that tests the endurance
and moral courage Of men What
America needs now is not Sphinx.
but Paul Revere to awaken it and
call it back to duty and high resolve.
Oh, for one in the White House whose
aroused to sympathize and to fight.
Would that we might once more see
in that exalted position one with the
courage of a Jackson, the militant
honesty of a Cleveland, the matchless
craftsmanship, far-dung vision, and
the fine fighting qualities of a Wood
row Wilson,
Would that we had in the White
House the spirit of him whose heart
of gold melted in the sympathies OF
courage knew and gave no quarter
| whose qualities of statesmanship
| caused him to catch the first whis-
| perings of domestic disorder and Wis
ualize and prescribe for a world un-
rest 1t is the spirit of him who twice
| led us to victory and whose soul has
| taken its flight, but whose remains
now lie in yon crypt of So. Alban's-
the late commander-in-chief of the
| worlds greatest fighting forces in
it's greatest crisis. that will inspire
| harmony in this convention and as
| SIrA victory in NOvemheF
Contrasts Policy.
How different were the foreign
| policies of our government under
Woodrow Wilson and under the Hard
| ing Coolidge administration. 1t is
the difference between keynote and
| keyhole policy of craftsmanship. In
the good old Democratic days we did
| mats to sit in; not observers without
| authority, but representatives with
| credentials One policy was definite
| wise and brave; the other vacillating
halting and weak. We opened uI
new and broader markets, and the
| closer to US. No humanitarian cause
no movement to check wars, settle
| disputes or promote world peace but
promptly received the sympathetic
consideration of this government II
| was through such policy that Amer
| ica forged to the front among the
foremost nations Of the world. Glory
was in the flag and prosperity ir
| every industry. What a change has
come about during these three long
years!
| ''On has become the open sesame
| Of power. 1t gained admittance to
| the robbers cave and participation
| in the plunder. 1t has been the in
| spiration of this Administrations for
eign as well as domestic policy. The
1 Significance
| awakened the State Department to
an interest not only in Mexico and
the United States of Colombia, but
away or in the near east Truly, tn,
| administration might have boasted OF
| two secretaries of OIL
| When the Christian women and
children of Armenia were being
| wantonly given to the Turkish sword
when thousands of these Armenian
| followers Of Christ, driven like cattle
into exile. were dying of starvation
and exposure in the highways; when
| Christian churches and Christian
homes were being given to the flames
and ministers of the gospel impor-
tuned the administration for a note
| of protest, it was refused; but the
moment the oil magnates of the land
| sought concession in the oil fields
| Of Mosul the administration that re-
! fused to intervene to save Christian
| lives, Christian churches and Chris
| tian homes went to the front with
| vigor and decision.
Hits Lausanne Pact.
|, They who were Indifferent when
| the lives of women and children were
involved fastened to the conference
| with the Turks in pursuit of the
| Chester oil concession and became a
| party to the infamy of the Lausanne
| treaty-a treaty which abandons our
| missionaries to the Turks and be-
trays Armenia into the hands Of its
| assassins.
..-- Links Oil and Policies.
| Show this administration an oil
we'll and it will show you a foreign
| policy.
With a world dismayed by dis
order and stepped in sorrow we have
waited patiently for this giant nation
to assume it's commanding part. Bu
no; their leaders, like slackers moved