The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

 is only communal individuality. Ma tionalities are the reservoirs of the quality and color of the world. As citi- gems and patriots, and also as we'll wishers of the rest of mankind, we can devote ourselves to nothing more use full than to heightening American na- tionslity. I should not like to see hu- manity planed to one surface. As each of the national cultures of the old world has enriched our culture, as each na- tion has joined in the peopling of our continent, 50 we, as a nation, should develop an individuality and give 1t as a contribution to the friendly diversity of the human family.
 "But appreciation of our nationality should be long way from connotlng depreciation of other nationalities. Our nation. like others, has had its bonn bastic nationalists, it's 4jingoes-a des- perate breed of trouble makers. Ma tionality is a good thing; wise national l ism is. good thing; aggressive nation aiism is a bad thing, a humiiiating thing, and at times disastrous thing. It is a duty of decent statesmen and decent citizens-decent people in all walks of life-to combat exaggerated nationalism as a peril to civilization.
 CO-OperatiOn By Nations
 "There is a fact of immense impor- tance to humanity that we and other peoples should get firmly fixed in mind the fact that world of seif-regu- dated, of independent, but co-operatiVe nations is no more a chimera than is a nation of self-regulated. of independent but cooperative individuals. AS free men can work together in free coun- try for the common welfare Of that country, so free nations can Work to- gether in a free world for the common welfare of that world"
 "You mean the League of Nations for instance, can work together without it's members giving up their indepeno- ence%
 'Proof that it can do is found in the | fact that it Is doinE-s so and has been doing so for five years. Is any one so artless as to fancy that Britain or France or Italy or any other democ- racy would, or could, enter world or ganization that filched from it's citizens their national self-contFol. To this Toss of our liberty outcry there never has been anything but republican party moonshine."
 RepubIicana And World Peace
 s'What view do you take of the re- publican position on world co-opera- tion?"
 publicans a cynical failure to'do what they, solemnly promised their follow CTS and the people of this country they would do. In 1920 our people, like every other people, ardently wished that the plague of recurring war should be faced and fought. We all longed for scientific organization against war. There was A general agreement that there must be a continuing organization Of the nations for the preservation of peace.
 "Republicans promised that their sue cess In the national election would be followed by an effort to effect such an organfzation. This promise, this pledge was In the republican platform and in the speeches of the republican leaders including those, and particularly those | of the party's standard-bearer himself Even after Harding had become Presi- dent he was still for some kind of an organization to abolish war. In his first message to the Congress he said; we make no surrender of our hope and ain for an association to promote peace 1T which we would most heartily join. III the national referendum dhe election which sent Harding to the White House) we pledged our efforts toward such san organization, and that pledge will be faithfully kept
 Was the pledge kept?
 That Manifesto Of 1920
 And who has forgotten that mem orable. manifesto, signed by 31 promi uent republicans, including Hughes ana Hoover, declaring that A vote for liar ding and Coolidge would not not be ( vote against a Leaguepof Nations? Ina was a very remarkable document. Il 1t an historical document. It is a docu ment we cannot ignore if we desire tC understand the election of 1920. Wha did the manifesto say? What was it. object and It's only object?
 'It said not only that a vote fol Harding and Coolidge would not be { vote againat a League of Nations, bu that, if the American people wanted { real, an effective, League of Nations they should vote, not for Wilson, bu for Harding. It's sole object, obvious ly. and admittedly, was to swing repub Iican and other prologue voters tt Harding and Coolidge. That thii manifesto had an enormous effect IT the campaign no intelligent observel can have the slightest doubt.
 "Yet we are asked to believe tha when masses of Americans voted as th' iIlustrious 'thirty-one' advised them t' vote they voted against a League of Ma tions of any kind. So far as I can re call, this claim, this Interpretation O. the result of the election of 1920, il the most brazen piece of partisan hum bug and the most impudent insult tt popular intelligence known to thu politics of this country in many years 1t is immoral to distort history. It i a crime to poison the wells of instruc tion from which democracies drink"
 Joining The League Of Nations
 ''Is it your conviction that the United States should enter the League of Ma tions?"
 "In my speech of acceptance. openinl the democratic campaign. I expresse