San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-23
Of WORLD
COURT GRID
FOR BATTLE
Borah, Reed and Support.
ers Plan Last-ditch Stand
in Coming Senate.
By Universal Service.

though not equipped like their foe.
with an enormous campaign fund and
the control of the propaganda agencies
throughout the country, Senator Will
liam L. Borab and a little band of
sturdy independents in the Senate are
lnarshaling their strength for a last
ditch battle against the scheme to put
the United States into the world court
of the League of Nations.
They face tremendous odds. Array
ed against them are the international
advocates who we're behind the leagre
and who have never accepted thu
great and solemn referendum, vf
1921 as final. They face those DEM
ocratic senators who were for the
league then and for indirect entrance
into it now.
They must struggle against the con-
servatiye Republican group in the Sen
ate who have forgotten the cause of
their party's 100000 majority when
| the league was the election test. And
they must struggle against the wide
spread influence OF the international
banking group who would put the
United States into the league or court
to protect their enormous investments
abroad.
FIGHT Is RENEWED.
The fight against the court will be-
gin next month under identically the
same circumstances that the historic
struggle was begun against the League
of Nations. The little. group girding
their lions for the battle against the
court is composed mainly OF Senator
Borah, Senator James A. Reid of Mis-
souri, and Senator Hiram johnson o.
California. All the organized propa-
ganda was against them then. 1t is
against them now. All the political
strength that follows Wall Street
wealth was against them then. 1t IS
against them now.
They were equipped only with their
great ability Of oratory to arouse
American public sentiment against the
danger Of entering Europe's politics
and wars. The three of them are to-
day still counted as among the ablest
fighters who ever graced the Sen
ate.
SOANI VT Ohl.
They believe that the solid sentiment
OF America is still against the on
tangling alliances and if their health
is spared to stir again the public SCI.
timent which fire years ago arose
against the LEAGUE.
Senator Borah declares the League
and the Court are one. The court
was organized by the League. he says,
is financed by the League and its
principal business is 10 interpret the
covenant of the League.
Once we went-into the court. ~ he
said, there would be a steady process
sion of Americas sons abroad TO set
tie the battles Of Europe by war. The
American people have never wanted
that. They do not want it now
Wherever there has been a clear-cut
fight on the world court in which
the decision has been made by the vot-
ers. the court, like the League, has
been rejected, Senator Bornh points
out.
WON FOR LAFOLLETTE.
The first plank in the platform Of
Senator Elect Robert NJ. LaFollette
Jr., in his recent contest was: Il am
against the world court, which is mere
ly the back door to the League Of
Nations
Mr.. LaFollette was elected by ire
mendOus majority against the candi-
dates who promised TO support the
policies of the administration in all
foreign matters.
President Coolidge has himself in
the past experienced some Of Amer
icas attitude against entangling al
liances. In the 1921 campaign. when
the League was the issue and he was
the candidate for vice president. he
toured those sections of Kentucky and
North Carolina which pridefulIy claim
the largest percentage Of natiYe-born
Americans anywhere in the country.
ATTACKS POPULAR.
Throughout that campaign tour. the
speeches which commanded the great
est applause were the attacks then
made upon the League and all forms
OF entanglements by the then Gov
ernor Edwin p. Morrow Of Kentucky.
During the Presidents trip 10 Yer
mont this summer the only comment
heard against his administration
among the old settlers was Of the gen.
crosby in var-debt terms to foreign
uatiOnF