The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-25

The writer has just had the inter
esting experience of participating IN
public debate with Senator Borah
in Borah's own state, on his pet sub
ject of the world court.
If you have ever boxed Dempsey,
you know what that is like.
However, thrice is he armed who
hath his quarrel just"
And those of US who happen to
agree on this subject with sidents
Mckinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
Harding and Coolidge; with all the
platforms Of all the parties in this
century; with nine -tenths of Con.
gress; with capital and labor, the
United States Chamber of Commerce
and the American Federation of
Labor; with the organized expression
of religious and educational bodies,
women's clubs and farm organiza-
tons. and with the action of nearly
all the governments in the world, are
! not under any sense of humbleness,
even if Il small handful of United
States senators, incluunti one or
two of the ablest, choose to take the
other side.
If we are mistaken, so are most Of
the human race.
Senator Borah himself is "for" a
world court.
All he wants is that it meet condi-
tions which he agrees are impos-
sible. and some of which are i'm
! possible because he and his associ-
ates will not let them be fulfilled.
He wants world code of laws,
which could only be enacted by pre-
cisely the sort of world legislature
whose chief opponent he would be,
and an outlawing of war which can
only be enforced by precisely the sort
OF sanctions to which he would never
consent.
He wants Leagueless world
court in world most of which is
joined in the League.
Whenever these and several other
conditions are fulfilled-and he is in
the place of power, to see to it that
they never are-then, unless he can
meantime devise some other objec-
tons, the doughty senator may con-
sent to our going into the court
which we founded and which the rest
of the world has accepted from US.
In other words: Never!
Vice President Dawes has con-
elusive answer to the claim that mo
good bill was ever killed by filibus-
ter that did not eventually pass"
Even this Is not entirely true, and
would not justify minority rule, if it
were.
But the vice president does not
stop at the good bills that may have
been killed by filibuster, and never
passed. He emphasizes mostly the
bad bills that were passed by fill
buster and never repealed.
For one of the commonest pur-
poses of filibuster is not to defeat
the bill filibustered against, but to
use it as club to compel the accept
ance of some pet local measure or
amendment which could never pass
on it's merits.
This happens many times, every
session, and there are probably few
senators who have not INDUCED in it..
1t is one of the greatest evils of the
present system.
1t is to be feared, however, that the
ice president mistakes his psyche OIL
ogy at one point, in appealing to
the people against the localism of
their representatives.
I. The people of Oregon are doubtless
very indignant at the incident Mr..
Dawes told them, of the South Caro-
lima senator who threatened to hold
up vital appropriation bill and
make an extra session necessary, un-
less certain appropriation for South
Carolina was passed.
But the people Of South Carolina
are not. And the senator from South
Carolina does not care what the
people Of Oregon think of him.
The only indignation senator
fears is the indignation Of his own
Who ever heard of that indigna-
ton being aroused by his using
trading and log-rolling to get local
fayors and appropriations for them
That is exactly the most popular
thing he can do, in the only place
where he cares for popularity.
The indignation Of the people Of
Oregon is reserved for the South