The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-19
KNOCKING THE KNOCKERS

A few weeks ago every knocker
of the American government was
agitating the American policy in
Nicarauga and Mexico. We were
told that we were on the brink of
bloody war as the result of, the i'm
pudence of the American government
in insisting upon the protection of
American life and property in these
countries. These critics did not
change the policy of the government,
but the developments of the inter
vening period constitute sorry re-
Election on the common sense of the
knockers, if, indeed, something more
sinister than lack of judgment is not
responsible for their futile hula
balloo.
Uncle Sam has stopped the war in
Nicaragua, with its loss of life and
property and paralysis of industry,
agriculture and employment. Moth
ing more terrible is going to hap
pen there than that the Nicaraguan
factions have agreed to settle their
troubles with ballots instead of
Mausers and machetes, with the u.
S. Marines standing by to see that
everybody gets fair play. Mexico
shows some signs of returning sanity
and order, and relations between the
Mexican and American governments
have undergone distinct improve
ment. Instead of starting war in the
republics to the south of us, we have
prevented war and have demonstrated
that the United States will not be
frightened out of asserting its rights
under international law and the Mon
roe Doctrine.
Senator Lynn Frazer, of North
Dakota, the socialist statesman who
affects Republicanism only on election
day, is engaged in transcontinental
trip crusading against the American
governments policy in Mexico and
Nicaragua. If he does not cut his
journey short, both problems will be
satisfactorily solved before he gets
back to the home plate. Accompany
ing Senator Frazer are two pink
publicists, one of them a radical farm
editor and the other gentleman who
acquired unenviable notoriety through
his association with the group sur
rounding Ludwig Martens, one time
unofficial soviet ambassador to the
United States, who left the country
upon the urgent invitation of the
American government.
Senator Frazer is author of reso-
luton for a constitutional amend
ment which would prohibit the United
States government from spending any
money whatever in national defense in
case of armed instruction or invas-
ion. A hearing was held upon this
resolution by the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and it was attended by
group of women, mostly of the pink
and red persuasion, one of them an
advocate of the slackers' oath, and
another a "pacifist" female whe de-
clared last year: eve must have
peace through communism, by revolu-
ton, peaceful if possible, bloody if
necessary" 1t is not difficult to faith
ON the support of such a resolution
by those who seek the violent over
throw of the government of the
United States, or it's annexation as a
province of soviet Russia, but just
how any patriotic American could
favor proposal involving national
suicide is not exactly clear.
Lincoln Steffens, once notorious as
magazine muck-raker, calmly tells
New York audience that he now
believes that all his early theories
were Chunk" 1t is to be hoped that
some of the rest of the radical yell
leaders will sooner or later reach
that stage of mental maturity where
they will be able to see what is al
ready obvious to those Americans
whose seat of thought is the brain
rather than the bile.