The Washington times., 1935-01-30
By JAMES t. WILLIAMS, Jr.

By JAMES T. WILLIAMS, Jr.
Abraham Lincoln's faith in the
power of public sentiment is vim
dicated anew by what has just
happened in the Senate Of the
United States.
It was the power Of public senti-
ment which has just saved the
United States from any political
ENHANCEMENT with "the evil thing
with a holy name"-the League
of Nations.
This power came from the peo-
pie themselves. They firmly re-
solved IS years ago that they
would not permit the United
States to go into the League Of
Nations and they have SteadfaStly
maintained this position against
the insidious WileS Of foreign in
fluence.
Less than a fortnight ago the
alarm was sounded from one end
of the country to the other. And
the answers came to the floor Of
the Senate in thousands Of letters
and kilograms. These messages
came from all sorts and condi-
tions of true Americans in all
walks of life. They know the
fellowship of cur national life.
They rejoice in the possession OF
that American character which 1t
was the dream of the Father of
His Country that his felloW-citi-
zens should develop.
Result of Appeal
The result of this appeal COM
ing up from the great heart Of the
American people, North, South,
East and West, released Senators
from commitments made under
the pressure of a propaganda
worked up in large by the walking
delegates of foreign powers and
the representatives of their fet"
tered press. The aim Of all these
was to take the United States into
the malstrom of European quar-
rels willy nilly.
Every man and woman in this
country who has written or tele-
graphed a Senator in Congress to
keep out of the League Of Nations
and it's League Court in recent
weeks has helped to win the vic.
tory. All share in the thanks that
are due those who fought the
good fight for the Faith of the
Fathers, and won a smashing vic
tory.
The pretense that the League
Court was independent Of the
League, divorced from the League,
in no way dependent upon or re-
sponsible to the League, subject
to no requirements from the
League; the pretense that en-
trance into the League Court
would not subject the United
States to the danger of being sub
ject to the sanctions of the
League, it's boycott and all the rest
Of that sort of cruel and coWardly
warfare; the pretense that the
terms for American entrance into
the League Court, offered in the
counter-proposals of the League,
met the Senate requirements stip-
ulated by the Senate nine years
ago this month; the pretense that
going into the League Court in
volved no abridgment or abandon
ment of our traditional foreign
policy formulated and enunciated
by Washington and supported and
followed by every succeeding
President from his day until
Theodore Roosevelt who left the
White House in a blizzard on
March 5, 1909; the pretense that
the League Court got none of its
jurisdiction from the League:
that the Leagues terms for Amer
lean membership in it's Court pro-
tected the treaty-making funct-
ions of the Senate-each and
every one Of these pretenSeS were
proven to be false in the mastery
brief filed with the Committee on
Foreign Relations months ago by
the Hon. j. Reuben Clark, OF
Utah, eminent jurist, able diplo-
matist and a patriot quickened by
the spirit Of the Fathers.
Never Answered
This brief was never answered
because it could not be answered.
It's facts could not be challenged.
It's arguments could not be re-
futed and it's author is entitled
to the satisfaction and is due the
honor Of knowing that no more
brilliant contribution to the clari-
fication of this issue was made
by anybody in or out Of the
Senate.
All the false pretenseS concern
ing these counter proposals of
the League for the entaglement
Of the United States in the
League Court, which were eX-
posed in the brief of Ambassador
Clark, were again knocked into
a cooked hat when they came to
the floor Of the Senate for dis
cusSion. Under the leadership OF
Senator Johnson, of California,
and the other never-to-be-forgotten
Senators, who were associated