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Show THE CITIZEN gained a victory and entrenched itself. If any lesser reservations are adopted internationalism will have won. But in either case the, issue of nationalism versus internationalism will exist. Mr. Hoover evidently believes that the issue can be thrust aside tfjprely by an act of the will. It is very much as if a man should decide that his wife was to be eliminated as an issue in his life. and hairThe unwary husband who came to such a light-heartbrained decision would find that his wife was very much of an issue until, at least, a decree of divorce were made permanent. If there is to be an international marriage of the United States and Europe their affairs will always be an issue until they agree to a divorce. Eliminate the issue, says Mr. Hoover, because it will obscure our pressing domestic issues by a conflict over a question in which the country already has made up its mind. It is true that if the treaty is ratified the issue, insofar as mere jjitification is concerned, will be a subordinate matter in the national campaign, but the large issue of nationalism versus internationalism will remain. If Mr. Hoover is a candidate, whether as a States Republican, a Democrat or a Unitanian (Great Britain-Unite- d in alliance) he will find it impossible to escape discussion of that issue. He will find his position; no matter what it may be, the subject of fierce and passionate debate. Ratification will be a question of the past, but the larger question of our participation in world affairs will be up for solution. We cannot hide from ourselves the fact that, guard our sovereignty as we will, the United States will not be as sovereign in the League as out of it. No reservation can alter that fact. Domestic issues can never be so pressing that they will submerge the issue that will immediately arise out of that circumstance. On the one side we shall have the nationalists, with the brooding spirit of George Washington in the background pleading with his countrymen, as it were, to avoid entangling foreign alliances. On the other hand we shall have the internationalists advocating the widest participation of the United States in every salient problem around the globe. The League of Nations will be an issue everywhere and at all times. ed KNOX MENTIONED the progressive statesmen who are being mentioned for AMONG presidential nomination is Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania. Neither organization nor propaganda is employed in his behalf and there is no suggestion that he considers himself a candidate or desires to enter the race. But it was inevitable that one who had served his nation well as the adviser of three 0 It was through the speeches of Senator Knox that the true significance of the covenant and the treaty was laid bare. Week by week and month by month he pointed out the perils and, week month by month, his joy grew as he saw the American by week-anpeople coming over to his side. The conscience and loyalty of the people finally responded with full sympathy to the campaign of education which Senator Knox and his comrades had been conducting. It is impossible to exaggerate the value of the service he did his country in this respect alone. It was such a service as Roosevelt would have rendered had he been among us, and it was fitting that one of Roosevelts great friends should be able to stand at Armageddon and battle for the Lord. Born in 1853, graduated from Mount Union College, Ohio, in 1872, Philander Chase Knox began the practice of law in Pittsburgh in 1875. In 1901 he was appointed attorney general in President McKinleys cabinet and served in that capacity in Roosevelts cabinet until July 1, 1904. Appointed to fill the vacancy in the United States senate caused by the death of M. S. Quay, he was subsequently elected to fill the unexpired term and then for the full term of six years. He resigned from the senate to take the position of secretary of state in the cabinet of President Taft, March 4, 1909, and served throughout the administration in that capacity, winning world-wid- e renown. He was elected again to the senate November 6, 1916, to succeed George T. Oliver. The old political state lines began to weaken a number of years ago and this year there are prominent candidates in the East, West and Middle West. Time was when a presidential candidate from the secure Republican state of Pennsylvania could not be considered by the national convention, but that time has long gone by. Never before has there been less reason to debate about the state from which a candidate comes. Why, then, should not the peculiar fitness and towering abilities of Senator Knox impress themselves profoundly upon the rank and file of the party from now until convention time even though there be neither organization nor organized propaganda in his behalf? In point of fact, the people are coming somewhat to resent the creation of an elaborate machinery to carry a candidate successfully to the goal. Not that organization and publicity are to be condemned, not that candidates have not a perfect right to avail themselves of such means, but because the people naturally incline to demand a fair chance for those who are by way of being driven off the track by the steam rollers of the mighty. If there is a deadlock in the convention, as there is almost sure to be, the delegates will begin to look about for compromise candidates and we miss our guess if their glance does not immediately fall upon Philander Chase Knox of Pennsylvania. d a presidents, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, and who had held such commanding position for so many years in the senate by sheer force THE MICHIGAN RUM RIOTS of character, ability and sane judgment, should come to be mentioned for the presidency. there had been a saloon on every corner in Iron River, MichiIn the happy reunion of Republicans those whom the great gan, the whiskey revolt could not be more confusing. Almost we Roosevelt admired and trusted are not to be neglected. The very were persuaded that a new shot was to be fired on Fort Sumter, so ict that Roosevelt esteemed him for qualities of statesmanship such to speak, and that horrid rebellion was to be let loose in the land once as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson possessed now commore. mends him .to the consideration of the American people. wine Out of the smoke of battle and the fumes of home-mad- e friends of his some We believe that the suggestion dropped by emerge two heroic figures, Major Dalrymple. leader of the federal will soon become an insistent demand because of the patriotic serforay, and States Attorney M. S. McDonough, defender of state of the the detected who one perils senate in the vices rendered by rights and rum. covenant and treaty as soon as he had perused them and who battled For a time it seemed as if the federal invaders and the stout desuch until ratification to and prevent unflaggingly ably, consistently fenders of their homes and casks would close in appalling conflict, but time as the senate and the people understood the treaty in all its and Johnson only the heroic leaders engaged in battle. They met in single combat Borah as men Knox, such was Lodge, It bearings. in one of the leading hotels, and while their followers stood agape who were adamant against the attempts to coerce the senate into an with awe and admiration, they called each other liar and grand-stande- r. fimediate acceptance of the treaty. A veritable bombardment of Never before had Iron county witnessed such a noble and denunciation, as unfair as it was furious, continued to rage about chivalrous clash of two unconquerable knights one fighting and jawtheir devoted heads. They were not to be frightened from their of prejudice, ing to vindicate the prowess of prohibition and the other fighting and cries irrational the withstood They patriotic position. jawing back to maintain the supremacy of rum. the censures of the uninformed and battled, a fearless White ComIt was such an august spectacle that the moving picture man, who and deceits of those who pany of patriots, against the machinations had been rushed to Iron River, lined up Major Dalrymple and Mr. sought to obtain ratification by misrepresentation. IF |