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Show Tad Still Urges .. Surrender WASH! r, tiP l)r r.. Tie He-publican He-publican l'ubllui ' .icior liition, hn. Ha president, Ui. Jonitiion Itournti Jr., today gavo out tho following statement from Its Washington headquarters: head-quarters: r "Tho Lcaguo to Enforce Peace nppears'to have a credit balance In Its coffers. Instead of shutting Up shop and rotirlng from business when Us protege, tho league covenant, suffered suf-fered an unoxpected death at tho hands of Its democratic friends In the) Senate, It has Issued a broadside outlining Its policy for tho future, Tho statement does not gain In lni-prcsslyenoss lni-prcsslyenoss when ona reads the signatures sig-natures appended to It. Tho Taft family Is respresonted by William II. and Henry W, and Ilerbort Hoover, Oscar Straus, Edward Fileno and Herbert Houston, tho league's secretary, secre-tary, 'cof plot o tho list. Those six men undortalto to" express the sur-prlso sur-prlso and indignation,' with which tho defeat of tho treaty was received by tho" people, who 'longed for and ' expected ratification before adjournment adjourn-ment of the Sonate "The question Is asked 'Shall fifteen fif-teen Senators decide where America stiall stand In this world crisis?' Of' course that query .Is Intended as a, reductlo do absurdum, but the fact Is that thirty nine Democratic Senators Sen-ators wore lined up in opposition to tho Americanized treaty, and In favor fa-vor of tho continuance of a state of war rather than disobey the mandate of their party leader in tho White House. Had twenty-threo of those Senators hooded the call for peacj, which Mr, Taft's lcaguo sayii Is ?j strong throughout the land, the trja-' ty would, have bcon ratified, but they rofuaed to break tho bonds of paitls-nnshlp paitls-nnshlp and tho country Is still technically tech-nically at war, "Tho simple fact Is that the vole on tho ratification resolution wa not a vote on tho treaty at all. It ou essentially a voto on Amorlcaiilsm. With that Issuo removed, tho vote disclosed that eighty Senatois were prepared to voto for tho treaty, tl.o league and pcaco. Uocauso a su-Joilty su-Joilty of thu Senate has InsUU'd on certain reservations that presurved 'invlolato tho principles upon whtMi Americanism was founded nnd Vafc thrlvod, thirty-nino Democrats duter-mlnod duter-mlnod to desert tho treaty and thy I league un'd deny peaco to tho co"U-try. co"U-try. It Is astounding but true that when a Senate majority dcnlod to thoso Senators tho privilege of i,ur-renderlng i,ur-renderlng the nat!6n's most precloua heritages to tho dictates of a toieUii cabol, they rofusod to penult tho treaty to becomo a fact, "Tho I.caguo to Enforce Peuco shrloks 'compromise.' Tho words Democart or Republican do not appear ap-pear at all In Its ' pronunclanicnto. Tho entire outgiving masquerades under tho veil of nonpaitlsanshlp, But anybody who knows what the league Iff knows that Its every effort has been directed towards tho ratification rati-fication of tho league covenant aa drawn and that all Us attacks .have been directed against the Ropubll- : cans In the Senate; who have stood out against tho. miasma of internationalism. interna-tionalism. To Mr. Taft's leagup 'compromise' Is synonymous with "Republican eufronder.' American-Ism American-Ism can" never bo compromised. Thore aro no degrees of patriotism. "X real American is for his country, first, last and all tho tlmot not morely when thut Is the easlcet course or when il doos not happen tu como Into conflict with tho plana of foreign nations. "It Is Indocd an tmcnvrblo position posi-tion that Mr. Taft occupies beforo tho people Ouco tho loador of tho Republican parly ho finds himself discredited by an all but unanimous vote of his party associates la thu Senu'd. Ho has gono too far to hope to r gain tho position h" once hold, co '.io continues tho hop. less task of r.-r8uadtng his people to forget tholr Inborn nationalism and subscrlbo to an- Internationalism that whenever attomptcd in all the world's history has brought disaster upon the nations na-tions Involved. How muBt le envy his former political antagonist, that vlrllo American of Oyster Day, whoso grave is the shrine' of every truo patriot. Does ho know that his will be a memory 'unwept, unhonored and unsung? " |
