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Show REED OF MISSOURI. The Honorable "Jim" tteed of Kansas Kan-sas City, one of the most notorious of the Democratic senatorial misfits, has announced his opposition to the league of nations plan, as proposed by President Presi-dent Wilson. The opposition of the Missourian will not cause any great amount of surprise, for ho does not approve of the president or any of his acts. He persistently abused and vilified vili-fied Herbert Hoover, who has been acclaimed ac-claimed all over the world as one of the truly great men discovered by the war. He has no use for Dr. Harry Garfield and has never lost an opportunity oppor-tunity to attack the fuel administrator. Seed was against price control, and so far as he was able hindered the administration admin-istration when drastic action became necessary in order that our allies could be supplied with food. "What the Kansas Kan-sas City man wanted was competition among the foreign nations for our foodstuffs, food-stuffs, extortionate prices and a great harvest for the profiteers, especially the grain and meat dealers doing business in the town situated on the -banks of the Kaw river. The fact that countless thousands of men, women-and children in the European Euro-pean countries would have starved under his plan did not appeal to lieed, j and he did not care how much the poorer classes in tho United States suf- j fere'd so long as his friends and con- j stituents, tho food speculators, made : fortunes while the best and bravest of our young men were rushing up to the verv gates of hell to prevent the domination domi-nation of the world by the autocracy. Men of Reed's type and caliber, now that the war has been won, would give the lie to tho professions made by this country when we drew the sword, by refusing to take any measures to safe- i fuard the future peace of the world. ! Tbo brotherhood of man idea is rejected re-jected by these "little brothers of the rich." and they insist that a league of nations will not hold togothcr if formed. Mentally they are of the same type as the Prussian militarists, who held that the weaker nations must inevitably go .1 the wall. Judging the world by their own mean and selfish spirits, they declare that it is useless to attempt to prevent war because some particular country or combination of countries will be certain to infringe upon the rights of others and that force will always be necessary to prevent an upheaval. up-heaval. Therefore, they would make no effort to get out of the rut in which the world has been floundering so long, and they would not take advantage of i the present glorious opportunity to make war a thing of the past. When the American republic came into being the king-ridden people of Europe did not believe it would last. Other republics had been established and had perished. They quoted history in support of their assertions. Daniel Webster once declared that if we failed as a self-governing people the experiment experi-ment would never again be tried. But we did not fail, and it is the torch of American liberty that is lighting the whole world. Even if the league of nations is but an experiment, the same can be truthfully said of every step taken for the welfare of mankind since the earliest times. It is unfortunate that such men as Reed sit in high : places when the future of civilization !is to be determined. There was some surprise- the morning after election when it was discovered that Missouri had elected a Republican for United States senator. The solution is simple. Reed is a Democrat, and the rotors simply would not take chances by electing elect-ing another member of the party. |