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Show .5 THE CITIZEN Senate, while Hitchcock remained behind to manufacture the feud articles of the compact and declaring that as a whole it (the covewhich is now becoming nationally celebrated.. ' nant) seems plain to the average person.. At the close of . their teleIn an article headed The Sting of Ingratitude. Hitchcock broke gram they indulge in a vein of satire which shows how much they think their own intelligence is superior to that of Senator Lodge and with Bryan, denouncing him as everything that was selfish and the other Republican and Democratic senators who are agreed that It was just one of those political quarrels in which two men were shaking fingers of scorn at each other. Neither the treaty is too dangerous to ratify in its present form. Out in Medford nineteen men plume themselves on an intelligence seemed to realize that anything except the loftiest motives should which Washington and Lincoln would have envied. It was said of a or could be ascribed to him. British statesman that no one was as wise as he could look, and it From that day to this the two have been enemies, although meantime Bryan has run for President twice and Hitchcock has supported may be said of the nineteen men of Medford that no one is so wise as him as a matter of political policy. they can talk. All the time an evolution had been at work in the Hitchcock charPeople even in this backwoods country understand that the conacter. The ice began to thaw from around his heart and he found stitution and the laws of the United States cannot be nullified by the himself a man among men. Hie worked hard and conscientiously to action of peace committees, the President, the Senate, or all of them understand the common people and to please them. Twice beaten for combined, say the nineteen wise men of Medford, and one can hear Congress, he persisted in his ambition and was elected. He achieved the raucous roar of their horse laughs. Is it not wonderful how esteem themselves! What are the an enviable record and sought higher honors. Always his constituents highly the V grew more admiring, liberal and loyal in their support. And always Lodges, the Reeds, the Johnsons, the Borahs, the Underwoods, the he and Bryan grew farther apart. He was opposed to prohibition and Smoots, the Thomases, Gores, Hardings, Knoxes, Roots, Tafts, s. woman sugrage. Bryan was for both.. Bryan was Bryans, Hugheses and Lowdens that they should set themselves up Hitchcock, although personally of unimpeachable character, avoided to dispute what is so plain to the nineteen wise men of Medford? the mystical attitude toward life which Bryan consciously adopted. It is fantastic reasoning that we should indorse a treaty which is Hitchcock slowly became an able statesman and a polished orator. It unpatriotic, foolish and dangerous and, when a test comes, take refuge is doubtful whether Bryan ever advanced mentally beyond the high in the plea that our constitution will not permit us to do what we level of his brilliant youth ; certainly he deteriorated as a spellbinder. agreed to do. Moreover, the nullification of the constitution is not the sole A RED TRICK objection to the treaty. The league would involve us in all the racial and dynastic wars of the old world ; it would establish a military imthe high administrative offices at Washington are perialism everywhere on the globe with our consent and guarantee. ALTHOUGH with radicals who worship in secret at the shrine of It would not be a judicial tribunal for peace, but an alliance for war. Lenine and Trotzky, the soviet charge that Department of Justice And even Taft and Bryan now say that it should be modified. agents framed planks in the Communist and Communist Labor party 0, wise men of Medford, ye infallible nineteen who so joy in, the no there credence. of is not doubt, are, Although worthy platforms superiority of your average intelligence, descend from your; high their and turn kneel Reds who official carpets upon prayer many perches in the backwoods of Oregon, and join 100,000,000 Americans acmuezzin the Bolshevik when the Moscow toward sounds, jowls on the plains of common sense. cusations made by S. Nuorteva, secretary to L. C. A. K. Martens, Russian amabassador to the United States, are quite palpably a EUROPEAN MENDICANTS variation of an old trick. , Whenever bombs are exploded the I. W. W. and other radical orHOOVER, the worlds food dictator, has shattered that HERBERT make the charge government agents ganizations immediately about the European famine and has given needed fired the bombs to besmirch the bright Red reputation of to the nations which remained neutral in the war that their radicalism. Any criminal with a moderate amount of astuteness warning time has arrived for extending some of the charity which the whole is which excuse excuse. an of such an think It to be expected might world has teen expecting and demanding of the United States. Alludhas been offered again and again as if it had been agreed upon by ing to the selfish neutrals he says, The neutral nations have made radicals as the technical formula of exculpation in every case of Red money from the war. and have asked no favors and given none. outrage. Seventy million people in Europe, he estimates, were untouched On the other hand, it may have originated in Russia in the days of by the hardships of war and he calls upon these to aid not more than the czars, when agents provocateurs were numerous in revolutionary 5 per cent of the population of Europe. Only that percentage now ranks. It was customary, in Russia, for the police to pose as revoluneeds bread, he says. The sorest spot is Austria and all other nations tionists and provoke active revolts that could be put down by forces. have sufficient food or can obtain it with a little aid. Belgium, Poland, It may be that Russian revolutionists, whenever they committed an Greece, Slovakia and Austria will take care of their agricultural and act of violence, found it convenient and profitable to blame the small town populations out of their crops of last year, but the crowded agents. centers in these nations must be provided for. A dozen or more large ff-Nuertovas variation consists of making the charge that agents cities with a population of fifteen or twenty million are in desperate of the federal department of justice framed those platform planks straits and they must be helped by commercial credits and shipments which are now made the basis for government prosecutions and deof food. portations. It is a venomous charge, but it is typical of the reptilian The most surprising information from Mr. Hoover is that the radicals when brought to bay. Balkan countries, including Greater Serbia, have a surplus of food for their winter needs, whereas Hungary would be able to feed itself withMEDFORD MEN OF NINETEEN out difficulty if Rumania would return the live stock her armies apin Oregon is Medford town and in that town are propriated when they made their foray to Budapest. SOMEWHERE Our shipments of food to Europe have increased prices on this business and professional men. We quote to their claim to distinction from the dispatch; we presume they admit side of the ocean. Undoubtedly the American people are willing of their prominence and will heartily indorse the correspondents insist- - continue the exportation of food so long as there is any danger starvation among even a small part of Europes population, but they ence on this point. EuroThere is another reason for suspecting that they are absorbed in will not accept the burden with equanimity so long as 70,000,000 on the contrary, their They have just sent a telegram to Senator peans who suffered no distress from the war, but, stricken neighbors. McNary, demanding the adoption of the league covenant without made money out of it, refuse to help their side of Pointing5 out that there is no ground for hysteria on either "material change, expressing themselves as satisfied with all the 9 ' I self-seekin- g. self-seeki- ng anti-reservation- ists ultra-religiou- - self-styl- ed gov-emine- self-importan- nt ce! , |