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Show -- 3 M D M DI BY Published Every Saturday GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., p. GA1.LAGHER, Editor -- INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, iO for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ; nion, $4.50 per year. Pa Pa " pa Pa Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake Act under of March 3, 1879. the City, Utah, Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 be- - ng. en, No I RAGE AT HARDINGS POLICY PRO-LEAGUE- RS M f . , t In the flash of their rage we see the truth. They cannot recon- The friends of Wilson and his war league. are in a mighty rage 'President Harding has decided that the United States shall cile themselves to the thought the United States is to assert its interrepresented oh the supreme council, the reparations commission rights and to obtain manifest advantages wholly without the id the council of ambassadors. They are filling friendly columns position of the league for war. In the campaign they told us that The intensity of their ire is, at first glance, we lost all our rights unless we joined the league and submitted to ith furious criticismdf the Versailles treaty.. Now they are maddened when surprising.- Why this tearing of a passion to tatters? theHrifanues : l fimewhat such a clashing of cymbals', such they see' the Republican administration even attempting to protect a beating :of toms-tom- s, our rights by means other than those afforded by the league. owls of indignation and menace? An example of this futile fury may be found in ail article They point at us; the finger of scorn and say that we promised to get out of Europe bag and baggage and to stay out They will Americanism by that celebrated anonymity, Savoyard: be satisfied with nothing less than a policy of isolation which shall And here comes in brazen front this infernal Americanism lat stalked so vociferously and so garrulously and so loathsomely isolate the Republican party from success. The fundamental flaw in the argument of Savoyard is this l the senatorial chamber when the League of Nations was the he assumes that all our rights are derived from the treaty of Verleme of slander and stupidity, and upon the raging stump last ear when the G. O. P. was mobilizing the rabble who shrieked for sailles. If we grant him his premise we must concede his conclusion that we are bound morally to accept the obligations and duties of a ie release of Barabbas. What is this Americanism ? Here is just one specimen of it and not the most odious speci-le- n treaty by which we seek to assert our rights. It is essential to keep in mind the change of policy made by either. The United States utterly repudiated the treaty of Ver-ailland denounced it as everything that is odious in diplomacy, Mr. Hughes as soon as he took office. He went back of the treaty of Versailles and took the position that our fundamental rights exnd yet the United States is firmly resolved to hold on to and some the execution of all the manifest advantages that acquire to isted before the treaty was formulated. The treaty expressed of these rights ; others it ignored. The mere fact that the treaty s in the terms of that treaty. Thus we reap where we do not expresses some of these rights does not constitute the rights They ow, pluck figs from this Wilson thistle ; we gather grapes from this existed before. They came to us as a result of our aid to the allies Vilson thorn, we demand and intend to have all our rights, but we and victory over Germany. bsolutely refuse to perform any duty imposed .on us by the stipu-itioWe are reaping precisely as we have sown. We are not trying of the treatyfrom thistles. The treaty. of What kind of Americanism is it that finds fault with our chief to gather grapes from thorns or figs Versailles, which we have not ratified, cannot deny to us a single ixecutive for demanding our rights? What kind of Americanism us a right that right and its affirmation is not necessary to secure .5 it that flies into a rage when our country seeks to obtain manifest conference met. Is the rage due to the contemplation of a jarring belonged to us before the peace advantages? We are not predicting success for the Harding plan. It may ontrast ? Do the critics remember a chief executive who surrendidealism which trusted in a Euered our rights and neglected manifest advantages while Great fail. But it has abandoned a silly did not exist. It is a policy of realism. It jpritain was adding vast parts of .the earths surface to her dominions ropean altruism that will demand all their rights :ud Japan was gaining control of the Pacific to our manifest dis- assumes that our associates in the war more. It assumes that when we ask for anything our.associates and would these Americanism of kind patriots Is advantage? that the will demand a quid pro quo. And when they demand anything we have us extol? ask our quid pro quo. lie' sting of defeat still goads Democratic critics to fury. Ihey shall be constrained to It "may not be a pleasant picture to contemplate. It. is not a tannot remain tranquil when they see the Ilarding administration an irridcscent backAchieving success 'without their hypocritical league their war league picture 'of angels flapping their wings against that was to use American men and money to fight the battles of the of the lion and the other. animals of ground- It is a picture, rather, ,0ld w orld. the cheese. We may lose in the selfish game, fable dividing the in .'Today we are naming our agents to assist unofficially lose more than Mr. Wilson lost by assuming wecannot but certainly of the the work the league should have done, says one that hi? colleagues at the peace table possessed only angelic qualities. cause ! - , - ( : a en-ntle- d. . es de-la- nd ns - - 1 critics. i . v. . |