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Show BORAH PRESENTS ,Contlnuc!from'Vage1l, -I i !"cJ I '$ "'-? years. "j- t n.- i ' JI'Ui'JE .yoJ1. call JUer.schcino a lenguo, n concert ot powers, an nllf-nnco nllf-nnco or an nssociatloi they nil lead ou to Europo lind 'place, updn tho . lie already bended backs of the' A'nteri-can A'nteri-can taxpayors thclf' Bcheme of exploitation ex-ploitation and of waste, and' upon the, shoulders. of.jVmcrlcan youth ihe; military burtlen which must even- tually grow out of ,Thls scheme. hi:taval ok a. I'KinxniA' puorw: "Thla la the reason why Lloyd Qcorgo Is perfectly willing for us to como in on our own terms. This Is tho reason why Viscount Grey is willing wil-ling for us to fix up our own method, meth-od, gratify our own vanity as to tho methods of going in. For they under s,land andhavo so declared that once-in once-in tho method of getting In ,la wholly whol-ly Immaterial.. Once tbero we must asaumo all the obligations and deal with all tho situations which our presence there Inovitnbly Incurs'. "I repeat, therefore that while tho question Is. a stupendous ope. Involving, In-volving, as I sincerely bcllovo, the whole tUture of this republlcvTidTer-thelcss republlcvTidTer-thelcss It Is plain andslmplo.j It' Is tho question upon which every great and noblo Amorican has advised against from Washington to Koose-vcU.''''' Koose-vcU.''''' n'" ( ' 'i i - "Tliej'thlng.wlilch makes this republic re-public powerful for good (a Its com-1 com-1 iHntb f rd"drfoin anil its unembarrassed rlghj (o th,row Its lnfluonco on the sido of justice and peace In ovcry ' greijtjCrUih Pf affairs. Wltness-somq ot thoso scenes at Versailles, such ns t tlio betrayal of 'cTiirin-thd deal by which Shantung was bartered away to nn unfriendly power America i r ' sat) in' tho settlement and was silent. If not silent then by reason of nor ' association powerless. That is tho flrsc lluio in all hqr history that sho connived at tho botrayal ot a frlond- lly peoplo and broko ovcry pledgo, I legal and moral which a pooplo could niako. And that la the tlrat timo that tlio United Statcir ovor Bat In on n European settlement, "That was ono ot hcriflrst If nqt i li l " it tlio flist act as a copartner ot tho old V : ) ! j'WIjnesln also Korea! begging of the peace conference tor at loas a hearing not alone on the principle of self determination, but for the God given right ot self preservation. The hearing waa denied her. Tho United' States sat silent, or If, not silent powerless. That waa tho second sec-ond act of her copartnership with Europe. "And so came India and Syria and Egypt and Ireland asking at least for a Rearing. But a hearing was denied denied by America. Who doubts that had the president been free he, as the representative of this Vre republic, would have given thera a hearing, But he was a member of aV embryonic league He was In a partnership and compelled to respect the wishes of his co-partners. So for (hS first time In tho history of thlsi Republic, tho representatives ot America wero compelled (o turn a deaf ,'ear,ito thoso who were asking for a hearing for Justice, for freo- ' f dom, for liberty. "Now they ask us to sit In as a perinuqedt momber of tho league. And jou know Mr. Balfour says that this Lcaguo of Nations la nothing moio than tho Versailles conrorenco. under another name. In this lenguo one Vote, in Europo may veto every moo for Justice or for freedom of an oppressed people. In this league, by reason of our association, as at Versailles, wo aro no longer that' un-embairassed un-embairassed and Independent pooplo free to thx-ow our lnflunco and counted count-ed upon tho sldo of right. Tho men and women who mako up the fighting5 fight-ing5 slrdng'tlwand mailldlng poxos of tho Republican party, ot tho party of Lincoln, of Garfield and of Hoose vela, Joined by hundreds of thousands thous-ands ot Democrats, will nev6rfcom-promlso nev6rfcom-promlso on thla qucatlon. There Is today In tho world no Influence "for peaco and for civilization dqunl.to tlio freo and untrammeled American and tho best cltizonshlp of tin. country, coun-try, reardless of party, will prwcitr that Influence, uncomprombsed pud -untarnished.'' ' V n |