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Show oo CONTEMPT FOR SENATOR REED. How great is tho contempt for Senator Sena-tor Reed of Missouri is disclosed by tho newspaper comments on that senator's sen-ator's public utterances. On Friday tho Standard gave its opinion quite freely. Today tho Salt Lake Tribune says: The Honorable "Jim" Reed of Kansas Kan-sas City, one of the most notorious of tho Democratic senatorial misfits, lias announced his opposition to Die league of nations plan, ns proposed by President Presi-dent Wilson. The opposition of the Missourlan will not cause any great amount of surprise, for he 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 tho truly great mea 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. administra-tor. Reed was against price control, and so far as lie was able hindered the administration when drastic action became be-came necessary in order that our allies al-lies could be supplied with food. What the Kansas 'City man wanted was competition com-petition among the foreign nations for our foodstuffs, extortionate prices and a great harvest for the profiteers, especially es-pecially the grain and meat dealers doing do-ing business in the town situated on the banks of the Knw river. Tho fact that countless thousands of men, women and children in tho European Euro-pean countries would havo starved under his plan did not appeal to Reed, and he did not care how much the poorer classes in tho United States suffered suf-fered so long as his friends and constituents, con-stituents, (ho food speculators, made fortunes while tho best and bravest of our young men were rushing up to the vory 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 tho lie to the professions made by this country when we drew the sword, by refusing to take any measures to safeguard safe-guard tho future peace of the world. The brotherhood of man idea is rejected re-jected by theso ."little brothers of the rich," and they insist that a league of nations will not hold together if formed. Mentally they are of the same typo as the Prussian militarists, who held that the weaker nations must inevitably in-evitably go to the wall. Judging tho world by their own moan and selfish spirits, they declare that it is useless to attempt to prevent war because some particular country or combination combina-tion of countries-will be certain to infringe in-fringe upon the rights of others and that force will always be necessary to i prevent an upheaval. Therefore, thev would make no effort to get out of the rut in which the world lias been floundering floun-dering so long, and they would not take advantage of tho present glorious opportunity to make war a thing of the past. |