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Show oo Letters of Retired Stateman to His i Fool Friends On Some Senators of the United States. B. Kand Swift Dear Friend: Can I explain what is the matter with Senators Lodge, Knox, Borah. Johnson, Sherman and othero? you ask me? Well, sir, before I could explain Senator Sen-ator Lodge I would have to know which Senator Lodge you mean-Lodge the statesman, or Lodge the scholar and historian, or Lodge the near-progressive or Lodge the partisan Wilson-hater. Wilson-hater. If I could explain the composite- Senator Lodge I could explain "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Em-pire." If I could explain Senators Knox and i Sherman I could explain Shake -l speare's famous conundrum, "What's in a name?" If I could explain Senator Borah I could explain why the ibex leaps from one barren crag to another. If I could explain Senator Poindex- ter I could explain the difference between be-tween jazz and "Vogner" if there is any. "Hell-roaring" Hiram Johnson is easy; he can be explained in two words spontaneous combustion. What are they trying to do? you ask. Well, sir, as near as I can make it out, their program seems to be something some-thing like this: To change the senate into a soviet. To picket the president (in effect, at least) at the peace conference. To nullify the constitution in respect to the treaty -making powers of the president. To obtain "official texts" of peace treaties from returning newspaper correspondents, cor-respondents, when a toy balloon or a tin rattle would have done just as well. The break the good faith of the United States, as pledged by the president, pres-ident, by publishing th proposals of peace to Germany. To sing dally the "Hymn of Hate" (directed at the president). Words and music by Senator Poindtxter. To set an example by object-lessons to the Bolshevik! and L W. W.'s of contempt and defiance of tho executive ex-ecutive department of the government. I confess I get the same amusement and excitement out of their auUcs that I would in watching a group of children chil-dren playing in an ammunition factory' or setting fire to my neighbor's garage. ga-rage. Still, you must understand that in opposing the peace treaty and the league of nations they aro not alone. These wretched Instruments of oppression op-pression and violence are also opposed by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Herr Ebert, Herr Hearst, Col. Harvey, Victor Berger, Dudley Field Malone, Georgo Sylvester Vlereck, Chancellor Day, and I could name a dozen more. Will they succeed in their purposes? you ask. Well, sir, if they don't succeed in doing anything worse they ought at least to be successful in getting their names on the "sucker list." Samuel Smiley in New York World. |