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Show oo AND NOW THEY ARE TO RATIFY. As The Standard predicted, when tweedledee was changed to tweedle dum in the covenant of peace, the round-robin senators have hastened to declare they will ratify. Already the senators are explaining that they are prepared to endorse, although the amended league of nations is essentially essen-tially what it was in the original form, with the exception of a sop given to quiet those barking at the heels of YVilaon. Three senators though are standing on their original ground. They are Borah, Polndexter and Reed. Senator Reed cannot be appeased for he bitterly hates the President who pointed him out in the. early days of the war as one of the vicious opponents oppon-ents of the administration. Borah and Poindexter consistently l have been fighting the league. They maintain that America should hold to t the isolation prescribed by George ; Washington. They stand where Washington Wash-ington stood when America had not more than eight million population, and America dreaded and feared European Euro-pean intrigue. The average American today, with red blood in his veins, neither fears nor dreads all the world and is ready to take its full part In giving to the world freedom from the horrors of wars which engulf whole continents. |