THE FARMER: FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1920"
FIVK
CUMMIN OS CHAMPIONS.
LEAGUE COVENANT
(Continued From Pace Four.)
loOjre. Invited the Utter to suggest
constructive unudmenti which the
Tl trtanl might incorporate In the
draft; but he refused to do so. At
no Out Baa ho offered construct; rs !
(uMnfennlt. At no time has he fail
ed to offer destructive criticism. So
intolerant was his attitude that ho
would not oven consider a compro
mise proposed by former President
Tsft of Ma own party and which
was assured of the wr-ort of forty
1 root ratio Senators. Pertor Lodsce
ijnw that he controlled the Senate
xrn that in his own time and way,
sa would destroy the Treaty.
-Ill j. is the sordid story of its de
feat. No blacker crime against clv-
StulT i has ever soiled the pages of
our history. Tho last chapter was
written at Chicago.
Vhe Republican platform not only
repudiates the League of Nations, but
praises, without discrimination, all of
ha Republican Senators who partic
ipated in its defeat. Its words of
benediction fall alike upon the irre
concilables, the Lodge reservation
ista, the mild reservationsts, and
those who proposed a separate peace
with Germany. It Is consistent in
one thing only, the recognition of the
fact that the open foes of the Treaty
the secret foes of the Treaty, and the
apparent friends of the Treaty who
conspired with its enemies, are equal
ly responsible for the destruction of
the instrument itself. It would be
idle to inquire by what political leg
erdemain this meaningless and yet
omnlous declaration was prepared. It
is enough to know that the "Old
Guard" sold the honor of America for
the privilege of nominating a reac
tionary for Prestdent.
