An Open Letter to President Hai'ding
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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY 261 266 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY SQUARE DEAL * -+Z v +l* The National Elections HWRONG TOBE H advise the election of a republican Congress for would have pushed it through, if it had not been for the ALL SCHUFtt^fI WEthe following reasons: masterly strategy of Senator Lodge. First, we still have confidence in Mr. Harding What credence can be placed in Mr. Hitchcock’s prom- n and his policy of good-will in the world; ises now, that he will work for the abrogation of the monVhlv Secondly, nothing could throttle Mr. Harding’s efforts treaty which he fought hard to have passed when he was completely saddling him a hostile Con- in power? None. more than with VOLUME XIV 25 CENTS A COPY $ 1.35 FOR SIX MONTHS $2.50 PER YEAR NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, gress. It is pernicious anti-Harding propaganda to say: And again Mr. Hitchcock has suddenly discovered that 1922 NUMRjtd ° there is a Horror on the demands the with- Address: 93 Fifth Avenue, New York City “We are in favor of Mr. Harding, but desirous of elect- Rhine, and En,ered as sec August 10, °nd-class matter, 1914, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act March 3 drawal of the uncivilized French troops. For four years F"St ,SSUed of 1870 ing a democratic Congress”; 1 ' AuSUSt 10- 1914’ undef the °f “The Fatherland” and published umnterruptedly day! he has known the facts, and done NOTHING. Is it to the present Thirdly, while not at all satisfied with much that was likely that be will be able or even willing to take any that was not done by the republican Con- done and more effective steps after the election is over? gress these past two years, we are convinced that this Hitchcock Wilson’s and his election republican Congress was a vast improvement over the was man Friday, of the Month would cheer the defeated than Diary democratic Congress under Wilson. In short, it is not men two years ago more anything else. There is then reason why in a question between one party and the other, but between no whatsoever a London fog could have seemed contemporary, The Freeman, bv Terome an exception should be made in his case from the gen- gloomier :han the political Lackenbruch a party which was about sixty per cent right, and one NOTHINQ skies beneath which the He tells us that Ebert is “stocky, square-headed, eral rule to return republicans to Congress this fall. German Reichstag month. The with a that proved itself one hundred per cent wrong in the reassembled last close-cropped black pompadour, sharp eyes and' Another deserving special mention is that deputies are reported to have looked of a full- most critical period of the country’s history; case of hungry—some blooded face.’’ Ebert clambered out of his car Lodge itr Massachusetts. them quite lean. Nobody in Germany is on that Fourth, Wilsonism, which the American people en- Senator This paper has hardly who poor seems occasion without attracting any particular attention ever been able to agree with Senator Lodge; and even able to get whal we Americans call a square meal and lle deavored to bury fathoms deep, is beginning to raise its toiled up the great flight of steps in front of the would the gallant fight made by the Senator against the Treaty many of the deputies are quite poor. tag building Reichs- head. The election of a democratic Congress give while the band played “Deutschland fiber of Versailles and League of was not so * * * courage to those who assisted in the ruin of western <be Nations AHes.” The spectators exchanged dubious looks. Thev civilization, and who desire, in the future, to spill Amer- much made in the interest of justice and the honor of The masses o: the 'German people are so miserable were silent. Time was when the Berlin crowd America pledged for the making of just peace,—the burst into ican blood and waste American money in the interest a that they have lest all interest in finance, debts, repara- cheers if the ruler of the land emerged a that of Versailles,—as of Mr. from motor car of foreign empires and the spoils of war fraudulently very opposite of because tions. They are more worried about milk, cheese, bread and climbed those magnificent steps to that proud Lodge’s intense hatred of the then incumbent of the and tune. allotted to them. meat. Of such sublimity are the topics that absorb * * * White House. Latterly the Senator has been about as No good, politically speaking, results from the German intellect—an intellect that can boast its Kant, “Don’t Fifth, rash in his campaign promises as has been Mr. Hidheock, you find it a little difficult to follow swinging aimlessly, like pendulum, from one party _to its Schopenhauer and its Fichte but is now wrestling Einstein’s a with the that many of his constitu- theories of relativity and fourth-dimensional space?’’ difference, however, • with the metaphysical problem of the butcher and the “I another. ents unlike those of are fanatical partisans don’t find any mathematical philosophy unhesitatingly, advise the re-elec- Nebraska, of baker. They do not even care in Berlin who is chosen difficult to While we therefore, the and that Mr. Lodge therefore prom- follow unless it concerns itself with the German Entente, did not to succeed President Ebert, or who to mark.” tion of a republican Congress, and are convinced of the goes the next * ise to demand the removal of the French uncivilized * * sanity of this advice in view of the silent word being conference to face the grim visages of the Allies. They colored soldiers from the Rhine, but the entry of the There is an idea in passed around that we should turn out the republicans want to know only where to get a plate of soup. They Germany that Ebert will b'e chosen United States into a war against Turkey and the 'like. have to succeed himsel'f at the forthcoming in November as completely as we turned out the demo- no appetite for statistics. election of a Presi- * * * dent of the German Republic. crats two years ago, we believe that Caere are individual Offhand, therefore, it would seem that this paper (Perhaps we should have would have to advise the of Mr. Lodge. this spoken of the German cases where common sense rather than this general ad- defeat But The arrival of President Ebert at the Reichstag build- Relich—the last word inspiring Mr. Lodge is opposed by Col. much mysterious suspicion in the vice should 1rule. is not the case. Caston, ing for the new session is described as a funereal affair—- French mind.) If a prominent lawyer of Boston, closely allied with the Ebert does not succeed himself he can An instance which immediately comes to mind is the only a few hundred people in ij ie crowd ! The motor car scarcely return to high financial interests, and supported in his campaign his occupation of saddle maker. candidacy of Senator Reed of Missouri for re-election. of Herr Ebert is ancient and hoarse and sadly in need The unfortunate horse by professors and other emotional advocates is in such a state of neglect that no Reed is an. honest American and a fearless man. He university of repair although it looks gay in new paint. one in Germany has of Nations, and running on a much need of except, as Wilson. In of the League democratic * * saddles the deputy repre- was not of the spineless “behinders” of * who one state platform which a specific paragraph lauda- sents a Baden watering place his primary campaign Wilson actually came out against contains said, to put them on the tory of Arraigned against Mr. Lodge, there- The picture must have been no less affecting than was backs of the German people. him; and on election day all the advocates of Wilsonism Wilson. that The Germans, he added, forces of right, but those of iniquity. of Ebert painted in the columns of our New York are the only beasts of burden will be ranged against Reed. In this case, therefore, die fore, are not the left in Europe. would b'e no improvement over defeat of the democrat and NOT his success will spell a Col. Caston Senator Lodge Both be Bourbons. But while victory for Since, however, nothing must may called Caston Wilsonism. lack of courage in his unwilling- b'e guarded against more jealously than to give courage is exemplifying a pitiful ness to declare himself in favor of the candidate for to Wilsonism, Senator Reed should receive the support district his own - whom the people of all patriotic Americans. attorney of county, nominated with a majority of over despite the A peculiar situation exists in Nebraska, where Senator 25,000. hysterical opposition of the press, Mr. Lodge has shown Hitchcock, running for re-election, is endeavoring to himself a man of singular courage frequently. We do capture the good-will vote and the German vote by let- agree with his views, and he has never shown ting it be known that he is an opponent of the Treaty not sympa- thy with but as the fates have dealt out the of and that he will exert every ounce of our views, Versailles, card's, his defeat would probably encourage the Wilson energy when re-elected to bring about the abrogation of and advocates the treaty of Ver- that democrats of nefarious treaty.