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THE SENATOR STARTS RIGHT.
It must be gratifying to all thinking Georgians—
and that is a high percentage of ALL Georgians—to
note that their junior senator, by his first important
vote cast in the upper house cf congress since taking
seat a few days ago, was on the progressive side.
This statement has to do with the vote of Senator
Wm. J. Harris last week FOR the resolution submitting
to the states of the union the proposition to amend the
ccrsFETUtioji of the United States granting the ballot to
the women of the nation. If memory serves right, this
is the first vote ever cast by a Georgia senator for ex
wnding the right of suffrage to the mothers of men.
Equal suffrage is a disputed question in the South
—which means that there is divided opinion on the
question in Georgia—because it involves incidentally
another question. But there can be no dispuiting the
fact that equal suffrage is RIGHT, in theory at least,
and, just as other problems have been solved as they
were met, there need not be the slightest doubt that the
incidental questions coming to the South with the advent
of suffrage will be solved too, satisfactorily and justly.
In taking this vigorous position in his first real test,
Senator Harris has shown where he stands; he has shown
that he not only stands for progressive thought and ac
tion, but that he may be depended upon to support the
program and principles of our great president who, after
wrestling long with the problem of putting the ballot
in the hands of the women by federal action, lined up
cn the side of right, which has always won him.
Senator Harris and Georgia are to be congratulated
upon their showing in the record of the United States
Senate for the memorable afternoon of Friday, June 5,
•1919. "" '■ 4'T' < " > * ’ -T i
THE SENATE AND IRELAND.
By a vote of sixty to One the United States senate
has officially asked the American Peace Commission
sitting at Versailles to obtain a hearing for the Irish
Cause before the Peace Conference. The resolution
embodying this request reads as follows:
“Resolved that the Senate of the United States
earnestly requests the Peace Commission at Versailles
to endeavor to secure for Arthur Griffiths, Edward de
Valera and Count George Noble Plunkett a hearing be
fore the Peace Conference in order that they may pre
sent the cause of Ireland.
“Resolved that the Senate of the United States
express its sympathies with the aspirations of the Irish
people for a government of its own choice.”
In his statement in support of this resolution Sena
tor Lodge said among other things that before the Peace
Conference had undertaken to regulate world-affairs,
including the interpretation of a strictly national policy
like the Monroe Doctrine, such a resolution as that pass
ed by the senate would have been considered undue med
dling with a question which was not our business. “But
the objection,” the Senator said, “can no longer exist.
The Peace Conference has passed far beyond its primary
business of making peace with Germany and making
peace with the world. It his entered into the sphere
of international relations the world over.”
For this reason, the Senator said, the resolution
adopted by the Senate was justified.
Perhaps no such justification was needed. “Self
determination” has become an almost universally ac
cepted principle. It has been accepted for Poles and
Jugoslavs, for Jews and Czechoslavs, for Arabians and
Lithuanians; perhaps it should be accepted for Ireland.
However, the question involves great difficulties. For
hundreds of years British statesmen have wrestled with
the Irish problem—from Cromwell to Lord Morley. Ul
ster aside, there can be no question that Ireland wants
her independence and perhaps there is no reason why she
should not present her claims before the Peace Confer
ence.
But for the Senate of the United States to pass
V Mason
WEATHER.
IF I could run the weather for seasons two or
three, a medal made of leather you’d doubtless
hand to me. The climate now presented strikes us
as being bad; most men are discontented and some
of us are mad. When sunshine’s badly needed, the
rain falls every day; the fields by hard work seeded
are drowned and washed away. And when we need
some water to save our oats and rye, the sun gets
hot and hotter, and crops begin to fry. I’d get my
friends together and ask for their advice, if I could
run the weather just once or maybe twice. I’d ask
the honest voters, the farmers blue and tired, the
weary burden toters, to tell what they desired.
I’d give them what they wanted, a cyclone or some
sleet; by precedent undaunted, I’d give it and re
peat. The man who runs the weather sits in a tow
er alone, and cares no fig or feather how weary
mortals moan. He has no helpful system, no useful
plan in force; though we have often hissed him, he
goes his bughouse course; he keeps the punk sun
sizzling when we are needing rain, and sends the
water drizzling when floods are on the plain. He
combs his hangdown heather, and runs things hit
or miss; if Icould run the weather I’d fill your
lives with bliss.
at this ttime, and by almost unanimous vote, a resolu
tion of the character above mentioned, is a matter
fraught with the gravest danger not only to the fate of
the proposed League of Nations but to the very peace of
the world. It is utterly immpossible to understand how
the United States Senate, a body which is usually most
careful and conservative in all international matters,
should have taken such extraordinary and such utterly
unprecedented action as to suggest in effect the dis
memberment ot any nation and particularly one with
which we are not only at peace but with which we are
on the most friendly terms imaginable. The situation
is pregnant with limitless dangerous possibilities that
may conceivably mean the disruption of the Peace Con
ference, the destruction of all its work, or even the com
plete nullification of the beneficial effects of the vic
tory of the allies. Whatever may be our personal or our
national sympathies or desires regarding the Irish prob
lem, the matter is unquestionably a domestic question
for Great Britain and Ireland themselves to solve; and
we, as a nation, have no more right to take the action
that the senate has taken than the British Parlia
ment has to recommend to the Peace Conference that
the residents of Alaska or Porto Rico or New York City
or any other part of the United States should be per
mitted a hearing on the question of their right to with
draw from under the authority of the United States and
set up a separate, independent government.
The Federal government at Washington was, as
will be remembered, gravely aggravated not so many
years ago at the merest suggestion that England might
recognize the Confederacy—a governmental organiza
tion which had not only demonstrated its mighty power
but which also unquestionably represented the will of
practically every one of its millions of highly cultured
people. Bitterly as our Washington government resented
Britain’s proposed action at that critical time, the plan
was far less uncalled for and out of place than is the
action of the Senate in passing this resolution. Indeed,
this action is so utterly absurd and unjustifiable that one
is almost forced to the conclusion that it must be the
result of some trick—possibly a trick to defeat the
League of Nations. Whatever the motive or the method
in passing this resolution the Senate has done the most
extraordinary and dangerous thing as regards the peace
and welfare of the world that has happened since Ger
many started the awful world war. Possibly prompt and
wise action by the president in interpreting this action
to the English people may dam the flood of indignation
that seems inevitable; or the Senate itself may, by reso
lution, interpret or modify its astounding act so as to
avoid disastrous results. Unquestionably something of
this kind should be done, and done quickly.
PRICES REMAIN HiGH.
Price problems have been under investigation by
the Department of Labor of late. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics has found that retail prices for food reached
their peak in December, 1918, and that there were slight
declines in January and February, but advances in the
two succeeding months. In April, 1919, the cost of 22
articles of food combined was for the United States as
a whole 1R per cent higher than in April, 1918, and
85 per cent higher than in April, 1913.
“It is my belief that the range of prices for the
necessities of life will average little, if any, lower than
at the present time,” says Julius Rosenwald, of Sears,
Roebuck & Co., Chicago, in discussing price tendencies.
“Os course there will be some but I do not i
look for a sudden or violent reduction in the near future <
aside from those which have been artificially stimulat- |
ed.” Mr. Rosenwald’s view is similar in this respect to j
that of John J. Arnold, vice president of the First Na- >
tional Bank of Chicago, who says it is futile for industry
to wait for pre-war commodity prices.
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