Actions of Republicans Boost Paganism, Socialism, Bolshevism, Says Daily Times Editor, Jan. 10,1920

From the editorial page of The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., January 10, 1920, John D. Gold, Editor

Republicans Boost Paganism, Socialism and Bolshevism

It was a great pity that America was not represented at the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty in Paris today.

It is quite a peculiar spectacle that the president of the League of Nations Council at the head of the greatest nation in the world which preserved civilization and won the war at the sacrifice of ‘American lives, shall have to forego the glory and the honor due her on account of a few jealous politicians who are afraid that the opposite party may receive some credit if they carry out their pledges made at Paris in framing the treaty.

What must the Bolshevists in Russia and the Socialists in Europe and pagan Japan think of the attitude of America in refusing to have anything to do with her sister allies after the war has been won and countless questions affecting the physical and moral condition of the world quite as important as winning the war agreed to be solved?

The attitude of America as expressed by the little Republican senators must cause them to be delighted with the situation when they view the divided condition of the allies and the isolation and solitude of America that declares that we will have nothing to do with the rest of the world.

With France, England and Italy bled white, and the evil forces of the most outrageous idealism rampant in Europe that assails the very foundation of every practical rule of law and order, we may expect to see a rejuvenation of Germany and Russia, and an alliance of the Soviets and the radicals in these two countries, together with the support of pagan Japan who has opinions of her own as to the world conquest and domination in the east.

We have by our actions handed Europe and the east to the forces of Bolshevism and Socialism and with the remnants of western civilization battling against these, we have declared as we fold our cloak around us that we shall have nothing to do with them. Eventually, however, we may find that we cannot alone either save the world or stay the march of this propaganda more poisonous than death to our own shores, even though we may attempt to deport them periodically as fast as they accumulate.

The influence of the United States has been cut down in a night. No longer is her voice heard in the affairs of the world. No longer can we say to Japan you must respect our opinion as to affairs in the East. No more can we say to Russia with effect that Socialism is wrong, and its ideals absolutely repugnant and utterly impractical, and fiendishly hellish in their application. If we do we shall be laughed at, for the (they?) know they are empty word and mean nothing, and the Republican senators are responsible for it all.