AMERICAN POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 25, 25 October 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS

CLERGYMEN WHO STAND FOR LEAGUE

CARDINAL GIBBONS'S NAME

ADDED TO LIST

.By Teleßriph-Prcßg Aißociatton-Oopyrlirlit New York, October* 22.

The Dcmocratio National Committee announces that Cardinal Gibbons has addel his name to a list of 15,509 American clergymen who have taken a hrin stand for the League of Nations. Cardinal Gibbons bases his support chietly upon the Pope's Encyclical 'declaring that all States should unite into one league.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ISOLATION oTmTED STATES EFFECT ON INDUSTRY AND PRODUCTION. New York, October 22. In a speech nt Trenton, New Jersey, Governor Cox said that for the United States to isolate herself from the world would mean that one-third of the nation's factories would close, one-third of the farms would be unfilled. "We would have to bring down our prouuefcion to the level of consumption, -which is two-thirds of the production. We must <eell our surplus to Europe, or business will. 6lump."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Afsn. COX THE FRIEND OF IRELAND Chicago, October 22. Mr. William Bonrke Cochran (a formerCongressman) defies a threat by local Sinn Fein leaders, 'and comes out to support Governor Cox as a friend of Ireland and denounce iSenabor Harding as a foe.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WILSON ADMJSTRATION LASHED Milwaukee, October 22. Senator La Follette, in his first cam-, paign speech for four years, lashed the Wilson administration in a speech to a great audience. Never, he said, in the darkest portion of the world's history had l there been such a betrayal of the American people as when President Wilson handed the .control of the seas to Britain. Th only hope of the people, he declared, lies in the small group, of, Independent Senators and Congressmen. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aean.