DEFENDERS OF THE FLAG

The news that an American senator has been refused permission to enter a foreign country because of his subversive politics, on the grounds that he would create a general feeling of unrest and insecurity, is enough in itself to confound the Boston Evening Transcript. It is warrant for a new crusade against the Bolshevist vipers in this country, who have now invaded the sanctity of the Senate itself. It is almost as if George Rex were accused of waving a red flag. Viewed alone, the news is endowed with a truly awful significance. If the American senate is harboring political heresy, Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Straton will be left alone untainted champions of all that is good and true in national life.

But the very manner in which President Borno of the Republic of Haiti administered his firm rebuke to Senator King must reassure the forces of security and of prosperity. Nor has the staunch helmsman of our ship of state obscured the issue by expressing an opinion. It has been made clear that such had manners as Senator King displayed are not to be tolerated. Senatorial interference with the noble work that is being done by Secretary Kellog and his marines might lead, if allowed to proceed unchastened, to all manner of trouble. President Coolidge by his stern, courageous shonce, and the Transcript by its clear and righteous indignation have once more come forward to save the country in a life or death situation.