The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-26
Hannis Taylor, Professor of In
ternauonaI Law at G, u, As
sails Peace Address.
"KING'S SPEECH RESTORED"
Agrees With Senator Reeds
Statement That Speech Will
Make President Ridiculous.

In statement today Hannis Tay-
Tor, formerly American Minister to
spain and professor of international
law at Georgetown Law School, re-
garding his views on President Will
sons recent peace speech, said:
mo matter how Utopian. how i'm
practicable, that distempered dream
of Mr. Wilson's may be, he is abso-
iutelX innocent of it's authorship.
Every student of international law
and diplomacy knows that what NJ.
Wilson has ventured to call his peace
plan Is a discredited derelict that has
been floating upon the troubled
waters OF world diplomacy for more
than two centuries.
Gees Back to 17IS.
This old and familiar stalking
horse began his career as early as
1713. when the Able St. Pierre came
forward with q project to secure per
pStna1 peace between the European
powers through an alliance or league |
Of European states which should
overrule the right OF wal, and sub
NIT all defenses to the arbitration
OF a diet representing twenty votes.
three-fourths Of which was to be
ANAL.
I'm 1859 followed the scheme OF
Jeremy Bentteam. VINO proposed 10
secure universal and perpetual pace
through a league of European states,
to be governed by laws to be en-
acted by Q federal legislature and
enforced through a federal police
fierce.
Afser French Revelation.
I'm 1875 Emmanuel Raut warmed
ever the old idea in his essay,
Founding Perpetual Peace in which
he stated that international law
should rest upon q confederation If
free states which should guarGn-
tee untrammeled intercommunication
through the establishment of q world
citiSenship, under the direction Of q
congress to be called and dissolved
81 the pleasure of. the members OF
the confederation l.
'In 1912 James Mil went . step
farther by insisting In his peace plan
that delegates from the several gov
Orntnents should not only constitute
an arbitral court, but should formu-
late q code for its guidance
I have been thus careful to out
line the, history of the evolution OF
the balloon which Mr.. Wilson refilled
the other day, in the presence OF q
startled Senate in order that he may
not be unjustly accused of its author
ship. of w4ch he is absolutely limo
cent 1 am sure he does not desire
''to strut before the world in b6r-
rowed plumes." -s-.r --. oil. o.
Claims wilson Ia Wit
The only new and original thing
contained In his recent speech, deliv-
cred from the new throne Of admin
istration,' Mr.. Wilson saw Mt to put
In the form Of an Irish bull, which
prompts us to believe that he really
has some sense of humor. Neither
Cicero nor Sheridan could have been
more witty than Mr.. Wilson when he
suggested the transfer of the Monroe
doctrine 10 the European theater of
action. We must not be surprised il
he proposes next to rear arctic sea
lions in the hot waters OF the tropics.
g Madison Not Author.
The fact is, Mr.. Wilson is after the
scalp OF Jefferson, who was guilty of
founding the Democratic party. Mr..
Wilson's deliberate estimate of the
political character OF the founder, as
embodied in his History of the Ameri-
can People, bristIes with contempt
Jefferson abolished the Kings
Speech" in 1901, and established in its
stead the Presidential message. After
the lapse of more than a century Mr..
Wilson, without anybody's leave, has
abolished the Presidential message
and has re-established the Kings
Speech" which he is perpetuslly, de-
livering from his self-erected throne
or administration"
Ignores Warning.
And yet, he is not satisfied. He in
sIsts upon aboiIishing abruptly. by a
stroke. the best beloved child of JEFF
ferson's brsin-the Monroe Doctrine
As all the world knows, Jefferson
that doctrine at Month
cello, at the urgent request of Presi-
dent Monroe. who contributed nothing
TO il but his name Jefferson wrote
Dur first and fundamental maxim
should be never to entangle our
selves in the broils OF Europe; our
never to suffer Europe to I
NEEDLE with our Atlantic affairs!
Mr. Wilson, denouncing those great
iemocTatic foundation stones as
rank heresy. said that It is our pri-
mary Christian duty ito entangle
ourselves in the broils OF Europe" C
nd that we should give in that way
he right to Europe to NEEDLE with :
,ur Atlantic affairs" II we dare to q
'oIIow Mr.. Wilson in this desperate n
enterprise, we will be involved in . =
very war that should occur here
Lfter. Id
Praises Reeds Remark. d
'AIl real Democrats who have the y
Ilightest respect for the memory of I
Jefferson, and who are patriots,
IhouId glory in the brave, noble 4
words, spoken at our critical mo- o
nent by Senator Reed. of Missouri. .
Ie drsmatized the whole situation a
when he said The Presidents recon-
nend9dions in his address to the Sem :,
tie last Monday will, fear, when h
hey become understood in all their Il
make him ridiculous before b
he country and before the world. y
,elieve the President Infused himself a
n q political way That verdict will y
DON be approved by all patriotic-
americans, who still reverence the :
as the fathers made it." Z
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