Republican farmer., 1919-07-18
THE SENATORS AND THE TREATY OF PEACE
JANITORIAL COMMENT, followi


 No pancr proof incorrgble tendency of the senators everything through partisan If the same individuals heard the speech private they would divide their opinions about in the way Republicans thinking speech and all the Dem ocras declaring a good speech.
 The senate, being plainly divided by interest and not by genuine help the country What the sen aid to anybody The senate doesn't think
 Acting like auomoons, all the Republican sen, the President There be seven or eight exceptions All the Democrats think with the President with one or exceptions.
 Policy pulls string and sounds of approval or dsapprov emitted
 method of expressing their opinions contained The Democratic opinions more diversified and orlgal ha the Republican opinions.
 The Democrats they supporting the League speak upon phases But the Republicans having but points of opposition were limited for material
 Republican senators surprisingly limited The larger group disposed of the Presidents speech and his arguments and narrative by eerng the beauty of his dcon
 living and no living statesmen who sur pass Mr. Wilson in the skiul of noble and harmonious
 He uses the right word right place. always the very for the purpose. He always the feest poss necessary the expression of his thought com paotng sentence ideas for the expression of which clumsier would a page.
 Upon the grosser type who get into the senate those spent much time in the realm of ideas much thought to Christian side of fe the ideas o the President irritant
 Accustomed to ruder thought which they express in altr his view practical needs the country which express in terms of class sehness offend such senators who only partly understand the President
 Feeling nferority and his superiority, they offense of his workmanship in English as if it were wrong for him to be master of his task.
 Specimens of this senatorial irritation will be interesting
 Senator Mccormick, Illinois said the speech was "sooth ing IneI1ifuous and uninormatve."
 Newbcrry Michigan said, "I interested in the Presidents English but disappointed as to his advice
 Senator of Utoh said, another Wisonan essay. not up to the standard
 Senator Brandegce of Connecticut said T could best de- by that bubbles of oratory and souffle phrases. If told us nothing
 Mir Brandegee. who has neither many ideas many words express the ideas he has, surpases of in the crudity with which he expresses his thought
 For thousands of centuries it was easier for men to fight than All thought is conducted in words There closely thought without words to be vehicles ed must be which the thought expressed
 follows therefore that the mastery of words is also, in a large sense, a mastery of thought
 It will be found that the able in community very completely equipped with accurate words for peciaies though they be unequpped with the O full general subjects.
 Presidents gift of noble expression is proof power; of his capacity to handle the questions which have been entrusted to him.
 senator who says that the Presidents speech mel fluous that it essay, that the English that bubbles of oraory wants others understand Wilson gave narrative arg1 gave any information. He wishes it understood the President is all noise and no action
 wish is concordant with the stupidity which par tisanship frequently induces
 The President is above all American executives, times of action.
 Roosevelt called of action, and was Yet his speeches numerous and long, couched in very careful very accurate language.
 The executive who supervised the massive action
  would have fallen a vast confusion.
 It is, in way compliment to the President that and brief speeches and state make impression of numbers and length for inserted rapidly into slow head often create just such feel ing.
 The speech is narrative. It tells in simple ths President did thought the and what the other negotiations thought did menave. gives the why the treaty made it made in the precise fashion has, and why the should ray it.
 The facts and arguments not given in detail. President specifically that the of detail will be the committee affairs regular season.