The sun., 1919-09-04
II.

The Executive part of the treaty
making power Of the United States
Government demands that the Sena-
torial part Of the treaty making power
shall efface itself entirely, shall sur
render its constitutional function and
shall accept the Executive made
treaty without a single amendment
or reservation.
AS lately as Tuesday evening Sena-
tor SWANSON, after talking with Presi-
dent WILSON at the White House on
, the eve Of his departure on his
months abandonment of his duties at
Washington, reported him "as unal-
terably opposed as ever to any changes
that would involve recommitting the
treaty to the Paris Conference"
= The same plea was the only basis Of
Senator HITcHcocK's speech yesterday
afternoon demanding the ratification
/, of the treaty unchanged and attack
Ing the Senators who are exercising
their constitutional function.
Here is the sole reason which the
President has yet vouchsafed for his
: stubborn insietence that there must be
no change whatever at Washington in
that which his labors and tradings
produced at Paris: Any amendment
ror reservation or valid Interpretation
by the Senate will throw the entire
treaty back to Paris and reopen it to
long controversy.
AS If it outweighed every other con-
sideration. all the parrots in the
aviary are repeating this argument
for unqualified ratification, regardless
of the effect on our own country's in
terests and future.
If the Wilson made treaty expressly
bound the United States to carry out
, at its undivided expense all the de-
cIsions of the League of Nations;
If it deprived the United States of
any voice in the Council Of the
League and Of any vote In the As
sembly, instead of giving us one vote
tc six for the British Empire;
II it specifically required Us to fur
nish without compensation all the
military and naval force needed for
the policing of the entire world in the
interest of land grabbing Powers;
If it made us directly responsible
for the peace of the Balkans, for the
peace of Asia Minor, for the govern
!. ment Of the Kurds and the Wahabees
and the Bedouin tribes Of the desert,
for the merciful behavior of the Turks
toward the Armenians, for the pro-
lection Of French interests In Syria
and the protection of British Interests
In Palestine, Mesopotamia. Arabia,
Africa and Polynesia;
If 1t committed us to an unques-
tioning approval Of japanese penetra-
tion and control not merely Of Shan
tung but Of all the remaining prov
inces of China;
II 1t provided for disarmament by
the United States except as to such
forces as were to be at the command
and disposal of the supersovereign
League;
If 1t definitely required us to re-
nounce the Monroe Doctrine and to
abandon our traditional policy re-
specting European interference in the
political affairs Of the nations of the
Western Hemisphere,
II all these unthinkable things were
explicit in the Wilson made treaty
and some of them are pretty much
there-it will be observed that the
sole argument of Mr.. WILSON for the
unhesitating ratification of his treaty,
the argument that any effectual
change will send the treaty back to
Paris and reopen 1t to long contro-
yersy, would be just as good and no
shstter than it is to-day.
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