South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-05
Your Common Sense Us. Their Pettifoggery.

a PPLY your " native common ense to the situation. You may not
L \ You may not be a national or an international statesman. but if you IRE
Common sense is the best answe to the naive qups petdfoggehes dem
s 9sssG' and 'o0hi'd'' IF lawyers and statesmen that has yet bee"
Antiquity realized this when it left the chambers of learned justs and
from the chsf in disputatOns Of mad ligants and cunning barHsters and
with all its faults is n the final analysis the nos sensible feature of our
Likewise with the foundations of democracy: When antiquity tired of
people began taking things into their W hands and applying their native
common sense proved heir efficiency so much the greater that it took and
has been taking from that day on
,ab D len "1aeyMv ne voice on% OF the E 2eGPls- .nr Ams69 ca to-day tGds ,.s is son od~med
sense. to certain of the knaveries being perpenated by certain of their states
vadons in the ratification of the Paris treaty and League of Nations
YOUR common sense tells you that when you enter into a contract you aus
must be a meeting 1@" of the en- minds minds of the On parties TS there thereto %'' upon the an" ams
n other words the thing intended . be proposed and actually pro
tended to be accepted and actually accepted, OF the other side
pIoy sd@ sB%|, 's 5e. you N l'0 d1S II: s is a6%n o 7' b 5't .% 3t siasAo of 1. 5 m as i%
anea unde5sf SsS no the ssrs ss d things 'b an aBs- s1%s s ss ess;.t hi IS an is a Sc ssFse
~ha 9 y Is~Yd dfvi 1g ad will iii make "a 5sP &at as PIaHf9 % y as h n 6s o sos go%1
face; furthermore tharhe Law. will insist that 1 the p9ries o a contract cannot
them, both alike applying the logic of the subject matter to the language
rated, dhs IS ' are: much sb P a aoa sts~ b between: ss I Sss Il: ,: . &:i' ssd fe associated ID bowers power.
ssomne farmer for a scar carload Of hogs would be-and the necessity 20 Of this
meeting of the minds upon the sam things in the same sense the anne
Nth m ma /" lily II you a can a. mG k%d n @r e0nI act nnA sort OF treaty 1t o wIu De,
covenants alike?
YOU saw the various amendments to the peace ueay-some forty of them,
IL by Lodge, Fan IL Johnson, Moses n the Test-god To- to defeat
in the senate The amendments would have changed the language of the
back to conference, if the plain intent of the language employed is to be
changed at ALL
But failing in that a majority of the senate showing better judgment the
League and treaty murderers hope now to humbug the American public. and
perhaps enough of the senate to prevent a twothrds vote for ratification,
with a series of reservations and interpretations, indirectly having the m
effect as the amendments would have had directly
Just another and l@sm manly "a OF ProIongmg the quarrel tina is all; less
manly, and less statesmanEke. because more snakeHke sneakng, under
handed, and accompanied by misleading slranc
Sen. Lodge and Sen. Knox have both assured the public that reserva-
tons or interpretations would not throw the treaty and League back into o
ference; that exchanges of diplomatic notes., or even ience-said to presume
acquiescence-could serve all purposes. but it appears 10 that in their pre-
ambe to the ratification resolutions the exchanges of notes and silent
acquiescence, are OF to be regarded as, sufficient
A majority of the powers must accept the ervadO submitted by
the United States saith the preamble, and then comes a set of reservations
which practically read the United States out of the whole affair.
You are supposed, gentle reader not o get this bit OF evasve humbug-
gerry Misrepresentation, or the purpose of the move You are supposed to
get. tired of the Iongdrawn ot agitation, and say, oh well, anything to get
it owe with. =" and accede to being humbugged without a thought Of the mor
row, that instead of getting it over with, you are merely prolonging. the
agony.
If the Paris treaty goes back to conference. which it must if the senate
raufes it with n reservations or interpretations addenda 1t means virtually
another year before this turmoil will be over with, enabling the world to settle
down TO a peace basis
OF curse. that will enable the anti admns1ahonsts to say. during the
next presidential canvass-whch seems to be their main purpose-hat any
infinitely more Importance than needed settled conditions throughout the
world.
- Incident to which. watch them Penouml If they can't get these reserva-
tons through. which they can't they will substitute sol more less harmless
ones.a and then some absolutely harmless ones anything % beat Wilson.
Apply or native common sense to al analysis of such craftsmanship so
patiently installing you for a fool and insulting your inteIigence-and then
make answer to yourself as to your good opinion of the statesmen indug-
ing in IT.