Arizona republican., 1919-08-16
Further Delay Is Criminal


 We have received copy of the Treaty of Peace with Germany As it comes from the govern ment printing office as senate document know it to be authoritative authentic trustworthy cept for few typographical errors. such appears in the last line but four. in the words Done at Versatile the twenty eighth day of june tnote the lower case "j-this caution extended the printer well the reader)
 The treaty fills 1s2 12 mo. pages and embraces 40 articles. It is divided into II parts each part into two sections Part I consisting of 26 articles is the Covenant of the League of Nations We lack space to go it. touching only the high spots but would recommend to readers that they procure copies of the treaty from study of it will their minds off high cost of living and other worldly worries and it will give them a new attitude toward the treaty and toward the world in general
 We have read it, somewhat cursorly and we have experienced change heart as aspect of the situation It has been theory, based we confess now, inadequate information that there was no need Of haste in the matter of ratifyng the treaty That theory only illustrates eoeksureness We the immediate ratification of treaty. for day of delay only proongs the effect of least two wrongs by the Germans upon two peoples nearly two decades ago.
  paration" (tfough we have sought in vain for repara tions for America,) Section g. under the head of special Provisions" the following which has con vinced of the our now discarded theory, and the dangers of procrastination:
 Article 24s-Withn six months after the coming into force of the present Treaty, many will restore to His Majesty the King of the Hediaz the original Koran of the Caliph othman, which removed from Medina by the Turkish is to ed to the ex Emperor William II.
 Within the period Germany will hand over to His Brtannc Majesty's Government the skull of the Sultan Mkwawa which was removed from the Proteetorate of German East Africa and taken to Germany.
 'The delivery of the articles above referred 10 will be effected in such place and in such ditions may be laid down by the Governments to which they to be restored"
 The captious and purists eriticise the here of the word restored" the ground that since the skull of Mlswawa in the possession of the British government and since the time of the rape of the original copy of the Koran there government of the His Majesty the King of the Hedjaz these articles be restored but may be delivered" to those governments
 But we look beyond the narrow rules of language by which the council at Versailles could not in it's great task or fighting the wrongs of humanity be bound. We know what the treaty means and when
 
 So this is the situation: Every day that the pgmy minded recalcitrants of the hold up or defer the ratification the treaty is prolonged the de- privaton of the King of the Hedjaz whose very soul may be impered for lack of his familiarity with the precepts of the And for every day so wasted the Skull of Mkwawa pines in Germany and His British Majestys Government without it's presence and influence is disturbed by unrest the strikes of policemen the activities of profiteers and general discomfort.
 The delay of action in the senate plays into the hands of Germany The interminable sessions of the committee foreign relations leave from day to day the Koran the Skull in hands of the despoI- And there is another danger. that Germany en- eouraged by the attitude of the may construe it to be expression of the in of it's permanent possession of these articles may after beated ratification refuse give them up.
 But that would be Germany's mistake Little it would know of the spirit of the people and of their purpose fulfill the obligations their gov ernment of which is to compel, when necessary, the observance of the treaty. That Skull and that Koran will be restored if their restoration should de- mand the last American ship the last dol lar and the last drop of American blood