The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-12
THE SENATORS AND THE TREATY OF PEACE

all Republican Nearly all the Democratic senators said the speech splendid. No paner proof is needed of the ncorrgbe tendency of the to view everything through partisan If the individuals heard the speech private they divide their opinions about in the all the Republicans thinking speech and all the Dem ocras declaring it a good speech The senate being plainly by interest and not by genuine belief help the country. What the ate thinks is not aid to anybody The senate doesn't think
 Acting like many auomaons, all the Republican sen- against the President There be eight exceptions. All the Democrats think with the President with two exceptions. Policy pulls string and approval dsapprov al are emitted Though he senators presented automatic opinions their method expressing their opinions contained individuality The Democratic opinions diversified and original than the Republican opinions.
 The Democrats they supporting League speak upon many phases But the Republicans having but few points of opposition limited for material
 The Republican senators surprisingly limited The larger group em disposed the Presidents speech and his arguments and narrative by eerng the beauty of his dcon
 There ire few living men and no living statesmen who sur English
 He uses the right word in the right place always very the purpose. He always the fewest possi ble necessary for the expression of his thought com pactng into sentence ideas for the expression of which clumsier would page.
 Upon grosser type of who get into the senate J those who have spent much time in the realm of ideas given much thought to Christian side of e the ideas of President s irritant.
 Accustomed.to a ruder thought which they express in terms thinking of the President, his practical atrum his view of the practical needs of the country which express in terms of class efshnes offend such 
 Feeling their inferiority and his superiority, they offense of his workmanship in English, if it wrong for him to be a master of his task
 Specimens this senatorial irritation will be interesting
 Senator Mccormick Illinois, said the speech "soot ing, melirluous and uninformative"
 Newberry of Michigan said, q interested in the Presidents English but disappointed as to his advice
 Senator Smoot of Utah said "It another Wilsonian essay, up to the standard
 Senator Brandegee of Connecticut said could best by saying soap bubbles of oraory souffe phrases It told nothing"
 Brondegee who has neither many ideas many words express surpasses jealous contempt the Presidents mastery and the crudity with which he expresses his own thought
 For thousands of centuries it easier for to fight than to think All thought is conducted in words There closely accurate thought without words to be vehicles the thought The thought the ed must be words in which the thought expressed.
 follows therefore that the mastery of words, is aso a largo sense, mastery of thought
 will be found that the able in a community, very completely equipped with accurate words for in their speciaes though they be uneqpped with the essary words for full expression general subjects.
 The Presidents gift noble expression a proof mental power of his capacity to handle the questions which been entrusted to him.
 senator says that the Presidents speech mei- uous that it that the English inter- estng soap bubbles oraory, to understand Wilson gave narrative argu- gave any information He wishes it understood the President is all noise and no action.
 wish is concordant with the stupidity which par tisanship so frequently induces.
 President is above all American executives of times, ma of action.
 Roosevelt called a of action, was Ye his speeches numerous and long, couched n very careful o very language.
 The executive who supervised the massive action past five years necessarily action would fallen into a
 a way a compliment to the President few speeches and state papers, make upon impression of numbers and length great inserted rapidly into slow head often create just such feel ing
 The speech is narrative It tells in simple wha thought what the other negotiations thought did argu mentaive It gives the why the treaty made made in the precise fashion it has, and why should ratify it.
 The facts and arguments not given in detail (Con in T.xo CnIr