Evening star., 1919-03-16
SAYS PRESIDENT
|SFORC|NG LEAGUE
Senator-EIect Mccormick Ac-
cuses Him of ignoring
American Opinion.
AIDED BY LLOYD GEORGE

| A charge that President Wilson is
tion with Lloyd George, the British
premier, to bring about the negotia-
ton of the proposed league of nations
in conjunction with the peace treaty
with Germay and Austria, notwith-
standing public opinion in America, is
made by Medill Mccormick. senator
elect from Illinois. in a statement is
sued by him last night.
Mr.. Mccormick is one of those thir-
ty-nine senators-elect who signed a
! round robin" protesting against the
league of nations, as now proposed. the
night before Congress adjourned. In
issuing his statement. Mr.. Mccormick
also charged that censorship upon
news from America to France and
Great Britain is being maintained.and
that such a censorship 'is crime"
Regarded as Attempt to Deceive.
1T can have been imposed only in
a calculated attempt to deceive the
peoples of Europe as to the opinion
OF the American people and as to the
attitude of senator's regarding the
proposed constitution for league of
nations" said Mr.. Mccormick. Europe
perhaps does not understand, as Mr..
wilson appears not to have under
stood. that his leadership was definite
ly repudiated by the American people
In the last election. His statement of
October 25 read. in part, as follows:
II you have approved of my leader
ship and wish me to continue to be
your unembarrassed spokesman in af-
fairs at home and abroad, / earnestly
beg that you will express yourselves
unmistakably to that effect by return
ing democratic majority to both the
Senate and the House of Representa-
tiVes The return Of a repub-
Ii an majority to either house would
be interpretive on the other
side OF the water as a reputation of
my leadership.
Majority Against Him.
"The American people who did not
elect Mr.. Wilson by a majority either
in 1912 or 1916. by a great and de-
cisive majority defeated his candi-
dates for Congress last November and
gave the republicans control of both
the House and Senate. AS Col. Roose-
velt said not long before he died: Ten
days before the election Mr.. Wilson
issued an appeal to the American
people. The Americans refused to
sustain Mr.. Wilson. In no
would Mr.. Wilson be in Office. Now
1t appears that Mr.. Lloyd George, who
achleved political triumph shortly
after Mr.. Wilson met his humiliating
defeat, has Joined with the President
constitution of an international con-
1ederacy by linking that constitution
article by article and clause by clause
to the treaty Of peace, so that one
may be inextricably bound to the
other.
What Europe Should Know.
Europe must come to understand
that Mr.. Wilson is attempting a coup
d,etat in defiance of the decision OF
the common people Of America, ut
tered at the last election.
Despite the injunction that we
ought to rewrite our Constitution and
mend our ways. the American people
cherish their Constitution as they do
neither vitiate the one nor yield up
the other: they will not guarantee
the territorial integrity of the little
Balkan states or the great heteroge-
neous empires of France and Britain;
they will not undertake to perpetuate
British dominion of the seas against
the future judgment il some day they
decide to build a navy as great az
Britain's. or, indeed, to raise an army
as great as frances; they will not
agree that the British empire is en-
titled to six votes in the league of
nations as against one for the Amer
lean Union with twice the empires
seif-governfng population; they will
not be responsible for the conduct of
mandatories in Africa or Asia; they
viii not agree to arbitrate the subject
Of prohibited immigration or any
other domestic question; they will not
assent to treaty which may require
that their armies take ship for Asia,
Africa or Europe by any but the free
decision OF their own Congress.
Indorsed by Sixty Senators.
sixty senator's. out Of a total of
ninety-six. democrats as we'll as re-
pubIicans among them, share the opin-
ion expressed by the thirty-nine sig
natorfes to the Knox Lodge resolution.
Mr.. Hughes. Mr.. Bryan and even Mr.
Taft say the constitution as proposed
required amendment. We know moth
ing. absolutely nothing, from Mr.. viii
son OF tne reason Tor any part Of the
ili-written draft OF the constitution.
During his hurried visit to America he
uttered nothing but elegant nebulosi-
ties and contemptuous threats
rev weeks ago 1T seemed i'm
possible that the new cordiality and
ArieHoiS cdhoor between allied Europe
and America might be broken by a
growing suspicion and sudden ami
! mostly which We must frankly say is
chiefly directed against Great Britain
Result of Alleged Coalition.
That suspicion and animosity will
grow apace If Mr.. Lloyd George and
MI Wilson continue in their present
course. The gentlemen in Paris ought
to make peace with Germany Then,
the President ought to put aside his
pride to invite Senator Lodge and
senator Knox. republicans. and Sem
ator Hitchcock, democrat, to the peace
conference, there to draft a conven-
ton to prevent Xar more efHecfixa hx