The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-20
WILSON DIETING
 ANER|CA,' 7 CLAIM
Senator Mccormick Says Executive Is Attempting a Coup d'Etat-Brit- ain Warned of Breach if Pres
 ent Course Is Pursued.

Washington, March 15.-Chargine that President Wilson 'is attempting a coup d'etat' in defiance of the de- cision of the common people of Amer ica," Senator Medill Mccormick of illinois in a statement issued today warned of the danger of break be- tween the United States and Great Britain, Eff Mir Lloyd George and Mir. Wilson persist in their present eeorse"
 Defies the Popular Mandate.
 Senator Mccormick, in his state ment, said.
 Europe must come to under stand that Mir Wilson is attempting a coup d'etat' in defiance of the de- cision of the common people of Amer ica. uttered at the last election. De- spite the injunction of Lord Shaw that we ought to rewrite our consti- tuition and mend our ways, the Amer ican people cherish their constitution as they do the Monroe Doctrine.
 "They will neither vitiate the one HOT yield up the other; they will not guarantee the territorial integrity of the little Balkan states or the great empires of France and Britain; they will not undertake to perpetuate Brit ish dominion of the seas against fu- ture judgment if some day they de- eide to build navy as great as Brit aims, or indeed, to raise an army as great as Frances.
 Will Not Give Britain Dominance.
 "T'hey will not agree that the Brit ish empire is entitled to six votes in the League of Nations as against one for the American Union with twice the empires's self-governing popula- tion; they will not agree to arbitrate the subject of prohibited immigration CT 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 congress.
 Sixty senators out of a total of ninety-six Democrats as we'll as Re- publicans among them, share the opinion expressed by the thirty-nine signatories to the Knox-Lodge reso- lution. Mir. Hughes, Mir. Bryan and even Mir. Taft say that the constitu- tion as proposed needs amendment. We know nothing-absolutely noth- ing-from Mir. Wilson of the reason for any part of the ill-written draft af ha L.... ried visit to America he uttered noth- ing but elegant nebulosities and con- temptuous threats.
 Suspicious of Great Britain.
 "A few weeks ago 1t seemed impos- sible that the new cordiality and friendly candor between Allied Flu rope and American might De broken by a growing suspicion and sudden animosity which we must frankly say is chiefly directed against Great Brit ain.
 That suspicion and animosity will grow apace if Mir. Lloyd George and Mir 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 Sentor Lodge and Sen ater Knox, Republicans, and Senator Hitchcock, Democrat to conference, there to draft convention to prevent war more effective by far than the British draft, and one which the American people and their Senate can approve.
 It would be we'll of the Presidents pastor in Paris would preach Sunday on Matthew xxiii, 12 and if he would read the fourteenth chapter of Luke and from the eighteenth chapter of Matthew"
 (Matthew xxiii, 12-And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted
 In Matthew, xviii, Chist taught his disciples the virtues of humility and forgiveness.
 Luke xiv, Il, is the same as Mat thew xxiii.)
 JUDGE FOR YOURSELF.