The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-27
The Treaty Will Be Killed By the Cave Men of the Senate Unless Public Opinion Prevents, Iso- lating This Country and Work ing Incalculable Harm to the World-Popular Demand for Ratification Needed.
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL

By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.
 The United States Senate is close now to the choosing place between war and no war, barbarism and civilization, and which is it going to pick? Just before it adjourned in Noven- l Der 1t picked war and barbarism tenn porari1y.
 Its poor old shaggy Cave Men crept | out ot their caverns, blinl1ed up at the sun, and piped:
 What! No more warl No more hatchet work? No more sending out other men to batter one another while we watch the fun and sell 'em hatchets? Not on your 1ife!"
 So they spiked the peace treaty and went back to their caves.
 It will be up again probably just after the holidays and the same old skin-clad crew will spike it for good and all un- less intelligence on the outside steps in to stop them.
 The first fruits of what they did in November were wave of despair that swept over the world, the outbreak of terrible rirting in Italy and fall i1 exchange to a point where American exports must stop.
 No more exports, then no more gnak- ing of the things to be exported. Thz+< means that mills stop the mass of un- employment Is multiplied and the pro- phets see the signs of panic. All here i'll America.
 Then please note:
 The peace treaty was defeated on the pretended ground that we in the United States have nothing to do with the troubles of Europe nor any other part of the world. We don't care how much or how fast European peoples go to the hIyU- Aa &1 ,1N for ourselves, the hermit crab of na- tions.
 And the first turn out of the box all this as an argument Is smashed to pieces. At one blow 1t is proved that we can't ignore Europe's troubles. It is proved that anything that upsets cor ditlons in Europe upsets conditions here. It is proved that irf this age na- tons and peoples are so bound together by trade and commerce that what IS bad for one IS bad for the rest No matter how much we may preach and batter, 1t is utterly impossible for us to ignore the rest of the world
 In these days there IS no such thing as profteering by the misfortunes of other nations. We are all in one boat together.
 Nevertheless the Senate will go ahead and finish the job of killing the treaty unless the people interfere to save themselves.
 There are two great reasons they should so interfere and do 1t at once in way that even the average Senator can understand
 First, Article X of this treaty makes war on the earth practically impossible
 All the nations in the League guaran- tee one another's territory against hat H.. is nobody left to invade or to fight.
 If the treaty is defeated we serve notice on the world that we still be- 1ieve in war, invasions and fighting. Having made declaration in favor of these savageries there IS no kind Of doubt that we shall have them. And anybody not stone blind can see with whom we shall have them. Also, by what influences we are to be kept out of peace that we may have them.
 Second, that treaty contains the Char ter of Labor, the product of the Inter national Labor Conference held in Paris last February and March, the solemn declaration of labor's rights as here after they are to be recognized in the world.
 Ii the United States, after partfcipat- ing Ill this conference and having at hand in the drawing of this Charter, now deliberately cancels 1t all, then we stand before the world as the most backward of nations and a new club is placed in the hands of the influences and the Interests here that believe the time has come, to beat Labor into sub jection.
 The basic primitive things that Labor stands for are in that charter. The United States as a nation jects and re- pudiates them. Every grasping em- ployer will instantly seize that fact as an argument that these rights do not exist.
 But the Senate is not the real ruler of this country. It seems to think 1t IS, but 1t isn't. The people have not yet abdicated and without losing time the people should show this Senate what they think of a legislative body that belongs in the Fifteenth Century and