Arizona republican., 1919-12-16
TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER IS, 1913
If men were only just what they pretend to be the problem ot the millennium would be immediately solved. I'll. w. Shaw.
The AppeaI to Caesar

If both parties to the peace treaty dispute are sincere in the belief confidently expressed by eaeh that it represents the majority will Of the ha'on with reference the League of Nations they are III a position to find whether they are right or "rohs They need only elect to do so They can 'hNe the controversy squarely before the people next mt as A republcan issue not as democratic issue ut a an issue larger than either party and all that's in it.
 It would be an issue which the voters would not divide along party lines Some, perhaps would sup port the league covenant as it was presented py d president who happens to be democrat Soine equally foolish would oppose it because It was opposed by party leaders who happen to be repub- licans But the great mass of independent voters who set up and overthrow administrations and con- rerssional majortes would vote their own conVle- tions We have already seen in three elections two congressional bye-elections and one state eecuon where this was the sole issue that the voters broke over and obliterated the party line We be- lieve they would do in the nation
 We do not think that as a nation, the people are as well qualified consider this intricate aues- lions as are the men whom we have chosen to repre- sent us in the White House or in congress- But since hoth have appealed to shall undertake to vote on if unless it turns that or both the appel Iants have been bluffing
 The president has told us from time to tina that the restoration of the world de- nended upon the signing of the treaty; that the return to normal trade and industrial conditions waited upon it. But he has never explained in what way the signing will affect these conditions
 It certainly cannot change our relation with other countries than those with which we were at war anu are nominally yet at signed treaty could not increase exports imports; it could not In the
 slightest degree alter the rates of exchange which de- press the countries of Europe. And certainly there is no commercial industrial situation here which is tied in the remotest degree to the fate of the peace treaty.
 As Paul was sent to Rome because he had ap- healed Caesar let the president and the op- posing senators who, either buffng or in sincerity have declared their willingness to leave it to the peope make good their declarations What ever the judgment of the people may be- whether right or wrong, it will be the Judgment or the people which should prevail in every true democracy
 Senator Lodge has said that there can be no com promise The president Sunday stated that no overtures would come from the White House
 And we believe that the people are competent to break the deadlock Intricate the subject seems. s one thing has been prominently projected above it. the issue of Amercanism. It is for the people now ,o determine whether there is anything in obli- cations under treaty that would endanger that or would restrict our sovereignty.
 But we cannot avoid the suspicion that both the nresident and Senator Lodge buffng. At least ,e hone go and that both of them will have the good to reach an agreement under which all senators except the irreconciables will come together in sup mort of a treaty hedged about with reservations that the sovereignty of the nation may be secured and that we may join the world in an effort to promote universal peace though the effort may turn out ,o he futile. Competent as the people may be- we do not think that they want to pass upon question of