New-York tribune., 1919-02-13
Beck Declares
Wilson Policy
Stain on Nation
Continued from page 1

OF paper, is materially impaired" he
said
washington said that the Constitu-
tion might be undermined as we'll as
openly assailed. 1t was remarkable
that he should, so early in his own
administration and in the history of
the country, have foreseen such situa-
ton. But have lived long enough to
see that document challenged, not only
but by groups of supposedly great men
In this country.
Sees Constitution Ignored
"The Constitution provides that the
President shall take certain mo-
mentous steps with the advice and
sanction of the Senate. So important
a step as the declaration of war can
be taken only with the support of both
houses of Congress.
"Look at the administration of Wood
row Wilson. Has he done this? He
has involved this country in the most
momcntous and farreaching policies,
not only without the advice of this con-
current power provided by the Con-
sitution but against the expressed
mandate Of the American people, as
was shown at the polls.
"His foreign policy from the time
he assumed Office until the present
hour is black stain upon the name
CT the American people. He has been
consistently loyal to but one principle
that of peace without victory. There
has been but one amplification of that
policy in the light of the recent his
toric world events, and that is that
it must be a peace without complete
victory.
peace without victory! Never was
there a more infamous thing done by
a President of the United States. He
meant a victory whereby the victors
could not impose their terms upon the
vanGuished, and that IS the meaning
of the proceedings in which he now is
playing such an important part in
Paris.
Advice of Senate Spurned
"On the morning that the President
made his speech enunciating his four
teen points the Democratic leader who
summoned the Senate together to hear
this speech did not even know what
the speech was about. He told me he
thought it was on some railroad mat
ter That shows how President Wilson
sought the advice and sanction of the
Senate.
which already have been repudiated,
have served only to perplex our Allies
and reproach them for their victory.
"And then he decides to go abroad.
Knowing full we'll that he dare not
submit these policies to the Senate
for official sanction, he asks the Amer
ican people for blanket power of
attorney to represent them in this
greatest of conferences in world his
tory in France. One hundred million
people stand amazed while one man
commits them to policies in which they
have not even been consulted.
"In any other country in the world
last November's election, with its re-
pudiation of the President and his
policies, would have resulted in the
res sgnation of that executive. But in
stead of that he continued to carry out
his prearranged plan to go abroad.
"And, reaching England, he was ac-
companied by the most wonderful ar
mada ever organized. 1t was an armada
Of Journalists, stenographers, secre-
taries and assistants of other sorts.
Terms Dictated to Allies
"In Europe he Immediately began max
ing known his own views. To France,
starved half bankrupt, but heroic, he
said, DO the bidding Of the American
people, as expressed by myself
"To England he said. Unless you
fence, with which you won the war
and kept the enemy from our shores,
with which you won the blockade, just
as Lincoln won the Civil War-unles ess
you strip yourself down to the naval
strength of other nations, we will be-
gin to build greater navy, laying two
keels to your one
"He said this to England, whose navy
was the bulwark of the world, whose
LD%, 10 Il
the German fleet at Manila Bay dur
ing the Spanish-America war!
"These bullying tactics were posi-
BILE only because we came out of the
war comparatively unimpaired, while
France and England, each with a mill
ion martyred sons in new made graves,
are staggering under great debts of
billions and billions of dollars, in
Cured in fighting the war.
Lincoln's View Involved
"And now I cannot help but wonoer
what Washington and Lincoln would say
if, when President Wilson returns to the
White House from Paris, they could
come back to this mortal sphere and
coin would look upon Wilson's work,
this newer freedom and this world
intrigue, with grave concern.
81 think that Lincoln, looking
upon the destruction of his greatest
policies, would say, 4 spent four years
Of my life, pouring out the blood of
my heart, to save the Constitution for
you, ana you have gone a long, long
way to undermine it,
Organized Freedom Needed
II the panacea of a league of nations
for peace had been suggested to Lin
coin, Senator France said, with more
than 300000,000 people without respon-
sible government and more than 300,-
100000 in countries restless with 4