The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-20
A Measuring Forecast
For the Treaty of Peace.
From Atlanta journal.

From Atlanta Journal.
There is much reinsurance in Mr..
David Lawrence's account and fore
cast of the Treaty situation in the
Senate. This keen and seasoned OBJ.
server bills the friends Of the great
compact, with its vital provision for
an international league, be of good
cheer. There has been an intoler-
able lot Of partisanship and prejudice
and there is yet to come a tresome
deal OF parliamentary iockeying But
at last ratifying resolution, accord
ant with the Presidents larger views
of the issue and acceptable to the for
eign Governments concerned, will be
adopted. 1t will contain reservations.
but not of a destructive character. It
will be a compromise, but not on mat
tors of principle. 1t will consummate
the peace which was won a year ago
and will vouchsafe, so far as human
agencies may, its happy perpetual
ion.
Our correspondent rests his pre-
diction partly on a knowledge of
what the parliamentary tactics of
both sides contemplates and partly
on conviction that there are at least
sixtyfive Senators, Republicans and
Democrats, (more than the necessary
two-thirds) who honestly do not wish
to see the Treaty of Peace killed and
new negotiations opened with Ger
lymany." That being the case it is
INTERCHANGEABLE that efforts to ad-
just present differences will fail. If
the outcome depended on the Borahs
and the Reeds it would be hopeless.
IL it depended on men who are to
near-sighted to sec the good in
League Of Nations and too spitefully
jealous to grant the craftsmanship
in Woodrow Wilson. then would the
Treaty and the League be fatcd to
rejection. But such SCnatOrs.if Mr..
Lawrence rightfulIy assesses the sit
nation, arc in the minority albeit they
are very valuable. In the final test. we
are encouraged to believe, good sense
and effective patriotism will take con
troll and speed the Treaty to ratifica-
ton.
This has been the Journals expect
alton from the outset For it has be NJ
unthinkable that a majority Of III"
United States Senate could b. so
careless of Americas iutereStc and
obligations as to force her into the
attitude of Amending friends with
whom she won the war. repudiating
the principles of international good
will and cooperation which she 50
earnestly has championed. and TURF
ing to Wcimar for a seperate peace
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the now silent but harmless retain
ers of the old PrusSian regime. Yet
that is precisely what would ensue
if the passage of the Lodge reSer-.
vations should be the Senate's fin
al word on the treaty; for those res
ervations are destructive of the very
life of the League of Nations and in
some instances. are as 50 much dy-
namite To international amity.
Though they receive a majority Of
the Senate vote at this time, no rat
flying resolution which embodies
tthen can get the two-thirds major
ityreQuired. Whether we are to have
a peace Of honor and of assurance
or merely a makeshift settlement
with Germany. depends now upon
whether those obnoxious reServat-
ions are supplanted by others OF a
reasonable and just character, That
they will be supplanted in the com
promise now looked for. is the heart
tnirs forecast of The ahleSt ohSerT-
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