The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-11
PRESIDENT EXPLAINS DEFECTS.

The president broke precedent presenting treaty in
congress- and he has offered to break other pecedens
proposing that he will go person before the foreign re
tons committee and explain in detail the circumstances under
which the treaty made.
His message yesterday ueonably of the great
of his He does not claim that the work done at Yer
saes was perfect compromises have been
The treaty a result he says, lis exactly what
would have written. But results worked out he adds
which on the whole test think will be found that the
compromises accepted inevitable nowhere cut to
to the heart of principle The work of the conference
squares whole with principles agreed upon the basis
Of peace practical possibilities of the inter
national situations which had be faced and deal with facts
The old treaties and understandings stood the way
These says the president Gould always be honoraby
brushed aside not easy graft the order OF ideas on
the old and of the fruits of the grating fear for
be bitter This frank admission and will help
the ratification of the treaty believe In country is there
enthusiasm over it, must be accepted however
obtanabe with the hope that the league of nations
improve it in the future Nevertheless the president praises the
spirit of the who worked with him. But with few
exceptions with the peace table, he goes
say desired sincerely did get from the
TONS counses and expediens of which the
designs of Germany had sprung natural growth
There You have from the president truly phosos phical
of history Europe make
inevitable The system continued at the councils of
Vienna and Paris and Berlin was such as to make
the soil on which mitarsm finally Aourshed If mercy
extended Germany will be from realization that its sinister
designs had sprung as natural growth" from the conditions
old Europe the order which, by it's
nued influence has prevented the from securing such
he had outlined when he ended the with his four
The president says every heart in the world
and enlightened judgment demanded that at whatever cost
action that took thought for its
people ordered freedom should lend itself purpose
utterly destroy the old order of international politics.
The disappointment that this has not been thoroughly
DONE
He says that if stop not put to aggression must
look forward another and final and the world must
swept of every that could the terror This
applies alone Germany 1t applies to all countries Res
people had been od he that fleets and armies which
they toled peace and they know that they
had been lied torong languagetha fleets and armies had
maintained promote national ambitions and meant
They knew that old policy meant anything else but force
force always force And they knew ntoerabe Here the
shows his keen realization of the mpotency of
and the impeng influence of ornaments in precatng
The stirring that in which he refers to the
that mankind cherish of the establishment
of the league of nations He says:
THE of nations not merely instrument to
remedy old wrongs under treaty of
only hope mankind Again and again had the demon
of the house of the peoples and the house
swept clean by treaty of peace only time when
would in again with spirits than himself The
be given tenant who could hold against all
Convenient indeed Indispensable statesmen found the
planned of nations to be for the execution of
plans of and reparation they it in aspect
work finished They as the main object
peace only thing that could complete it make
while They the hope of the world and that hope
they did dare dsappont Shall other free
pie accept this great duty? Dare reject and
break the heart of the worldi"
The senate, we may be assured, will not do this II