The sun., 1919-07-13
Republican Senators Must Compel
q Right Treaty Of Peace.

hikut treaty Oh EcbCts
Mr.. WILSON'S supporters are con-
tinuing their painful efforts to con-
vince the American people that the
Presidents address to the Senate on
the treaty and the League of Nations
was an argument. But they may try
till the cows come home and they
never will succeed. 1t Is easy enough
for anybody to understand how the
President can be governed, as he Is
governed in this matter, entirely by
his emotions. But nobody with
sound head is going to fool himself
or let anybody else fool him into the
belief that Mr.. WILSON'S appeal was
anything but mawkish sentlmentallty.
1t is of no use to blink this plain fact.
1t is of no use to describe 1t in sugar
coated language.
Nor Is anybody going to get any
where with the contention of Mr..
WILSON'S intimates that this great
question-thls question of national
sovereignty, this question of the in
tegrity of our republican institutions,
this question of the preservation Of
American independence from the dom
nation, or the dictation, or the infiu-
ence of any other Power or comblna-
ton of Powers-is not political. 1t
is inevitably political. 1t Is unquali-
fiedly political. 1t is unalterably po-
litical.
How could a foreign proposal that
outside Governments should knock the
very foundations from under this re-
public, should reconstruct it and
should manage it under the control
of those alien and distant forces
how could such a proposal be any
thing but political, transcendently and
entirely political?
And by just as much as this ques-
ton of ending or saving the official
life of this republic, rs the American
people have lived it, is and must be q
political question. so has it become
and must it therefore continue to be u
party question. II Is of no use to
eyade this truth either.
AS partlsans the Democrats of the
United States. Senate have aligned
themselves almost TO n man behind
the Presidents determination to put
through the programme Of WOODROW
WILSON, the leader of the Democratic
party. the master of the Democratic
party, the proprietor of the Demo
cratic party. And If this deliberately
attempted sacrifice Of the principles Of
American Government, CT the rights
OF the American people, OF the very
charter of the American nation is
thwarted, it will be thwarted by the
Republican party.
Talk about sticking reservations on
the treaty by non-partlsan and non
political cooperation is drivel. If into
the treaty are to go reservations that
mean anything, that have teeth In
them, that compel foreign Powers 20
respect the inherent rights of the
American people they will not 60
there because Of non-political and non-
partisan concurrence. They will go
there because there are enough Sena-
tors in this Sixty-sixth Congress
enough Republican Senators-to pre-
vent absolutely the ratification OF the
treaty unless 1t and its interviewed
league scheme are so amended as to
save to the United States Government
and the American nation exactly the
things that the Democratic party IN
Congress and the Democratic master
Of that party want to give away to the
great Powers Of Europe and to the
will go there because the Republican
Senators compel such action.
This Is true. indisputnbly true
whether Senator LODGE is right when
he says that n mere majority OF the
Senate can attach valid and effec.
tive reservation to the instrument
IL is just as true whether Mr.. WILSON
Is right when he retorts that sucll
reservation, In effect n treaty amend.
ment, must have a two-thirds vote Il
pass into binding law. exactly as the
treaty itself must have n two-thirds
vote. Whichever side is right or
whichever side is wrong about that
specific matter, the fact remains that
one-third Of the Senate can prevent
the treaty from going through until OF
unless the Senate, whether as mere
majority, or as a two-thirds major.
ity. or rs whole 100 per cent, saves
American independence, American
nationalism, American sovereignty
from the experimentation, masked