The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-12
TIE SHAME OF TIE SENATE.

FROM MdCOH cleSIdpH.
When the President of the United
States cabled over that to make pub
lie copy Of the peace treaty in
America would be breach of faith
with the other signatory powers the
message should have been received by
the Senate Of the United States with
proper respect to the source from
which it came and the Borah plan to
get it published to the world frustrat
ed in the upper chamber of Congress.
The Senates action in printing il in
the Record is a shameful exhibition
of childish ill-humOr, and will reflect
no credit on the men who engineered
il and the men who voted to sustain
them.
The President of the United States
as head of the American peace dele
cation is entitled by every obligation
CT American loyalty to American pro-
cesses and leadership, by the respect
due even from a United States Sen
ator to the executive head of the ma
ton, and the common decency of OBJ
servance which should always govern
between kindred bodies with kindred
ponsibility-such as his request
was entitled to the aquieScence Of the
Senate That they might criticise and
make capital to their hearts content
that there may have been imposed on
them a duty to challenge the wisdom
of such policy on his part, none
will gainsay. They transcribed no
ethical or patriotic restriction in
clamoring that he release them a copy
of the treaty. 1t is well such things
be discussed thoroughly. But when
he declined, and informed them the
faith of the country was at stake with
it's allies and friends to preserve it's
secrecy for a time yet, that should
have been enough.
1t does not excuse the Senate that
the President through his own self
sulficiency and a large amount of po-
itical stupidity some time since lost
it's respect and loyalty It's respon-
sibiity is nonetheless that he has time
and again affronted the Senate and
ignored it and cheapened its import
ancc both at home and abroad by his
obvious enough and by no means JUS
titled contempt of it's real functions
in such an International situation.
The Senate hasn't succeeded in be-
traying only the word of Woodrow
Wilson, of making him only cheap
and sorry figure before the statesmen
of the world-it has betrayed the
faith and word and honor of Ameri-
ca. For Mr. Wilson, rightly or wrong
ly, does represent America at this Con-
ference.
1t will come home to the Senate
shortly-just as soon as it comes
home to the people. When they see,
as they will shortly, that partisan
meanness and littleness, that the OBJ
fuscaton of the great issue, came
about through the petty and selfish
elevation of the lesser for political adj
vantage at the next election and to
vent the personal dislike of individual
ly disgruntled Senators, they will let
it be known in no wavering or mcer-
tain terms. There will be not few
Senators to rue that vote of Monday.
In the meantime beside this issue
the exact means of the leak Of the
treaty to New York becomes of small
importance. Some individual in his
weakness or failure to realize what
he was doing let a copy of the treaty
get through; or else Germany sup
piled it. In so doing such an indi-
vidual broke faith with his own re-
sponsibility to his President and his
country and to himself as an honor
able and trustworthy man.
When the Senate of the United
States printed by a vote of AZ to "a
that dishonored copy it officially and
as a body traduced the honor of the
people it represented and betrayed
the high officials speaking for the
great nation in Paris.
1t is just simply and plainly and
bluntly that-no more, no less