El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-09
APATHY SHOWN
BY NEBRA5KANS
Presidents Argument Goes
Over Heads of the PEG
pie at Omaha.

treaty ratified because they somehow
believe he may shatter a precedent and
run for a third term.
Those who think the league issue
will be out OF the way in a few
months go ahead in confident support
Of the league, feeling that they will
have peinty of time to show their
communities that they have not swal-
lowed wisconsin, hook, bait and
sinker. just because they want to see
the league Of nations established
was told by n Democrat of M
tiOnnl prominence in Iowa that
most OF the Republicans who
voted for Mr.. Wilson in 1916 and
gone back to the fold and that
mistakes in Washington had
turned away some stnunch Demo-
Gratis.
It is true that Republicans predom-
mate on the reception committees as
Mr.. Wilson moved westward and he
helps to relieve those individuals OF
future embarrassment by steering
his political disinterstedness and nong
partican toward the league issue
Call Action Undignified.
But It is clear that the league Of ma
tons in Iowa and Nebraska is getting
wholesome support from Republicans
because of him. Many men told me
they thought it undignified Of the
president to characterize senators as
Contemplate cutters" Not that some
Of the men who have been lambasting
Mr.. Wilson did not deserve such
epitaphs in return for the unkind
things and ugly imputatiOns which
they have been thrusting at him. but
somehow they do not expect the presi-
dent TO descend to the level OF his ex-
IRENE opponents.
Read in cold type as the great ma
nr
speeches, the ultimate impression is
certainly not a good one, judging from
the effects TO be found in Omaha OF
the remarks made BY Mr. Wilson on
the days preceding
The president himself comes in for
much praise as the crowd files out.
overheard many Of the passing re-
marks-"What wonderful English;
what a magnificent flow Of language
how easily he talks" On the faces Of
his auditors, too, are smiles as occa-
sionally the president uses a vernacu-
lar phrase.
They are fIattered as he says Il
owe a report OF what I did only to
you" and they cheer him to the echo
when he exclaims i would consider
myself recreant to every mother and
n tner, every wife and sweetheart in
this country, II I consented to the
ending OF this war without a guaran-
tee that there would be no other"
But they look on with a sort Of i'm
pressed wonder as Mr.. Wilson with
dramatic touch declares. IF I felt that
I personally in any way stood in the
way Of this settlement I would gladly
die mat II might be consummated. be-
cause I have vision that if this thing
should by some mishap not be accom-
plisheds there would rest forever upon
the fair name OF this people a stain
which could never be effaced."
Reaction to Patriotic Appeal
One would think that emotional sp-
peal Of this sort would stir men to
outbursts OF fervent approval Ger
tainly Mr.. Wilson's o-atoricaI powers
are extraordinary.
But II seems as II there's
natural reaction nowadays to all
patriotic appeal. Perhaps II was
the war with its plethora OF Iib-
erty loans speeches and exEortn-
lions TO sneriffce but the old
Fourth OF July stuff does not get
the sattIing gun applause 1t used
TO get.
And while men and women leave the
halls convinced that Mr.. Wilson is
working for q great and good cause,
they do mot Immediately perceive the
dlIrerence between mild reservation
ISIS ana unqualified supporters Of the
covenant. and they are not bestirred
to 60 out and worry over the possible
fall OF the republic II some senator's
insist on reservations which the presf-
dent himself claims are merely a
change in language but not in mean
ing.
Real Issue Not Defined.
Mr.. Wilson has not defined very
clearly the issue as between himself
and those who disagree with him ex-
eept as 70 the extremists who want