Arizona republican., 1919-08-15
The People Are Not impatient

Senator Hitchcock is not strengthening the posi- tion of the League of Nations by senseless buffng by his threat to attempt to take treaty of the hands committee and bring it before the senate He knows as every else does, what would happen to the treaty if it were so exposed time It would be rejected merely by more than one third vote but by clear majority.
 Senator Hitchcock knows and does the presi dent that there is only one thing that will the treaty with which the covenant is intertwned that will be an agreement upon the reservations. This agreement will be reached by the republican mem bers among themselves and when this agreement has been arrived they will be adopted. It vii then be the democratic members to accept the agreement or to reject the treaty by withholding the twothrds vote for it's ratification amended.
 Those who are urging precipitate action in- consistent They claim that the treaty embracing the covenant is the most important document that has ever been presented to the senate. They claim than that; that it's effect upon humanity will be greater that of any other paper devised by men; that it will make the world
 If it is such a document it is worthy of all the consideration that has been given it and all the time that has been bestowed upon it-and If it is such document it is of slight importance and attend the delay of action upon it, except the waste of time of the senators, who however paid yearly salaries which whether the ators are in session not.
 The New York Times the most powerful of the journalistic advocates the treaty recently mani uneharacteristicaIly childish impatience at the deliberation the told them to pro- ceed to ratification the treaty they were wasting time upon a document which they were incompetent understand This was calculated to alarm rather to stimulate senators confirmed ovun fear that they did understand it and they re- alized all do that it is dangerous to sign in- comprehensible papers.
 It was the desire of the president his return from Paris, of the administration senators that the peace treaty ratified forthwith upon his anty of it's qaulity the deliberations of the senate committee have disclosed that secretary state does not understand it and is yet unaware of of the circumstances attending it's negotiations
 The advocates of ratification without reservations urge that the people impatient. They represent that the people standing with their eyes riveted on Washington that awaiting the ratifica ton. That is not what has generally been observed While, no doubt majority of the people want covenant of the League of Nations, for whatever good may from it. and while in the beginning they manifested great interest in subject if they have lost their interest they have ceased to ex- press it. They willing to wait If there is danger lurking in the covenant they want it discovered and guarded against They want Americanism protected doubtless, they believe that the senate will give it sufficient protection Meanwhile there are other things in which the people are deeply interested. Among them the high cost of living. the industrial situation, the disposition of the railroads all of them without relation to the peace treaty and none of which will be affected by either ratification or rejection.