The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-25
WILSON MEANS TO
FIGHT TO FINISH
TO PRESERVEP PACT

'NohtHluco Fttm FIRST rage
and L would not be difficult for either
slde 10 handle the mechanics IN such
lashion As to enable them 20 claim a
preponderance Of opinion on their re-
sFcctive sides.
What tactics win avail then? Will
tne senate go so far as to adopt amend
tents that mean the resubmission Of
me document or virtually It's rejection.
Judging by The editorials we have seen
al along the hne there are many news
PAPERS that favor clarifying reserva-
lions, but again and again they have
stated that they would not support OBJ
structive resolutions-those that would
require q new conference Of the pow
eTs In Paris.
As between such a contingency and
especially the consequence OF a further
delay 20 the proclamation OF peace
throughout the world, most OF the
newspaper editors with whom we have
TALKED give II Is their conclusive judg-
ment that the people would rather see
the covenant unqualified and America
undertake to amend II later on when
the league is established. than to see
the work Of the Versailles conference
thrown into confusion and chaos again
by a handful OF senators.
II was a Republican chairman at
Reno, New, who exclaimed that he
denied the right Of II few Republican
senators at Washington TO commit his
party to a curse of opposition to the
league Of nations. Certainly the presi-
dent thinks matters would be brought
to q serious climax II the amendment
fostered by Senator Johnson and re-
quiring a change In the number Of
votes In the assembly were to pass,
Senator Johnson has argued that Amer
lea should have six votes II Great
Britain has six.
Has Answered Query.
The president has replied that Amer
Teas one in the council constitutes a
veto against Britain's six in the assem-
bly, for the latter body Is a debating
society while the former Is the body
that the British empire being composed
OF self governing nations like Canada,
New Zealand, Australia, India and South
Africa has been given the right to have
those states participate In the debates
Of the league by sending a delegate to
represent each dominion. Mr.. Wilson
argues that the sacrifices made by those
colonies In the late war as well as their
close kinship for America, argues that
they would be as apt to eoncur in the
views of America as disagree, but that
In any event, since an affirmative vote
by the United States in the council Is
needed to make the assembly's opinions
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gates any country has, So the Johnson
followers have said that America should
have six, too. The basis OF representa-
tion, however, has been self-governing
nations and the foreign policy of the
British colonies Is handled independent
ly by them, Canada for instance, nego-
tlated a treaty In 1910 with the United
states. Once the bars are let down,
and America Is given delegates on the
basis OF her rs states, as has been
suggested, other nations would seek to
have their provinces thus represented
with the consequence that the assem-
bly, would he unwieldy. So the presi-
United states by her vote In the upper
house Of the -league-namely the com
| cil--can veto any opinion rendered by
the lower house, the assembly, an insist
ence by the United States on a theoret-
zeal equality might wreck the whole
project. The president found a warm
greeting In Utah, especially In Salt
Lake, the home of Senator Smoot, Re
publican lender, The street crowds al
Ogden were undemonstrative, but those
at Salt Lake were cordial and enthusi.
a~stically animated.
Practically all the Republican and
Democratic newspapers of the state
with one exception are for the league
Of nations, and Heber J, Grant. head Of
the Mormon church, has Just come gu
with u declaration In favor of the cove
nant and the league, saying that 1t Is
well within the creed OF the church.
But again how shall the militant pub.
He opinion which Mr.. Wilson Is leaving
In his wake as he travels eastward
assist the judgment of the senate" as
the president himself suggests. Organ
ICED opposition to the league Is encoun-
tered everywhere. For instance the
Irish societies have trailed Mr., Wilson
In all cities with fun page advertise.
ments against the league. There is Ito
question about the fact that antipathy
to Great Britain, which cropped out be-
wal In a period when a large section
Of American opinion was being asked
TO believe that British gold was cor
rupting our newspapers and that be-
cause the Lusitania was a British shir
the wrong done American citizens
should not he avenged, Is again coming
to the surface. Among the eight sen.
ators who are understood TO be OPP
posed to the president on the johnson
amendment with respect to the votes Of
the British colonies are some who have
large Irish voting populations In theiT
respective states. President Wilson has
against him an active Irish American
and more or less passive but subtly ef-
fective German american strength. He
has been hammering the hyphen repeat,
eddy because he thinks It Is at the bot
tom OF the opposition to the treaty,
The fight has Just begun because the
president mean to go the very limit ir
d"ifferentiatlng his kind Of A~mericanisn
from that which seeks to defeat the
treaty under the guise OF reservations
amendments or Interpretations thai
and a re-opening Of the negotiations
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