Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-02-14

\ asoning. The most elaborate mathe.
matical deduction conceivable to the
human mind will be failure IL the
slightest factor has been omitted in its
chain of reasoning So in the above
article. the New York World ignores O
over-looks or omits some essential facts
fin concluding that the activities of the
Senators criticising the President are
abased upon petty partisan political
grounds The World is considered the
mouth piece of Woodrow Wilson and
in its anxiety to maintain him on a
false pedestal, it reaches conclusions
not justified by the entire facts. Wood
Frow Wilson's fame will rest entirely
rpon his real worth which is great.
! It will, however eliminate his week
0oin+s which he and his friends over
value at present and which are based
upon his colossal egotism and desire for
personal honor and glory which he has
permitted to guide him in so many i'm
iportant matters of state craft. What
ever personal ambitions stirred WASH
lngton, Jefferson, or Lincoln or Gran
10 activity have long since been thrown
into the discard by posterity and only
their service prompted by an unselfish
performance of unusual and trying du
ties is remembered to their credit.
In framing the constitution the men
of that day evidently failed to anticr
pate the existence of such super-men
as are represented by Woodrow Wilson
and Col. House so they provided for a
form of government requiring theunit-
nited wisdom of many men for its sue
cess, as they viewed it. Their compre-
tensions were restricted by their own
experiences and knowledge of the past,
as they knew it. They had Just had
an experience with the idea of Govern
ment by super men possessing all the
wisdom necessary concentrated in one
or two individuals, in their war with
King George. Based on their knowl
edge of history to that date, all of these
experiments of Government by super-l
men had resulted in failure and they
strove to provide a Government that
would eliminate the dangers of the
past So they provided that in appoint
ing Ambassadors and in making trea-
ties and such other functions of Gov
ernment that the President should act
only on the advice and consent"
the Senate They provided for a Pres
dent to be elected from among the peo
ole, by the people. They provided for
Senate to be chosen from the same
source. They provided that in the mat
er of appointing Ambassadors and in
making treaties the Senate and the
President should be coordinate il
power and authority, or if that were no
heir intention then their clause "by
he advice and consent of the senate
ire superfluous words.
In the present Peace Conference now
n session is there a single represent
tive of the United States there who
as received his authority to 50 act byl
eason of the advice and c0nscn- 0
he u. S. Senator"
If so, will the World name him?
The Senate is required to confirm
Thatever treaty becomes binding upon
he United States. Yet, from the lin
ed and thoroughly unreliable infor-
lation permitted to escape through
ieorge Creel, the official liar for the
we are justified in con-
luding that the Senate $ body, nor
ny member of it as a Senator, has
yer been consulted either by the Pres
lent or any of his personally selected
ssociates as to what that treaty is {
kelly to contain. The Senate seems
lfe in assuming that this treaty will I
e placed before them some time in the
iture with orders to confirm it in
ITO or place the entire world in the ,
osition of having to gather another !
eace Convention together and doing it :
/ over again.
The World complains that the Sena-
rs speak against these conditions
ON information obtained from news O
lper headlines. Well where else Il
uld they get information, with the cal r
es aad telegraphs and mails censored
Z George Creel and the President de-
ming to take the Senate into his con-
ience?
The superior wisdom of Wilson as !
impaired with that of the Senators is .
It n question involved The World .
nrringly asks the Senate to buck up
id show its ability to advise with
If delegation to the Peace Conference
zen though there exists all the differ d
ce in ability suggested by the World el
tween Wilson and the Senate the T;
ct remains that the law provides tina b
e senate shal do these things and tn cl
sis of all objections to Wilson's as d;
med superiority, admitting that such d;
periority exists, is in the illegal en- ki
oachment of the Executive on the h'
wers and duties of the Senate and
supine manner in which the majori-
of the Senate submits to the illegal.
lion.
suppose that among the delegates
the constitutional convention ther We
! been a Colonel Woodrow and VIII re
House who would have together ia IN
l the same attitude toward their fel ho
7 delegates as have Col. House and to
,odrow Wilson towards the Senat M
the present crisis? Then this Col es
,odEpw and Wilson House wouf 10y
re said to George Washington and p
4 Franklin and Thos. Jefferson, meni Gu
0 in their day passed as wise men, Ga
lie rest of you delegates may just as So
/ go home or stay here in the hall BIZ
play horse for awhile. We, Col
odrow and Wilson House, are pos pr;
sed of the sum total of human wis wa
I in this bunch We viii frame this ter
stitutiOn We are super-men en- mi
-ed by nature with wisdom and for
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