Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-12-02
PRES. WILSON
TOO STUBBORN

The much Wanted treaty OF peace
and League of Nations, which In their
combined benencence were to bring
new world order, are killed as the re-
suit of the determination OF Presi-
dent Wilson to have his own way al
all hazards.
AS result the United States is
about to enact concurrent resolution
declaring the war at an end and Will
then return to its domestic and foreign
problems with view to its own well
fare, untrammeled by the necessity OF
gaining the consent of any other ma
ton.
In the opinion of official Washing
ton, the president made as great, II
not a greater blunder than made by
him In his letter OF 1918 calling for the
election of a Democratic congress be-
cause the Republicans had not sup
ported the administration as he
thought they should, though they were
as loyal. After going to Europe with
out asking the advice or consent OF
the senate as to the course to DE pur-
sued, he brought back document the
adoption OF which would have per-
manently changed the traditional pol
| icy of the country. Though 1t had
been composed in secret and though
the future of the United States, in the
view of some of the soundest states
men in both parties, was jeopardizad
and menaced by 1t, he demarded, upon
! his return, that it be ratified exactly
as he presented 1t. The constitution
stipulates that the president shall be
but-a part OF the treaty-making power
and that the senate shall be the other
part but he decreed that the senate
must do his will. But the senate di1
not do his will. On purely patriotic
grounds it sought to make reservations
In the treaty so that American rights
would be protected. They were very
simple. They provided that the Unit
ed States be permitted to withdraw
from the League of Nations ut the will
of congress- that it assumes no obi
CATION to preserve the territorial in
ltegrity of other states throughout the
world that no mandate to govern 9th.
err lands be accepted without the con-
sent OF congress, that this country re
eerve to itself exclusively the right NJ
sole Jurisdiction in all domestic quns-
lions, that It refuse tc submit to arbi-
tration the Monroe doctrine, that 4
Ot@s%s~
and Japan, that its participation il
official representation in the league
be subjected to congress, and that il
threatened with invasion it should mo-
have to ask the consent of the league
to increase It's armament, and prevent
ing the British Empire from having
six votes to our one.
In spite of the fact that the remand
ef of the treaty as drawn at Versailles
remained intact, the president, on tn
last day of the session, when the sen
ate was about to make its momentum
decision, sent a letter to Senate
| Hitchcock, the Democratic leader, IL
which he said that "in my opinion, thu
resolution in that form does not pro
vide for ratification. but rather for tn
notification of the treaty" To thi
statement, Senator Lenroot, of Wis
consin, took issue for the Republicans
1.-THE time has gone by" he declared
"when general statements like tina
having no foundation in fact, can b
longer made and the American peopl
. deceived thereby. / shall be sorry in
$ deed If this issue must get into a pc
! litical campaign. 1t ought not tC
There ought not to be any partisan
, considerations in matter of this chal
: acter. But IL need be that the Repub
q lican party must again assume the oh
8 legation to stand for Americanism an
I the Democratic party chose to stan
I upon this treaty as it was drawn an
J. defeat it because we have American
lied it, we will welcome the issue.
Only eleven Republicans vote
against the treaty as it was American
lied, while forty-two' Democrats OF
; posed 1t because it did not exactly su
; the president, "As soon as the peopl
: recover from this pipe dream, the
will see good old human nature and IL
law OF cause and effect doing bushes
r. at the same old stand" Senator Brar
Q degee told the senate.
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