Arizona republican., 1919-03-06
What Amerleans Want


 10 may be wished that the president. before going on board the George Washington for his second voyage to Paris had bought been presented with copy of Golfers of the current week which contains leading article by Mark Sullivan. probably the keenest Amer icah who has been in Paris since the opening of the peace conference When we say keenest American. we are not excluding from the comparison any mem ber of our delegation at Versailles.
 When Mr. Wilson has read Mir sun.yan's article he will have a clearer understanding of the situation in Europe than he has learned from his association with diplomats while there, and, what is of vastly importance him and 10 all of he will have 70 clearer understanding of American sentiment than he could have secured during his brief stay home
 AIr. Sullivan informs us that the American army from tho highest to the lowest wants to come home rom ts miserable quarters France It has nothing To do but spend an average of s15 month per man. An outlay of s15OOOoOO a month mostly profit Is something worth while to the French people but at tho time an army in idleness is necessarily undergoing Generalization and the soldiers slowly losing the nneness of citizenship the with it's real work had whetted.
 
 the soldiers 10 come home; they want the war to be over in America it is in Europe They impatient Of continued conditions this country. only that presidents beautiful dream of a posterity freed the horrors of may be prolonged The people want to return to business for themselves
 The American soldiers and the American people not concerned in the establishment of European boundaries. Germany a problem for which they think Europe should bring the solution. If it should not be done right justly that would be regretabe but anyway. it is not our solution We have already accomplished far than we expected to accom- plIsh when went to war. and now tho country wants to return quickly possible 10 peace As Co American participation in the pacifcaton of Russia that is unthinkabc. That would mean bigger job and far longer and coster one than job in the late war.
 Mir. Sullivan further observes that the democrats following the lead Of Mir Wilson are forming plat form Of altrusm on which 10 stand next year before the people. and handing over to the republican party the platform of definite accomplishment for the American people. The republicans. he observes have not yet occupied the platform. they cannot do so by merely crttcisius and carping at Mir. Wilson, the dreamer But since that written the Lodge resolution has been presented.
 How little know of what has taken place in Europe since the peace conference began illustrated by Mir. Sullivan. Tho shrcds of information which reach us by cable aro nothing During his stay in Europe Mr. Sullivan had heard or read of but one public speech in which what was said was meant That speech by Premier Clemcnceau in a mo- ment Of extreme weariness and irritation He was too tired and angry to be disnsenuous. Likewise there las been really nothing in the foreign journals to guide Americans to foreign sentiment though here and there IS a mere sleam
 Mr. sullivan may have had in mind a certain utterance by the London Morning Post the day after MT. Wilson's Boston speech. in which the Post de- elared ioyousy that we were getting away from the precepts of Washington against foreign entange- mentS And the while Mir. Wilson and his friends were declaring that the covenant of tho league of na tons meant nothing os the sort
 In this connection we have the interpretation night before last by both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Taft Of Washington's meaning. The interpretation may have been furnished these eminent gentlemen by that most famous Of our interpreters. J. Ham Lewis. It sounds just like him. According to these gentlemen we are about to do the very thing that Washington was driving at in his incomplete, sroping warning against entangling foreign alliances: VIC are going Co destroy an these foreign alliances and then there will hc nothing in which become entangIed
 The point made by Mr. Sullivan however. is that The is already over and that our soldiers and our people are tired of needessy living under war conditions. They peace and order fully restored al home as quickly possible and then MT Wilson proceed without disturbing the rest Of us upon Sis 'as! Of making the world posterity as vel as for democracy That. by the way. is precisely hat Che Lodge resolution contemplates