Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
LOUIS SE|BOLD'
INQUIRIES SHOW
D|SSAT|S ACTION
BY MANY PEOPLE
Blame is Placed About Equally
On President Wilson and the
Senate for Failure to Meet
Situation.
WANT TREATY ACTED
UPON WITHOUT DELAY
Ratification Should Be With
or Without Reservations At
Earliest Possible Moment, is
General Opinion.
Louis Seibold.
Special Correspondent of the Albu
querque Morning Journal and
New York World.

I
querque Morning Journal and
New York World.
Indianapolis, Aug. S.-While the
senate of the United states talks and
talks over the peace treaty and league
of nations, the man on the street in
the Indiana state capital thinks about
other things, and, thinking, wakes inn
patient and demands action on both
However much the average citizen Of
Indianapolis may differ with either
lue president OF his senatorial critics
as to the necessity for the league of
nations, it is pretty certain that he
believes that the interests of all classes
of people in not on,y his own state but
in every other one demand less talk
and more action.
met more than one man today who
recalled the criticism uttered on the
floor of the senate during the peace
negotiations at the Quai d'Orsay be-
cause of the delay of the president,
Lloyd George, C.emenceau and Orlan-
do, the Big Four" in reaching defi-
mite understanding so tho people of
the world could resume the peaceful
and profitable tenor of their normal
habits.
The indianapolis man on the street
feels pretty much today az the senate
did then. In common with the ordl-
nary run of citizens i'll other cities Vis-
tied by me, the Indianapolis man is
beginning to hold both the president
and the obstruCting senate responsible
for the alarming spread of disquietude
and unrest which is beginning to breed
the consequences of a disOrganized So
cial order in every walk If life.
Cause of Unrest.
He traces the inspiration of the in
dustrial strikes, racial outbreaks, the
high cost of living, lack of co-opera-
ton between employer and employe
and the perniCious activity of laWless
elements, the causes and effects of
commercial stagnatiOn directly to the
failure of the executive branches of
the government to provide a program
that will justify him in tackling with
out delay the overshadowing recon-
struction problems that must be-
solved
Criticism and division of opinion
among the better informed profession
al elements in the Indiana capital isl
largely influenced by party affilia-
tions. A good deal of this criticism
is based upon causes that have moth
ing to do with either the peace or the
treaty for league of nations but rather
the prospective consequences of both.
These causes are generally extrane-
Gus and relate to future domestic
problems. They are inspired by in
tense partisan resistance to anything
democratic, a partisan dislike of thel
president and his methods, and racial
and national differences bred of pre- /
judice or sympathy against Great Bri- |
tain and with Ireland and China.
only Two Read Covenant.
The Indianapolis man on the street,
appears to be no better informed re-
garding the details of the controversy
between the president and the senate, |
nor the terms of phraseology of the
league of nations covenant than the
citizens of other cities. Out of more |
than two-score men with whom l have
talked during the tour that led into all |
sorts of places, | only met two men to-
day who admitted that they had read
the league of nations covenant.
The other persons with whom /
talked exhibited very little knowledge
and scarcely any interest in the debate
proceedings in the senate Their chief
concern seemed to be to have the mat
ter disposed of on the ground that the
benefits resulting from such a step
will counterbalance in tangible value
the purely speculative consequence in
VOWED in the undertakings of the
league Of nations provided in the Ger
man treaty.
Even the most reaCtionary republi- ,
cans do not question the altruistic and
patriotic motives of the president.
They do not like the treat of
China and Ireland. They reflect more
or less concern over the prospect of
departure from the traditions of
policies of this government in its
relations with foreign states. They
reject scepticism regarding the sane
tity of the Monroe doctrine, but they
do not know very much about any of
these things as far as the treatment of
them in the German peace treaty is
concerned.
Affairs Topsy Turvy.
They know that their own private
affairs are in topsyturvy state, their
environment surcharged with unrest
They are apprehensive for the future.
They believe that the German peace
treaty should be ratified at once, eth
er with or without reservations, so
that the great and overshadowipgI
problems that affect them may be re-
moved.
They are willing to take a chance
with the league of nations framed
by the Paris peace conference. a
great MANY of them believe that it.
is worth trying, even if it does not
prove wholly successful. "Anything
that will make war more difficult, not