The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-05
Mr.. Wilson's Explanation About
Congress and the True Reason.


President WILSON declared yester
day In reference to the breakdown OF
Congress In it's closing hours:
"A group OF men In the Senate
have deliberately chosen to embarrsss
tho administration OF the Govern
ment TO imperil the financial In
terests of the railway eystem Of tho
country and to make arbitrary use
of powers intended to be employed
In tho interests of the people.
TT 10 plainly my present duty to
arsend me Peace Conference In Paris.
1t Is also my duty to DO in close con-
tact with the public business during
q session Of Congress. I must make
my choice between these two duties,
and I confidently hope that tho poo
pie Of the country will think that
am making the right choice. 1t Is
not in the interest OF the right con-
duct of public affairs that should
call the Congress in q special session
while 1t is impossible for me to DO
in Washington. because Of more
pressing duty elsewhere"
But let US see. Mr.. WILSON did 20
away and stay away for months,
with the old Congress-his own Dem
ocratlc Congress-ln session. He
ought not to have gone away then
he ought not to go away now. But,
though he Is needed at home as no
other President was ever needed al
home, he Is going away a second time,
nevertheless, because he wants to 20
away more than he wants to stay
home. This time, however, he will
not permit a session of the new Con
gress chosen by the. American people
to displace his Congress,
Let us see again. The following
words are not from sinister Repub.
lican blinded by partisan passion
they are not from a United States
Senator stung to the quick by the way
the Executive ignores the upper
branch of Congress; nor yet are they
from any other defender of the Con
stitution who breads the consequences
to this country Of the denationalizing
League Of Nations:
Those who know the President
best consider that he is solely in
terested IN the success OF his peace
mission and not concerned with do
nestle politics any more"
These words are printed in the
Evening Post by Mr.. DAVID Law,
RENEE, an intimate friend and inordl.
nate admirer of Mr.. WILSON, a hot
advocate of the League Of Nations, a
devoted knight Of the dream crusade
to make hybrid internationallsm SUI
preme over pure nationalism.
The President is solely interested
In tbs succsss CT his peaca~k1 ssiaak
Domestic politics or domestic policies
can count for nothing. Domestic eco
Monies or domestic finance can count
for nothing. Domestic industry oil
domestic labor can count for nothing
Nothing counts, nothing can count but
that vision OF super power, that IN
ternational majesty under whose blaz
Ing sun our own political principles
and Independent institutions, our owl
Constitution, our own Government
our own sovereignty, our own national
existence shall wither to ashes for all
the interest that those who know the
President best consider he can take II
us and ours
And so, with our national finances
in Generalization while Government
squander goes unchecked, with indus.
trial reconstruction abandoned, with
business readjustment neglected, with
100000 Of our own American peo
pie adrift on a sea of uncertainty and
hazard, Mr.. WILSON sails away.
The new Congress shall not meet to
do any of the things the American
people four months ago elected 1t tc
do. Until Mr.. WILSON again takes ar
interest in affairs American pothins
shall be done at home. Everybody Ii
and Of the United States Government
must mark time. Everything mus
wait; for Mr.. WILSON'S sole Interest
Is in the success of his peace mission
that success meaning the League 0.