The sun., 1919-07-23

to the beaten foe. To many Senators
who had given the treaty itself the most
cursory reading, II they had gone
through II at all, Mr.. Moses's analysis
was a revelation. particularly as to the
difficulties and perils Of the task ahead.
This being the point the Senator was
essaying to make, he then continued:
These, Mr.. President, are only a part
OF the deservedly drastic terms imposed
upon Germany by the treaty. They con-
stitute victor's peace and with them
1 have no quarrel. Vac victis' Is the ag-
onizing cry which has gone up from
every battlefield since the human race
learned to fight, and my only criticism
OF the penalties which 1 have only in
part enumerated Is that they were not
promptly and vigorously imposed upon O
crushed and Inundated foe eight months
ago. and that they are now presented to
us with the argument that they square
as whole with the principles agreed
upon as a basis of peace.
These principles have trod thorny
path. First promulgated. under this
roof. on the eighth day OF January. 1918.
they were, we have lately been told,
readily acceded to as the principles to
which honorable and enlightened minds
everywhere had been bred They spoke.
We have been assured, the conscience
of the world as we'll as the conscience
Of America; but it was with a happi-
ness which the written result does not
justify that there fell from the Presi-
dents lips his tribute of respect and
gratitude for the constant effort of his
fellow negotiators to accommodate the
interests they represented to the prin-
ciples' which all had agreed upon.
This agreement. Mr.. President, was
almost wholly supposititious, so far az
the resultant provisions of the treaty
are concerned. We look in vain through
its 267 pages for the elusive fourteen
points OF peace. Open covenants long
since took to hiding; the freedom OF
the seas was treated with scant cour-
tesy at Paris; the establishment OF
equality Of trade conditions among ma
lions consenting to the peace Is nowhere
to be found in this instrument; the
earlier doctrine of no annexations and
no indemnities long since became a
tragic joke; and there remains alone, SO
far as present negotiations have been
reduced to written form. the general as
ISOLATION of nations established by spe.
cific covenant.
Sees "Balsnce OF Power"
Neither can we find here any confr.
nation of the prediction that this treaty
was to be written in disregard of the
OLD order of the balance of power and
with no element Of national commercial
greed. The balance OF power expressed
In geographic terms does not, It Is true
appear; but all the elements of greed
national suspicion and jealousy are
only too evident in almost every article
OF the treaty. The treaty says an emf.
nent English commentator, is triple non.
sense. 1t expects Germany to earn vast
sums and to earn them without the right
and facility to trade abroad. 1t expects
some Government to impose this servi-
tude on the German workers, vet de.
MES to that Government the army which
alone might hold them down in outward
obedience. 1t robs $4,000. 900 German,
of subsistence and omits to provide them
with field for emigration
In short, the sun OF commercial ex.
panston in which Germany sought a
place passes into total eclipse behind
this treaty; and the shackles with which
she is manacled in her obscurity have
been forged with meticulous care by "tht
forward looking men" with whom the
President was privileged to cooperate al
Paris. but whose cooperation was strictly
limited to looking out for themselves
while not emitting to see to 1t that the
United States should be made full part.
ner in every phase OF the enterprise de.
signed for the benefit OF the other mem.
bers of the Big Five No one could find
fault with this, Mr.. President, IL IL had
been done in the open. Or IL it were now
brought to US with no pretense that TIE
deed squares, as a whole. with the
principles agreed upon as the basis OF
the peace" and that the inevitable COM
promises nowhere cut to the heart OF
any principle"
Since the treaty could not be self.
operative, the Senator pointed out, how
was it to be enforced and by whom
He called the Senate's attention to the
fact that the signatories to the instru
ment have constituted themselves into
two groups, the first comprising the
United States, the British Empire
France, Italy and Japan. everywhere de
scribed throughout the treaty as tn,
principal allied and associated Powers.
and the second, comprising all the othel
belligerents except Costa Rica. Their
Senator Moses noted the treaty specified
clause by clause that functioning anl
enforcement have been left, not to tn,
League of Nations, but 10 the five gre a
Powers. He illustrated;
For instance, in the delimitation Of
the new frontier line between Belgium
and Germany. 1t is not the League o.
Nations, but a commission OF seven per
sons, five of whom will be appointed
by the principal allied and associated
Powers, who will assume this task
Equally, in connection with the renun
citation of the privileges conferred upoI
Germany with relation to the Crane
Duchy of Luxemburg. il is not tn,
League of Nations who will procure t
the Grand Duchy the most favored ma
ton treatment which Germany provides
for others. but the principal allied anC
associated Powers.
"OId Order, New Day.