El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-11

IT WAS evident president Wilson's speech to the
senate Thursday that whatever wrath he may have
vented in Paris privately in the hearing his
cates relative to the opposition of certain members Of
congress his league of nations plan he has returned
TO this country with chip his shoulder and inten-
non OF pouring ont the vlaS Of his anger or any VINO
presume to entertain opinions contrary to his
IN fact his speech model OF miIdness and per-
suasveness It fairly oozad the milk Of human kindness
at hand It polished in phrase lofty IN spirit
and it contained the elements of good argument in behalf
both Of the peace treaty and the league OF nations
for instance when the president declared that Americas
isolation ended and that perforce take part
n WoIio ponucs as muen as &c say tnat the arplane
dnglble, submarine and radio have brought US IN such
close with nations the barrier
wiped out and that cannot but be involved in what
great affairs affect Europe, Asia and Africa.
Cevery Mr. Wilson placed before the senate this tan
TALKING bait:
There can be no question Of our ceasng to be world
power The only question IS whether can refuse
moral leadership that is offered Us, whether shall
accept reject the confidence Of the world That puts
It mp The senator's 70 take part the world leadership
The president adds that not only Americas isolation
ended but that Of ended also" Perhaps
the president is right but perhaps, again, ne is little
optimistic for his statement does not completely
coincide with reports Of European fears Of American trade
domination and military strength-and It IS certain
that Japan has been startled greatly by manifestation
Of armed power, developed in remarkably short time
However those matters necessary to be dwelt
upon in speech setting forth the blessings to mankind
likely upon the ratification Of the peace treaty
and the Inauguration of a league Of nations.
The president, in portion Of his address, skated
close to broken ice but dextsrousy swerved around it.
when he said:
aThe central empires had lived in open violation of
many Of the very rights for which the had been
fought dominating alien peoples whom they had no
natural right to rule enforcing not Obedience but vsrtab
bondage exploiting those who weak for the benefit
Of those who and oveods only by force Of
There could be peace until the whole order Of
central Europe set right
What he avoided the fact that Ireland Egypt and
India also held by alien people; also protesting
that they bondage, also ruled by those who
have natural right over them, and likewise are re
strained only BY force Of The fact that the rule
over them may their best interests does not
silence their contentious II remains that the peace which
was made at Versailles, camoufage It any way We Try,
Is Yictnrs peace imposed vanqaished enemy and
penaiizing him by dsmemberment It is good peace, at
that There need however, to be hypocrtical about
pretend that al the governmental inequites IN the
world Strengthened out Everybody knows that the
famed "sef determination Of peoples applied only
to the vanquished not to the victors
President Wilson, N another passage, offered lev
eonciatory not to say apologize words his opponents
by saying the peace treaty not Just he would
have had It. bat al things considered the best that he
could get pointer out the difficulties IN the OF
reaching understanding the old ambitious agreements
between allied nations the diSruss Of nation for
another the desires Of each accomplish the best terms
possible He said It only BY the effectng Of many
compromises that ultimate agreement possible and
he inferred that some the settlements determined upon
we're not Just &c his liking had been generally under
IN one Of his dispatches to Tie Herald from Washington
said while the president still on the ocean, on his
way back TO the United States
for the league Of nations, the president, IN his
speech INDUCED remarkable oratory but extensive
slgzment such would appeal to practical person But