The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-09-06
SENATE WILL PROMISE PROT e.
TloN EVEN If THE PRESENT
TREATY is REJECTED.
POPULAR SENTIMENT STRONG
Great Help the French People Gave
the Colonies Is Not Forgotten
Ambassador Jusserand Proves That
II Was Not Selfish.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.

their authority under the CONSTITUTION
to ratify the French treaty, and they
may not ratify it, but lacking ratifca-
ton, the mind of the opposition APP
parently Is in favor of doing some
thing equally strong and comprehen-
sive in behalf of France.
1t is known that some of the sena-
tors, and perhaps what is known or
them is true of the majority, feel
there is Il sentiment in behalf of France |
and its cause among the people of the |
United States that will necessltate
some adequate recognition of the !.
French peoples need, for that is what |
II is, for protection against the Ger
man when he shall have rehabilitated
himself. and the old spirit of hatred
against his neighbor to the west shall
have reasserted itself. Common po-
litical sense if not gratitude, observers
saw. probably will dictate a response
TO the request embodied in the treaty.
even if the treaty in its present form
should not be sanctioned.
1t is held by men who seem to have
an appreciation of the situation that
Americans of long American ancestry
are by hereditary sympathies and In
stinct lust as grateful to France for
what it did for this country in the
| revolutionary days as were Americans
of that time. On the other hand, II
is said that American citizens or an
ancestry which does not go back to
revolutionary days I'm this country do
not share the same feeling. II Is rec
ognized by the men who talk about
it that this condition is natural ana
vet one which would be unnatural II
the "citizens of a later day" would
look at the thing from another point
of view.
Debt Rests on Later Corners, Too.
No one knows just what proportion
Of Americans can trace their ances-
try back to revolutionary or pre-rev-
dictionary days, but it Is probable
that much more than one-half Of the
citizens of the United States date the
arrival of their ancestors at a time Ia
ter than the battle of Yorktown.
|
bate in the senate in order to make
popular sentiment approve of PROB
able affirmative action of some kind
in this case, that if it had not been
for French help in the revolutionary
war there would have been no free
country in America for the ancestors
of many American citizens to nave
come to in the pursuit of life, liberty
and happiness.
Frequently the argument is ad
vanced by opponents of the sanction
ing of the French treaty that France
came to the aid of the United States
only because she wanted to weaker
Great Britain by separating her from
one of her colonies, and also to MAKE
il certain that q considerable part o
the British army and navy should b.
confined to operations on this side
the Atlantic. In other words. the ar
gument is that France was essentiall
selfish.
If is not known to what extent tn
ambassador of the French to thl
country, J. J. Jusserand, can enter In
& to activities in behalf of treaty l
which his country's future safety
said TO be involved. but already Nj
Jusserand in a book written before tn
present war tortured the world ha
given an explanation of the reason
o. for French aid to the colonies whic
of may be enlightening in the preser
es treaty making.
st Why France Aided Colonies.
es The ambassador in a volume col
of tanning articles on ROchambeau
SIS America LEnfant. the French eng
of neer who planned the city of Washin
'ia ton: Lafayette, and on some 9th
Frenchmen as well as some Amer
cans, went deeply into the reasons #
French aid to the colonies. He tel
sh also of pre-revOlutionary days
ct France, of the growing love for liber
ia in France. of the sympathies amOl
an the people for another people w
de were struggling for something viii
i'm the French had not yet been able
lly obtain for themselves, and of VIII
ut he holds TO be the undoubted fact tn
1t was the democratic spirit of Franc
nk. rousing into life that led to the fifth
,ch out of the expeditions, military n
led naval, which came to the aid of I
Tx, American colonists.
to The expeditions went forth not
cause of Louis XVI, but in spite
him. This in brief is the Jussera
argument. The ambassador goes il
minute details. gives names and o
~. lines the various movements, der
cratic in theis nature. which led otl
Frenchmen to follow Lafayette il
~" the field of liberty's struggle
America.
IA Writers Doffing Their Uniforms.
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-. all the officers holding tempor
tn commissions In the United Sta
~. army will sever their connect
With the service by September
Men who entered the service for
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