The sun., 1919-09-20
WADSWORTH SEES
VITAL PACT FLAWS
Tells Senate League Would
Drag European Politics
Into Our Affairs.
NEW ANGLE TO DANGERS
Millions of Foreigners Here
Make Outlook More Grave
Than in Other Countries.

WARRINGTON, Sept lS'--t9SheS' 1880
w. Wordsworth, Jr. IN. ", addressed
the Senate to-day on the peace treaty
and League OF Nations covenant, point
Eng out with a specification of detail that
has not heretofore marked the discus
sion Of the treaty some OF the difficult
ties and endorsements which woulo
be entailed by ratification without dras-
Ito reservations framed to insure the
integrity of American institutions. SEN
ator wadsworth spoke extemporaneous-
". He said:
"The question before the Senate Is OF
such Importance that as we shall decide
4 so shall the destinies Of generations
IF Americans yet unborn be guided. II
IS bigger than any man or any party,
but not bigger than the Government OF
the United States for the Government
IS the representative and agent OF the
people, and anything bigger than the
Government Is bigger than the people.
To that doctrine as enunciated by the
President in q recent speech l cannot
subscribe.
"Many of the proponents of the
League of Nations have forgotten that
people are. 1 would not say that the
ideals of Americans are better than
those of any other people, nor that their
intelligence is higher: but l do Insist
that the ideals and methods Of thought
OF the American people are different
from those of every other people.
'srhe wonder of II all Is that for 100
years groups of people of differing ori-
gin and nationality have been able to
live here in peace and happiness. Few
statesmen of the Old World have under
stood. and / have no doubt that prior
to our entrance into\the war and for
the first few months after our entrance
the scholars of Germany predicted this
countrys breakdown because they
thought the people were not and could
not be united. Few people abroad COM
prehend what this means, and l fear
that many in the United States are for
getting what it means.
Washington Showed Foresight.
IF we do not comprehend the secret
or our success here we are apt 70 en-
danger the 'uture happiness of our peo-
pie. hailed by others as the hope of the
world. VI believe that Washington looked
toward the future when he made Ais
farewell address and that the thing
which concerned him most was the
prospect of these great groups of people
coming here to find themselves unable to
weld together in one American people,
and he knew they could not be thus
welded together unless they exercised
unceasing vigilance against the injection
of European politics into American af-
fairs.
Greeks and Bulgarians have lived
here side by side in peace; the English
nd fha TriC CHI flA M
the Frenchman, the Austrian and the
Hungarian, the Pole and the Russian,
have forgotten the politics. intrigues and
frictions of the Old World and having
forgotten them, this American people is
a united people to-day.
II think Washington hoped and
prayed that We would maintain that at
mosphere. Some may not consider this
an important side of the discussion now
In progress, but with them 1 cannot
agree. Already we see the effects in this
country of our Governments participa-
ton in European frictions and disputes.
THE President issued from Paris a
statement to the Italian people, in a
sense over the heads of the Italian Gov
eminent, declaring that Fiume should
be awarded to Jugo-SlaviG. Within eight
days my mail was filed with letters and
petitions from italian born Americans to
use my influence to have the United
States side with Italy. Instantly Euro
pean politics was in American politics.
IL was entirely natural that these Ital-
ian-Americans should have addressed
me in that way, but it was the first sig
nifcant sign of what this International
ism may mean to America.
Doubtless they addressed other Sem
ators They saw our Government TAX
ing part In the settlement of European
disputes. Naturally they exercised the
right to petition Congress in favor of
their mother country. I have heard
likewise from delegations of Iithu-
anians seeking to influence America in
favor Of their native country. 1 do not
decry the spirit In which they have petit
TONED us. but / wonder whether II may
not result in breaking UP our united peo-
pie into groups each intent upon using
its political influence to the advantage
OF particular countries in Europe or
Asia.
Big Task in Assimilation.
"We have had tremendous tasI,
in assimilating these splendid peoples
who have come here. We have avoided
up to this hour at least the permanent
alliances which would inject us into the
politics Of Europe. The Committee on
Foreign Relations has seen this ten
dency, and delegations have come be-
fore 1t to urge the claims of particular
Old World countries. This is but the
beginning, and Congresses of the future
will find 1t impossible TO close the doors
against others who seek to influence
it; and when you have that situation
In the United States you have poisoned
the political life of this peo7la. We
are about to set UP several new nations
and think 1t well to analyze some OF
the possibilities Of this situation. Mr.
Lloyd George in the House OF Commons
several months ago said: We are Bal
Ranking Central Europe
'Out Of this war energies a restored
and independent Poland, a new Bohe-
mia, Czecho-Slovakia, a separate Hun
gary. a separate Austria, a new Jugo-
Slav State, readjusted Greece, a re-
adjusted Bulgaria, readjusted Serbia
But the establishments are not going or
with the smoothness you could have
hoped. The Poles are fighting upon
three fronts. The Rumanians invaded
Hungary and paid no attention what.
ever to the allied council at Paris in.
structing them to retire which indicates
the respect for international authority
held by tho Ruhnanians. The Jugo-Slay.
and Greeks stand watching each other
armed to the teeth. JuEo-SIavs and
Italians have already had open clashes
and we have learned how D'Annunxic
has entered Plume and is holding II FOL
Italy against the world.
These things must give us cause tc
think. The British and French force,
have been compelled to leave Fiume and