The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-05

Americanisn. beginning with Senator
Johnson's amendment. which gives
America equal voting strength in the
League Of Nations with that accorded TO
the British Empire, and proceeding 10
the last Of Senator Falls amendments,
which relieves us from service on the
commission to allot rolling stock to Eu-
ropean railroad lines too insignificant
to have accumulated equipment Tor
themselves.
Says U. s. "Goat" Is Sought.
I'VE have taken this action partly in
order to give symmetry to the treaty,
as well as to free us from entanglements
Of varying degrees Of annoyance ana
diffloulty-for the master draughtsmen
Of the treaty took great pains to write
us carefully into all those European
messes where our participation could
remove the curse from their own selnsh-
ness. while taking equal pains to exclude
us from participation In those matters
where they have felt confident OF get
ting away with Il without the necessity
Of finding an American goat
''They have been entirely willing, Tor
instance, TO make us q partner IN the
difficult task of determining the boun-
daries for Czecho-Slovakia and other
disputatious nations, but they under
ment of Helgoland and the destruction
of Notifications on the east hank OF
tho Rhine BY Withdrawing from these
stipulations which the Fall amendments
embrace we have merely carried to COM
pletion the suggestion which our asso-
ciates at Paris were perhaps too polite
to pursue, and we have renowned, as
the treaty itself would phrase 1t. our
rights to share in the too numerous
troubles which the future will produce
in Silesia, in Eupen, in Luxembourg, IN
the Czecho-Slovak state, In Poland, In
East Prussia. in Memel. in Danzig. in
Schleswig and In the other back coun-
tries from which the returns are not yet
complete. To remain in these entangle-
ments, as the treaty contemplates, would
leave us impotent to render our best
service when the day comes, as come 1t
must, for another European war grow
ing out Of the manifest iDequlties which
all witnesses before the committee have
testified to abundantly.
1--WE have not sought to shirk any re-
sponsibility which the war has laid upon
us for we have distinguished between
the duties brought by war to make the
world free for democracy and peace
treaty framed to secure an American
underwriting for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
VI CODclhbcfcntS WIN nave
in a temporary and helpful alliance be-
tween the rivalries Of yesterday and to-
morrow.
Ready Always for Call of Duty.
I'VE were bound to help put an end to
the fiendish schemes of the Potsdanh
gang. We are not bound to help on the
ambitious plots OF Downing Street or
the Quai d'Orsay. By withdrawing
from the commissions established by the
treaty. as the Fall amendments would
have us, We shall be in fact rendering
our associates in the war a greater SER
vice than by trying to adapt ourselves
to the devious processes of Old World
diplomacy--which recent events at Paris
have shown to be beyond our ken
and we shall be In position to render the
world a still greater service whenever 1t
shall call upon us again as 1t did in
1917.
The committee has been sane to the
last degree, and the President. as he
tours the country carrying the heart Of
the world as in silver case like that
Of Robert Bruce, must face realities for
once in his life and must tell his fellow
citizens with facts and arguments in
stead of rhetoric and hysteria just why
he wishes to abjure the Constitution he
has sworn to support and to embrace
covenant which he has thus far been
unoble to interpret"