The sun., 1919-08-30
Sen. KNOX URGES
TRUCE'S' REJECTION
Continued from First Page.

SV"ttHbCU from fuSt rage.
tees, Senator Knox held. and he contin-
ued:
The mind stands appalled, and re-
fuses to grasp the infinite possibilities
which arise from, the ramihcations Of the
obligations we are asked TO assume
Looking at the treaty as a whole Il Is
10 be wondered at that we are asked to
guarantee by our arms and our resources
the territorial status which 1t creates"
Text of tho Speech.
The text of Senator Knox's address
follows:
"The observations 1 shall make are
dictated by no maudlin sympathy for
Germany, the felon who must suffer the
penalty incident to his crime.
But i am vitality concerned in the
peace OF this world. and peace we must
have II 1t be attainable. But 1 am con-
WINGED after the most painstaking con-
sideration that ] can give that this
treaty does not spell peace but war-war
more woeful and devastating than the
one we have but now closed. The in
strument before us is not the treaty but
the truce of Versailles
ut is for this body-the coordinate
treaty making power OF this great neu-
Tal nation of ouTs-to make of the doc
a 1
that be impossible, then we must put this
nation In such relation to the treaty and
TO the Powers of the world that our voice
may hereafter, as heretofore, be always
raised for peace.
Fortunately It is no longer necessary
to insist upon the high Importance of
this treaty, nor the fact that 1t marks
the point in our history where we turn
from our old course of proved happiness.
ri txyo nd AZ m
us yet untried. of alliances balance of
power and coalition with countries and
peoples whose interests, aspirations and
ideals are foreign TO our own, because
the people are waking to this as the true
issue. Little by little they are bringing
a divulgence of the facts connected with
the treaty and they may now hope fin
ally to see the whole of the great gaunt
tragedy into which those whom they had
charged with protecting them were about
to betray them.
Many Papers Withheld.
but unfortunately this treaty. intri-
cate ponderous and voluminous as 1t is,
yet is by no means the whole story.
Many documents involved in its making
are before neither the Senate nor the
people.
within the last week the Committee
on Foreign Relations requested that the
Proceedings of the Peace Conference and
the documents connected Herewith should
be furnished for our information. The
reply was that all were not here. only
those Immediately at hand having been
brought, and that those here were being
sorted ana some would be finally sent.
Why should these documents need sort
ing? Do they hold secrets 1t Is thought
best the American people should not
know?
Nor have we yet the treaties with
Germany's allies-the former Austro-
Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria and Tur-
key-all of whom, II We may credit re-
port, are to be dismembsred or shorn OF
territory, or both. The provisions of the
treaty before us are intimately and In
evitably entwined with those of these
other treaties. Can we wisely proceed
without those treaties and treat this sit
uation piecemeal?
'1f the negotiators found 1t neces-
sary, as they did, to consider the whole
situation at one time that they might ar
rive at harmonious arrangements. mus.
not we also to act intelligently and
wisely have everything before US?
a what Is 1t, Sir, about these things
hat the people cannot know? What is
there to hide from them? Must We take
this thing. as the German people must
take 1t, insight and unseen? Are we
fallen enemies? We are asking neither
for a Saar Basin, Fiume, nor a Shan
tung. We have no hope or desire of as-
grandizement to be disappointed. We
want merely to know what We are prom
Using to do.
'Mr. President, a treaty OF peace has
two great functions: In the first place
it ends the war and brings back peace
and in the next place it gives to the
lit. 11NW toll
the form of territorial adjustments and
monetary or other indemnity, either
merely to make good his losses, or In
addition to impose a penalty II the
victor be guided by wise statesman
ship he so accommodates his spells as
not to sow seeds for another conflict
with his erstwhile enemy. The great
war now. ending was bottomed on Bis
rnarck's violation of this Fundamental
principal France overlooked her In
demnity, but she never forgot or for
gave Alsace-Lorraine. There is, war;
You. Senators, many another Asace'
Lorraine In the treaty laid before us fol
action.
Germany and Great Britain have al
ready ratified the treaty. So soon there
fore as the treaty has been ratified b,
any two of the remaining principal al
lied and associated Powers the remain
ing POWERS DeIIlB lllo OhilCu SNoeSS
France, Italy and Japan, and when thu
Droces verbal of such deposit of ratifica
lions has been drawn up the state o.
war will terminate as a reading of th'
many treaty clauses coming into force
at that time and making the furthe
conduct of the war impossible, vii
clearly show.
ct results from the foregoing that II
order to bring peace between us and Ger
many II is not necessary that we shall
ratify this. treaty. 1t is true Congress
need not accept this treaty termination
of our belligerency and might by prope
resolution, either joint, concurrent or b!
separate resolution to the same effect b!
the Senate and House. respectively, con
tinue this war, because to Congress ex
cluslvely belongs the authority to ere
ate a status of war, and therefore
might continue such status by new
declaration. But Congress has no de
sire to do and will not do this thing.
"On the other hand. Congress. Will
~ cannot negotiate a peace with tn
enemy, can nevertheless end hostilitie
with him by declaring as no longer ex
astant the status OF war with him, whicl
fhe Congress created by its own act.
Thus so soon as the first process uerbd
f. drawn under this treaty, Congress ma.
with all propriety, and should to ensur
full legality to the act OF the EAecutiv
IN negotiating this particular treaty pro
vision, pass a resolution-concurrent, be
caues the Executive having already com
mitted himself to the substance thereof
his approval would be superfluous-