Evening journal., 1919-05-24

"It is believed that the Germans will
nd fifteen days none too long for the
iscovery OF any OF this fourteen
loints that may be supposed TO be
urking somewhere within the $4,000
words OF the peace treaty" remarked
l'The Kansas City Star" Very general
agreement is expressed by critics OF
the President. Ana FOR once radical
opinion comedies with the views OF
Colonel George Harvey and Of Repub-
iloans. "The New York Evening Post
IS the only Democratic paper which has
attempted an answer.
Here Is the view OF an extreme rad
ical. "The Fargo az. d. Courier
News" leading organ Of the Non-par-
tisan League:
A Leader Without Friends.
President Wilson, instead OF the
greatest man in all history, will re-
turn 20 America broken and dlscred-
tied. He went to Europe the idol Of all
its common people. lie returns literally
without friends, for even the imperial
SITS TO whom he has surrendered all
his ideals have no confidence i'm him,
while the people will look upon him as
one who. with the power to help them,
betrayed them into the hands OF their
cid enemies, the comers Of profits and
tle makers Of war.
7 The European governments. tluslH
el with victory were greedy with the
list for revenge and plunder. There
ws but one course for him 10 pur-
~.
Having found that the Allies had
cnically turned their backs on the
flrteen points, had repudiated their
gnatures 10 the armistice before
/, the ink was dry, he should have
ide the facts known TO the world and
Jurned TO America.
But he made another fatal mis-
Sc: he thought he could measure
Dlomatic swords with the most cum
ag masters OF Europe, and now he
. IDS himself cut TO pieces.
Lost Peace.
Even more caustic IS the radical
eekly, "The DALI
"Tt is a thankless task TO bring in
IN OF particulars-tO show in detail
ow one by one The fourteen points 60
-hich America and the Allies bound
1emselves have been abr0gated by the
clual pact. on January y. 1917 Presi-
.ent Wilson had declared that The
reedom Of the seas is Tie sine qua non
lf peace. equality and cooperation,
vet this was the first article Of the
fourteen 20 be Withdrawn from cOnsid-
Grafton before the armistice was sign
ed. The grant Of Upper Silesia to Po-
land of Southern Tyrol TO Italy are not
only violations OF an agreement MADE
with a beaten enemy, they are clear
violations OF that international 0rder
which America fought TO establish
crimes against the peace OF the world.
The terms Of the grant Of kisochau ana
shaniung 10 Japan, OF the Dodecanese
lo Italy are violations Of the fourteen
polnis at the expense not OF the enemy
but OF me Allies. In the territorial es-
ablishment Of new states. lugo-Slavia,
CzechO-Slovakia, Poland. difficult ques-
lions arose which did not admit OF any
cIe5n cut application OF the fourteen
points but in the claims OF Japan on
china there was single issue 10 De
maintained OF compromised, That OF
right Justice and truth. The treaty not
pnly cancels The principle OF equality
und participation in a common benent
as respects the late enemy. It Win
draws il among the Allies themselves.
America has won the war but has lost
The peace.
Mr.. Wilson and the Wolves.
"The abandonment Of the fourteen
points was the price which Mr.. Wilson
paid for the form Of peace which ne
has secured under the title The League
on Nations. lie will doubtless base his
claim 10 success OF his mission TO Eu-
rope on this achievement. and already
il is being hailed as a triumph OF prac-
tical craftsmanship over The futile a.
pirations and feeble scruples Of uie
idealists-of whom Mr.. Wilson used to
be accounted one II Should be pointed
out. however. that the process by
which the league was secured. that ot
paltering with the principles on which
II was 10 have been based, goes far TO
discredit it in its inccplionH The true
relation between the covenant and The
treaty has been reversed The cove
nant was put forward as a pledge and
a promise TO be made good by subse-
ment action beginning with the treaty