The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-25
4 "REVOLT' IS NEEDED

which are acceptable to oppoSihs' 6 groups in the American Senate.
 Senator Underwood voiced the impa- tient feeling of the nation when he said that he would vote for any com promise on which President Wilson and Senator Lodge agreed. He means that there is nothing in either pro- gramme important enough to keep the country and the world any longer on tenterhooks. Even if it be argued that : some of the points presumably at is- sue between the White House and the senator from Boston are of first-rate value. that argument will not stand for
 a minute if applied to the points still remaining at issue between the demo- cratic and republican senators. It
 would be far better to flip a coin to
 settle which list of "reseryations'r should be accepted than to permit peace to come into operation in Europe
 with Americans debarred from the
 first and perhaps decisive struggles Ito cut and dominate flew channels sof
 trade, with Americans inclosed fin
 their golden prison built by too favor
 able an exchange rate" as Paris Temps so sagaciously puts it: with Americans
 absent from. the many commissions
 whose right conduct will decide
 whether or not ue shall-saon be drawn
 into another terrible war
 Are Americans to be the new He's sians of the war ?-permitted to fight but not permitted the smallest voice in the administration of peace
 It is general belief in this coun- try that the allies were not big enough to deal with Germany on the battle field without our help. We shall not precipitate a new argument on who won the war; but if the above belief is prevalent among us why should it not be accompanied by the comple- mentary belief that neither are they big enough to deal with Germany to- day when in many ways she stands l in more favorable position relatively than she did five years ago? The al- {. 1 lies themselves co not feel too confiIN dent on the subject They are yisibly | nervous in the presence of reviving and recalcitrant Germany. They open l ly seek American help. And if they do not get it now, when America can keep Germany in her place with a Iresolute gesture. they will infallibly call for it-and get it to our unmeas-
 ured cost-if Germany is ever again up and fighting
 The Temps of Paris is quite explicit l on this point. After describing dan gerous symptoms to be seen today in Germany, it says
 1 "As long as Germany lives in this atmosphere of militaristic manifesto ton the world will not be safe from i the plague which came upon it in 1914. 1 The perpetual menace of conspiracy and of German aggression will ob1ige all the peoples of the world to remain 1 sirded and ready. We who wish sin cerely for the peace so necessary to
 our weakened country. so necessary in 1 the social crisis which stirs all hu- manity, address Ourselves to that sem timent at once idealistic and positive, which is striking trait of the Amer
 ican character. We ask the United States not to believe that it can re-.1
 main separated from European ques-k
 tions not to exclude itself from the peace for which it came to fight, from
 the peace which should be the deliv- erance of the whole world"
 More than that the Temps tells us
 definitely and. without doubt. author
 itatively that France thinks none of the PRESENTATIONS anu interpretations voted by the American Senate do any Iirreparable damage to the treaty of Versailles" Why, then, should Wilson
 hold out if France is satisfied? As for the British. the Temps says positively
 that Great Britain asks simply for 1 the suppression of the preamble" That | is, the British do not object to any of the reservations-not one-provided fthey are not compelled to embarrass
 themselves. their allies and their over
 seas dominions by coming out today with formal acceptance.
 1 This does not seem to leave our learned senators with very much tos fight over. We need not be more
 French than the French or mroe' Brit {
 ish than the British Let us satisfy
 any timorous souls with "reservations"s and get to business. If "revolt' int politica: Washington is necessary. :. then the divine right of revolution wasr
 never moro worthily invoked. If Will
 son and Lodge cannot accomplish that
 agreement for which Senator Uuder-f
 wood waits. the senator and other sane
 and reasonable colleagues can surely agree to leave them alone with their.
 cherished disagreement. while the sen ators. 7s strong, march down the high way to ratification, to peace. to revived,
 production and calm in Europe, tsl
 profit and security for Amerieas