The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-16

Mr.. Wilson Is attempting a coup detat
in defiance of the decision Of the common
people of America uttered at the last
election. Despite the Injunction OF Lord
Shaw that we ought to rewrite our Con-
stitution and mend our ways tho Ameri-
can people cherish their Constitution as
they do the Monroe Doctrine.
''They will neither vtiate the one nor
yield up the other: they will not guar
antee the territorial integrity of the
turbulent Balkan States nor the great
heterogeneous empires of France and
Britain; they will not undertake to per-
petuate the British dominion of the seas
against their future judgment IL some
day they desire TO build a navy as great
as Britain'a or, indeed, raise an army as
great as Frances; they will not agree
that the British Empire Is entitled to
six votes in the League of Nations as
against one for the American Union
with twice the empires self-soverning
population.
"They will not be responsible for the
conduct of manufactures in Africa or
Asia; they will not agree to arbitrate
the subject OF prohibited immigration
or any other domestic question; they
will not assent to a treaty which may
require that their armies take ship for
Asia, Africa and Europe by any but the
free decision OF their own Congress"
sixty Senators Opposed.
Not only have predictions Of the num-
Der of opponents of the Wilson League
Of Nations covenant reached the flfty-fve
promised tho night the original signers
OF the Knowledge pledge were an
nounced. but the number OF signers has
gone beyond that promised figure, ac-
cording to Mr.. Mccormick.
Sixty Senators out of total OF
ninety-six, Democrats as we'll as Repub-
leans among them. share the opinion ex-
pressed by the thirty-nine signatories to
the knowledge resolution" said he
Mr. Hughes, Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Taft
say that the constitution as proposed re-
quires amendment. We know nothing,
absolutely nothing from Mr.. Wilson OF
the reason for any part OF the i'll written
draft OF the constitution.
During his hurried visit to America
he uttered nothing but elegant nebulosi-
ties and contemptuous threats. A few
weeks ago II seemed impossible that the
new cordially and friendly candor be-
tween allied Europe and America might
be broken by a growing suspicion ana
sudden luminosity which we must frankly
say is chiefly directed against Great
Britain.
THAT suspicion and animosity viii
grow apace IL Mr.. Lloyd George and
Mr.. Wilson continue In their present
course" Mr.. Mccormick predicted. 'The
gentlemen in Paris ought 10 make peace
with Germany. Then the President
ought to put aside his pride TO invite
Senator Lodge to the Peace Conference,
there to draft n convention TO prevent
war more effective by far than the Brit
ish draft and one which the American
people and their Senate can approve.
1T would be well IL the Presidents
pastor in Paris would preach Suncs-y
on Matthew xiii, ~. and II he would
read from the fourteenth chapter OK ST
Luke and from the eighteenth chapter OF
Matthew"
And whatsoever shall exalt himself
shall be humbled. and he that shall
humble himself. shall be exalted. (Matt.
23:12)
The fourteenth chapter OF St Luke,
which contains Christs parable OF the
supper, also teaches the lesson of hu
nifty, the fourth verse reading: BE
cause every one that eXalt himself
shall he BUNDLED, and he that humbleth
himself. shall be exalted"
Verses $3.50 are as follows:
For who OF you having mind TO
build a tower, doth not first sit down
and reckon the charges that are neces-
sary, whether he have the wherewithal
to finish it.
Lest after he hath laid the founda-
tion. and is not able TO finish 1t, all
that sec 1t begin TO mock him.
saying: This man began to build and
was not able to finish"
The eighteenth chapter o: ST. Matthew
also deals with the Christ's teaching
of humility