Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-14
Fooled AGAIN

FOILED AOALN
Once more the Wilson haters find themselves folled IN
their attempt to discredit the President. The Republican SEN
ators thought they had scored heavily in securing a copy Oh .he
complete treaty of peace and having it made public against the
Presidents wish. But just when the senator's had devoted a
great deal of their valuable time to the text of the treaty which
they had secured the whole thing becomes obsolete and worth
less because an entirely new draft is to be made.
The treaty as originally drawn contained about 75,OOO
words. A summary of about i2, 900 words was made public,
which even Elibu Root admitted fully covered the treaty as a
whole. 1t is well known that it is not customary for the Pres
ident to submit to the senate a treaty until 1t is completed as
there are likely to be changes made.
But the Republican senators, seeking to make capital out
of getting only the summary when the complete text was with
held, opened a bitter attack on the President, demanding the
full freddy even though it was not in a finished state as II
should be when officially submitted. While there was no par
ticular harm in giving the full text of the treaty TO the pubic
here, the leaders of the other great powers ma d nan
in drawing the treaty, had reasons for not having the full text
published in their respective countries, AS there Is a n ehort
to work in harmony in all things in the drawing Of the peace
terms, President Wilson entered into an agreement with the
other leaders not to make the full text public until the treaty
was in final form and adopted. Even such an authority as Eilhu
Root admitted that the President had a perfect right TO do
this and, with the 10000 word summary giving a resume OF
the contents of the treaty available to all, there was really no
necessity for the full text.
Rut ignoring all precedent, the senate set about to get
the full treaty more for the purpose of showing their defiance
for the President than anything else, and utterly Indifferent
about the consequences as far as our relation with our assocl-
ates in the treaty making were concerned and regardless of
the effect such defiance would have on the concluding OF
peace.
by the senators was ordered published in the Congressional
Record in order that it might become an official document tot
emphasize the contempt the senator's held for the PRESIDENT
But what does it all amount to?
AS was pointed out by the President in the beginning, the
treaty was not in its completed form; it was subject TO amend
ment and alterations. Some of the counter proposals on the
part of Germany are to be included making a rewriting u te
whole document necessary. Immediately the text when the
senate has been making such a time about becomes worthless.
That which was intended to discredit the President has
In Earned out to be a vindication for him. =.
Let the senate wait, as the senate has always done In the
making of treaties, until the treaty is finally drafted and ready
for submission to them officially. TO butt in and talk about
something that they know little or nothing about is only to
make them ridiculous.
Gould anything be more ridiculous than the situation in
which the senate finds itself today?
With the high chief potentate of Republicanism decIar-
ing that the President was fully within his right in withhold
ing the full text of the treaty until it was finally adopted and
admitting that the summary given out as to the contents o ! 1ne
treay fully covered the document, and now with the treaty be-
ing redrafted making the text which the senate published with
such a show of defiance obsolete and worthless---in the light
of these things, we say, what a sorry spectacle, indeed the
United States senate has made of itself.
In the meantime President Wilson, ever looking larger in
the eyes of the people, continues patiently to struggle on
against the greatest odds for the accomplishment OF the ldeals
for which so many of Americas young manhood laid down
their lives. With every nation of Europe striving with the ut
most ingenuity of their greatest statesmen to get all out OF the
peace settlement that they can for their own respective coun-
tries President Wilson towers above them all as the great
neutral, the arbiter first trying to placate one side and then the
other; working far into the night, studying facts and details,
playing one against the other, yet always keeping before him the
one great object of bringing about a peace that will be lasting
and that will, as far as possible, put an end to all such strug-
giles as the world has just passed through forever.
Too idealistic, you say?
element than the Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge, United States
Senator from Massachusetts, has to say in this respect:
ut may seem Utopian at this moment to suggest a union
of civilized nations in order to put a controlling force behind
the maintenance of peace and International order; but it is
through the aspiration for perfection, through search for
Utopias, that the real advances have been made"
These were the words of Senator Lodge uttered during
a commencement address at Union University on June 5, t915.
To-day one would attribute kenmore to President Wilson than
TO Senator Lodge. 1t only goes to- show that down deep in his
heart Senator Lodge knows that the President is right, but be-
cause the President happens to be Woodrow Wilson, a Demo-
GRAFT, who has won the enmity of the senate, Senator Lodge is
not a big enough man or a great enough statesman to ad-
NIT it.
Again in that same speech Senator Lodge said: The
great nations must be SO united as to be able to say to any
single country, You must not go to war and they can only
say that effectively when the country desiring war knows that
the force which the united nations place behind peace is ire