The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-16

we are now consideringf. Let us
briefly review the chronology of the
unparalleled proceeding.
Having made up his mind to 60 to
Europe as self-appointed represen-
tative Of a self-determined plan of
world reorganization, the substance
and details of which he sedulously
kept from the knowledge Of his fel-
low countrymen. there was introduced
In the Senate Of the United States on
October II, 1918, a resolution approx
Ing In advance whatever course may
be taken by the President Of the
United States In the matter Of his re-
plies and In his dealings with the
German Imperial Government" and
also declaring that the Senate "in-
dorses and approves whatever meth
DDS he may employ to achieve the re-
suit Of victorious peace and the es-
Establishment Of the principles for
which the United States entered
the war, and Endorses such determi-
nation ae he shall reach as to the
manner best calculated to preserve the
dignity Of the nation" This warrant
In blank got no further than its in
PRODUCTION by Senator LEWIS. It
failed to secure the approval Of the
Senate, as 1t might reasonably have
been expected to fail.
On the eve of the Congress cleo
tions Of November 8 President VIII
SON himself attempted to procure
the mandate which Senator LEWIS
had failed to obtain for him. He Is
sued his appeal to the country to
elect a Democratic Congress in order
that Europe might not interpret the
result Of the election as a population
Of his Administrations policies and
purposes. Every knows the an
swer he got from the country. The
certificate of authority was withheld.
The mandate he sought was refused
to him by an overwhelmingly adverse
vote. He went to Europe discredited,
according to his own Interpretation Of
the vote, as the representative Of ma
Jority opinion at home.
Nevertheless, he turned up in the
Conference on January IS. as we have
shown. claiming q mandate from the
United States to carry out his pri-
vately contrived and secretly devel-
oped programme. He told Europe
that America demanded this League
Of Nations. He told Europe that II
he returned to America without the
League, as he had contrived 1t, he
should meet the merited scorn Of his
fellow citizens. He declared to the
European statesmen in the Confer
encS that he had no choice but to
obey this American mandate; that he
would not dare to abate q single item
of the programme which constituted
his instructions; that he would not
dare compromise uron any matter.
viii you break Amer cas- heart, Pres
ldent WILSON asked In substance of
Europe, by rejecting this League
which America demands and which
America has instructed me to procure
without abating a single item Of the
programme, or compromising In q sim
gle particular?
And now he comes back with a
much abated and much compromised
programme anu appeals to the Senate
not to reject It, because to reject 1t
would break the heart of the world;
and he is planning IN elaborate CAM
paign on the stump to persuade his
own country to accept as a desirable
thing that which he told Europe six
months ago he had his own country's
mandate to, effect, and his own coun-
try's instructions to procure!
Was there ever anything quite like
this since international diplomacy
learned to talk?
To Europe: America demands It;
! have her mandate; dare not abate
or compromise; do not disappoint her
do not send me home to merited
scorn."
To America: Europe demands It;
do not abate or compromise; dare you
break the heart of the world7"