Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-11-27
SENATOR KELLOGG ON PEACE
TREATY
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as it is, simply reserving certain
rights to the American people.
In the main, these reservations
are what the President claimed
the Treaty meant in any event.
If that was so, they had reason to
object TO them except the Presl-
dents arbitrary attitude that
what he had done must not be
changed or defined AS matter
of fact, in my judgment, some of
the articles would not bear the
construction which the President
placed upon them, and it was the
plain duty of the Senate of the
United States to make the mean
ing clear.
know that many members on
the Democratic side who voted
against the Treaty favored these
reservations and believed in
them and voted as they did be-
cause the President dictated it.
The talk on the last night of the
session about compromise came
with bad grace. because they
knew the reservations had TO be
framed and voted on in the Sen
ate before the Resolution OF
Ratification could be voted on at
all. and not afterwards, and the
had was before a Resolution OF
Ratification was proposed, which
had to be one calendar day after
the reservations had been agreed
to, and during all that time, they
refused to entertain any compro-
mise whatever and stood for the
Presidents uncompromising at
titude. As late as Tuesday morn
ing, the Republican friends of
the Treaty had a meeting and no
tilted Mr.. Hitchcock, the Demo
cratic leader, that if he had any
propositions to make, he should
make them before the Resolution
of Ratification came to a vote,
and he declined to make any.
Senator Nelson and have from
the beginning. with other Re-
publicans, done all we could to
insure the prompt ratification of
the Treaty and of the League of
Nations, with protection to the
interests of the United States.
AS a matter of fact. the Repubh-
cans Americanized the Treaty,
the Democrats killed it. We be-
lieve that the greatest good can
come to this people and that we
can reach our highest destiny
through spirit of American ma
tionalism. We must realize that
we are differently situated from
many Of the nations of Europe.
Many of them are of different
races existing under different
commercial and social conditions,
and what would protect them
would not protect us. All of the
valuable obligations necessary to
an effective League of Nations
were preserved. The agreement
for arbitration, the obligation.
not to go to war without first
having submitted the question to
arbitration or to the discussion
of the Council and the League,
and all the machinery for the ad-
justment. Cancellation and settle
ment Of disputes remains. Does
any man propose that this coun-
try should agree to go to war in
defense of any nation on the face
of the earth at any time without
the vote Of the peoples repre-
sentatives in Congress? Does
any man propose to submit our
domestic questions to the arbi-
tration of y League made up of
foreign interests? Do we pro-
pose to open the doorways of i'm
migration TO the flood of objec-
tlonable elements of Europe? Do
we propose to allow any interna-
tional convention to reduce
American labor to the level of
European labor? or to submit