The Dermott news., 1919-09-04
SURE ID ACT IN
 BEHALF OF FRANCE
SENATE WILL PROMISE PRoTEc- TON EVEN IF THE PRESENT
 TREATY IS REJECTED.
POPULAR SENTIMENT STRONG
Great Help the French People Gave the Colonies Is Not Forgotten Ambassador Jusserand Proves That 1t Was Not Selfish.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

1t Was Not Selfish.
 By EDWARD B. CLARK.
 Washington Senators may doubt their authority under the Constitution to ratify the French treaty. and they may not rutity it. but lacking ratltiea- ton. the mind ef the opposition ap- parentty k i'll favor ef doing some tling equally strong and eomprehen- stve in behalf of France
 II is known that some of the scna- tors. and perhaps what K known of them Is true of the majority, feel there is II sentiment in behalf of France and itS cause among the people of the nited States that will heces>itate ] some adequate recognition of the French peoples need for tHat k what ] il k. fer protection against the Ger man when he shall have r5habiIuated himself. and the old spirit of hatred against hf> urighbor to the west shall have reasSerted itself Common po- litical sense if not gratitude. observers
 
 to the request embodied in the treaty, even if fhe treaty in its present form should Hat be sanctioned
 Il k held hy men who seem to have an appreciation of the situation that AmertcaHS of long Anerican ancestry are ny hereditary sympnthies and in. stinet iast as grateful to France for what if did for thls country in the revolutionary days as were Americans of that tJme. On the other hand, II k said that American citizens nf an ancestry which does not go hack 10 revolutionary days In this country do not share the same feeling II k rec eguized ny the men who talk about II that this condition E, natural and vet one which would be unnatural if the "citI,eus of later day would look at rhe thing from another point ef view
 Debt Rests on Later Corners, Too.
 No one knows just what proportion of Americans can trace their ances- try hack 10 revolutionary or pre-rev- i VT Atbiltt A'tS Nr bhA Il lN ll'l'silfit that much mere than one half of the citizens ef the United States date the arrival of their ancestors at time la- ter than the battle of Yorktown.
 l. k likely La be brought cut in de bate in the senate in order to make popular sentiment approve of prob able affirmative action of some kind In ths case that If it had not been for French help ln the revolutionary wnr there would have been no free country in America for the ancestors or many American citizens to have and happiness.
 Frequently the argument Is ad- vaueed ny opponents of the sanction Ing of the French treaty that France came to the aid of the United States only becauSe she wanted to weaken Grgat Britain by separating her from on, of her colonies, and also to make Et certain fuat q considerable part of fhc British army and uuyy should be confined tn operations an this side of thc Atlantic. In other words, the ar- gument k that France =Was essentially selfish.
 lf is not known to wtat extent the aluha >sadat ef the French Ia this country. l J JaSseraud. can enter in to activities iu behalf of treaty in which hIs ceHatry'~ future safety k said to he involved hHt already Mir JuS9erand in 4 book written before the present war tortured the world has given m explanation of tbe reasons for French atd to the colonies which may be enlIghieuiug In the present treaty making.
 Why France Aided Colonies. taiuing articles on Rochamheau In America L'Enfant the French engi- uoer who planned the city of Washing ton; Lafayette, and on some other i Frenchmen as well as some Ameri- cans. went deeply into the reasons for i French aid to the colonies. He tells 1 also of pre-revoluuanary days In i France. of the growing love for liberty in France, of the Symnathes among the people for another people who were struggling for something which the French had not yet been able to obtain for themselves. and of what he holds 10 be the undoubted fact that il was the democratic spirit of France, rousinr into life, that led to the fitting out of tle expeditions. military and naval. which came to the aid of the American colonlsts.
 The expeditions went forth not he- cause of Louis XVI, hut in spite of him. This in brief Is the Iusserand argument. The ambassador goes Into minute details, gives names and out. lines the various movements, demo cratic in their nature, which led other Frenchmen to follow Lafayette into the field of liberty's struggle iu 1 America.
 Writers Oofflng Their Uniforms.
 Under orders of the war department