The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-30
THE LIMIT OF COMPROMISE.


United States s'to make an honest and vigor-
Gus effort to harmonic the differences now
blocking action, SO that compromise may be
quickly reached that can command the two
thirds vote of the senate necessary for ratlfica-
| tom of the peace treaty. Neither the tx
change nor the people of the United States can
overlook the fact that the senate reached the
.irreducihle minimum in the matter of COM
promise on the peace treaty. That compromise
consisted of the reservations which American
lied the treaty and the league of nations Two
factors in opposition with respect to the
treaty One was for the absolute reputation
! of the instrument. The other insisted on it's
acceptance without the dotting of an i or the
icrossing of t. The compromise took the form
of the so-called Lodge reservations. No COM
promise plan whatever was offered by the presi-
dent The senate can go no farther. The re-
sponsibility for the defeat of the treaty rests
! with the executive. A vast amount of propar
ganda is being circulated by the administration
Ito create the belief that responsibility for the
treaty's delay or defeat rests on the senate, but
the time has passed when publicity bureaus
Ecould make the American people believe that
chalk is cheese.
Lenine is having trouble already with his
peasants; they are getting lands of their own,
and In a recent address Lenine accused them of
!" siding with the capitalists he proposed that
special missions be sent out to educate the
peasants to the idea Of con,munistic agricul-
ture.' This is just what anyone but bolshe-
visit would expect to happen When man gets
q stake in the land of his nation, he sees his
primary welfare in solidarity for the law of that
nation and its administration. He feels the
spur of individual ambition he becomes nor
real man Under normal conditions The more
Russian peasants there are becoming land
holders, the more foes to- bolshevism Russia
viii raise up In her own territories.
There seems to be some dispute over the
question whether there were more strikers in
America during the war than there were Ameri- /
cans in the trenches in France. While the sta
tisticians are figuring it out, let us emphasize
the difference between the fellows who struck I
Huns for thirty dollars month in France and
those who struck American production for a I
dollar an hour in the United States. /
Now Senator Borah is demanding that the
president furnish the senate with the docu- |,
ments relating to this governments acquies- I
cence in the treaty between Great Britain and
Persia Sometimes it seems as if lot of docu- 4
ments were being requisitioned but it was the
president himself who set forth on his mission <
crying loudly for ''open covenants, openly ar
rived att
Attorney General Palmer found that he real
ly could deport few ''reds" if forced to do !,
SO. First thing we know Palmer will be trying
to place responsibility for delay upon Senator
reasoning that if Poindexter had \
his resolution of inquiry sooner, the Is
department of justice would have been aroused
to action sooner. Il
1t is all very well for the Washington news Il
paper correspondents to keep assuring the peo- !
pie that the government is ready for the next ID
step in dealing with Mexico. 1t has been ready
enough before but it has always met the crucial :
test by side-step. t
The reelection of Victor Berger will serve /,
one good purpose-it will awaken a good many IN
complacent people to the fact that the anti .
Americans mean business
Someone has discovered that the president X
is an w. WI, Woodrow Wilson, as it c
we're /.