The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-10-04
Peace Treaty and League Of Ma
tons Stir Up Lively Aebate
in the Senate.
sAANTUNG AWARD SCORED
Charge Is Made That Gift of Chinese
Province Is Price of Japan's sigma
ture-Warning Of Peril of War
What Shall Be Done With
Mexico7-DayIight Law
Saved by President.
BY EDWARD W. PIckARp.

M :
Many people have thought that
the mere signing Of the treaty with
Germany marks the ending of the
world peril The situation today is
stiIl serious The worlds statesman
ship will be sorely tried in the next
few years.
The peace conference has been
history's greatest instance Of uni
fled world craftsmanship directing
the moral and material resources of
THE worfds family Of nations 10 al
low the spirit behind it to disintegrate
sat this moment of emergency, when
United action is Imperative would be
fatal to all the hopes of permanent
peace with which we entered the war.
Out of it all has come the most
important international document
ever drawn-the treaty of peace with
Germany-a document which not only
meets the issues Of the present war,
but also lays down new agreements
Of the most helpful and most hopeful
character. The nations are bound to-
gether to avert another world catas.
trophe, backward peoples are given a
new hope for their future; several
racial entities are liberated to form
new states; beginning is made to-
ward removing unjust economic re-
strictlons, and the great military au-
tocracies Of central Europe are de-
stroyed as the first step in general
disarmament
NThe treaty is, of course, not all
that we had hoped for. Too many
conflicting interests were involved.
Nearly every one will find in it weak
nesses, both Of omission and commits
sion.
i come home pleased, but not over
complacent with the outcome of the
last six months; HOPEFUL, but not in
the least unmindful of the problems
yet to be solved
These are the words of Robert
Lansing United States secretary Of
state. They sound like both fact and
sense Therefore they are welcome
in these topsy-turvy days.
Admitting that the League of Ma
tions Is the hope of the world is it
one that America can accept in JUS.
tice to herself? That is what the
United States senate is trying to find
out. 1t is the question Of the hour.
SO many shades Of Individual opinion
are held among the senators that ac-
ceptance or rejection can hardly be
said to be party question: Any
way, the Republican view Is presuin-
ably correctly set forth in the follow
ing official statement by Chairman
VIII H. Hays Of the Republican ma
tionaI committee:
The situation respecting the
league covenant is simply this:
sThere must be effective reserva-
lions. These reservations must safe
guard the sovereignty of the United
States in every particular; must
guarantee the Monroe doctrine ne
yond the shadow Of a doubt; must
either eliminate article 10 entirely or
so modify It that our own congress
shall be morally as well as legally
free after q specified period to de-
eide when and where and to what ex,
tent our soldiers shall be employed !;
must retain our full control of i'm
migration, tariff and all other purely
domestic policies, and must provide
full right to withdraw hindrance or
conditions of any kind. upon giving
suitable notice.
III Is up to the administrator to
decide whether 1t will or will not ac-
cept these essential guarantees of