Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-11
HUNlLIATYNG THE UNITED STATES

Armistice Day finds the United States senate doing what
1t can to undo the great work that was accomplished a year ago.
1t was the desire, the aim and purpose of all great men of
the country, even including Senator Henry Cabot Lodge him
--r44f7 ID bring about as a result of the recent war a cooperation
of nations to guarantee the future peace of the world.
Such a war as This must never happen again, was the fire.
quent utterance on every side while the fighting was going o4
President Wilson, whose speeches were so enthusiastic
ally applauded everywhere, continually pointed out that one OF
the main reasons for the United States entering the war was 10
make the world safe for democracy and TO bring about a last
ing peace through a universal covenant among the civilized
nations of the world, guaranteeing each others territory and
setting up an international tribunal whereby disputes could be
settled without resoring to arms.
Senator Lodge, in his speech at Union College, so often
quoted these DAYS. expressed exactly the same sentiment. He
declared that we must look to the ideal whereby the nations Of
the world stand together and compel any beligerent nation to
submit to arbitration rather than to draw the sword.
The universal sentiment was that this should be The last
great war; that hereafter differences between nations should
be settled by peaceful means.
The peace conference assembled at Paris and succeeded
in drawing up treaty that brought into being that which many
had believed to be impossible. 1t provided for Il League Of Ma
tons which actually had some authority in policing the world.
1t is the purpose OF the league to see that all nations, big and
small, get justice. The league is to protect the weak and serve
the strong.
Realizing the great advance in civilization that such treaty
means to the world, it was to be supposed that peace-loving
America would be among the first to accept it. 1t has remained,
however, for the United States, the one nation that did the
most talking in favor of such a peace, to argue and quibble,
debate and harangue over the acceptance of this great work
that promises so much for the world and for humanity.
This attitude on the part of the United States is due ems
trely to petty politics on the part of the Republicans in the
United States senate.
Had the peace treaty as it came from the Paris confer
ence been the work of a Republican President there is not the
slightest doubt that it would have been hailed by these very
same Republican senators as the greatest document drawn up
by the power of man since the Constitution of the United States
was adopted.
But because the covenant of the League of Nations is
largely the work of a Democratic President and more particu-.
larry because that President happens to be Woodrow Wilson,
these cheap, would-be statesmen, are determined to kill the
treaty and reject the whole proposition of setting up a world
tribunal whereby wars can be reduced to a minimum, if not.
abolished altogether.
Among those who are engagedin this petty, partisan, re
dictionary work are the two United States senators from New
Jersey, Senators Frelnghuysen and Edge.
1t is a most humilating spectacle for America that is now
going on in the United States senate on this, the first annivers-
airy of the signing of the armistice. Thanks to the Republicans
in the United States senate, the United States, which went into
the van with such high ideals, is held up in contempt be-
fore the world, and the boys who fought to make the world
safe for democracy and to bring about a lasting peace will
indeed, have fought in vain, if the Republicans in the United
States senate sueseed in having theF way.