The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-07-11
WILSON APPROACHING
CRISIS in PUBLIC CAREER.

stltutlOn.
With the return Of President Will
sen to the United States early this
week, after an absence of six months
around the peace table in France,
and with the calendars of the senate
largely cleared, preparatory to the
real fight for full and complete rat
ification of the covenant of peace,
embodying, as it does, the articles of
agreement as to a league of nations,
the eyes not only Of this nation, but
of every nation of the world, will be
turned upon the national capital dur
ing the next few weeks. And not only
upon the national capital, but upon
President Wilson, himself; for it is
known that the president will urge
the ratification without the changing
of one jot or title, but in spirit
of harmony, free from partisan feel
ings or political expediences.
That President Wilson will appear
before the senate in spirit of con-
ciliation, is assured. That he will not
attempt to flaunt the senators of
either party who oppose the treaty,
some of whom have developed mark
ed personal animosity toward. him, is
assured. That he will call into his
counsel chamber democratic and re-
publican leaders alike and give a
square, fair, practical account OF his
stewardship abroad is ASSURED.
It has been charged that President
Wilson has held himself aloof from
the senators, who must finally pass
upon the results of his labors. That
is not true. Circumstances have been
magnifed, and the prapagandists
have fed literally off of this person
al equasion idea to distort or to
mould public opinion. The president
is aware of this, and with his usual
force of dignity, but with an unmis-
taxable democratic spirit, he will ap-
proach his crisis in his life-this eli
max in career that has reached the
topmost round in world statesman
ship-to impress the public that he
is only a servant of the people, and
in serving the people of his own
America, he has endeavored, with all
the force of his mentality and the
counsel of the great peace missions
of the world, including his own, to
shape for the world a righteous and
an everlasting peace, based upon
equity and justice and the rights and
privileges of free peoples.
What President Wilson Will Tell the
Senators.
President Wilson will tell the SEN
aters that the covenant Of peace is
not all that he wished it could be,
but that he has hopes that the league
Of nations, incorporated as a part Of
it, shall prove the vehicle to carry
the covenant, through the interna-
tional conference, from time to time,
to greater degrees Of perfection.
He will tell the senators frankly
that he was forced to give and take,
to yield here, to parley there, to
stand unyieldingly firm on one item
and compromise on another; but he
will demonstrate to them, too, that
the treaty is even better document
than he had hoped at first to gain.
He will tell them that the old idea
of European imperialism was forced
under his leadership to give way to
the more cooperative spirit of re-
publicanism; that every interest OF
American institutions, based upon
equity, has been protected; that the
Monroe Doctrine remains inviolate;
that trade relationships have been
safeguarded-that in all things
America has yielded nothing but
strengthened her international weak
points; and that the international
viewpoint has been fixed upon high
plane of civic morality.
He will defend his long absence
from America by demonstrating the
imperativeness of the undertaking,
and declare that to secure right
eous change of the map of the world,
and the signatures of more than
score of nations to a treaty document
that is more far reaching than any
since the birth of civilization, re-
quired prompt and firm action, other
wise the delay might have continued
for months to come, while the world,
including our own country, remained
in a condition of chaos, with her peo-
Piles statnding upon the brink Of the