Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
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PUTTING 1T UP TO THE PEOPLE

OF peace. There Is no doubt tnat his carrying Ue HBnt " III
people has got the opponents Of the treaty worried. They ar
worried because they know that their cause is weak and whe
once the people thoroughly understand the matter there will
be nothing left for them to stand on.
Last night the Evening Sun tried to make out a cas-
against the President by claiming that his trip was uneonsu
t~ufonal. OF course, the fact that practically every other Pres
ident has made several Swings around the circle during
their administrations is not considered. President Wilson, &C
cording to the Suns opinion, should remain constantly at th'
White House. AS q matter Of fact, up until his trip 10 france
President Wilson had done less travelling and had remained
more constantly at his desk in season and out than any PreSi-
dent In recent years.
The Evening Sun says the President is attempting to
coerce another and an independent branch OF the government
through popular clamor and moral terrorism. He has been
unable to cajole or convince the senate" it goes on to say,
with respect to his League of Nations project; he is therefore,
endeavoring to win senator's votes by stirring up q mob SEN
timent against them and so menacing them with political de-
feat when they come up for re- reflection"
Mob sentiment, indeedl
Almost the first words uttered by the President in his first
speech of his tour at Columbus, Ohio, was a statement OF his
purpose in making the tour, which, he declared, was to Ego
out and report to my fellow countrymen."
1.-THE only people | owe any report" said the President,
'are you and other citizens Of the United States"
Things have come to a pretty pass if a President elected
by the people to serve the people cannot go out and lay before
them his ideas on a great international issue in which every
citizen Is vitality concerned without being accused OF stirring
up mob sentiment.
The Sun must be pretty well convinced that the Presi-
dents arguments will carry a great deal Of weight for 1T ex-
presses the fear that the opposing senator's will be threatened
with defeat when they come up for reelection for daring to
oppose the peace treaty. If The stand the senators have taken
In this matter is in accordance with popular sentiment, as they
and the Sun claim it is, why should they fear of being defeated
the next time they come before their constituents for an en-
dorsement of their stand?
AS O matter of fact, the little group Of Republican sem
ators who are bringing their party into disrepute by their mar
row, partisan stand, the New York Sun and other Wilson haters
are panic stricken over the Presidents tour. There is nothing
the Wilson opponents fear more than his direct appeal to the
people. Once he goes on the stump, carrying the issue direct
to the people, he makes quick work of his detractors and de-
tanners.
1T is quite competent " the Sun says in its editorial last
night, "for the President to appeal to the senator's through
their intellects or even through their feelings" The President
has already done that, but what Is the use Of making such an
appeal when the senators have put their PERSONAL hate and
partisan dislike above all reason and have made up their minds
to discredit the President regardless of whatever merit there
may be In any cause that he advocates.
Senator Lodge, who is trying to lead the Republicans
against the ratification of the peace treaty, is on record as be
ing in favor of the League of Nations. He is on record as fay
oring the pursuit for an ideal. He is even on record as being
in favor of just such a League of Nations as the present treaty
proposes for in that notable debate with President Lowell of
Harvard University not many months ago, Senator Lodge adj
mitted that he stood for nearly everything that President Low
ell stood for and President Lowell stands for the League of
Nations as it is outlined in the treaty of peace. Yet, when Sem
aor Lodge gets down to Washington at the head of the For
eign Relations Committee, surrounded by committeeman who
were purposely picked for that committee because of their
opposition to anything bearing the name of Wilson, he be-
comes opposed to anything and everything with which Pres
ident Wilson has had to do. 1t is the most petty exhibition of
peanut politics and personal spite that has been displayed in
the United States senate In many a long year.
The great ovation that the President received at Column
bus and at Indianapolis yesterday, the clearness of his argu-
ment as he presented the matter to his audiences and the con-
WINGED expressions on the faces of the people show clearly that
that little group that would throw the whole world back into
chaos In order to work out their personal spite ON the one man
they hate, must reckon with an aroused nation before many
days pass.
The people know full well for what the American boys
fought on the BATTLEFIELD OF France. One of the main objects
was that no other American boys would ever have to make such
an expedition again. The President shows clearly that the only
assurance that we can have that such a war will never occur
again is by all the civilized nations banding themselves togeth-
er into a league to settle, as nearly as possible, all disputes thai
may arise hereafter by an international court of arbitration in
stead of resortng to arms. Had there been a League Of Ma
lions, such as the peace treaty provides for when Austria sent
that ultimatum to Serbia in 1914 Austria would have had to
arbitrate her differences with the little nation. Had Germany
been assured that not only Great Britain, but the United States
as well would have come to the aid of France in such a struggle
she would never have backed her ally to the extent she did and
declared war ON the rest of the civilized world.
The President is showing all this to the vast throngs oil