The daily times., 1919-06-12
POLITICS

1t enters everywhere and it seems
hard to get away from it's influence
Politicians will not leave the most
sacred and most important things
alone, it matters not how much they
affect society or the peace of the
world.
Take for instance the Republican
majority in the House and Senate
today. They nag the President and
! the peace delegates at Paris and no
tify them that the peace treaty in
its present form shall not pass, and
what is the purpose of it all? Afraid
+, that if Mr.. Wilson is let alone he and
the Democrats may derive some
credit from it in it's present shape,
and if it turns out well they will
receive due gratitude from the peo-
pie for having stopped the war, set
tied the status of peace and allowed
the poor old world, harassed so
long by war and deprivation and suf-
fering to settle back to business and
the quietude of peaceful pursuits.
:
rah and Knox, names with which to
conjure, for Borah would bore
hole in the treaty and Knox, true to
his raising and his training, would
knock it all to pieces.
In the meantime the Germans
noting the row over here, hesitate
about signing and are made to feel
that this country is divided over the
questions at issue for at this dis
tance we cannot see any good rea-
son for falling to endorse the treaty
and every reason why it should be
endorsed and settled. and later, If the
Republicans find it is not a good
thing to set peace treaty on the ped
estaI of a League of Nations, let
them, like children, play club fist,
s'take it off or knock it Off"
And isn't that nice spectacle at
Washington. Because some news
paper correspondent brings back
some few cleaned facts about the
speace treaty, odds and ends that he
mas picked up hanging around Paris
sand interviewing different delegates
sand what he has secured is probably
sthe result of a betrayed confidence,
and because some foreign agent of
the big banking houses, has bought
over some little secretary or stenog-
rapher and secured what he knows
about the peace treaty, these
"brainy'' CD solons at Washington
take this as an excuse to leave an
Impression upon the country that
they have a right to assume that
someone in authority has handed
them a raw deal and so co-incident
with a sham investigation which they
have started with lot of their own
crew as witnesses. they also insert
in the Congressional record copy
of what is just about as near the
peace treaty with the Germans as
black is white.
And pray, how can anything be
the peace treaty until it is finished!
Why Mr.. Wilson and the delegates
of the allied nations don't even yet
know the full contents of the peace
treaty, for the territorial questions
with Italy on the Adriatic are not
vet settled Clemenceau stands out
for the original terms he demands
for France. Poland wants relief
from the Bolsheviki. Silesia is yet
undecided as to whether she wants
to join with Poland or with some
other country, or be free state. So
the truth of the matter is that if Mr..
Wilson should cable every day to
Congress, 8 'etion by section, the
peace treaty, = it was originally writ
ten, the cou er demands of the
Germans, if acceded to and the ina
bility of the allies themselves to
agree would change the contract
daily.
President Wilson is eternally right
in the matter and the Republican ma
jority in Congress are about as chill
dish and puerile a set of representa-
tives as ever sat in the halls of leg
islation.
They are certainly too small to
be entrusted with the great questions
(which now confront the world and
(which America must solve. But
hr Mr.. Wilson's wonderful patience
ma personality, the American Con-
gress would be the laughing stock OF
the nations Of the earth and the hold
and leadership that Mr.. Wilson has
given America would be lost to, all