The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-05-15
(Harvey's Weekly .

treaty comes back gentlemen on this
side will find the covenant not only in
it but so many threads of the treaty
dissect the covenant from the treaty
without destroying the whole vital
structure" he spoke in anger; but he
meant what he said.
The common impression derived
that the league covenant and the
peace treaty are separate entities, to
be dealt with accordingly, is false.
True, the revised draft of the coven-
ant contains no reference to the
treaty and consequently no suggestion
of entwining threads so shrewdly in
terlaced as to render dissection i'm
possible without destroying the
whole vital structure" But the hope
which sprang from this circumstance
was delusion. The president him
fact clear in his explanatory state
ment.
pardon me for introducing a matter
which | absent -mindedly overlook
ed, it is necessary for me to propose
the alteration OF several words in the
first line of article s. Let me say
that in several parts Of the treaty, Of
which this covenant will form a part,
certain duties are assigned to the
council of the league of nations. In
some instances 1t is provided the ac-
ton they shall take shall be by a ma
jority vote 1t is therefore necessary
to make the covenant conform with
the other portions of the treaty by
adding these words"
Thus almost incidentally Mr., Will
son serves notice upon the country
pose of merging the covenant and the
treaty to constrain the senate to ac-
cept the league or reject peace.
To say, in the words of the Sun,
that 'ln all the record Of his various
manifestations of autocratic proclivl-
ties there is perhaps nothing which
surpasses this" is to express but mild
ly the actually. 1t is a direct chal-
lenge to a presumably free people and
contemptuous defiance Of a body en-
dowed with equal constitutional pow
ers from an executive speaking as a
Caesar and Machiavelli rolled into
one. Never before has combined ar
rogance and cunning such as this been
by an American president.
We were forewarned in moment of
wrath and 1oathing of
pigmy minds"
Let that pass. We know where we
stand. The situation is a practical
me. 1t is time for the exercise Of
wisdom and prudence. Senator Lodge
loes well to request his colleagues to
Ibstain from forming or expressing |
inal judgment until full information
hall be obtainable To what extent |
md in how ingenious and devious
ashton the covenant and the treaty |
AVE been entwined can not be deter
mined until the treaty itself shall be
n evidence. Then and not until then
will 1t be possible to survey "the whole
ital structure" and devise ways of
isentanglement
For acknowledgement there must be.
he revised scheme of lacking the
rnited States into the affairs of all
reation is in no essential feature pre-
arable to the original The two are
like In that they abrogate our sover-
ignty, our established policies, our
lost cherished traditions, our person.
liberties and our freedom as a ma
on.
Even so, we make no objection to
he submission of the proposal to the
,oughtful consideration of the Amer
an people. Surely when a demo- |
attic president a republican expires )
ent and q mugwump university pres !,
emit backed financially by our lead
& German-American banker, who J
lads the list of contributors to their I
idespread propaganda. unite in adj
,cacy of national project, they are
irly entitled to hearing. :,
All we ask is that they get it,-get
'th hearing and decision straight
ON the people upon the thing itself,
uarely and solely upon its merits
ID disassociated absolutely from any
her question either of peace or war
reconstruction or of anything else
lder the sun. We cheerfully accept
@ presidents own dictum;
"rhe people are in the saddle and
e governments have got to follow
e people or be overthrown."
True, his threat was to the govern
ents of Europe, notably that of dis
edient Italy, and he did not stop to
Y what he would do to the succeed =
2 government or whether there
ould be one at all, but the program
equally applicable to our own or.
ould we not say, to his government
re at home.
BY all means let the test be made;
t let 1t he made fairly let the
ople demand time for consideration,
less than a clearly defined issue,
d let the senate see that they get II.
ly one side is being presented now.