Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-12

TREATY As AN ISSUE.
Senator McComber, Republican. OF
North Dakota. speaking in the senate
yesterday on the Knox peace resolution
declared that President Wilson had
made an awful blunder by injecting
the treaty and the League of Nations
into the political campaign.
THE thought of the people" he said,
Els e~ngrossed with the perplexities that
surround us. We are this moment
surrounded by a thousand imminent
dangers demanding our immediate at
tention and solution. We stand almost
helpless while debt. state. national
municipal and Industrial. are piling
mountain high. We behold the hours
of idleness of our people ever increas-
Ing, production dangerously. deereas-
ing. currency becoming more and more
Inflated, the yoke of taxation ever
growing greater and more CALLING, the
prices Of all necessities of life ever ad-
vancing.
1--WE are now living in the midst Of
STRIKES and threats Of strikes the
senator continued. We are living in
Imminent danger Of having our indus
tries paralyzed n the distribution OF
commodities on which u very lives
depend stopped at any moment b. law
less hands. The very atmosphere is
poisoned by the infectious breath OF
Socialism. while anarchy, feverea by
hate and envy, waits only the oPpor-
tunity to work a reign Of hell such
as today Is consuming ~agonized
Russia"
This is a rather gloomy picture Of
the present day situation, but in a
large measure It IS true. After al,
however, IS not the President right in
going right at the root of the whole
and driving at the peace treaty
and the League of Nations? The fact
that we find ourselves in such an un-
condition today is largely be-
cause we have been unable to speedily
return TO a peace basis. The senate
itself has been the greatest stumbling
block I'm this regard. Any arrange
that MAY be entered into at this
time, such as the Knox resolution
which, by the way, Senator AcComber
1pposes-can be but temporary. The
ssue, after all, Is the peace treaty as
ar as our unsettled condition Is con-
,rned, although there are many other
ssues that affect the administration. |
Senator McComber is right when he
that the failure Of the United |
states to cooperate with the allies In
enforcing the treaty is a desertion of
he cause for which we fought" Had
We entered into the carrying out OF the
erms of peace including the covenant
the League of Nations as thorough
Y and as enthusiastically as we
into the war. peace would have |
,een pretty well established through
put the world today, militarism would
be- abolished and there would be a
genuine effort on the part of the lead
nations of the world to live to-
gether in peace and concord hereafter.
But the Republicans in the United
senate. desiring to discredit
President Wilson more than they de-
sired TO benefit humanity and save
future generations. saw tit to reject the
peace treaty and deal a death blow to
the League of Nations. Naturally, the
issue cannot be lodged. Say what
YOU will about President Wilson-and
there is no doubt about the serious
he has made-he has the
faculty of getting down to fundamen-
tails. He realizes that not until a per
manent peace is declared can all the
p~erplexities that surround us be salts
factorily settled. Therefore the Presi-
dent is right in bringing the treaty to
the fore at this time.