Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-01

Where does failure of the Peace Treaty's
ratification leave US? Still at war with Ger
many, although hostilities ceased nearly a
year and half go, and the nations of Europe
have made peace. Somehow we must make
peace, too, but how?
Some deny that the treaty is dead. The
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER (Ind. Dem)
thinks the Senate should call it back and
ratify it, which would then put the issue
squarely up to the president to offer peace
upon the senate terms or to reject the terms
any seek restoration of peace by some other
method" The NEW YORK TIMES Qnd.
Dem.) takes a somewhat similar position:
1.-The tim evil come, and it will not be a
distant time," it predicts, when the presi-
dent will be able to resubmit the treaty to
senate that benefiting by sober second
thought, will be far less insistent on reser-
vations that mutilate and destroy, :.
reservations that will declare our under
standing of the treaty, but will leave intact
it's vital guarantees Of justice and peace
among nations"
"Let the issue go before the people," urges
the KANSAS CITY 10 URNAL (Rep.); that
will be the best thing that could happen"
The TACOMA LEDGER Qnd.) states that
the senate's action means that the treaty
will be made an issue in the campaign" but
thinks it unfortunate that the treaty is to
be a campaign issue at a time when there
are so many other vital matters which ought
to be settled" In the view of the LAFAY-
ETTE JOURNAL-COURIER Ind. Rep) the
pact can be an issue only Gin secondary
sort of way for 'there is no means by
which the people can vote directly on the
matter. They must cast their votes for the
candidates of the party that most nearly
represents their views on this subject, after
they have taken into consideration also the
other very important issues" The BUFF
FALO COURIER (Dem.) agrees with the
NEW YORK TRIBUNE (Rep) that there
can be no clearcut issue, no clear expression
of public opinion
Some difficulties in the way of campaign
ing on the treaty issue are set forth by the
LOS ANGELES (Ind Rep.). President Will
son, this authority says, would like to have
popular vote on the treaty as written;
but a majority of the Democratic leaders
are not willing to risk campaign on rati-
fication without reservation. The San Fran
cisco platform will probably call for ratifi-
cation with mild reservations, and the Chi
cago platform for ratification along the lines
of the reswiutiOn beaten by Democratic votes
in the senate
The SPRINGFIELD UNION (Rep.) ana
lyzes the vote of the senate and concludes
that there are no clear-cut lines of party
demarcation there, and there is no way of
so presenting the issue in political cam
paign as to make any conclusion possible.
1t is simply a mess, disgusting, humiliating,
Sname1ul, ana Tor Wn1Cn ther0 is blame
enough to go around" F'Talk of the peace
treaty there will be, of course-and much
Of it," adds the TOLEDO BLADE Qnd.
Rep.l, "but the electorate cannot be made
to see it a paramount ISSUE" and the
SIOUX CITY JOURNAL (Rep.) declares
that both parties split asunder" on
the question. Yet the WICHITA EAGLE
Tnd.) believes that "the people may be
trusted to see through the fog of politics
the great Importance of settling the treaty
question properly. And the people may be
trusted to vote for the League Of Nations
and peace
But is there another way of getting out
of the war? Surely something must be
done, says the BOSTON POST (Ind. DEM
"to end the grotesque situation in which we