The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-30
How Shall We Make Peace?

After a painful Illness of several
months duration" says the Anaconda
Standard tDem.), 1.-THE peace treaty
died in spasms. At least it was pro-
Gus physicians in attendance. and word
to that effect was ordered sent TO its
father, the president
Blame for the inability Of the Unit
ed States senate to ratify the treaty
Of Versailles rests mainly upon two
stiff-necked individuals-Henry Cabot
Lodge and Woodrow Wilson" comments
the Bridgeport Post CIrd).
But where does IL leave us? Sull at
war with Germany, although hostilities
ceased nearly a year and a half ago.
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 (Tnd. Dem.)
thinks the senate should call ii back
and ratify it,Awhich would then put
the issue squarely UP to the president
to offer peace upon the senate ter ms
or to reject the terms and seek restora-
ton of peace by some 0 her method
The New York Times III d Dem.) takes
| somewhat similar position:
The time will come, and ii will not
be a distant time" ii predicts, when
the president will be able to resub-
nit the treaty to senate that. bene-
| far less insistent on reservations hat
mutilate and destroy reserva-
| tons that will declare our understand
! ing OF the treaty but will leave intact
its vital guarantees of justice and
| peace among nations
Let the issue go before the people"
| urges the Kansas City Journal tRep.)
! that will be the best thing that could
| happen" The Tacoma Ledger Gnd. }
states that the senate's action means
| that the treaty will be made an iesu
| in the campaign" but thin ks it "un-
fortunate that the treaty is to be a
campaign issue at. time when there
are so many other vital matters which
ought to be settled In the View->ot
the Lafayette Journal-Courier Qnd
! Rep) the nact can be an issue only
I'm a secondary sort of way" for there
is no means by which the people car
vote directly on the matter They mus
cast their votes for the candidates Of
the party that most / early represent
their views on this subject after they
have taken into consideration also the
other very important issues" The
Buffalo Courier DemD agrees with the
New York Tribune (Rep! that "ther,
can be no clearcut issue. no clear ex,
preston Of public opinion"
Some difficulties in the way Of cam
paigning on the treaty issue are Sc
forth by the Los Angeles Times Cnd
RepD. President Wilson, this authori
ty says, would like to have a popular
vote on the treaty as written. but {
majority of the Democratic leaders arr
not willing to risk a campaign on rati
fication without reservations. The SaI
Francisco platform will probably cal
for ratification with mild reservations
and the Chicago platform for ratifica
ton along the lines of the resolution
beaten by Democratic votes in the sen
ate"
The Springfield Union (Rep) analy
SEES the vote of the senate and concludes
that there are no Cear-cut lines o
party demarcation there and there Il
no way of so presenting the issue in 1
political campaign as to make any con
clusion possible. 1t is simply mess
disgusting, humiliating, shameful ant
for which there is blame enough to g.
around" Talk of the peace treat,
there will be, of course-and much o
it," adds the Toledo Blade Gnd. Rep
but the electorate can not be made t.
, see it as a paramount issue" and tn
Sioux City Journal (Rep) declares tina
both parties are split asunder' on tn
question. Yet the Wichita Eagle Qnd
believes that 'the people may be trust
ed to see through the fog of polite
the great importance of settling tn,
treaty question properly. And the PEG
pie may be trusted to vote for tn
league of nations and peace
But is there another way Of getting
out of the war? Surely something
must be done" says the Boston Pos
Qnd DEM, ito end the grotesque sit
uatiOn in which we now are. Who's
is the first move?" And the Post con
tinues:
will the president at once move t.
negotiate a separate peace with Ger
Germany at an end" Wichita ~" ~
the hitherto unheard-of and probabl,
uncons'itution scheme Of manL4i
| neace by resolution o.