The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-20
REED PREDICTING
DEFEAT Of PEACE
PACT BY SOLONS
Johnson Says Reservations
Final Compromise That Will
Be Given, But Colleague AS
SertS Defeat Is Certain.

NEW YORK. Jan. 20.-The defeat of
the peace treaty. with or without res
ervations. was predicted here last night
by Senator James A. Reed at dinner
given in honor Of himself and Senator
Hiram Johnson, by committee OF
New York business mon.
Senator Johnson declared that the
Lodge reservations, while not wholly
protecting the United States, did give
a measure Of protection and that they
were the "irreducible minimum" ON
which no compromise could be made.
The irreducible minimum of protcc-
ton TO our country" said Senator John
son, must sharply and absolutely mark
the line The necessity of this protec-
tion is now generally conceded that it
is the least that should be done is adj
mitted
Compromise of the protection thus
essential leaves our country and its in
stitutons menaced and imperiled Com
promise with an irreducible minimum is
ahject surrender. The United States
senate. not only for the maintenance of
its own dignity and its high purpose,
but because Of its lofty patriotism, can
permit no substantial notifications or
alterations of the measure of protec-
ton 1t has demanded and won for the
republic"
The California senator declared that
President Wilson had abandoned one
by one his original II points until I'VE
lister Old World diplomacy and the
American people held sad intellectual
inquest over a dead hope"
He declared that every great nation
had exacted Its price for the league of
nations and that America paid for ac-
| ceptance of the league in the surrender
of our principles and the barter of the
peoples and territories and then guar
anteed the awful toll taken for all time.
Labor Menace.
Senator johnson asserted that THE
menace OF the league was scarcely less
| than the menace Of the labor provi-
sions" in the peace treaty.
81 beg you to remember, he said,
| that not only has Great Britain six
times the representation and six times
| the voting power of the United States
under the league, but the treaty in the
tremendously important labor confer
ence. Britain has "a representatives,
United States four.
Unlimited powers apparently are
| granted to the conference and in this
conference American labor, the most
conservative there Is in the world, has
| four votes out of 1928.
"The highest standards Of labor are
those In our country. The best paid
labor Is here. Ours Is the only labor
group which has expressed opposition
| 20 Bolshevsm. Radicalism In It's worst
| form permeates European labor. The
labor conference under the treaty will
not Americanige European labor. The
| fear Is that they might Bolshevize
American labor. We have our domestic
problems pressing and acute in these
| trying times All of the wisdom and
craftsmanship we have are required
now for our own. And while we never
will selfishly refuse to do our part in
the world and perform our obligations
to humanity and civilization, 1t Is our
right, indeed our highest duty, first
| to be Americans"
| Senator Reed declared that formal
peace could be secured by the passage
of the Knox resolution, which calls for
ratification of the peace treaty with
the elimination OF the league covenant.
| He said that a great clamor was being
raised In this country on the ground
| that the league Of nations must be ac-
cepted In order to restore trade with
Germany
ITO that there are two conclusive an
swers," he continued. First Germany,
hungering for food. in distress for ma
chinery and raw materials has all along
| been anxious to buy everything we
will offer her Second, we have In fact
been for months trading with Germany,
the trade being limited alone. by the artl-
| fetal restrictions imposed by our gov
eminent and the allies Remove those
restrictions and trade will speedily reacn
itS maximum.