Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-20

the German naval menace removed 'GreaL
Britain has adopted policy of naval re-
trenchment," but that "this policy will Ss<
be long adhered to if the impression once is
created that the United States has become
competitor, in a new race for naval SUI
premacy, in place of Germany" Many agree
with the BUFFALO EXPRESS (Rep.) regard
ing Mr.. Daniels move as political argu--
ment in the hope of developing sentiment
for the League of Nations or making an
impression the stump during the coming
campaign"
Not few also take the view that we
need big navy anyhow, whether we Join
the league or not.
Should Put Treaty Up to Wilson
The number Of Democratic senators with
the courage and political sagacity to declare
their independence of Wilson's undemocratic
dictaton grows daily. These state leaders,
whose future does not find it's "finis" written
across the calendar on March 4, 1921, have
little notion of allowing Jonah to wreck the
ship. Whether there will prove to be enough
of them to confront the president with the
decisive dilemma of an overwhelmingly rati-
fled treaty to which reservation originated
by some one else and not by himself have
been attached, the next few days will show
Then will come the supreme test whether he
is really ready to- declare war, in the name
of peace, on practically the entire human race
on the Democratic senators, on Great Brit
ain, the Republican party, France, "the null
lifers, JAPAN Lord Grey, Italy, "the mild
nullifers," "the great fighting powers of the
world anybody and everybody who does not
subscribe to the doctrine that all proper
reservations to the treaty have already
been made by Woodrow Wilson himself at
Paris.
The treaty, it seems, was not perfect until
President Wilson made it So Then it be-
came perfect and has remained so ever since.
The changes in the treaty which the mild
nullifiers want to make are the veriest dust
in the balances when compared with the
sweeping abandonments of his famous -four
teen points which Mr.. Wilson himself made
in Paris "The freedom Of the seas was never
so much as alluded to at the peace table,"
says DR.. Dillon "Open covenants openly
arrived at came to mean arbitrary ukases
determination of peoples connoted implicit
obedience to dictatorial DEGREES"
The president should not bank sob heavily
upon the presumed blindness, the inattention
the susceptibility to soaring phrases of our
confessedly idealistic people. We can still
see some things. We see that the presi-
dent himself has been the great reservation
ist," the drastic "nullifier," the constant bar
gamer with "imperialistc" and "militaristic"
forces. He sold out in Paris immeasurably
more than he brought home; and the lofty
language of world regeneration and mlllen-
NAL peace which he employs in even his re-
cent manifesto to Senator Hitchcock Ill hts
the mouth of man who led the war-harried
peoples of whole world to believe In 1t a
little over a year ago-and then abandoned
them and their dreams and their faith for
covenant" so poor in salvation that ne
himself says that the watering down OF one
solitary clause will utterly destroy it's worth.
-PHILA DELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER
(Ind.)