Republican farmer., 1920-06-04
PEACE RESOLVE
 STAND IN HONOR OF UNITED STATES
Text of Presidents Message Vetoing Knox Res
 Olution

peace resolution recently passed by Congress, without questioning tnae bodys right to establish peace by res olution.
 The President in his veto message declared that he was withholding ms s;pnature because the resolution would have surrendered to Germa ny the rights secured by the United States in the war, and because, ne said, if peace were established tnr ouSh the resolution, the purpose Tor Wnfcn the United States entered the war would not be attained
 aI have not felt at liberty to sign this resolution" the message said, be- cause cannot bring myself to become a marty to an action which would place an ineffacea.ble stain upon the gal lantry and honor of the United States"
 The full text of the veto message follows:
 To the House of Representatives:
 I return, herewith, without my sig nature, House Joint Resolution 327, intended to repeal the joint resolution of April 6, 1917, declaring a. state of war to exist between the United States and Germany, and the joint resolution of Dec. 2, 1917, declaring a state of war to exist between the United States and the Austro-Hun- garian Government, and to declare a state of peace.
 have not felt at liberty to sign this joint resolution because I cannot bring myself to become party tos ar action which would place ineffaceable stain upon the gallantry and honor of the United States. The resolution seeks to establish peace with the Ger man Empire without exacting from the German Government any action by way of setting right the infinite wrongs which it did to the peoples whom 1t attacked and whom we pro- fessed 1t our purpose to assist when we entered the war.
 Have we sacrificed the lives of more than 100000 Americans and ruined the lives of thousands of others and brought upon thousands of American families an unhappiness that can never end for purposes which we do not now care to state or take further steps to attain? The attainment of these purposes is provided for in the Treaty of Versailles by terms deemed adequate by the leading statesmen and experts of all the great peoples against Germany. Do we not now care to join in the effort to secure them?
 We entered the war most reluct- anlY. our people were disinclined to take part in Euro peap war. and at last did so only be- cause they became convinced that ii could not in truth be regarded as only a European war. but must be regarded as a war in which civiliza- tion itself was involved and human rights of every kind as against a bel 1igerent government. Moreover, when we entered the war we set forth very definitely the purposes for which we entered partly because we did not wish to be onsidered as merely taking part in a European contest
 This joint resolution which I return does not seek to accomplish any o1 these objects, but in effect makes 2 complete surrender of the rights o1 the United States so far as the Ger man Government is concerned A treaty of peace was signed at Yer sailles on the 2Sth day of June las which did seek to accomplish the on- jects which we had declared to be ir our minds, because all the great Gov ernments and peoples which united against Germany had adopted oul declarations of purpose as their owr and had in solemn form embodied them in communications to the Ger man Government preliminary to the arn1istice of Nov. il, 1918.
 But the treaty as signed at Yer sailles has been rejected by the Senate of the United States. though it ha: been ratified by Germany. By tha rejection and by it's methods we hao in effect declared that we wish tc draw apart and pursue objects and in terests of our own, unhampered by any connections of interest or of pur pose with other Governments ant peoples.
 Notwithstanding the fact that upo1 our entrance into the war we pro fessed to be seeking to assist in thu maintenance of common interests nothing is said in this resolution about the freedom of navigation up on the seas, or the reduction O armaments. or the vindicaton of tn rights of Belgium, or the rectificatio1 of wrongs done to France, or the re lease of the Christian populations O the Ottoman Empire from the intol erable subjugation which they hay had for so many generations to en dure, or the establishment of an in dependent Polish state. or the con tinued maintenance of any kind O understanding among the great pow CTS of the world which would be cal culated to prevent ine the future sucl ourages as Germany attempted an in part consummated.
 Plan Is "Inconceivable.'
 We have now in effect declare that we do not care to take an further risks or to assume an further responsibilities with regar to the freedom of nations the sac redneS of international obligations O the safety of independent people: Such a peace with Germany-a peac in which none of the essential inter ests which we had at heart when W entered the war is safeguarded-i or ought to be, inconceivable; is ir consistent with the dignity of tn United States. with the rights an liberties of her citizens, and with tn very fundamental conditions of civ lization.
 hope that in these statements have sufficiently set forth the reason why I have felt it incumbent upon r to withhold my signature.
 (Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
 The White House, May 27, 1920
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