The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-05-17
IN IT PEACE OR MORE WAR?


name and by its constitutional authority, has
taken the first step towards tho establishment
OF pcaco. That the lower house will adopt tho
senate resolution with but very little delay IL
assured. but whether the adoption Of tho rcso-
lution means peace or further between the
autocratc executive department and congress
depends altogether on that individual who ar
rograntly subscribed his name to the Versailles
treaty with the addendum that he. Woodrow
Wilson, president OF the United States of Amer
lea. was acting In his name and by his own
rightful authority"
There was not word about constitutional
authority there. That tho signature OF n
Caesar. an Alexander, a NapoiconI And It sprang
from a brain filled with an ambition impos-
sible And there is all the trouble.
To oppose the peace resolution is to give ad-
hcsion to the doctrine that even now America
is not mistress of her own decisions To prevent
that status ever becoming the status OF this free
and Independent nation is the impcng purpose
of all who have opposed the Versailles pact. II
lis the impelng motive OF the senate. OF tho con-
sress and-what nobody now disputes--is the
impeliing wish of the American people
We are not free and independent
nation. II we are. then the congress has right
to repeal its own act creating the war status
without taking counsel OF the wishes Of other
tions II we are not " the executive is right.
then It is high time that re-establlsh that
status OF Independence and freedom regardless
of cost. II can he done at less cost and sacrifice
now than later. That It must be done is
proposition with but one side and that the Amer
| lean side.
Those who plead for the Wilson leadership at
this time playing fast and loss with not only
national honor but national safety. a hundred
million voices are camoring for peace by in
dependent action OF this nation Against that
mighty demand there is heard the opposition OF
one individual rising above a pitiful chorus Of
partisan supporters and me-too press In
capable OF understand that It is stultifying It.
self and marching in the ranks OF those who
stand opposed to virile nationalism.
II may he that the president will veto the
resolution after congress has adopted it. But
that viii not altar the fact that congress was
! obliged to discharge it's constitutional duty and
had no right to anticipate that the executive
would be recreant to it's duty.
when Woodrow Wilson affixes his signature
| OF dsapproval to the peace resolution whether
he does so "in his name and by his own
| rightful authority" or whether he does so as
! the constitutional president of a constitutional
and sovereign state he also signs the death
| warrant of his own ambitions and the prospects
| Of his party
America will continue To he America in the
/ broadest and best despite he and his rub
| ber-stamp followers And II she cannot have
peace with their approval, she has at hand the
means Of securing peace despite their disap-
prevail Woodrow Wilson may be wiser "in his
own rightful authority" than the composite voice
| OF hundred million people, but IL he 1,
unfortunate In not having been able to SO cas
his course as to convince the hundred millior
| OF that fact.