Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-02-19
PRESIDENT NOT
TO CHANGE X
CLAIMS THAT ARTICLE MUST BE
ACCEPTED AS WRITTEN TO
MAKE TREATY EFFECTIVE


MAKE TREATY EFFECTIVE
what do the papers mean when
they say that President Wilson has
blocked peace?" asked Jack as he
and his sister were talking to Uncle
Ted just before dinner.
"They mean answered his uncle,
that although. as / have explained
to you before, the democrats have
tried to make the people of the coun-
try believe that the republicans in
the senate were keeping the peace
treaty from being settled, that the
democrats led by President Wilson
are the ones who are keeping the
treaty from being settled because
they continue to refuse to accept res
ervations which will protect Ameri-
ca"
HAS the president said anything
about it lately?" asked Ruth.
II know" spoke up Jack, ''he
wrote letter to- Senator Hitchcock
and said the senate must either ac-
cept the treaty without reservations
or have the people Of the country
vote on it,"
That's right, jack" said Uncle
Cu- fio AOA0 gOu ldbl WCChy
Lord Grey's letter showed the peo-
pie Of the country that these reser-
vations protecting America would
not be objected to by England which
left no argument for the democrats
that unless the senate adopted the
treaty with its world plan as Presi-
dent Wilson wants, the allies would
refuse to accept It, OF course the
president heard about the Gray let
ter and IT made him angry because
he wants the matter settled HIS way
or not at all. Being sick in the
white house, he couldn't 60 to con-
gress and make a speech as he al
ways liked to, so he saw there was
nothing left to do but write a letter.
So, as you have said, Jack, he wrote
to Senator Hitchcock, the leader Of
the democrats In the senate, and said
that he particularly objected to the
reservation to Article X, which was
written to prevent the United States
from being compelled to go out and
fight for all other members of the
world club Then he not only re-
fused to consider the Lodge reserva-
tions but said he was not at all
pleased with the so-called compro-
mise reservations written by his own
followers, although those reserva-
lions would bind this country to the
orders Of the world club so far as
obligation to help keep peace by
force is concerned"
what do some Of the big senat-
ors think about the presidents let
ter?' asked Jack.
Some Of them think that while
the letter might be- called strong.
when II Is remembered that It deals
in generalities, that is, written so as
to include a lot of things and not
plain on any one point, as all Of his
utterances have been, 1t shows signs
OF weakening, so far as his previous
stand has been orSsshe treaty. Sena-
tor Miles Poindexter thinks the presi-
dents letter may bring the demo-
Gratis around to the position Of agree
ing to adopt the treaty with the
Lodge reservations. There is an
other element, the financial agents
and those who have followed the
League to Enforce Peace which has
been with President wilson from the
beginning. They are commencing
to see that their onry chance is to
try and persuade the democrats to
yield to the American reservations
while they realize that those reser-
vations cannot be changed to any
great extent.
Where does the treaty and the
world club plan stand now?" asked
Jack.
about three DAYS after the letter
from President Wilson to Senator
Hitchcock was made public. Senator
Lodge made motion in the senate
to have the matter again brought up
for discussion. It was apparent
at once that it will be long time be-
fore the matter is settled. The re-
publicans who stand for the Lodge
reservations are not willing to give
in one point on those reservations to
have them changed Senator's Bor-
ah, Brandegee, France, Gronna,
Knox, Mccormick. Norris, Poindexter
and Sherman, all republicans. DO
not want the treaty with the world
club plan adopted at all. II they can
help 1t. When II became necessary
to vote upon Senator Lodges motion
So senators voted for II and nine
against It. The nine were the men
I Just mentioned.
"whv did they vote against it?"
asked Ruth.
"They voted against 1t. Ruth. not
because they did not want the treaty
discussed, but because they stand on
the ground that there cannot be too
much discussion, but because they
feel that the majority of the senate
has already expressed the feeling of
the country by voting to adopt the
treaty with the Lodge reservations.
II II had not been for the discussion
which was started by Senator Poin-
dexter, followed by Senator Knox
and then by the thirty-nine who
signed the round robin, which be-
came known as the second Declara-
tion of Independence, the people of
this country would never have known
what a terrible thing the world club
plan Is and how IL would make this
country slave to every nation in
the world
'Why wasn't that the end of II
them" asked Jack.
Because, Jack. II takes two
thirds vote to ratify treaty The
treaty has been reported back to the
senate now by the committee on for
eign relations with the Lodge reser-