Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-06-10
PRESIDENT WILL
SON FAILS TO SIGN
UNCLE TED TELLS CHILDREN
THAT THE U. S. is STILL AT
WAR WITH GERMANY

ried down the steps.
wait for me. Wait for me,
called Ruth, scampering after her
! brother.
I'm going to tell you about some
| thing that happened some time ago,
but which is both interesting and i'm
| portant for you to know" began
/ Uncle Ted, after they were all set
tied in the big swing. "On the 27th
| day of last month two important
things happened in the capital of our
country, Washington. President
Wilson sent the joint resolution of
congress, passed in order to make
peace between the United States and
Germany, back to the house Of rep
resentatives without his signature,
which is necessary in order to make
l. work, unless passed over his head.
With this he sent message giving
his reasons for not signing the plain
and proper resolution passed by the
senate and house. His stubborn ac-
ton in refusing to sign this resolu-
ton keeps us technically at war with
Germany"
"Why wouldn't he sign it?" asked
Jack.
"Wait a minute, Jack, and I'll tell
you. The second important thing
that happened on May 9th was the
action of the senate foreign relations
committee in refusing to grant Mr.
Wilson's request for a mandate for
Armenia. The majority of the SEN
ators on this committee believe We
have enough troubles of our own
without going to Armenia for more.
Now to get back to President
Wilson and his message vetoing the
peace resolution"
What does veto mean?" asked
Ruth. ....
"To veto means to turn down. The
president vetoes a bill when he re-
fuses to sign it. When this hap
pens il goes back to where ii started.
either the house of representatives
or the senate and in order to become
a law two-thirds of both houses Of
congress must vote for il. II they
do, the bill or resolution becomes a
law without the presidents sigma
ture. When the peace resolution
went back to congress there were
not enough votes to pass II over Mr..
Wilson's head, so 1t is dead and there
still is no peace. But the action of
Woodrow Wilson stands Just the
same, and his weak and insufficient
reasons should be studded say
studied because he has laid the
blame for the delay of peace at the
door OF the senate. when the blame
rests upon his own shoulders-sim-
ply because he places IS intelligence
and reasoning power above the ma
jority of those men elected to sit in
the highest law-making body in the
world.
"The one thing about these two
events for which am thankful is
the people will have to pass upon
the whole problem. And when it is
| left to the people the result will be
to uphold the constitution of the
United States and the teachings OF
the fathers of this country. In Mr..
Wilson's message he said he could
not sign this resolution because he
wouldn't have anything to do with
AN action which would place inef-
| faceable stain upon the gallantry and
honor of the United States All
of which sounds -asty but means
nothing. He made no new rargu-
ments nor did he say anything which
could be used in favor of the world
club plan. He simply doesn't like
the resolution idea because it would
not bring peace in the way he wants
II, not because it wouldn't bring
peace. He did not say anything
about the right of congress to make
peace in this way. He knows con-
gress has that right under the con-
stitution. Because the resolution
did not consider or make mention of
the now dead fourteen points he
thinks it would place the United
States in the position of turning its
back on Europe. But how about
the treaty itself? 1t certainly leaves
out many of those points which Mr.
Wilson so CALAMITY carried to Paris.
There is no mention anywhere, eth
er in the treaty or the world club
plan, of freedom of the seas.
When the resolution was return
ed congress was not very much ex-
cited to pass it over his head because
the whole matter will very soon go
before the people. The most import
ant part to me at least, about the
veto, is the fact that il shows that
Mr.. Wilson has not, another new
thing to say for his world club. II
has all been said and when the peo-
pie vote they will decide that in our
relations with Europe we should
keep free from entangling alliances
with other countries, so that we can
act quickly and we'll, as we have NJ
the past.
''As to the result of the senate's &C
tion in refusing to give a mandate
for Armenia, the interesting and i'm
portant fact is that 1t shows the
large number of democrats who are
opposed to such action. The presi-
dents proposal regarding Armenia
asks for action by this country as
member of the world club when the
country is not a member. Mr.. Will
son acts just as though he thought
the United States was going to join
the world club, and up until this
happened most of the democrats in
the senate thought the same. But
many of them are changing their
views on the matter, because ii is
getting close to election time and
they must realize that when the mat
ter is put up to the people they are
going to vote against anyone for
president who is for it. The very
fact that many big democrats are
afraid to leave the matter to the peo-
pie is shown by what William Jen-
nings Bryan has said. He doesn't
wast the world club or treaty to be
an issue in the campaign. He even
goes so far as to say this, No party
least Of all. the democratic party
Can afford to claim for a minority
of the senate the right to declare the
policy of the nation
But, children, it won't be long
until the candidates for both parties
will be named, their stand on the
world club made plain, and then it
will be up to the people when they
vote, to decide the whole question"
-O