Bisbee daily review., 1920-07-03


 war with Germany, and we condemn the Republican senate for it's refusal to ratify the treaty merely because it was the product of Democratic states manship, thus imposing partisan envy and personal hatred into the way of the peace and renewed prosperity of the world.
 Country's Honor Involved
 By every accepted standard of in ternational morality the president is justified in asserting that the honor of the country is involved in this business. and we point to the accus- ing fact that, before it was determined to initiate political antagonism into the treaty, the now Republican chair man of the senate foreign relations committee publicly proclaimed that any proposition for a separate peace with Germany such as he and his par ty associates thereafter reported to the senate, would make us guilty of the blackest crime"
 On May 18th last, the Knox substi- ute for the Versailles treaty was passed by the Republican senate, and this convention can contrive no more fittAg characterization of its obliquy than that made in the Forum Nigga zine of December, 1918, by Henry Ca bot Lodge, when he said
 ''If we send our armies and young men abroad to be killed and wounded in north France and Flanders without any result except this, our entrance without any intention was a crime which nothing can justify. Intent or congress and the intent of the presi- dent was that there could be no peace until we could create situation where no such war as this could re- cur. We cannot make peace except in company with our allies.
 Tt would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring ruin to us also if we undertook to make a separate peace
 Thus to that which Mir. Lodge, in saner moments considered "the black est crime" he and his party in senate sought to give the sanctity Of law; which eighteen months of ''everlast- ing honor" the Republican party and it's candidates today accept as the essence Of faith.
 Essential Integrity Espoused
 We endorse the presidents view or our international obligations and his firm stand against reservations de- signed to cut to pieces the vital pro visions of the Versailles treaty and we commend the Democrats in con gress for voting against reservations for separate peace which would dis, grace the nation. We advocate the immediate ratification of the treaty without reservations which would i'm pair its essential integrity; but do not oppose the acceptance of any res ervations making clearer or more spe- cific the obligations of the United States to the league of nations. only by doing this may We retrieve reputa- ton of this nation among the powers of the earth and recover the moral leadership which President Wilson won and which Republican political at Washington sacrificed. Only by doing this may we hope to aid effect ively in the restoration of order throughout the world and to take the place which We should assume in the front rank of spiritual, commercial and industrial advancement.
 We reject as utterly vain, if not vicious, the Republican assumption that ratification of the treaty and membership in the League of Nations would in any wise impair the integ- rity OF independence of our country.
 The fact that the covenant has been entered into by 29 nations, all as jealous of their independence as we are of our, is a sufficinet repudiation of such charges. The president has repeatedly declared, and this conven- tion reaffirms, that all our duties and obligations as member of the league must be fulfuilled in strict conformity with the constitution of the United States embodied in which is the fundamental requirement of declara- tory action by the congress perore this nation may become a participant in any war. af4p-e
 During the war President Wilson exhibited the very broadest Concep- tion of liberal Americanism. In his s6hduct of the war, as in the general administration of his high office, there was no semblance of partisan bias. He invited to Washington as his councillors and coadjutors hum dreds of the most prominent and pro nounced Republicans in the country. To these he committed responsibili-