The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-11
WILSON SHOWS PARTIALLY
FOR MEASUREMENT OF FACT

guarantees would 60 once the
treaty had been accepted. AS
Mr.. Simonds wrote at the time:
Il have never seen SO admirable
and complete a definition of the
presidents views as to the scope
and spirit of the league OF ma
TONS" We now quote from his
translation of the French version
of Mr.. Wilson's remarks:
"The allied and associated pow
ers will guarantee the mainten
ance of the conditions which we
shall decide upon, having made
those conditions as just as posi-
BILE. These powers are the ma
tions which will undertake the
contract and the burdens; on
them will rest the chief respon-
sibility; just as, by force of cir
cumstance, they have made the
greatest efforts during the war.
And it is necessary always to re-
member that it is force which is
the ultimate guarantee of the
public peace.
"If you want the principal al
lied and associated powers to
guarantee the existence of your
states, is it unreasonable that
they should be satisfied as to
conditions which they regard as
indispensable if we are to avoid
future causes for war?
"How could the government OF
the United States this is Mr.,
Wilson's reported way of refer
ring to the executiye] go before
the congress and the people of
the United States and pretend
that it had assisted in insuring
the peace of the world if it be-
lieved that the settlement agreed
upon here contained unstable or
dangerous elements?
eff the world should be trou-
bled again, if the conditions which
we all regard as fundamental are
challenged, the guarantees which
will be given to you will pledge
that the United States will send
it's army and fleet across the
ocean. Is it surprising under
such conditions that it should de-
sire to reach solution of the var
ious problems which seem to it
satisfactory?
May / not ask my friend Mr..
Kramar, my friend Mr.. Trum-
bitch and my friend Mr.. Bratiano
to believe that if we have men
toned only the great powers in
the article [of the treaty. which
we have just been discussing, it is
not because these powers desire
to impose conditions Of their own,
but simply because they desire to
satisfy themselves that they can
guarantee the sum total of advan-
tages which this treaty gives you
as well as us, with all the strength
they possess.
II hope that we shall reach
that is our goal-a cordial and
voluntary agreement to COOP
crate on the only basis possible.
That basis-one must express it
in that fashion-will have to be
supplied by those who furnish the
force which Will insure the
maintenance of peace by those
with whom will dwell that force
which will be the supreme guar
antee of peace"
OF the existence of this official
record in French of the proceed
ings at Paris on May 81 OF last
yearathere can be no more doubt
than of the existence of the copy
of the interwoven treaty and CO
venant which Mr.. Wilson brought
back with him on the George
Washington. What, then, do his
UNQUALIFIED denials and charges of
absolute falsehood mean? What
do Mr.. Tumulty's denials mean?
What do the Worlds charges of
forgery and fabrication mean?
Do they mean merely that in
the process of translation and re-
translation some trifling verbal
variation may have occurred? No
competent intelligence can study
the text without believing that
translation and retranslation can
not have affected the essentials
of the declarations by Mr.. Wilson.
Even if there has been accidental
perversion of the original 1t re-
mains only for the president to
publish the perverted original.