The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-11
DEMOLISHED HOPE
 OF PEACE TREATY
President Entirely Uncompromising in Attitude Toward Those Who Would Modify the League of Ma
 tions Pact-To Country Now.
From the Kansas citv star.

Washington, March 9.-President Wilson late yesterday demolished the last slim, surviving hope that the peace treaty might be ratified
 In hot blast directed at the Sen ate, parts of Europe and the world generally, conveyed in a letter to Sen ator Hitchcock, administration floor leader, the President revealed a stub born, unyielding attitude toward res ervations and even toward compro- mise. He will have no reservations to to the treaty that mean anything. He would have none at all on article 10.
 Go all the way in the league or keep out" is the practical effect of the Presidents newest statement.
 Calls Them '.MiId NullIfiers."
 Even the efforts of the mild reserva- tionists to compromise the situation by a halfway" reservation on article 10, he disparages, referring to the mild reservationists in a sarcastic vein as fair nuliifiers' and stating that he can see no difference bewteen enulli- fer and mild nullifier."
 And so the second fight to obtain ratification of the treaty goes to smash.
 Last night the reservationists of all tempers and degrees were back to- gether. driven there by the President The irreconcilibles" are jubilant, knowing that the President has dealt the death blow to the treaty again. The Democrats, gloomy and discoGr. aged, are talking of bolting the admin. istration and ratifying the treaty with the Lodge reservations anyway. But not enough will go along, Senator Hitchcock proclaimed with certainty The -the-wool Wilson followers and the bitter anti-leaguers will stand together, some day this week, and vote the treaty down once more
 Treaty Into the Campaign
 The Presidents letter makes it cer- tain that the peace treaty will be car ried into the election campaign There Is no other way out of it, for even if enough Democrats bolted to ratify the treaty with reservations. the Presi- dent, under the statements made in the letter. would pigeon-hole it. In fact, the entire letter of the President reads like campaign document lay ing the ground work of the case he will carry to the people in his appeal And while the possibility of Woodrow Will son running again for a third term seems incredible, politicians are wondering if Woodrow Wilson could be thinking of that thing a third term race on the plea of treaty vindication They don't believe it possible. but they wonder.
 A Blow at Second Effort
 It was a letter from President Will son the day before the final vote last November that ordered the Democrats to defeat the treaty rather than accept the reservations voted by majority of the senate. That letter blew up the treaty, and yesterday, with the Senate at the final stage of the second fight - the crisis at hand-the White House message to the Democrats came once more telling them that there must be no real reservations
 If anything. the last letter was stronger in it's appeal against any real reservations than the Presidents pre- vious utterances. It showed him with his head "still up in the cloud" talk ing of new day and new order of things It showed he stood exactly where he was when he returned from Paris All the months of growing op- position throughout the country to the treaty had swerved him not an inch. All the advice. even of his closest friends, to yield part of the way, at least, was tossed aside advice that the country was wearied of the treaty fight, that it blamed MT. Wilson for hfs unyielding stubbornness and cer- tainly was not with him in his stand on article 10.
 Much Attention to Article 10.
 MT. Wilson's letter today was large ly written around article 10 the turn HE punt III thc tcotf hehss itc uS' clared;
 There is no escaping the moral ob- legations which are expressed in posi- tive terms in this article of the cove nant."
 And that is the very point at issue. The Republicans and many Demo crats contend that the United States should not morally bind itself. in ad- vance, to send it's armies and navies to Europe to guarantee the territorial and political integrity of the members of the league.
 MT. Wilson. tossing all compromise aside, said the Uunited States must do that very thing. And the remainder of his letter was a defense of why he held the United States should accept that moral obligation.
 "It is unthinkabIe that America should set the example of ignoring such solemn moral engagement, z said the President.
 One senator, rather captiously com menting on this part .ef the letter, said he had thought America had fought the war for the fourteen points. but now found he was mistaken 1t was fought to obtain article 10 which the country didn't want.