Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29

fore it's negotiation was concluded
and did not terminate it's debate UNI
til nine months after the submission
of the treaty. 1t took the senate
nearly three times as long to kill the
treaty by protracted debate and by
confusing and multiplying amendments
and reservations as it took the rep
resentatives of the allied govern
1T was not the business of the
president, when he brought this
treaty back from France, to join with
Mr.. Lodge and other Republican
leaders in their deliberate purpose
to destroy it. Had he initiated, sug-
would have substantially altered its
nature, it would have been dis
tlnct breach of faith with his asso-
ciates of the peace council and vlo-
lation of American pledges. Every
one acquainted with diplomatic
ments of honesty, understands TINS.
The foolish invention that the presl--
dent refused to permit the dotting or
an Il or the crossing of a t. mas
been so often repeated that many
honest people believe in its truth,
tour, the president stated entire will
ingness to accept any and all reser-
yations not incompatible with Amer1-
ca 81 honor and true interests: It is
the plain intent of the covenant that
the Monroe doctrine is excluded, that
domestic questions are exempted.
that not one American can be sent
out of the country without formal
action by congress and that the right
of withdrawal is absolute. If there
are words which can make these
meanings clearer, they will be well
coined. It is not reservations that
the president stands against, but null
lifiact1on.
First Draft
when the president came back
from Paris in February, 1919, he
brought the first tentative draft of
the covenant of the League of Ma
tions. He gave publicity to 1t. 1t
He invited the friends of such a
league to submit, criticisms. For
mer President Taft offered four
amendments; former Senator Root Of
fered six amendments; and Mr..
Hughes suggested seven. At a meet
ing of the committee on foreign re-
lations at the White House in March.
1918, other changes were suggested.
These amendments were taken back
by the president to Paris and their
substance was actually incorporated
in the revised draft of the league.
DR.. Lowell, president Of Harvard uni
versity, in his joint debate with SEN
ator Lodge, invited the latter to
suggest constructive amendments
which the president might incorpor-
ate in the draft; but he refused so TO
do. AtCno time has he offered con-
structive amendments. At no time
has he failed to offer destructive
fntn1nrant his If.
titude and he would not even con-
slider a compromise proposed by for
mer President Taft of his own party
and which was assured of the sup
port of forty Democratic senators.
Senator Lodge knew that he control
time and way, he could destroy the
treaty.
This is the sordid story of it's de-
feat. No blacker crime against clv-
ilization has ever soiled the pages of
our history. The last chapter was
written at Chicago.
1.-THE Republican platform not only
repudiates the League of Nations,
but praises, without discrimination,
all of the Republican senators who
participated in it's defeat. It's words
of benediction fall alike upon the
irreconcilab1es, the Lodge reserva-
tionists. the mild reservationists and
with Germany. 1t is consistent in
one thing only the recognition of the
fact that the open foes of the treaty,
the secret foes of the treaty, and the
apparent friends of the treaty VINO
conspired with It's enemies, are equal
ly responsible for the destruction Of
the instrument itself. 1t would be
idle to inquire by what political leg
erdemain this meaningless and yet
ominous declaration was prepared.
It is enough to know that the old
guard sold the honor of America
for the privilege of nominating a
The Cause Of Peace
"The war had set great task for
craftsmanship. The best thought OF
the world demanded that a serious
attempt be made by the leaders OF
the allied governments to formulate
a. treaty of peace which should pre-
vent the recurrence of war. Every
rightful impulse of the human heart
From time immemorial, men nave
dreamed Of peace; poets have sung
of it; philosophers have written
about it; statesmen have discussed
it; men everywhere have hoped and
prayed that the day might come when
wars would no longer be- necessary
in the settlement of international
differences.
For the first time in the turbu-
lent annals of the human race, such
a project had become feasible. The
destruction of m1litarism, the crum-
bling of thrones, the dissolution OF
dynasties, the worldwide apprecla-
of war and the final triumph of
democracy had at last made it pos
sibie to realize the dearest dream
that ever crossed The night Of man s
dark mind The opportunity for
service was as great as the need of
the world and the failure to render
it must stand as a reproach for all
time.
ct is said that If the dead who
died in the great war were placed
head to feet, they would stretch from
New York to San Francisco, and from
San Francisco back again to New
York; and if those who persisted from
starvation and from other causes
collatereal to the war were placed
head to feet, they would reach around
the great globe itself. At this very
hour. millions of men and women
and little children are the victims
of our hesitancy.( How can the heart
of America be closed to these things?
81 have been many miles in this
to visit most Of the states of the
Union. 1t has so happened that I
have been in many Of these states
when the boys were coming from the
front. l have seen the great avenues
of our splendid American cities lined
with the populace, cheering and
cheering again as these brave lads
marched by, happy that they had
come triumphantly home. But I
have never witnessed these inspiring
sights without thinking of the boys
who did not come home. They do not
G in cfTanpa land
these soldiers of liberty. The gen.
erous heart of France enfolds them.
The women and the children Of
France cover their graves with flow