The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-30
Sunday, May 80, 1920.
A PEACE WITHOUT HONOR!

- kASL ViAiiOOi iiOi>ON'
Such a peace with Germany-a
peace in which none of the essential in
terests which we had at heart when we
entered the war is safeguarded-is, or
ought to be nconceivabe; is inconsistent
with the duty of the United States, with
the rights and liberties of her citizens
and with the very fundamental condi-
tions of civilization"
The above, the closing sentence used by
President Wilson in his message returning to
congress, unsigned, the Knox peace resolution
epitomizes the reasons why the resolution
was not approved by him, as the chief exec
utive of the nation which, entering the world
war in the name of humanity, saved Chris
tianity from overthrow when all seemed lost
and the hordes of the anti-Christ were thun-
dering at the gates of civilization.
Tersely, pointedly, without the use of un-
necessary words, without flowers of speech
without apology, President Wilson shows in
his message that the Knox resolution seeks a
peace with Germany which might we'll have
been dictated by the German interests, and
that its adoption by the national legislative
body was the adoption of peace without
honor the adoption of a peace which might
just as well say to all the world, Germany
and German kultur stand head and shoulders
above the honor, the integrity and the de-
mands of the American people"
Quoting again from the presidents mes
sage:
THE resolution seeks to establish
peace with the German empire without
exacting from the German government
any action by way of setting right the
infinite wrongs which it did to the peo-
Dps whom II attackad and xuh wn
profess it our purpose to assist when we
entered the war Have we sacrificed the
lives of more than 100000 Americans
and ruined the lives of thousands of 9TH
ers and brought upon tens of thousands
Of American families an unhappiness
which can never end for purposes which
we do not now care to state or take fur
ther steps to attain?
"The attainment of these purposes is
provided for in the treaty of Versailles
by terms deemed adequate by the leading
statesmen and experts of all the great
peoples who were associated in the war
against Germany. Do we now not care
to JOIN IN the efforts to secure them?"
The peace terms. as set forth in the treaty
of Versailles, which was signed on the
twenty-eighth of June, 1919, carried embodied
therein all that the nations of the Christian
world had fought for; it carried demands
which were calculated to make the world a
safe place in which to live it carried demand.
or the execution of a final peace treaty
ghich held inviolate the honor of the United
States as well as the honor of the other al
led nations. 1t was a paper drafted by some
~ the biggest brained broadest and mos
able men of the civilized world, men whose
countries had been threatened by the barbar
Gus hordes OF the master criminal men whose
countrymen had shed their blood even a.
our countrymen had shed their blood anC
sacrificed their lives that the world migh
see the lasting overthrow of autocracy. tina
the world might hear the death-knel of al
unholy ambition.
1t was drafted and re-drafted, revised
and again revised until all that was not il
the real interest of humanity. of Christ an,
his teachings, of God and of Gods laws, ha,
been eliminated. 1t provided peace wit
honor and peace with protection from tn
nation whose people were without honor.
provided a peace which safeguarded civil
zation from the possibility of attack from tn
uncviized, which safeguarded the portals O
Christianity from the entrance of the barbs
rian. 1t was a peace which all the nation
of the world, except the United States, az
cepted; it was a peace which all the peopl
Of the United States, except those who wer
biased by narrow minded political prejudic
or lack of thought for country's honor, a,
proved. It was peace which made tn
world safe for democracy.
But the learned and austere senators {
he republican faith aided and abetted b
certain senator's who had been honored
he democratic party but who were untru
md unfaithful to their party and to the