The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-20
COMMENT ON
PEACE TREATY
What Some of Big Newspapers
of Country Think of Rejec-
ton by U. S.
Senate.
Is CALLED TRAGEDY
Ma jority Of Opinion Seems to be Un-
favorable to Action Taken in
Washington on
Friday.
IS CALLED TRAGEDY

limited Press Leased Wire Service J
NEW YORK, March 20.-Commenf
of New York morning newspapers
upon the senate's defeat OF the peace
treaty was as follows:
WORLD-The commanding pres
tige that the United States won IN
the war has been frittered away. and
the country, after all it's superb
achievements, stands before the
world today ydiscredited and without
a real friend
TIMES-Mr. Lodge might at any
time have secured ratification with
reservations sufficient for every
reasonable purpose, reservations not
obviously intended as dagger r-thrusts.
He has been beaten at his own game,
a most despicable, deadly game. and
upon him, as leader OF the republican
majority. the actual responsibility
falls and will rest
TRIBUNE-The treaty's defeat IS
a tragedy whose poignancy ts 1nten-
sified by the sordidness of the final
soene. The country beholds the
president wrecking a great under
taking for no better reason than be
cause he could not unconst tut ionauy
/ have his way.
BOSTON POST-W11at next? VIII
the president at once move to nego-
tiate a separate treaty with Germany
or will he hold the whole matter in
allowance until next fall to become a
campaign issue? Something must
surely be done to end the grotesGue
situation in which we now are
CIEyEL AND PLAIN DEALER
-. 10 onA tho nraCi-
dent must continue as partners in
the matter 81 peace making. me
constitution sees to that. The coun-
try is weary of pseudo peace. 1t IS
weary of deadlocks.
BUFFALO COURIER-A sorry end
ing, surely, to eight months OF de-
bate on one of the most important
treaties in the worlds history.
Americans did not fail to do their
part in the war. What will be SAID
of Americans in peace?
PHILADELPHIA EVENING Bull
LETIN-The death of the treaty was
due to the presence OF foreign SUD
stance-the league of nations-1n IT'S
organism and the end only serves TO
confirm the diagnosis Of its fatal all
ment which was made at its birth.
CHICAGO JOURNAL = Senator
Lodge and his treaty rippers have
succeeded in keeping the United
States at war with Germany for yet
another season. Lodge is in no small
degree responsible for the reaction
ary plot which has just failed in
Germany and for the bloodshed now
prevailing in that country. If bolshe-
vism follows reaction, he will be re-
sponsible for that.
ST. LOUIS TIMES-The pious
historian of the future in writing OF
Americas deliverance from the
gravest danger that ever threatened
its destiny as the political light OF
the world, will puzzle over the queer
alignment of forces that encompass
ed thes treaty's defeat and write:
"The Lord hardened the heart OF
Woodrow wilson
DETROIT tTIMES-Just as Grover
one column tariff measure
of 1887 limited the campaign OF 1888
to a single issue, 90 the senate
failure to concur with the president
means that we are in for one subject
in the exciting months ahead of u.s.
IT Is tragically regrettable, but the
upon so weighty mat
ter has to be taken some time.