Arizona republican., 1920-06-09


 deal with it under the Monroe doctrine, but nothing has been done and yet we are asked to take a mandate for Ar menia. The American people have q deep sympathy for Armenia. They have already given over 40 million dol
 lars for the relief of those starving and suffering people, a brave and gal
 1ant people who deserve assistance and who have established govern ment We are anxious to help Ar
 menia in all reasonable ways and no doubt shall do so, but to take a man date to control. protect and govern | that country would involve our send | ing our sons and brothers to serve and | sacrifice their lives in Armenia for an | indefinite time This is a mandate l which we in the senate of the United | States think should not be undertaken | It is plan to get us involved in the | responsibilities of the League of Ma ! tions and all the wars in which it may
 be engaged, within our being mem | Der of the league. To such a proposi. | ton the only answer is a plain refusaI. l On the other hand what the president has neglected-a like condition among an unfortunate people at our very doors-we must take up and by a wise and firm policy restore Mexico to the position which she ought to occupy and thereby help and relieve her peo- pie and so benefit the world and extend the reign of peace.
 Peace With Germany
 As the great war in Europe pushed Mexico into the background and turned the thoughts of all away from
 it. so there is at this moment another great question of our relations to the civilized world which overshadows every other. When the armistice with
 Germany was signed the course to be
 pursued was clear. It was urged by
 Republican senators before the armis-
 tice and immediately afterwards. That
 course was to make the peace with
 Germany at once and then take up for
 reasonable consideration the question
 of establishing such future relations
 with our associates in the war as
 would make for the future peace of
 the world. If this had been done we could have had full peace with Ger many three months after the armisttce- This MT. Wilson prevented. He went to Europe with the greatest opportun- ity for large service to the world ever offered to any one man. He insisted on going himself, for he trusted no one else We then had the confidence, 1 the gratitude and the friendship of i every European nation. which thanks i to the president, we possess no longer. | If Mir. Wilson had said: We came l here to help you win the war in de- I fense of civilization. The war is won. All we now insist upon is that Ger
 many shall be put in such a position | as not to De aD46 lO thISdtSu tue l peace and freedom of mankind. Our own questions in the American hemis- phere we will care for ourselves. We i have interests in the Far East which
 we shall wish to have protected, but
 your own European questions you must
 settle and we will accept the settle ment to which you agree. We are not
 here seeking territory or to dictate
 what you shall do in regard to either 1 territory or boundaries" Then Iis-
 deed we should have been entitled to i the gratitude of the world not only for
 our decisive services in the war but for generous assistance in making a lasting peace. But Mir. Wilson did not do this. He had apparently only one 1 aim to be the maker of a league which 1 he should be the head. He was de- l termined that there should be a
 League of Nations then and there and 1 in order to nuliify the powers of the
 senate given by the constitution of the United States he decided to make the league an integral part of the treaty
 of peace with Germany Thus he pre-
 sented to the senate, and intended to
 present a dilemma from which he be-
 lieved there was no escape. In order
 to have peace with Germany he
 meant to compel the senate to accept
 the League of Nations. It was
 indeed a difficult situation which he
 thus created. But Republican senators QGhGNEQ lnEAA 0QN1 AO bG NAGeAA DNASA Y
 them and did not shrink from fulfill
 ing it. Thirty-nine of them in March,
 1919, signed a statement setting forth
 that the first draft of the league as MT.
 Wilson brought it back, announcing
 that it must be taken just as it stood,
 could not be accepted by the senate in
 that form. The president returned to
 Europe with this warning before him
 and before the world. He admitted a
 few slight changes in the covenant, for
 the most part unimportant and some of which made the second draft worse
 than the first. He forced the Allied and Associated powers to yield to his demand that the covenant of the , league should be interwoven with the { treaty of peace. To accomplish this he surrendered the principle of the . i freedom of the seas-whatever that may have been--to Great Britain, and
 he made promises and concessions to France-not yet fulfilled - which i brought him the French support. Hav- ing thus carried his point abroad he
 brought the treaty with Germany homo | and laid it before the senate To the said: This covenant of the League f of Nations will bring to the world 2 , lasting peace" Everyone desired last { ing peace and without pausing to con-
 slider or even to read the covenant
 thousands upon thousands of gooc E people united in the demand that ths : senate ratify and take the league al } once and without consideration, jus ! as it stood. The Republicans of tho I senate, perceiving the dangers of tho $ league, determined to resist Mr. Will 2 sons demand, even at the cost of de ] laying the treaty of peace with Ger : many. They felt that the one thing l necessary was to have the people un- a derstand the treaty that they nigh e realize what it meant and what i a threatened. So the long debate begar 2 and it has lasted for more than a year . At the outset that portion of the peo = pie who wished an instantaneous anC f unqualified acceptance of a covenan f which most of them had never reaC s had possession in large measure of thu = press and other methods of obtaining n publicity and thus were able to keel i up a continual cry for immediate rati n fication. The vocal part of the com o munity felt almost universally as the. n listened to each others voices. that th' h whole country was with them. but the! e forgot the great inarticulate masses O = the people who went silently abou e their work and their business. who diS e not write letters to the newspapers O Y publish circulars or spend millions il r. spreading their views through power,