The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-28
PEACE RESOLVE
 STAND INH0N0R OF UNITED STATES
Text of Presidents Message Vetoing Knox Res
 olution

Washington, May 2s.---President Wilson yesterday vetoed the Knox peace resolution recently passed by Congress, without questioning . that bodys right to establish peace by res olution-
 The. President in his veto message, declarhd that he was withholding his signature because the resolution would have surrendered to Germany the rights secured by the United States in the war, and because, he said, if peace were established through the resolution, the purpose for which the United states entered the war would not be attained.
 q have not felt at liberty to sign this resolution" the message said, be cause I cannot bring myself to become a party to an action which would place an ineffacea.bie stain upon the gal lantry and honor of the United States"
 The full text of the veto message follows:
 To the House of Representatives: return, herewith, without my sig nature, House Joint Resolution 327, intended to repeal the joint resolution of Aprtl 6, 1s1z, declaring a state of war to exist between the United States and Germany, and the joint resolution of Dec. ', 1917, declaring a state of war to exist between the United States and the ,Austro-Hun- : garian Government, and to declare I a state of peace.
 I have not felt at liberty to sign this joint resolution because I cannot bring myself to become party to ar action which would place ineffaceable stain upon the ssalfantry and honor of the United States The resolution seeks to establish peace with the Ger man Empire without exacting from the German Government any action by way of setting right the infinite wrongs which it did to the peoples whom it attacked and whom we pro- fessed 1t our purpose to Assist when we entered the war l. Have we sacrificed the lives of more than 100, 900 Americans and ruined the lives of thousands of others and brought upon thousands of American families an unhappiness that can never end for purposes which we do not now care to state or take further 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 against Germany. Do we not now care to join in the effort to secure them?
 We entered the war most reluct- anly. Our people were profoundly disinclined to take part in a Euro pean war, and at last did so only be- cause they became convinced that it could not in truth be regarded as only a European war, but must be regarded as a war in which civiliza- g tion itself was involved and human rights ofevery kind as against bel ligerent government. Moreover, when we entered the war we set forth very definitely the purposes for which we entered partly because we did not wish to be onsidered as merely taking part in a European contest.
 This joint resolution which I return does not seek to accomplish any of these objects, but in effect makes a complete surrender of the rights of the United States so far as the Ger man Government is concerned A treaty of peace was signed at Yer sai11es the 18th day of June last which did seek to accomplish the ob- jects which we had declared to be in our minds, because all the great Gov ernments and peoples which united against Germany had adopted our declarations of purpose as their own and had in solemn form embodi ed them in communications to the Ger man Government preliminary to the ar7nistice of Nov. II, 1918.
 But the treaty as signed at Yer sai1les has been rejected by the Senate of the United States. though it has been ratified by Germany By that rejection and by it's methods we had in effect declared that we wish to draw apart and pursue objects and in terests of our own, unhanpered h1y any connections of interest or of pur- pose with other Governments and peoples.
 Notwithstanding the fact that upon our entrance into the war we pro- fessed to be seeking to assist in the maintenance of common interests. nothing is said in this resolution about the freedom of navigation up