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HOPE OF PEACE BLOCKED
BY WOODROW WILSON

What do the papers mean when
| they say that President Wilson has
| blocl ed peace =, asked Jack as he Il. |
his sister were talking to Uucie Led
just before dinner.
They mean," answered his uncle,
THAT although, as have explained
to you before, the Democrats have
tried to make the people of the coun-
try believe that the Republicans in tho
senate were keeping the peace treaty
from being settled, that the Democrats
led by President Wilson are the ones
who are keeping the treaty from be-
ing settled because they continue to re-
fuse to accept reservations which will
protect America"
Has the president said anything
about it latelys" asked Ruth.
~ KNOW" spoke up Jack, che
wrote letter to Senator Hitchcock
and said the senate must either accept
the treaty without reservations or
nave the people of the country vote on
it,
That's right, jack said Uncle
Ted. AS told you last week, Lord
arey's letter showed the people of the
country that these reservations pro-
tecting America would not be objected
to by England, which left no arpu.
ihent for the Democrats that unless
the senate adopted the treaty with its
world plan as President Wilson wants
the allies would refuse to accent IL.
VI course the president heard about
she Grey letter and it made him angry
because hc wants the matter settled
HIS way or not at all. Being sick in
'he "hi'e House, he couldn't ~ to
congress and make speech as he al
ways liked to do, SO he saw there was
nothing left to do but write a letter.
so, as you have said, Jock, he wrote
to Senator Hitchcock, the leader of
the Democrats in the senate, and said
that ne particularly objected to tie
reservation to Article Y, which was
written to irevent the United states
1r' m tei's compelled to 90 out and
nght for all other members of the
world club Then he not only refused
10 consider the Lodge reservations but
said he was not at all pleased with
the so-ealled compromise reservations
written by his own followers, although
these reservations still would hind
this country to the orders of the world
club so far as the obligation to help
peace by force is concerned.n
What do some of the big senators
think about the president Is letter,o
asked Jack.
Some of them think that while the
letter might be called strong, when it
is remembered that it deals in general.
tues, that is, written so as to include
a lot of things and not plain on anv
one point, as all of his utterances have
oeeh' IL shows signs of weakening, so
far as his previous stand has been on
the treaty Senator Miles Poindexter
thinks the president IS letter NAV
bring the Democrats around to the
POSITION Of agreeing , to adopt the
treaty with the Lodge reservations.
There is another element, the finau.
cal agents and those who have fol
loved the League to Enforce Peace
whirf has been with President Wilson
IRON the beginning. They are COM
mcncing to see that their only chance
is to try and persuade the Democrats
to yield to the American reservations
while they realize that those reserva-
lions cannot be changed to any great
extent.
Where does the treaty and the
world club plan stand nowf" asked
Jack.
About three days after the letter
from President Wilson to Senator
Hitchcock was made public, Senator
Lodge made motion in the senate TO
have the matter again brought up for
discussion. 1t was apparent at once
that it will be long time before the
matter is settled. The Republicans
who stand for the Lodge reservations
are not willing to give in one point