Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-20
ROOT OUTLINES
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natural laws can operate to restore normal conditions"
 The appeal of President Wilson in October 1918 for the election of 8 Democratic congress, he declared, was mot merely an injustice to the Repub- lican Senators and Representatives
 who with splendid loyalty had sup ported every forward step of the Sd- ffiiristratioh" but it was a demand for the continuance of supreme power by the election of a Congress which would submit itself to the orders of an executive acting at once as a party leader in politics and a dictator in government It was the instinct of American democracy that repelled the demand. Such long has been the gov ernment Of Mexico. A government with Louis Napoleon at one end and a plebiscite at the other and with naught but subservience between is not free republic. It is autocracy by consent.
 The Presidents defiance of the authority of the Senate to advise upon the covenant of the League of Nations and to give or withhold it's consent to the ratification of She Treaty contain ing it." he continued, "was challenge to the right of any officer of the United States governmental exercise his pow CTS in any way which had not the approval of the chief executive
 ''T'f1e President had the Constitution al authority and duty to negotiate a treaty. The Senate had the Constitu- ti6nal authority and duty to advise and to consent Or refuse to consent in accordance with their Judgement. The right to perform that duty was chal- lenged. By all the tremendous power of a President commanding millions of civil and military subordinates and controlling the expenditures of billions of money, Senators were threatened if they did not submit their judgment to the Presidential will"
 The treaty they were called upon to consider. Mr Root declared. was fatally defective in several respects, not only from the Standpoint or the vital interests of the United States, but considered as an instrument de- signed to secure the future peace of the world" It was the duty of the Senators, he said, to test the true meaning Of every paragraph, to con- sider the conditions which the provis- ions were to meet. to estimate the human forces of self interest and pre- judice and passion under the influence of which the treaty was to be ap- piled, and to form their own judgment upon the results which would be pro duced for America and for civilization.
 The reservations ad4 pted by the Senate" he insisted remedy, so far as the United States is concerned, the chief objections to the treaty Thay prevent our entrance into the League of Nations from being an abandonment of the Monroe Doetorine, with irrepar- able injury to the United States and no benefit to the rest of the world"
 Especially important, asserted MT. Root, is that they prevent the 'incredi- ble mistake" of Article X. The agree rnent in that article Ito preserve as against external Aggression to ter ritorial integrity and existing political Independence of all members of the league" he argued, binds the United States when occasion arises to defend every member of the League by armed force against external aggression mo matter what our people at the time think about the right and wrong of the controversy, or about the wisdom or folly of entering upon 1t.
 Tt seems clear to me that in the interests of the worlds peace, which all America desires to promote, this treaty ought, to be ratified with the reservations of the Senate, and that without those reservations in. their