Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-20


America desires TO promote, this treaty
ought to be ratified with the reservations
of the Senate, and that without those
! reservations in their fair and honest sub
stance it ought not to be ratified hope
the treaty will be ratified with the reserva-
| tions long before the Presidential cleo
ton. That will be done if the President
| permits it. Ii that is not done, then that
is what | think the Republican party
ought to stand for.
FoREsEEs q. o. 2. EXECUTIVE NEXT.
Immediately after the fourth of March,
! 1921, Republican President should urge
| upon the Society of Nations the reform oi
| the league covenant, so as to make 1t
! establish the rule of public right rather
| than the rule of mere expodiency, so as To
| make the peace of the world rest primarily
upon law, and upon the effectiveness and
enforcement of law. A Congress of all
nations should be called to consider and
declare what Of international law still re-
mains of binding force, and TO provide for
the further development and extension of
that law and for the application OF the
law to all justiciable cases of controversy
between nations by impartial judicial
tribunals, and TO make the decisions of
such tribunals upon questions of fact and
upon questions of law binding and effect
i've. That is the old American doctrine,
and that is the necessary method OF dc
mocracies, for democracie5 can live only
under governments of laws, and not OF
men.
CITES BREAK WITH LANSING.
''The extreme effects of the possession OF
arbitrary power are seen IN the extraordl-
nary letters of the President to Secretary
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airy, 1920, by which it appears that honest
and independent advice from officers OF
the Presidents own selection is an offense,
and that the exercise of the most ordinary
powers of the heads of departments with
out consulting the President when his i'll
ness prevented consultation Is cause for
resentment.
1T is interesting to observe that many
citizens-of1icial and unofhclal-who are
willing that the country should assume the
startling obligations of Article X are OPP
posing the system of universal military
training, without which our obligation
would be worthless, and which intensIvely
applied enabled the United States TO turn
the scale of war against Germany. They
say VIE have millions of young men already
trained, but how long is the service which
these splendid and patriotic youths have
already rendered to their country to be
made the ground for imposing upon them
exclusively the burden Of further service,
and leaving the millions of young men
who come to military age year after year
and untitled to do the,r part for
the defense of our country!
GOVERNMENT RELATION TO LABOR.
PRINCIPLES of our government, Mr.. Root
urged, should be applied to the relations
between organized labor and the public;
''first. to assert the control of the whole |
people of the United States within Its |
field. and the whole people of each State |
within its field. over matters essential to |
the Life of the community, TO the exclusion !
Of any class control in such matters. and, |
second. TO exercise that popular control by |
making and applying such laws and /
such institutions of govern |
nent, as to secure justice, within the law, /
10 members of every class and calling, SO ,
that our system of government will be |
justified by its works.
The people over whom one class or
cctiou holds lawful power of Life OF death /
% compel compliance with Its demands Is
lot sovereign but subject to the control OF
he dominating class, MIR. Root observed
The demands may be moderate today, he
,flN, buL Will ttNtl NfiA
demands will become oppressive tomor-
row.
I'VE should not attempt to mske sny
nan work against his viii ar take away his
light to strike" he asserted, but We
hould by law. limit that right 10 strike al
point where IT comes In conflict with the
high right of self prcservh-
ION. No man or set of men can justly
lain the right to undertake the perform
nee of q service upon which the health
nd life of others depend, and then 10
bandon the service at Will. The line be
ween such performance and an ordinary
trike should be drawn by law.
"Inseparahly connected with the night
{ control by the governing people rs the
uty OF justice resting upon them. II the
eople by law prohibit organized labor
-orn holding them up TO enforce Its de
isnds, the people are bound to provide
leans to ascertain whether the demands
re lust, and for enforcing them Il found
lst. That duty calls for the establish
lent of a competent and impartial
ibunal, and tor the enforcement OF Its
eclsiors.'
PRoFLIGATE ExPENDI1 URE CHARGED.
Referring TO the question of economy,
ir. Root declared 1T is true that polit-
al party cannot make individuals
lrifty, but a political party can produce
le shining and potent example OF Thrifty
ld economical government" There had
zen a profiigate expenditure during the !
ar which to some extent was inevitable,
said, but there would have been less it |
lpable business men had been called to
'ashington instead of leaving authority
the hands of . group of men quite un- |
aimed in business affairs and distrustful |
all who had achieved business success.
Officials and agents o.. the present adj
inistration, be asserted. have acquired
e habit of spending public money and |
N know when 10 stop. Three things can
done, he explained, to bring about
form.
First, establishment of aD effective
Idget system, under which the govern
ent viii be obliged to start with its re-
urces in order to determine its expendi-
res.
Second, TO secure an executive de-
rtTnent which will stop urging and
,ngress that will stop appropriating
1ney for things which need not be done
w so extensively, or need not be done
all.
Third, to revise the system of taxa
IN, and TO make some serious changes IN
indicated by experiences of its effects.
ie review of taxation viii involve the
-iff. Our new tariff law must be
med so that American industry will not
ruined, especially SO that the manu-
ture of things which the war has shown