Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-06-08
WILSON VET0ES
PEACE MEASURE.
President in Message to Senate
Says Knox Bill Rights
No Wrong.
STAIN on u. S. HONOR
Declares Such Peace With Germany
Is inconsistent With Dignity of U.
S."-No Exactions Are
Made.

Washington. May 29-The Repub-
Hcan peace resolution was vetoed on
Thursday by President Wilson.
Such method of making peace
with Germany, the president said.
would place an ineffaceable stain
upon the gallantry and honor OF the
United States"
Tie presidents message follows:
TO the House of Representatives.
4 return herewith, without my sig
na'ure, house joint resolution 3337. in
tciiied 10 repeal the joint resolution
OF April 6. 1917, declaring a state Of
var To exist between the United States
and Germany, and the joint resolution
OF December I, 1917, declaring a state
OF war to exist between the United
States and the AustrO-H Hungarian gov
ernment, and to declare a state Of
peace
4 have not felt at liberty to sign
this joint resolution because I cannot
bring myself to become party to an
action which would place an inefface-
able stain upon the gallantry and hon
or of the United States.
he resolution seeks to establish
peace with the German empire with
out eXacting from the German gov
trnment any action by way of setting
rght the infinite wrongs which it did
In the peoples whom it attacked and
whom we prOfessed to assist when we
entered the war.
Have we sacrificed the lives of
more than 100.000 Americans and
ruined the lives of thousands Of others
end brought upon thousands of Ameri-
can families an unhappiness that can
never end for purposes which we do
h"t Sow care to state or take further
steps to attain?
The attainment of these purposes
Is provided for III the treaty of Yer
rallies by terms deemed adequate by
The leading statesmen and experts of
Ri the great peoples who were asSOci-
"ted in the war against Iiermany Do
wr now not care to join in the effort
10 secure them?
This joint resolution. which | re-
turn. does not seek to accomplish any
OF these objects. but i'm effect makes
complete surrender of the rights of
the United States.
- treaty of peace was signed at
Versailles on the twenty-eighth of
June last, which did seek to accom-
p!iSh the objects which we had re-
flared to be in our minds, because all
HE great governments and peoples
which united against Germany had
adopted our declarations of purpose
as their own and had in solemn form
embodied them in communications to
me German government preliminary
10 the armistice of November IL.
1918.
But the treaty as signed at Yer
SSiIies has been rejected by the SEN
Hfs of the United States. though it has
brs'n ratified by Germany.
Try that rejection and nv its meth
DDS we had in effect declared that we
wish to draw apart and pursue objects
and interests of our own. unhampereri
by any connections of interest or of
purpose with other governments and
peoples.
Notwithstanding the fact that unon
our entrance into the war we profeSsed
/" be seeking to assist in the mainte-
hanCe of common interests nothing is
said in this resolution about the free
dom of navigation upon the seas. or
the reduction of armamentS, or the vim
dtc1tlOn of the rights of Belgium. or
tAe rectiticati0n of wrongs done "a
FTance. or the release of the Chris
lIGD population of the Ottoman en-
piFp from the intolerahIe Subiugatinn
which they Eave had for so many gen.
eraiiOnS 10 endure. or the establish.
ment of an independent Polish staIe
Os the continued maintenance of any
kind of understanding among the great
powers of the world which would he
cnirulated to prevent in the future
such outrages as Germany attempted
snd in part consummated.
Such peace with GERMANY
peace in which none of the essential
interests which we had ut heart when
We entered the war is Safeguarded-is
or ought to be. incOnceivable. is incon
sistent with the dignity of the United
States. with the rights and liberties OF
her citizens and with the very funda
mental conditions of civilization.
Il hope that in these statements
have sufficiently set forth the reason,
SHY have felt II incumbent upon me
to withhold my signature.
WOODROW WILSON"