Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-05-27
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was a soldier in France, and he's
| been back a long time, and he would
not come back til it was over, eth
er." 1t was Jacks shrill voice that
reached Uncle Ted's ears as he came
up the front walk.
well, just the same, the war
really isn't over cause my bad said
So" came another boys voice from
back of the house.
Uncle Ted tip-toed around the side
of the house and found Jack with
| Tommy, one of his chums, holding a
heated argument, and il looked as II
they were about to come TO blows.
Whats going on this time" ask
ed Uncle Ted as the boys looked up
in surprise.
''Ah! Tommy says the war really
isn't over, and | know it is" quick
ly replied Jack.
well my dad says it isn't over
because the United States hasn't
agreed to the peace treaty" was
| Tommy's final reply,
Now it happens that both of you
boys are right and both of you are
wrong" said Uncle Ted THE war
is over so far as the fighting is, con-
| cerned, and has been since the 18th
of November, 1918, but aside from
| that We are still at war with Ger
many because the United States
| senate has refused to accept the
treaty with the world club plan as
presented by Mr.. Wilson. 1t is a bad
| thing for many reasons that this
condition exists, but il is far better
that it be this way than for us to
have agreed to the treaty and now
be bound hand and foot as a nation
by the world club plan, so that our
own government should mean abso-
lutely nothing any more. There is
no reason, anyway, why We have to
wait for Mr.. Wilson or anybody
else to be really at peace with Ger
many. Congress certainly has the
right to declare the United States at
peace with Germany. So far as the
world club plan is concerned, it is
dead and gone. Mr.. Wilson's own
party has turned his club plan down
and everywhere in the United States
where the people have had an oppor-
| tunity to vote on the question or ex-
press an opinion, the whole plan to
| turn our government over to the
other countries of the world has been
rejected. William Jennings Bryan
said at the funny dinner party of the
| democrats in Washington, on Jack
son day, that he did not agree with
| President Wilson's opposition TO
'AmericaniZing' the treaty. In the
Nebraska primaries Mr.. Bryan won
and Senator Hitchcock resigned as
leader of the democratic party in the
senate. But the greatest result of
all was in Georgia, when the demo-
| Gratis voted to see whom they would
support as their next nominee for
president. The question was wheth-
er the Georgia democrats would vote
to stand by President Wilson and
the policy of his administration at
Washington, or whether they would
vote to show they did not agree with
these policies and were against the
world club plan. The result was
that they voted $1,000 to $4,000
against the administration. The re-
suit showed that those who voted
| were two to one against the admin
istration and the world club plan.
1T was just a week after this that
the democrats of Massachusetts vot-
ed to send a delegation to the con-
vention in San Francisco in July, ev-
eryone to stand against the Wilson
policies. Senator Walsh, the demo-
crat in the senate from that state,
said at the time, ANY leader who
thinks the democratic party as
whole is going to the San Francisco
convention, dominated and controll-
ed by the treaty and league demo-
Gratis, is going to get the shock of his
life All OF this means that the
democratic convention cannot and
will not pass any resolutions endors-
ing the world club plan of Mr.. Will
son. No democrat who supports il
can be nominated lat least that is
my view in the matter. Which all
means, that the league is dead"
'If it is dead Uncle Ted" spoke
up Jack, then how can we have
real peace without the treaty."
There is a way, as | said a while
ago, that congress can act to bring
| real peace, as you call il, which is
known as formal declaration of the
state of peace. Congress has the
power to pass a resolution to do this,
| and the best remedy | have read
! about is the peace resolution intro
| duced early this month in the United
| States senate by Senator Philander
| G. Knox, of Pennsylvania. His reso-
| luton, / think, would bring about
| state of real peace and help us return
quickly TO normal conditions as they
| existed before we went to war
against Germany Some democratic
senators have said they will talk
and talk so that it cannot be passed
President Wilson has told them he
| does not want them to do this. He
will, / suppose, refuse to sign the
resolution, which has to be done to
make ii effective, even il il is pass
ed. To all this / say, let them go
ahead and talk it to death or let Mr..
Wilson refuse to sign it, II he does
refuse then certainly he will be the
one who has refused to let us have
peace and all that goes with it, ust
as he has in the past by refusing TO
allow the senate to fix the world
club plan so it would protect Ameri-
ca first. BY this time the senate
may have voted on this resolution
and it may have passed or failed, but
no matter what the outcome is. the
fact remains that il is possible for us
to have real peace. if Mr.. Wilson and
has followers do not stop il.
Toward the end OF his speech
when he introduced his resolution,
Senator Knox said this, 1T has been
said that reservations proposed in
the senate Americanize the league.
This, of course, is not true. A more
accurate statement OF the effect OF
these reservations is that they tend
to make it safer for America TO en-
ter the league by refusing to be
bound in many important matters by
its action. But il is not enough
that the league shall be made safe
for America; il must be made safe