The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1920-01-25
MAY POCKET TIE TREATY.

! ~ iio toioi up uSSh III the WHIte
House and keep it there until such
time as either this senate or some
other senate is disposed to keep the
faith with those who were associated
with America in the winning of tho
war and with the brave thousands of
! American soldiers who sacrificed their
Ives in defense of the principles
which are written in that treaty.
1t does not require any especial
courage on the part of the President
to do this. He knows what the people
think about the treaty OF peace and
what they think about the republican
senate that has studioualy determined
to kill it, He knows that so per cent.
of the American people believe in a
league of nations which the Lodge res
ervations VII cut out of the peace
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the country has taken the measure of
the men who have projected them
selves in the way of its ratification
and that its disapproval of their course
will later be voidcd in stehtorian
tones. And knowing these things, his
decision to pocket the treaty necessl'
tatea no undue amount Of boldness.
Thus the issue is brought nearer al
def mite turn than at any time since
the debate was started. The republi-
cans can make their choice now, GER
tain of what will happen as result
of their choice. II they insist upon
writing reservations in il that will
take the heart out of the treaty and
nullify the league of nations. they un'
derstand that their course will virtu
ally kill the treaty, for the President
will not transmit to our associates mi
Europe peace instrument SO vitality
different from that TIL have already
signed. ON the other hand, if the re
publicans want to write mild reserva'
tions into the document. reservations
| that will interpret aud not interrupt
the operation Of the treaty, such a
course will be acceptable to the Presi
dent and the treaty can be ratified
! with the understanding that is is toi
become effective and that state of
/ war with Germany can be declared al
an end.
| II the republicans arc so partisan
| minded as to cling to their former pro
! gram, if they will not deaigt in writing
and thus killing the mission and its
purpose, then the ratification of the
treaty will not make it effective and !
state of war with Germany; with all Of
its consequent ills and uncertain
les must continue to prevail.
The issue is thus clear-cut. The
country can make up its mind as toI
which of the warning factions is right
md it will make up its mind according
as it believes the treaty is right o,
wrong. A large element of Influential
leaders in the ranks of the republican
party have declared that the treaty
should be ratified in It's original form
They, have asserted that the President
9 perfectly defensible in the stand nc
TAX ng. They believe that the wa
as fought out to triumphant con
! fusion by all the soldiers with tn
onviction propeIling them that il
| would be the last war and that o
eague of nations would he the hrs'
fruits of their victory. II the senate
republicans continue, therefore, L
,tand where they arrogantiy have SCI
! themselves up today, they VIII no
,nly be running in the face OF the
President and friends of the Pres deht
1ut they will be challenging the sohe'
Judgment and the good sense Oh ieao
,rs in their own party with create
equation than any of them LOT "ho'e
| ome Americanism.
| THE TUBERCULOSIS CHALLENGE
| The National tuberculosis AssoCls