The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-05-29
We AGREE WITH WOODROW

In his message to the House Ct
Representatives vetoing the infam-
Gus Joint resolution for an ignoble
peace with Germany, President Will
son said:
''To the members Of the House of
Representatives I return here with
out my signature House joint resolu-
ton 327, declaring a joint resolution
of April 20, 1917, declaring a state CT
war to exist between the United
States and Germany and another de-
claring state of war to exist be
tween the United States and Austria
state of peace.
''TO sign this measure would be 20
place an ineffaceable stain upon hero
ism and gallantry of this nation. 1t
would prevent our setting right the
infinite wrongs which Germany did TO
the peoples whom it attacked and
| whom we profess it our purpose to
assist when we entered the war. Have
we sacrificed the lives of more than
! 1000 Americans and ruined the
| lives of thousands of others and
| brought upon thousands of American
families an unhappiness that can new
er end for purposes which we do not
care to state or take further steps to
| attain? The attainment of these
| purposes is provided for in the treaty
| of Versailles by terms deemed ade-
quate by the leading statesmen of
| al the great peoples who were asso-
ciated in the war against Germany.
| Do we now not care to join in the eff
fort to achieve them? Our people
were profoundly disinclined to take
part in European war and did SO at
last only because they believed it was
not only a European war but a war
in which civilization itself and human
rights of every kind were at stage as
against d belhgerent government.
| Moreover, w hen we entered the war
we set forth very definitely the pur-
poses for which we entered, partly
because we did not wish to be consid-
| cred as merely taking part in a Eu-
rOpean contest. This joint resolution
which | return does not seek to &C
complish any Of these objects, but in
effect makes a complete surrender of
the rights of the United States so far
as the German government is con-
cerned. A treaty of peace was signed
at Versailles on the 18th day of June
last, which did seek to accomplish
the objects which we had declared to
be in our minds, because all the 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 the Ger
man government preliminary to the
armistice of Nov. II. 1918.
"The treaty has been rejected by
the Senate of the United States al
though it has been ratified by Ger
many. In that way we have, in eff
feet, declared we wish to draw apart
and pursue objects and interests IF
our own unhampered by any cOnnec-
lions with any people and govern
ments.
notwithstanding the fact that
upon our entrance into the war, we
professed to be seeking to assist in
the maintenance of common interests,
nothing is said in this resolution
about the freedom of navigation upon
the seas, or the reduction of arma-
ments, or the vindication of rights of
Belgium, or the rectification of the
wrongs done France, or the release
of the Christian populations of the
Ottoman Empire from the intolerable
subjugation which they have had for
so many years to endure, or the SYM
pathy for an independent Polish state,
OF the maintenance of any kind of re-
latiOns among the great powers OF
the world which would be calculated
to prevent in future such outrages as
Germany attempted, and in part con-
summated. We have now in effect
declared that we do not care to take
any further risks or to assume any
further responsibilities with regard to
the freedom of nations, or the sac
redness of international obligations
or the safety of independent peoples
Such a peace with Germany-a peace
in which none of the essential inter
ests which we had at heart when we
entered the war is safeguarded-is
or ought to be, inconceivable, is in
consistent with the dignity of the
United States, with the rights and
liberties of her citizens and with the
very fundamentals of civilized con
ditions.
Il hope that in these statements
have sufficiently set forth the reasons
why l have felt it incumbent upon me
to withhold my signature"
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