Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-17

Washington, d. c.. July ls.--It is
hard for anyone who follows affairs
IN Washington closely to escape the
belief that sooner or later the Yer
sailles treaty, shorn of the League Of
Nations. and with other qualifica-
tons. will be submitted to the Senate.
Many different sets OF facts point
strongly toward this belief
The first of these is that probably
President Harding and Secretary
Hughes want to do 1t. Any estimate
OF the present state OF mind of these
two men must be qualified to a mere
reliability for there has been no
recent public expression OF their
state Of MIND But It is a matter Of
record that so late as April Harding
believed this to be the best way to
build a new bridge between America
n Is matter of record that last
October he believed this to he the
best plan.
1t is also OF record that Mr..
Hoover who is thought to have.
good deal of voice in our foreign az
fairs, also believed sometime ago that
this was the best plan.
Assuming that President Harding
and Secretary Hughes believe the ut
most practicable way for us to re-
new our relations with Germany Is
by adopting the Versailles treaty.
minus the ls'1ENe OF NiIlbnNs NHti
the only fact thst would restrain
them would he doubt as to whether
or not the Senate would rattfy 1t.
on this point. the Senate is in
state of mind that changes from dsy
to day and all these changes are in
the direction of greater toleAnce for
the Versailles treaty with tho League
OF Nations omitted The Senate is
gradually settling down from that
state Of high and angry emotion in
which II rejected the League Of Ma
tons. and in which II was hostile To
anything connected with the League
Of Nations.
Moreover. that part OF the public
which shared the Ssnste's feeling
about the League OF Nations. which
backed the Senate up and justifled
their rejection Of the League OF Ma
tons has been going thru the same
process 81 calling down. This part
or the public would still reject the
League hut n is now so excited that
~ would reject the treaty Of YER
eatlles merely because II was asso-
ciated with the League OF Nations
This kind of suhsidins Of angry
emotion is familiar political pheno-
msnon. and good politicians take ad-
vantage of II. For example. in Great
Britain In December. 1918, there was
an election which WAS fought ana
won by Lloyd George on two issues
These two issues were that the Kaiser
should be put on trial for his life'
and that Germany should pay the en-
tire cos, Of the war. BY that election
the British people were brought into
e,irh a state 81 excitement that II
hung like shadow over the peace
conference and made impossible, at
tho beginning OF the peace confer
enoe. many things which. thru the
Fnf,ening passage OF time, later b..
came feasible. To-day the British
people do not expect or insist that
the Kaiser shall be put on trial for
hts life. and they realize that to make
Germany pay the entire cost OF the
war Is an impossible thing.
This same kind Of softentns or
angry emotion. stirred up by the VIC
lonce OF an election. has been going
on In America and nobody knows
better than 50 good a politician as
Harding that the time either has
come or soon will come when the
American people will not look with
such intense intolerance on the Ner-
sailles treaty rs they did during the
election last November No one UNI
derstand better than Harding the fact
that the art Of politics lies in reeos-
nizInr great tides of public feeling