The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-07-28
RESPONSIBILITY FOR
PEACEMAKING DELAY

The allies made a separate peace
with Germany on conditions which
the United States notified them this
country would not accept-that Is, on
condition that the United States sur
render its sovereignty TO the league
of nations" says the Republican Pub
lieity Association. Now the United
States has done the best it could un-
der the circumstances Joined in
the peace. without acquiescing in. the
league covenants.
1T is TO be regretted that the
peace representatives of the allied
nations would not consent to a peace
treaty fSee from interpretations that
made the treaty obnoxious to this
country. The people of the United
States, and the senate of the United
States. were anxious for not only
actual but technical peace. The at
tainment of this was delayed because
a president who had been repudiated
at the polls on terms set forth by
himself, was accepted by the allies
as the real spokesman of the nation,
notwithstanding the formal notice
signed by 80 Republican senators
that they would not vote to ratify
peace treaty with the league covenant
in it,
"A party defeat in the congress
sional elections is not necessarily
defeat for the executive. On the face
of il, such a defeat would be re
buke to the Congress and not TO the
Executive. But in 1918, on the eve
of election, Mr.. Wilson issued pub
lie address which was published in
every voting precinct in the country
In that address he asked for the cleo
ton of Democratic Congress as
vote of confidence in himself and hi
foreign policies. He asserted that the
election of Republican Congress
would be construed abroad as a re
pudiation of himself as spokesman
for the nation and promised to accept
the result without cavil.'
"On that issue. drawn by himself
he was defeated, but he did not ac-
eept the result without cayil. lie die
not select members of the victorious
party to speak for the United States
at the peace conference. He did MOI
even take the advice of the victorious
Senatorial candidates. He defied the
American people and went to Europs
to help negotiate a peace which would
be an abandonment of those policies
under which this nation has attaine
high position among the nations of
the earth. He proposed to make thi
nation subject to the orders of ?
league in which another nation would
have a dominant voice.
Naturally, still possessing tho
spirit of their forefathers. the Amer
lean people refused to acquiesce
They defeated the proponents of the
league by the greatest plurality ever
recorded in an American election.
Hfrom this review of events onlS
one conclusion is possible-that the
delay in arriving at technical peace
with Germany was due to the stub
bornness of Mr.. Wilson in his effort
to compel the United States to sur
render, and also to the lack of judg
ment of the allied representatives ir
putting the allied covenant in the
treaty after the very clear demon
stration that such action would be
fatal to the treaty so far as this
country was concerned
Neither the American people nor
the Republican party can be charged
with the slightest responsibility for
the delay in completing the peace ar
rangements"