, 1921-09-22

cratc administration still survive.
but they are being done away with
as rapidly as new and better facili-
ties become available. Those facts
are known by every man who has
taken the trouble to ascertain them.
People Have Good Memories.
Apparently assuming that the
American people have short memoir
les, the New York World. the leader
Of the Democratic press. says edit
ORALLY: The Sixty-sixth persisted in
blocking peace and reconstruction In
order to discredit President Wilson"
But the people are not Of short
memory. Even II they were they
could turn to the Congressional
Record and see there recorded the
introduction Of q resolution fathered
by John w. Weeks. then = Senator
from Massachusetts,. now Secretary
OF War, and by Congressman Martin
B. Madden Of Illinois. proposing the
appointment of a Joint C~ongression-
al Committee on Reconstruction.
This resolution was introduced sew
eral months before the armistice was
signed and before there was any
definite reason to believe that the
end Of the war was at hand. This
resolution provided for the creation
OF a commission composed of mem
bers OF both Houses Of Congress and
having on its membership an equal
number of Republicans and Demo-
Gratis chosen because Of their high
standing in the counsels Of the ma
ton and the confidence of~their fell
low legislators.
The Weeks-Madden resolution
provided for a comprehensive and
exha ustive study of every problem
that would necessarily be faced on
the termination Of the conflict and
the resumption of peace time indus
try. 1t provided specifically for
plans for handling the national debt.
provision to guard against unem-
ployment. disposal Of property ac-
CURED by the government for war
purposes. reorganization of the Fed
eral departments with a view to re-
turn to economy. disbanding OF the
armies and various other problems
which any wise statesman must have
known the nation must meet. That
resolution was killed at the instance
of the Wilson administration
Neither Will the memories of the
people of this country be so short as
to permit Of their being deluded by
the assertion that the Republicans
! blocked peace. The Republicans in
the Senate who would be called upon
to vote on a treaty Of peace served
formal notice upon President Wilson
that they we're anxious that a treaty
of peace be Immediately negotiated
and that they were ready to TAKE
action upon it. But they insisted
that no extraneous matter such as {
league Of nations scheme should b.
incorporated in the peace treaty. =.
With full knowledge of that readi
ness Of the Senate to act upon tn,
peace treaty President Wilson in
sisted on forcing into the treaty tn
league Of nations covenant whicl
would have surrendered American
independence to a super-state. Ever
days delay in arriving at peace wa
due solely to that stubborn attitud
on the part of Mr.. Wilson who wa
not willing that the terms of peac
be considered solely on their ow
merits but was determined that ther
should be interviewer Herewith a
entirely foreign subject which. a,
cording to his own boast, he intel
wove in such q way that the leagu
of nations covenant must be accepte
or the whole treaty defeated. TIL
responsibility rests solely upon Pre-.
ident Wilson.
That this Is the conviction Of tn
vast majority of the American peopl
"a demonstrated at the polls 1
1920 when they defeated James "
Cox who stood for Wilson's policie
and elected Warren G. Harding, VIII
stood squarely upon the record mad
by Congress.