The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-29
VERSAILLES TREATY
is STILL BEST BET

De reSuDIllLLeu W LllS oS'lst1S "ASNA oN''
as the easiest way Of settling the
complications of peace with Germany
No official admission Of this is OBJ
tainable, nor is any anticipated, but
there are indications that way Will
be sought to reconcile the irreconcil-
ables showing them that the admins
tration will welcome every change
they care to make, so that the meas
ure will be the treaty of Versailles on
" in name and will actually be very
much the sort of covenant contem-
plated by the treaty of amity' COM
merce and navigation they want.
Secretary of State Hughes is sup
posed to have completed the revision
of the treaty or rather to have ready
the recommendation for modification
by the Senate. The treaty itself must
be submitted "as is" 1t is the Sen
ate's job to make the reservations.
This would make one bite of the
cherry; it would serve instead OF the
treaty with Germany and the treaty
with the allies that the experts say
will be required to secure us the adj
vantage coming to us as victors in
the war.
Naturally the efforts to pacify the
Senate hostiles will be made in adj
vance of any presentation of the
proposition, for the hope and desire CT
the administration is to avoid the sort
of row johnson, Borah, LaFollette
and some others are expected to
raise. As one of the authorities puts
it:
"The administration is urging peace
and not sword. There is no desire
to force anything on anybody, but a
real purpose of finding the simplest
way of protecting American interests
and furthering the welfare of the
world"
There is nothing going to be done in
hurry. In fact in the light of what
the president told the senators yes
terday and what developed at the
presidents conference with the news
paper correspondents after the cabi-
net meeting today nothing but the do
mestic issues of tariff and taxes is ex-
pected of the present session of Con-
gress.
This would seem to put off the rati-
fication of any treaty until the recess
next December. That affords plenty
of time for missionary work among
the irreconcilables. As the Demo.
Gratis with few exceptions, would nat
urally vote for the Versailles treaty
it may also be pointed out to the last
ditchers that the treaty can be put
over anyhow.
If the Versailles pact was tossed in
to the Senate now it would mean
three months of trouble at least.
Washington is wondering if the
first gun of propaganda of irreconcil-
ables was not fired today when the
Washington Herald of which Herbert
Hoover is part owner, came out in a
leading editorial headed What Next,
pointing out that the Versailles trea-
ty was the logical step. While Sec
rotary Hoover is not supposed to di-
rect the editorial policy of the paper
his sentiments are well known and the
deduction is that if the President was
committed against the Versailles pact,
as his statements to senator's awhile
ago indicated, the argument for that
treaty would not have been published
in newspaper in which the secretary
of commerce is interested.
! The editorial says:
1.-THE objections to the ratification
of the Versailles treaty are based
wholly on political reasons. The OBJ
jectors think only in political terms;
they fail to think in terms of econom-
les. The bugaboo of political entan-
clements binds them to the unavoid-
able necessity of economic relations
and the fact of economic entangle.
ments. Nor is it possible for the
United States and Germany or for
any other two nations to make q
treaty, political or economic, or both
which concerns them alone. That
time is long past. Now they concern
all nations. This fact is strikinglS
evident in the proposed renewal of the
Japanese-British treaty. Even more
intimately every other government
would have a direct and vital interest
in any separate American-Germar
treaty, with the right of protest anc
self-protection where it affected then
adversely.
"But far more important is the fac
that no such treaty could affect or tax,
precedence of the Versailles treaty
Under it the allies have mortgage