The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-10

scented with an agreement about nava
limitation standing alone, there can
hardly be any question that they WOULD
ratify such q treaty and would not De
disturbed by any degree of rigidity o.
binding quality in it.
Naval Plan Will Pass
A treaty for the limitation of naya
armament would pass the senate a.
most unanimously. Possibly a few
senators would take extreme posi-
tions of one kind or another. But all
the objections that would be raised
in the senate TO a treaty on naval linn
itation alone would be negligible.
But a treaty embodying agreements
about the Far East would stand, II
the eyes of the senate, on quite
| different basis. How the senate would
act upon it cannot be discussed with
any adequacy until the form and sub
| stance of it are better known.
! If the agreement about the Far
| East were in such form as would be
called by the name of AN alliance,
the senate would look upon it with
suspicion The word alliance" has
| come to be. in the eyes of the senate
a sign of something to be scrutlnlzed
with jealous care.
I Speaking in the broadcast way, we
must all remember what the timorous
and less we'll informed foreigners for
get, namely, that in the league OF ma
lions debate Wilson was of one party
and the senate was of the opposite
party, whereas now the senate and the
president are of the same party. " mat
the Republican senate would do with
a treaty by Republican president Is
different from what the Republican
senate did with a treaty negotiated by
a democratic president, This may De
sad, but it is an actually.
Still Have Irreconcilables
OF course, the irrecorcilables are
still with us. Most of the irreconcli
ables are less bound by party disci
pline and party loyalty than the Other
senators are.
Senator Borah of Idaho. for example
who was unquestiOnably the leaders OF
: the irreconcilable would not be NOV
, ed from any course that seemed t
him right by the fact that he was IL
opposition to Republican president
There was much truth IN the humor
+ Gus line in which Wallace Irwin SPOKE
q of Borah as continuing to throw stones
in the White House as if he had forgot
ten that Woodrow Wilson had moved
- out.
As to how the public at large feel'
about the conference, the net of TN
, reports brought back by senators AM
congressman who have just beef
spending a vacation in their home dis
e tricts is to the effect that the publ
t does not understand the complexitie
p OF the Far East, that it has unlimite
t, confidence in Hughes. that whateYe
$ Hughes does will be all right, and
2 in any contingency question shout
5 arise about the wisdom of whateVe
I Hughes does. there is always the ser
e ate to be relied upon for vigilance.
u Genuine Necessity.
In all Justice. and with all due re
gard for our American point Of view
= it should be said that there is a gel
! uine necessity for American to rea
y ize that if we are to take a grown-u
= nations part in international affair!
! we must learn to make binding agree
= ments and to live up to them.
u The corollary of this is that gu
a leaders must be careful not to promis
~ more than they can rely on our pei
- pie to perform wnen the necessity lc
- performance arises.
"a This last sentence, by the way,
u a direction quotation from the lips {
- Theodore Roosevelt, many times r
~ peated in earnest conversations.
u What our people will be willing
" perform should be the limit of our L
ternational promises. But it Is ais
n true that the outcome OF the W.
70 makes it less possible for us to
-, isolated, and more necessary for l
-, to be willing to undertake and
- - keep international obligations.
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