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FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1920
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PERSISTS IN A PECULIAR OBSES
SION
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In a letter to former Represents- j
> tive Jouett Shouse, of Kansas, read
at the Kansas Democratic convention, j
President Wilson sair:
“The issue which it is our duty to I
raise with the voters of the country
involves nothing less than the honor
of the United States and the redemp
tion of its most solemn obligations,
its obligations to its associates in the
great war and to mankind, to whom
it gave the most explicit pledge
when it went to war, not merely to*
win a victory in arms, but also to fol
low up that victory with the estab
lishment of such a concert of nations ;
as would guarantee the permanence '
of a peace based on justice.
President Wilson is still indulging j
the modest theory that he is the
United States. The congress of the
United States, which acts on behalf
of the American people in declaring
war, said nothing in the declaration
about promising the world that it
would not only win the war out !
establish a concert of nations that
would guarantee eternal peace** on
earth. That would have been a fool
promise to make, because no man or
body of men with any regard for its
word would promise something it
would manifestly be onpossible to
eertainly fulfill. Whether or not eter
nal world peace is possible is still a
moot question, and whether or not
the contraption rigged up at Paris
would accomplish that end is, to say
the least, a debatable proposition.
The only declarations of purpose
on the part of this country in enter
ing the war other than that given in
President Wilson’s message to con
gress calling for a declaration of war
against Germany and in the declara
tion of vrar itself,—the defense of the
rights and interests of the American
people—were made by President Wil
eon mmselr. These were not prom
ises” to our associates in the war
and to mankind; we didn’t have to
promise anything in order to get into
a fight from which we expected noth
ing and where the effect manifestly
was to save from defeat the allies to
whom President Wilson now declares
we made “solemn promises.” As for
the rest of mankind, it can scarcely
be claimed that we had to make prom
ises to Germany, Austria, Turkey and
company in order to get the privilege
of entering the war; they would not
have given their consent if we had. |
President Wilson used the war as a
frame upon which to spread a great j
many declarations that had nothing
to do with the war or our part or :
purpose in it. Just as the greedy con- i
tractor used the war as an excuse for
putting things over on the public, so
President Wilson employed it as a
background for an attempt to make
the world over on the pattern of .the
new freedom. In so doing he did not
ask the consent of anybody, and he
had no mandate from the people for
the formulation of the Fourteen points
which were so completely abandoned
by him and repudiated by his asso
ciates in the preparation of the treaty
of Paris. The well remembered fact
is that President Wilson put up to
the people of the country in October,
1918, the issue of whether or not he
was their fully authorized representa
tive in all that had to do with settling
the issue of the World war, and the
verdict at the polls was such that any
any chief executive with less of an
obsession as to his own omniscience
and omnipotence would have taken
the hint and called in a few other
people to co-operate in defining the
policies of the country.
The statement that all these per
sonal declarations of President Wil
son, made not only without authority
but even in the face of direct repu
diation of the people, are binding
upon the United States as “solemn
obligations” which this country must
fulfill “ as a matter of honor” is
mere rhetorical flapdoodle. Some of
the diplomats who skinned Mr. Wil
son out of his marbles at Paris might
be excused for an ignorance of the
division of powers under the Ameri
can Constitution which make such
declarations preposterous, but Presi
dent Wilson has posed as a student
l
and writer on the American Consti
tution. and undoubtedly knows better.
It isn’t at all necessary in this coun
try to wage a campaign to induce the
American people to preserve the hon
or of this nation in its relations with
the rest of the world. The great
American republic has always kept
its “solemn obligations.” and it always
will. If an instrumentality to hold
the United States to the keeping of
its pledges were necessary, the job
would hardly be turned over to the
party and the leadership which declar
ed for a single presidential term, for
economy in public expenditures, re
duction of the high cost of living, de
struction of the monopolist and the
profiteer, free Panama Canal tolls for
American coastwise shipping and a
few little things like that, beside
premising somewhat “solemnly” to
“keep us out of war.”
Since the Michigan primary Attor
ney-General Palmer has quit worry
ing about the reds and is struggling
with the blues.
By the time a war comes on the
Mexicans have pretty good marks
manship, as they practice on Ameri
can citizens between rounds.
The Savannah, Ga., Morning News
denies that the Republican party is
a “going concern.” No, it’s the d. o. p.
that’s going; the g. o. p. is coming.
Probably the reason the Democrats
hold their convention at San Francis
co this year is that recalling what
happened to the party at Paris they
thought it would be wise to assemble
just as far away from Paris as possi
ble.
Gen. William S. Graves, commander
of the American expedition to Siberia,
gave out an interview at Manila in
which he expressed sympathy for the
bolsheviki against whom he is sup
posed to have been battling, if any
body, and criticizing the Japanese, his
supposed allies. In Siberia the admin
istration takes the side of the bolshe
viki as against the Japanese, and in
Shantung, it favors Japan as against
China. As a method of arousing a
hatred for the United States in Rus
sia, Japan and China the Wilson sys
tem seems to be a, complete success,
but what other purpose it may have
remains a profound mystery.
Miss Stella Boothe, Red Cross in
structor on home hygiene and care of
the sick at Kamiah, Idaho, has a class
composed entirely of Indians.
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