Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1919 — END THE FOOLISHNESS OR END THE WAR. [ARTICLE]

END THE FOOLISHNESS OR END THE WAR.

Congress should not long submit to President Wilson’s plan of keeping this country technically at war while the interests of the American people demand a declaration of peace. The body which has the power to declare war has the chief responsibility for declaring war at an end. While President Wilson’s wishes should be given consideration by congress, the time has gone by when the American people demand servile congressional acquiescence in any program which will sac--1 rifice the welfare of the American I people. . . ~ i There is no justification for the professed belief that European nations would not accept the treaty s as Americanized hy < the American senate. There are good reasons for believing that objections to the Americanization of the treaty are very largely confined, to the American representative at the peace conference and those for whom he does all the thinking. The Temps of ; Paris declares that the Lodge reservations “do not contain anything which authorizes t.he allies to J/jecr the American ratification offered under such conditions. The pretense that the United States resercations are a disavowal of; the conference’s work at Pans iff a mischievous legend, to which it is time to oppose truth.” The Temps, in conclusion, declares that the American reservations contain , e . c F tai .° very wise interpretations which it would be to our interest to supP °lt is the duty of President Wilabn to direct his senators to accept the Americanized treaty, and then to submit-it to our associates in the world war. If the treaty, thus i terpreted to protect American rights and interests, is found not to beacceptable to these associates, then it wi?l be time for the United States government to determine upon its future course.