Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — KILL PEACE AND LEAGUE PACT [ARTICLE]

KILL PEACE AND LEAGUE PACT

Yes, It Was Indeed a Great Day for the Reda. In speaking editorially of the action of the obstructionists in the U. 8. senate in defeating peace covenant and league of nations, the Indianapolis News (Rep.) says? “But the treaty Is dead In this senate, and they killed It as I told them they would if they voted against It,” declared Senator Lodge last night when the senate had adjourned after the ratification vote had failed. He made the declaration with no expression of regret, and, If Ms mental attitude can be Interpreted by his reported Interview, he made It with a good deal of satisfaction. This is a feeling of satisfaction that will not be shared by the country. The news of the treaty's failure comes as a shocking disappointment, slightly tempered by the scant hope that the treaty Is not so dead as Senator Lodge declares. The parliamentary maneuvering that accompanied the failure of the ratification will not be understood by the people, nor do they care to understand it. They only know that it resulted in what appears at the moment Xo be death to their hopes, and that the United States stands out among the great nations of the world as the only one that will not join In an attempt to make war Impossible, or at least Improbable* In the future. v Politics, complicated with personal and political antagonism, undoubtedly blocked the ratification; the desire to gain party advantage and to embarrass the opposition. Neither side is free from guilt. Senator Lodge’s fight against the treaty was as Indefensible as the pgesldent’s. first attempt to negotiate peace practically without the senate. As Talleyrand Is reported to have said, “It was worse than a crime—lt was a bliinder.” About the only thing that cap be said about the action of the senate yesterday is that it was a great day for the Reds, for the radicals, for the Bolshevik! and for all the Intransigent horde that Is trying to remake the world along Impossible lines. And It was a great day also for Johnson, Borah, Reed, et al.