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Show Single copies 10 cents. Payment should be msde by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.v INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the Including postage six months. for Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ($1.50. , . Union, $4.50 per year. 311-12-- 13 WILSON BANISHED TO HIS OWN ST. HELENA Is it possible to conceive of a more pitiful downfall? From the finds himself an exile on a political St. Helena. From lofty eminence of moral grandeur to which he had been elevated by .Washington it is reported that he is highly indignant that Sir Edward force of circumstances and by the august role which the United Grey shpuld advise his government to accept the Lodge reservations States played .in this incomparable drama of the nations, he was and. thus end the controversy over the treaty. plunged, by his own egotism, into an abyss of degradation. And deepThe President is in a peculiarly painful position because, if the est pathos, of it all is that he cannot see it. He still rears himself treaty is ratified, he will make himself more preposterous than ever aloft, in pride and arrogance, clinging to a glory that is past and a that is gone forever. should he refuse to append his signature. In that case he will be the If we summon before our imaginations the triumphs of past ages, one obstacle in the way of peace. He will be clinging to the festish of the crowning of Greek heroes, the acclamations of the people for his own infallibility after all the world has rejected his assumption. those who had saved the state, the trumphal processions of the Roman The President can save himself from utter humiliation and disaster only if he abandons his obstinate attitude and accepts the treaty conquerors in cars drawn by vanquished warriors, princes and kings, with the Lodge reservations incorporated. To do anything else wpuld we shall not visualize a scene more impressive than that of President be madness. Not even Don Quixote himself,, engaging windmills in Wilson, the representative of his people, assuming for them the moral battle, was quite so fantastic as the President will be if he refuses to leadership of the world. Then suddenly, amid the plaudits of nations, accept a compromise which the allies appear to have sanctioned. If he descended to petty and perfidious compromises with the powers the United States is to be a member of the League of Nations it must of Europe and Asia, and, in the end, sold his nations moral leadership be with the consent of the President. If the treaty is ratified by the for a mess of pottage. What was more thrilling than the support he received from his Senate and he refuses to sign, the blame will be ascribed to him and to him alone. country during the war. Partisanship was thrust aside and the whole The President, it is said, takes the view that Sir Edward Grey and country without thought of. anything except the victory of the great the British cabinet, which is said to have indorsed Sir Edwards letter republic, without strife of religion, politics or even race, rallied to his to the London Times, have violated the principles of international side. Avoiding any odious comparisons it can be said with truth that the allied cause was lost until we supposed it and that our entry into courtesy and comity by publicly taking sides in the controversy between him and the Senate. The answer to this is that Great Britain the conflict lent a power which made speedily for complete victory. a League of Nations, which is something new and exJust as the war was closing magnificently for us and for our p a member inof international relations. Upon it depends the fate of allies, the President committed a blunder unutterably inane and futile. traordinary the world. If the rulers of a nation, in a crisis which affects the very With an ingratitude that is almost inconceiveable he turned upon existence of their empire, may not speak their minds then the ac- those who had loyally supported a war program which they knew was cepted rules of international courtesy and comity are farcical and damned, even despite its success, by the grafting of profiteers and He turned on them and demanded that only men should be revised. Neither Great Britain nor the United States can contract-grabber- s. of his own party be elected to office. allow itself to be injured irreparably by a false sense of etiquette. Even his enemies will admit that intellectually he had come to be If there is any nation, more than another, that loses by the Lodge resolutions, it is Great Britain, and if Great Britain is willing regarded throughout the world as a master. He had made mistakes to accept the drastic modifications of the League covenant the Presi- in his negotiations, but through all his communications, except a few which disgraced us just before the war opened, there ran a golden curdent should not stand in the way. Nevertheless we can understand the chagrin and profound bitte- rent of moral power which he coined into phrases that gripped and rness of the President. He went to Europe, despite the warnings of charmed. And then began a series of blunders such as no President ever the wise, and assumed to dictate the future of the world. Not Napoleon, in the height of his power, seemed so magnificent, for, at best, was guilty of. Had he kept to the level of moral elevation which our Napoleon was only the apotheosis of martial and imperial glory, position in the war exacted he would have a thieved enduring greatwhereas the President seemed to personify the ultimate triumph of ness, but from the fatal day when he made the appeal to partisanship he began to think more of himself than of ideals. He pictured him- moral power in the affairs of the world. the powers that rule the British empire, REPUDIATED by pre-eminen- . m ce |