Show f j Emotional Censorship P 1 J. J lL HAMILTON LEWIS of Illinois is SENATOR 3 stung by tho the inability of the tho Republican members I of Congress to bury their convictions under tho the cIo cloe c cof i of y In an emotional address ho condemns the tho Republican members for their failure to applaud I tho the President as ns he 10 carries out what hat they pre previously determined to be n n. highhanded course IIo TIo evidently I clings cling'S to t the o theory that there is but ono one respectable Tra Way of meeting the defiance of the President ent and md that thatis thatis is to bow to it 1 Senator Lewis Lc points to the reception accorded i President Wilson Vilson in France and En England as proof n nf off j his worth 1131 sc seems to think that in spite of honest beliefs Congress ess should applaud in a demand dem for allI an all I encore lie Ile is fore of the fact that President t Wilson Wison monopolized J his is own appointive power against ng t r i tho the advice of Congress and md the leaders of his own part par par- t ty Before tho the wisdom of that defiance has hns been established es cs tl he ho would have the tho people fall down own in r rev rev- crenco j. j President Wilson has hns been accorded a wonderful I reception in Europe Time Timo alone will ili determine ct how I 1 much ranch of it is national and how ho much is personal I Regardless of this fact could our peace tion i li lion expect an- an an- an any another other r reception from a n group of powers interested in obtaining its oo g-oo good will I IThe I I p I l 1 The Tho history of poker is full of the same samo hospitality lit The Tho first requirement of n a trimming trimming- in poker is a yeI re ye- reception I I which inspires cheer and confidence ence Wo We I I cannot refrain from this simile as President W Wilson lson goes up against n a king full fun while tho the country behind r him draws wS to a n bob tailed flush z tt IIi Iii the f face faco co of the hc se seriousness of ol the tho situation sitU wo YO 1 11 1 have no time for tho the emotional plea voiced by In Senator I s 1 Lewis lie Ire declares that t tho e Republican Con Congress CongressI re c cj j i I would d not be disappointed if it it found Pres President Wil- Wil a jiW sons son's name in the tho casualties resorting to the tho same 1 tactics of emotional censorship as s were practiced when tho the charge e of pro was hurled by hr officials desiring to keep the light of publicity from their trail He app a appeals s alone to emotions and his declaration is v neither tempered with reason nor sincerity President Wilson V lson is in Europe a against the advice m I of Con Congress ess and his constituents If ho he fails in ill his 5 mission the American people must suffer In spite T of their m misgivings 3 they must give him the llio support they would give gi a 1 more representative c appointee They lIt have 0 nothing to gain earn 11 in a failure and much to lose loo Y We C would be indeed if believed belic that shortsighted we we wc could pro profit it 1 by opposing a defiant will which i is our p onI only voice oice in the tho peace conference This Thus on does docs not call n for tho iho moral corruption and nail the tho emotional censorship which Senator Lewis seeks s I Tho The issues of tho the peace conference are arc to bo ho disk clis- clis k cus cussed ed at fit home It is tho the only connection we can call haver have ha r i with the conference Mr Wilson Tilson does floes not take tako Congress nor tho the American public into his confidence l and hence he cannot reflect their ideals in iii tho peace conference An open discussion of tho the issues at nt home homeI I is 18 th the tho only protection that wo we 0 may provide as ns it constitutes cont con con- t statutes s the only manner in in which wo we protect ourselves ourselves our our- selves cs by be protecting our protector Sin Since co we wo are to toI I know nothing of ot what is in President Wilson's Wilsons mind I President Wilson must l know now what is in tho the mind of I I Congress and the tho American public S Senator Lewis' Lewis it tirade is only an un effort to forestall an aIt an open discussion I of of f tho the peace penco issues I t. t L i tn a 11 ri |