Show jf c it I The mi UI Ultimatum t p RESIDENT r WILSON tILSON n assumes the thc pl platform of a f av i v ll autocrat as he hc takes the position that it ii js thil league ue or Ul no league that tho the American Senate Senat h tt must take Like it With the tile same meek submission he forced I upon hi his personal advisers in Paris His ultimatum i is defiance de of the tho principles of our government go deliberate ate contempt for the ilic institutions oC or ordination co es established es- es I by liV our forefathers for the preservation o of off f th the freedom and the liberty of our people He lie is in indifferent in- in f y different to the welfare of the American people when I I 1 lJ be 3 SOCkS e ks to use 1150 the thc great g trust placed in him to club I co brandies branches of tho the government into s submission submission sion to his JUS wil will Ho He places himself above all that is set ct forth in the thc of the United States Stales when bo lie assumes to hold bold d st y of oi this h is people in jil ll his bis R hands Take it or leave ean it is the ultimatum he hon hands bands s to the thc Senate signifying that iC it they assume to insert one American ser reservation in his plot lie be IC will see to it that there I I be no league and 1 no peace in which this nation I n IY participate Defiance of this Ibis character coming j from the tho servant mt of the I e people 1 cf 1 can n have little i e w weight I I VII Lit U HL U U nii II V iI J H 1 the he import of the threat Our government go was to 10 do away with this form fonn of di autocracy an and we klie c that the American Senate includes men who will not be cowed It 1 by threats of power held in trust Let us not forget forg-ct that Woodrow T Wilson Vison is not the symbol of if American thought He is not the thc popular representative the of the people because he lie holds his office b by virtue of or the thc greatest politico political deceit ever er perpetrated perpetrated on the thc American voters oters He went to Europe Europe- not as fiS the thc representative c of the tho American people but butas butas butas as the tile delegate otc of Woodrow Wilson tilson He Tie i ignored thc the Senate the Senate thc c ordinate co-ordinate branch of the government in government in choosing his advisers Ire He sought ht no advice ice from sen- sen elected l h by the thc popular vote otc and nd supposed to beof be tt e representatives of the American people He i a suggestion whether it came from pr private or official of of- sources One Ono of f his first acts after niter leaving eming thc the country was to snub nuh his Ids own vice ico president branding I 1 Ilie lie hc office as M second thumb in tho the conduct of our gov gov- e In rit Paris he 10 rode shod rough over o the tho counsels and I 1 li of the UJO nd advisers f cl of of- his own choosing We e have e it from one of his delegates that the thc treaty l brought rought hock back from Paris Pari was HIS contrary to the thc advice orth of or th the advisers r he lie took with him From the same source we sc have lm it that Lansing secretary of state for 1 tho greatest republic in tho thin world bowed i as the thc Ger- Ger bowed hen Mr 1 Vilson Wilson f aul nid Si Sign n he here e. e I Mr n hi lf has not noL paused to deny the assertions 3 h to him im to the effect that if the Senate and the American people knew what hat was in that treaty would reject the whole thing Mr Mi Lansing has lias 51 stated 1 t I hut Hint he 10 j is for the tho n id t I t lc he c tren n L LV hut hilt bo hr does not deny the tIle statements attributed attribute to him in in Paris arid and which Mr lr Bullitt declares he lie made Y We Ye e have hac no way of determining what is t iii jug ing in the L mind but hut it is clear to us that Mr 1 Ir 1 Lansing hall hail no more to do o with the peace treaty than dill did the Germans The Tho same condition applies to the theother other uther m of the American delegation except that thai their obligations by y this government o were less defined Now ow n Mr JI fi Wilson assumes to SOY sav this is th proc of ii the American people that it is a peace which shall be bc unchanged cd lie He declares the document will not abridge e tile tHe i rights ht of the American Senate hut lut but immediately he hO 0 says the American Senate shall not dc its ri rights ht when he lie lectures declares that thiat the Ow senators must musi tal take e it or leave it He Ba denied them their rights in the thc i peace e conference and he lie denied them their right of revision revision re re- yi vision ion in the interest of or the American people j Did masters of divine right ever eyer assume more of a 1 dictatorship over oer a u people an and their government 1 H He was Avas ii the American delegation in Paris self selected I an and self He lie rode rou shod rough over the vice vic 1 president of these United States Slates the Am American rican Senate anti and his own o personal acl advisers in ers Paris When he was waz compromising with tho tim th po powers rg of Europe lie he was t M Mand I anti and defiant to everything from America save Wil Wil- son Ron Neither the American Senate nor the American I i people will wiH admit that their destiny rests within the till grasp gras of any 11 one man be he lie Y Woodrow o row Wilson or an am I other When he be assumes to tell us that we will iI I tike take ins his treaty or none at nil all he breathes defiance that will prove his liis own o undoing in iii a country where the r will i of the thc people all and not the thc master is law Mr r. r Wil son son carry hj threat furl further her mi h ht e even en n refuse to make peace with Germany should the Senate insist I on American n reservations and it will insists insist but if lii be Jle does docs he be will win find that the American people arc not s so i inclined led to autocracy that they will sacrifice all for tilL the C n r n. n |