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Show , , THE PEACE TREATY. j -John "V. iDavis, the American ambas sador to the court of St. James, ha? i bec:: in conference with Premiers 1-ioyd G.Mi'ge and Clemeuecau, and it i is hinted in London that the pres- 1 crce of tho envoy at the meeting was i concocted with proposals submitted to Uri'siden t "Wilson which were said to render the eaee treaty acceptable to general public opinion in tho United States. It is not known how far Great Uri!..ia and France are willing to go in. the matter of meeting tk-? objections to the league of nations raised by Senator Sen-ator Lodge and his colleagues, but if is fair to presu.'ve that the allies will make some concessions iu order to save the wtvrh! from the horrors of another war in the near future, as well as to w e some: king from the wreck caused by the tiiutiie struggle just ended. T! . ou:ce:ue depends entirely upon the United States senate. More than two-thirds of the senators have de- ; e!:i-rd themselves to be in favor of sotic kind of a league and it should be cotnpara'ive'y ct'.sy for them :o t reach some kind of a compromise that v.iii remove ail danger of a breakdown iu our .Christian civilir.atiou. Unless they do this the great war will have been feuj'tt iu vain. In this connection connec-tion we call to mind a letter writ tor. by a .Newport, b L. man in the form of an ad.'.rot to the Semite iu which i he says: "There are S .C 0c dead men watching you ew.y moment and listening listen-ing to your every word, l'icture these men as ranged, around you while you ! ah:. L:.:i;-ir.e ti.? .-.'.ve ha:-: ' r to ! -,e - ; ;-r.. '. j. ! i 1;.' a -c.-n , : : i. j t:.ri of I - ,' i in cirri. 'S that ev.-r r.-e until I 1 ,f' - d.tid young i.'.a are s.-a'.-l '-al ',va'..i.irg you v.ith th'j.r sigh'.h-a i 't ''Tft'-re ti.'v ar.', g.-athrnrn. Yu'l , '-aiji.ot e.v'apc frntr: tie ;;;. 'J'L-.-re tio-y ',?: all o-ad and all young. K:g:.'t mil;:. ,11 b-a tfi.l v., ir.g men, :!; i.-k ! -jl 'he haa.;.:. ra.-o, and ev. ry cue of th'-nt ji cor,je. Vet cv,-ry '.r.-t of tht-e ,i,.-:n ui'h -'luhoa y,-s, is 'fiA.'.nz at : yon, cailing to you, raising his bony hand, in appeal. ' ' 1" is cvid'.-iit that some of the sen-;i:c sen-;i:c be'-oming r'-s:css ov.r the is'iag si'uadon and t.'iiturm.'tn L'.d;.pe ',f the foreign relations cotn to i:t ce, rif.- r i hargirnr i'resident A'i!s'..n witli bciag ' ' perfc'-tly immovable'' in urg-!ing urg-!ing unreserved ratification, has gone so far as to tay that the executive diould jircsent proposals for a conference, confer-ence, promising th.at the Republicans would give them careful consideration. He would not agree to a proposal made by Senator Underwood of Alabama that a committ- be appointed to compose com-pose the differences between the senate sen-ate majority and minority. Some gain in the direction of ratification has been made. After the adoption of tl:..' Lodge reservations wo heard something about an " irreducible minimum." That view no longer obtains. YVhiln Ambassador Davis has denied that his visit to Downing Street had to do with the treaty, it is no doubt true that ic. allies have made their position known and that final action will soon be taken by the senate. Considerable Con-siderable prcssuro is being brought to bear by the financial and commercial interests of tho country, to say nothing of tho rank and file. Outside of the I moral question involved, the matter of dollars nnd cents and tho position of tho United States in the family of nations na-tions is at stake. Mr. Wilson should lose no time in withdrawing tho treaty and again submitting it with suggestions sugges-tions for changes in tho reservations. That is the quickest and easiest way out. |