Show Senator r Knox n x on on t The iThe Peace Resolution Senator Knox's Inos speech In support of I the Republican plan to declare peace by bY resolution of congress was tricked out with many a legal quibble but it w was only a plea of ev evasion sion With all aU his its artifices he had at last to rest his argument upon assertions having no basIs of law or fact The war Is at an end he exclaimed many times which is true as regards the he west western rn allies and Germany and positively untrue as concerns ourselves The only way we can end the war is by treaty reaty and the only treaty in existence existences is s the one that the United States senate senate sen sen- ate has has' rejected Under that agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment we are assured the fruits of victory victory victory vic vic- tory In addition to the blessings of I peace The senate res resolution contemplates contemplates I plates nothing better than a separate negotiation with Germany and a separate separate separate sepa- sepa sepa sepa- rate I peace Knowing that the resolution If it passed over the presidents president's veto might come under the eye of ot the supreme court ourt Mr Knox professes confidence in n the Judgment of that tribunal which we can hardly believe that he feels Upholding ing the war war prohibition law the court last December said that in inthe inthe inthe the absence of ef f specific provisions to th the contrary the period of ot w war r has been held to extend to the ratification of the treaty of pe peace pace ce or or the proclamation proclamation of ot failed tion peace The senate has to ratify the treat treaty of peace and arid there can be no lawful proclamation of I peace until It does The sena senators senator's ors or's recital of the evils of war powers exercised In time of ot peace Is the one part of his address which will stand examination In that however however however how how- ever he convicts himself and all who voted with him to prolong the conditions conditions condi condi- of which he complains We are still In a state of war because a a. partisan partisan partisan parti parti- san senate refuses to accept the p peace ace neg negotiated by the president nt and ratified rati rati- fied tied by all the other belligerents and Mr Knox nox like all au the l lesser lights inthe Inthe in inthe the ranks of the obstructionists Is talking politics rather than constitutional constitutional constitutional law or common sense when he argues to the contrary contrary N New w York World Democrat Senator Knox's speech of ot yesterday will take rank with the notable expositions expositions expositions expo expo- expo expo- of constitutional principle which enrich our parliamentary records It It answers every question raised by the executives executive's unwarranted assumption o ot of power to keep the country out of ot peace until peace shall be concluded under the exact conditions prescribed by his individual will No more arrogant pretension pretension pretension pre pre- tension was vas ever attempted by a self- self determined d autocrat It Is now meland met mel and disposed of ot with the lucid logic of a great lawyer in inthe the temperate language language lan Ian guage of a statesman capable of re restraining restraining restraining re- re straining his wrath under circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances naturally provocative of ot patriotic patriotic patriotic pa pa- indignation 1 The war shall no not end says President President President dent Wilson until the congress and the country accept unchanged my treaty my covenant my league of ot nations nations nations na na- na- na my program of Internationalism The war Is at an end already re re- re plies Senator Knox without regard to your treaty your covenant your league of nations or your program o of internationalism And he tells the pr president dent why we are legally and in intaCt X taCt fact at peace t The country owes gratitude to the theP P Pennsylvania statesman for the masterly masterly masterly mas mas- terly thoroughness of ot his exhibit We hope his remarks will be read anc and d as they deserve It is true as Senator Knox observes that tha the only war war which our national executive executive executive tive now wages Is against against- American citizens and American industry It is true that the situation he has contrived contrived contrived con con- is so fraught with injustice and with possibility of disaster that tha one oe cannot r reconcile it with the op operations operations op- op of sane statesmanship New New NewYork York Sun a and a H Herald Ind Independent pendEnt |