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Show DEMOCRACY OR MONARCHY? "When that treaty comes back, gentlemen gentle-men on this side will find the covenant not only in it, but so may threads of the treaty tied to the coveant that you cannot dissect the covenant from the treaty with out destroying the Whole vital structure." When the President uttered those words he knew that if his threat were carried out it would mean the defeat of the peace treaty, and a still further continuance of a technical state of war. Yet such is the character of the man that he has persisted in his foolhardy course, and the country has before it the consummation of his rash, statement. The treaty and the I league covenant are one and the same docunjent, and in that form they will be placed before the Senate and ratification invited. , y, Good or bad, according td Wilsonism, it must be ratified. And yet .we arc i,sup-'r ' ;posed,tp ibe:living.in democracy, while the facts are'it smacks-more of monarchy. .Tirittf WTir--"TrT-r1 Jff-lT1T,.n--ITri-..1.. ,,- r,.i -4." |
