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Show NOT CHARGEABLE TO SENATE Permanent relief from the high cost of living can not come, accord.' ing to the President, until tho United Unit-ed States has performed Its part In the making of peace. So long as Jtjiere Is. any possibility. 4that thol terms will be changed or that there will be "divisions of opinion among the powers associated against Germany, Ger-many, Europe cannot recover her losses or put her people to work. During that tlmo the United States must continue to extend aid to thoso nations, If wo are to believe tho President's diagnosis. It Is truo that the people of Europe Eur-ope have not settled down yet to production, but are still In a restless and distracted state. It follows also, as the President says, that our cx- ports of almost every commodity will I i continue abnormally large until Eur-, ope begins to produce again, not .there Is no connection whatever between be-tween tho unrest In Europo and tlmo consumed by the senate In tho consideration con-sideration of tho pcaco treaty. Tho, treaty Is now a fact so far ns con-corns con-corns tho European allies and their recovery from tho war Is no longer hindered by uncertainty ns to Its torms, Tho real delay In the recuperation recup-eration of tho warring nations was caused by Mr. Wllfion himself In holding up tho making of peace for seven long months, whllo ho fought for his precious league of nations. During all that tlmo nri Indemnities could bo collected from Germany, none of the stolen machinery could 1)0 lelurned, nobody know what territorial terri-torial adjustments were lo bo made, and In gonernl tho population of Europo wob kopt completely In tho1 dark concerning tho future Mr. I Wilson will never succeed In shift-1 lng responsibility for conditions in I Europo from his own shoulders to I the United States sonnto. |