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Show oo OBJECTS TO WILSON GOING. We see no good reason why President Presi-dent Wilson should not go to France to be in close touch with the peace conference, but the New York World, which can bb classed as a Democratic organ, and a. Wilson paper at that, ox-presses ox-presses regret that tho chief magistrate, magis-trate, in a critical time, should leave his post of duty in Washington. The World says: "The announced determination of the president to go abroad for the peace conference will be generally re-' greited throughout the country. That he should go as an equal participant in the conference with the delegates from other countries has clearly been given up, and for obvious reasons. Tho evident purpose is to place himself in a position where his views can tho more readily he impressed upon the conference, whether in the shaping of its peaco treaties or in forwarding the own cherished ideal of a league of nations. na-tions. But where in Europe can thero be found a rostrum for such expression equal to that of the hall of the house at Washington, in the immediate presence pres-ence of the representatives of 100,000,-1 000 people? It certainly cannot be j found in the secluded locality of Ver-1 sailles, where the conference is likely to sit, or at Brussels or elsewhere j should its place of meeting be changed. Nor can it be found Jn London or some I I other European center without denying I i i to tho argument its whole frorce ol . close propinquity to the conference. President Wilson's great and won dcrful leadership of the world in re 1 spect to war aims and peaco terms and a league of nations to make future wars impossible was gained and held in all of its outward expressions from that rostrum at Washington. Ho can-not can-not find one in all Europe from which his voice will carry further or sound with greater power around tho world, We cannot hut feel that the president presi-dent is making a grave mistake from any point of view in deciding finally to remove himself so far from tho seat of the govornment he is charged with administering, in a still critical time, for purposes which can bolter be server where he is." |