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Show RATIFY OR REJECT. . . I The more the treaty of peace is discussed, the more it seems imperative impera-tive that the United States Senate act without reservations, and do so immediately. Either the treaty, with the covenant, should be ratified or rejected. There is no middle ground. If Senators Johnson and Borah are right, reservations will not cure the evils in store for the world. If President Wilson is right, the senate is outrageously offending against humanity. Our own opinion is that the treaty of peace binds Germany in a manner man-ner necessary to assure that there will be no breaking of the chains, to again unleash the dogs of war, and the covenant provides the only I avenue to the amity of nations with confidence in the future. There are two great outstanding features in the covenant that appeal to us. One is the psychology accompanying a declaration of all nations that they band themselves together to prevent war. It follows that representatives repre-sentatives so selected primarily would labor for peace. The second point is that the covenant is really the spreading of the fundamental principle of the American government, which recognizes that the voice of many is wisdom; that in pubilicity and deliberation the petty and mean must disappear and yield to exact justice. |