Show TIIE THE FIRST ROUND THE presidents refusal to debate the treaty takes much of tile the value out of the trip but it saves him from pitfalls by confining con finine himself to exposition he can ignore questions difficult to answer and can as it were look only on the bright side of the treaty the dark side he will leave to pigmy minds to those who ar are e resolved to break the heart ol of the world orld in spite of his well known love of humanity excluding the inhabitants of shantung to have everything his own w way the president was careful to explain that he was making makin g a report to the people tills this also was a move in self defense he is out not to be questioned or heckled not to debate or to shed light on mooted points he is i a out to tell the people just as aa m much ch as ashe 1 6 bishes to tell them H declared with a hourish flourish which aas as a side slap at the senate that he owed a report only to the people but apparently he does not believe that he owes them much more of a report than that which he made to the senate the presidents warily assumes that the treaty and its intertwined covenant do not need defense those who have criticized criticised what he did in paris do not know kaow what Is in the treaty therefore he will expound what is in it he made the treaty he ought to know what is in it and by the same token those who attack the treaty dont know what is in it because they did not make inake it tr pr bastic reasoning this and yet e president seems to take the position that he is the only one who really understands the compact it if the treaty is understood by only one man in the country it ought to be rejected altogether the citizen |