Show EXCITED 1 CITED 11 uba el by tle powers that i 1 ule the british empire president wilson finds himself an exile on a political st helena from washington it is reported that he Is highly indignant that sir edward grey should advise his government to accept the lodge reservations and thus end the controversy over the treaty the president Is in a peculiarly painful position because it tile the treaty is ratified he will make himself more preposterous than ever should he refuse to append his signature in that case he will be the one obstacle in the way of peace he will be clinging to the crush bertish of 0 his own intilli ability after all 11 it the world has rejected ills his assumption the president can save eave himself from utter humiliation and disaster only it if he abandons his bis obstinate attitude and accepts the treaty with the lodge reservations incorporated to do anything else would be madness not even don quixote him belf engaging windmills in battle was quite so fantastic as aa the president will be it he refuses to accept a compromise which tile the allies appear to have sanctioned it if the united states is to be it a member of be league of nations it must lust be with the consent ot of the president it if the treaty is ratified by tho the senate and lie refuses to sign the blame 1 will be ascribed to him and him alone a is the president it is said takes the view that sir edward grey and the british cabinet which la Is said to have indorsed endorsed indor sed sir edwards letter to the london times have violated the I 1 principles ol of international courtesy and comity by publicly taking sides it the controversy between him and enno the answer 0 this if croat britain as a member ot of a league ot of nations which Is some rome hing new and extraordinary in in 11 te lations I 1 do allds be fate of the world if the nation in a crisis which very of empire may noi noc speak their minds then the accepted rules of 0 dional courtesy and comity are farcical and should be revised neither great britain nor the united states can allow itself to be injured irreparably by a false sense of etiquette it there is any nation more than another that loses by the lodge re resolutions s it is great britain and it 1 great britain is willing to accept the drastic modifications of the league cove covenant fiant the president should not stand in tile the way nevertheless we ue can understand the chagrin and profound bitterness bitt einess ot of the president he went to europe despite the warnings of 0 the wise and assumed to dictate the suture future ot of the world not napoleon in ili the height ot of his power seemed so magnificent for at best napoleon was only the apotheosis of 0 martial and imperial glory where as the president seemed to personify the ultimate triumph of moral power in the affairs of 0 the world Is it possible to conceive of a more pitiful downfall from the lofty eminence of moral grandeur to which he had been elevated by force of circumstances cum stances and by the august role wit which ach the united states played in this incomparable drama ot of the nations lie was nias plunged by his own egotism into an abyss of 0 degradation and deepest pathos of it all is that he cannot see it ile he still icara himber aloft in pride and arrogance ro IO clinging to a glory that is past and a preeminence pre eminence that is gone forever if we summon beffie our imaginations the triumphs of past ages the crowning of greek heroes the acala of tho the people tor for those who lad saved the state the triumphal i processions professions process ions of the roman conquerors in ili cars drawn by vanquished warriors ers princes and kings we shall not visualize a scene more impressive than that of president wilson the representative ol of his people assuming for them the moral leadership of 0 tile the world then suddenly amid the pl audits of nations lie he descended to petty and perfidious compromises with the powers of europe and asia and in the end sold his nations moral leadership tor for a mess ot of pottage what was more thrill thrilling ing than the support lie he received from ills his country during the war partisanship was thrust aside and the whole country without thought of anything except the victory of the great republic without strife of religion politics or even race rallied to ills his side avoiding any odious comparisons it can be said with truth that the allied cause was lost until we supposed it and 4 bat our entry into the conflict lent a power which made speedily for complete victory just as the war was as closing magnificently for us and for our allies tile the president committed a blunder unutterably inane and futile with an ingratitude that is almost incon lie turned upon those who had loyally supported a war program which they knew was damned even despite its success by the gr gratt aft ing of profiteers and contract grab bers ile ho turned on them and demanded that only men ot of his own party be elected to office even his buemio cuer nies s will admit that intellectual intellect intellectually ua 1 y be had come to be regarded throughout the world as a master ile he had made mistakes in his negotiations but through all his communications except a few which disgraced us ua just before the war opened there ran a golden current of moral power which he coined into phrases that gripped and charmed and then began a series of blunders such as no president ever was guilty of had he kept to the level of moral elevation which our position 1 11 I ills he war exacted he would have achieved ichi eved enduring greatness great nebs but rom the fatal day when he made b he e appeal t to 0 partisanship he began 0 think more of himself than of deals he pictured himself as al the imposing leader as one up pored not only on ly by the apala it if hl his 3 own people but by those voices in the air which he proclaimed to be the voices of humanity and indeed humanity was ready to honor the united states by honoring him and accepting his dictation great britain as did all the other nations assumed to bow to his decrees he was like one oi of the elder gods come down from olympus to preside at the peace table of 0 versalles versailes but that peace table was his lum ittin prom from the hour that he took ills his place there lie he became the victim of his own conceit his way was to bo be the only way his solutions were to be the only solutions of the worlds problems but soon the statesmen discovered his weakness and they beguiled and deluded him to the top of his hent bent while lie he was battling with the senate across the atlantic and calling his senatorial critics pigmy minds and committing other in discretions his rivals at versailles versaille while serm sem ser m ing to colwy with his tivi shei regarding a league covenant took everything and gave him nothing after weeks and months of pitiless exposure ot of his ineptitude and failure ure lie he finds himself deserted by bis last friend great britain to the british eaphe he had attempted to surrender american sovereignty ills covenant guaranteed the money and war power of the united states state for the use and of the british empire tor for its safety and preservation and now great britain abandons him banishes him to his bis own st helena as ruthlessly as it banished napoleon a century ago the citizen |