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EL PASO HERALD
East Wants Treaty Amended To
Preserve Sovereignty Of U. 5.
And Reaffirm Monroe Doctrine
REPRESENTATIVE opinion In
the creat cltf of the eastern
ea board la not at plesent frlendlj-
to the leaarue of nations covenant
as It stands. - It Is more than
critical of the foreign policy to
which president Wilson com-
mitted this country so far as he
could In Paris. The United States
would he the monkey shoved for-
ward by wily old Enropo to pall
Europe's chestnuts out of the fire
Jf the American congress ap
proved without chance be ar-
rangement made by our dele-
gates on the other aide.
This attitude I fonna lo prevail In
Washington Baltimore Philadelphia
Jiew York and to a less extent in
Boston. My investigation In these
es took place Just before the re-
itirn of the president and therefore
rennet take into account whatever
:fect his personal presence and ar---'.Tnents
may have In converting men
r this writing hostile to his wishes.
Tn this story will be found the point
: view on these -weighty matters of
i. jeal Washington in so far as it
n be disentangled from Issues of
nestle politics and partisan preju-i
una x nave aiso invaded wall
eet and souerht the Me- husin"
rsle of the larger cities and tried
v conversations in trains to draw
rut the farmer and the citizen of
-no smaner town.
Before going Into details there are
one or two general conclusions to be
rated because I found them common
to the average politician financier
business man and farmer in the east
The I'nlted Stntes ought not to
walk without prior examination
Into the parlor prepared for It by
the Enrepcan spider. U the pence
treaty Is ratified as It must be
the Irajrue covenant must be clari-
fied In Important respects. Article
10. by which the United States
ntla-ht be compelled to fljrht to
defend boundary lines drawn by
the Versailles treaty will not do
as It stands. Provision mnt be
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made so that we can get out of
the league of nations promptly
If we so desire The sanctity of
the Monroe doctrine most be made
more clear. Its absolute divorce
from any foreign control more
definitely stated than In the
vague phrase adopted tn Paris
abont "regional understandings."
The agreement With France that
we will come to her help If she Is
again attacked by Germ any
should be adopted but America
and not the league of nations
must decide. In a new war. who Is
tbe aggressor.
These are the views on the main.
Issues of the moment of most of those
easterners who express opinions at
alL It surprised me that so many
men had given thought to our foreign
policy and had clean cut opinions on
questions which a few months ago
had never occurred to them. Many
men I found too. who frankly ad
mitted tbeir ignorance about the
treaty the covenant the Russian
Question But In nearly all cases
these men who professed that they
had no views were suspicious of what
has been done In Paris. The fair
average among them was expressed
by a storekeeper from New Bruns- j
wick N. J. who said to me on a train: :
.Ion Lout Our Shirt."
"I don't know anything about Eu-
rope or any of these thinirs vou talk
about. But what I think is that these
Europeans bave been at this game
some hundreds of years. And von can't
play another man's game and win at
it Therefore I think we've probably
naa our snirt lost lor ns by Mr. Wil-
son in that three card monte game in
Paris. And I want congress to keep
Its eye peeled for snakes when It goes
through the luggage Wilson brings
home.
Then there Is a third type of a
man more common I gather. In the
country than In the city whose faith
in Wilson remains and who says like
a Massachusetts farmer I met while
going to Boston "What Wilson says
is good enough for this country Is
good enough for me." The main sur-
prise of my investigation so far to
me has been that I have met so few
of these. Perhaps In the west where
Wilson was elected I will find his
personal following larger and more
aggressive.
When I began my tour In Washing-
ton I hoped to be able to discuss the
treaty the covenant and our foreign
policy Independently of home politics
but this Is Impossible. Many Repub-
licans in Washington are undoubtedly
animated by purely party motives In'
their Insistence that the league be
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i rejected or that certain amendments
be adopted. There is a disposition
among many Republican politicians at
present to lie with one ear glued to
the ground and to refrain from com-
mitting themselves until unmistak-
able sound waves from back home
give them their cue.
Iiepubllcans cautious.
Lodge Root. Knox have taken up i
more definite positions than the bulk 1
of Republicans in Washington are
now willing to assume until the trend i
of public opinion becomes more mam- '
fest. How far Republican leaders are
motived In their opposition by parti-
sanship to what extent their convic-
tions are genuine It is difficult to say.
Many Democrats on the other hand
evidently feel that it is a matter of
party advantage to ram through ev-'
erythlng that comes from the presi-
dent's hand just as It is: they fear
that If beneficial amendments or In-
teroretatlons of the covenant are
adopted political capital will be made 1
out of them for the Republicans in 1
the next election. I
It would be pleasant to assure the
reader that both domestic factions
have agreed to unite In consider! n
these great issues pregnant with the
late or me world in tneir bearing
upon future generations rawer tnan
upon a poll to be taken in this coun
try in 1920. But it Is unfortunately
impossible to give that assurance and
accordingly tne general summary oi
eastern opinion given in this story
should be considered In the light of
the fact that most easterners es
pecially In the larger cities are Re
publicans.
Politics Big Factor.
Washington opinion is that the
treaty of peace will be ratified. In
cluding the league covenant but that
resolutions win De passed interpreting
the meaning of certain clauses In the
covenant m sucn a way teat Amer-
ica's obligations to the league will be
made jess. There is a purely partisan
way of looking at this matter and I
regret to say that many Republicans
and Democrats alike see the settle
ment through political spectacles-
There are as many Democrats who
insist that party prestige demands
no alteration in what the president
nas done ana wno reiuse to con
sider objections on their merits as
there are Kepuoitcans wno aeciaro
taht chances must be made so as to
enable them to s&out from tne stump
next year that the G. O. P. prevented
Wilson from throwing away American
liberties and gave the country a real
peace and a real league or nations.
Fear l.eai?nc Pact.
But among men who would scorn
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We have a number of Eobbins Meyer Electric Fans from last year
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EASTERN FOLKS
AT
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191G. He was soon promoted to first
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first lieutenant. Later he was trans
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received Us commission as captain.
Capt. Cound is an El Paso boy. Be-
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White Mountain Ice Chest
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consciously to base their views upon
such motives as these. I found
throughout the east crave misgivings
as to the covenant. America it is
widely held comes out of this war
the one really solvent nation. She
holds a mortgage on most of the
gold in the world must control In fu-
twre a great part of the world's trade
is the one great cower d radically
safe against outside attack for geo-
graDhical reasons and because she
alone is entirely self supporting.
These advantages Impose duties to-
wards our neighbors; but it Is held
they also bid us beware of entangle
ments in wmen tne interests oi au tne
other great powers would be opposed
to ours and in which the rest of the
world might coraMl us by the votes
of a tribunal to act against our own
interests.
There Is widespread distrust of
article 10 of the league covenant. This
feeling among easterners who closely
watch Euronean affairs has Intensi
fied since the publication of the text
oi tne wooie treaiv. iiany oounaary
lines In eastern Europe especially
those of Poland are held to be arbi
trary and not based upon any prin-
ciDles. These comoromise arrange
ments In many Instances have pleased
nobody Tet under article 10 the
members of the league it is pointed
out. must unite in action against a
nation which makes rn attack upon a
frontier draws at Versailles. Can
America I have been asked by other
than Republican politicians meage
herself to fiirht Jaeo-Slavia if that
country makes war upon Italy for
an ethnographical boundary or upon
Poland or Bohemia if these countries
start ont to settle their differences
with each other by the sword?
If president "Wilson proposes
that the I'nlted State awnme n
mandate orcr Armenia this M-
tenalon of our responsibilities itIH
be- bitterly opposed In the east
It In felt by roost men irlth rrhom
I talked that the position of tbe
Monroe doctrine under the league
1 not ntxfflrlently clear. What la
to prevent the Icasme eouncll from
n skin;? for example. Great Hrltaln
to njtsnme a mandate over Mexico
nnd oncht not the nenate. before
ft ratifies the treaty to rank
known that American policy -will
continue lo forbid any extension
In thlm hemisphere of European
control t
Veturine into "Wall street and into
some of the New York clubs where
the leaders of finance and btg busi-
ness" congregate about other diffi-
culties than those which are urged by
critics in Washington it is of course
impossible to find many men in Wall
street who are not intensely bitter
against the president and this preju-
dice must be allowed for in consider-
ing what they say about interna-
tional affairs.
Wall street Is aXi-ald that tbe
league of nations ttIII find means
to gain advantages for Europe at
the expense of American trade
and finance Sneh enormous
power Trill be at the disposal of
the league as contemplated In the
fOTenant that Europe If unani-
mous con Id outvote the Ameri
can representatives on nny such
Issue thnt may come along. And
the economic Interests of Europe
for a long time to rome will be
more or less unified. "Can ttc
afford. I tt as asked by a finan-
cier of national eminence "at the
behest of a radical president Tfho
knoTTs nothing nnd cares less
aboutl business nnd finance to
give a block of debtor nations
who Trill ovtc us billions for de-
cades the right to Interpret
against our -wishes the economic
ordering of the world f
The labor clauses in Uie treaty also
worry American Dig ousiness. xney
point out that all over the continent
excepting France most of all in
Great Britain labor radicalism is
gaining power and winning conces-
sions as yet undreamed of In the
United States. Wilson in a message
carefully noted by Wall street recent-
ly declared that the form of labor re-
form ought to be to increase the con-
trol exercised by the workers over In-
dustry. What will happen. If ex-
tremely radical governments attain
power In Italy France and Britain
and If an international labor commis-
sion given wide powers under the
treaty and made radical by revolu-
tions peaceful or otherwise in Europe
attempts to dictate to the United
States on labod Questions? This ques-
tion agitates big business not a little.
Boston is the city In tr United
States where the Influence of Britain
and Franc is strongest. From thsj
cause Boston from 1914 until we came
into the war was most anti-German
and most anxious to fight and today
for the same reasons the thought of
the league as a Fran co-Bri tan Ic-
American alliance wins favor. I
found in Boston despite the dislike
felt there for president Wilson
stronger support for the treaty and
the league covenant as they stand
than In any other eastern city. Opin-
ion In the Hub Is particularly firm
for the pact with France promising
American support in the event of an-
other attack by Germany.
. Ilesent Allies Stand
And there is less ill-feeling towards
the allies In Boston than in other
cities I visited perhaps because of
what the Bostonese regard as their
greater cultural affiliations with the
old world. This distasteful preva-1
lence of criticism of the British andl
French I found in everv cltv I have
so far visited among men of all sorts
and - the subject cannot be evaded
in an estimate of American opinion at
this time for It enters into sentiment
regarding future connection with
our late associates. There Is wide-
spread resentment throughout the
east at the lack of appreciation which
It Is said has been shown by Britain
and France for our part In the war.
Havlnz- recently rcturnpd mvself from
j Europe where I have been saturated
e for veai w.th the Angl-French
1 point of v.ew rh's ar 'tudr here sur-
Kesentful Attitude Is Ap-
parent Among All Classes
On Eastern Seaboard.
reated the feeling of injury is In many
American minds.
The allies were licked scores oi
men said to roe when we came In.
We poured 2.000000 soldiers over
there we put every scrap of food
and every dollar and every machine
we had into the war and we turned
the scale and won It- We get nothing
out of our associates at tne peace
conference not even thanks. British
and French public men vie with each
other in explaining how their heroic
troops won tne war dui oi vaie-
fhfrrv one never hears In London.
ariantin" nivnTrinantpH hv ft SilPSr. and
in Paris" the prime minister himself
croups tne American zuuu.wv.
tne 1. 3U u. a. tne itea uross au
Salvation army in thanking the
T-nitAd RtafM for the "assistance ren
dered Americans who have recent
ly been In Europe for a short time are
most bitter in tneir comments.
Wants to Be Praised.
This feeling Is In great part due
to a misapprehension of Europe's view
concerning our entrance into the war.
The American thinks of the United
States as entirely disassociated from
the quarrels of the old world hence
feels that Europeans should appre-
ciate the remarkable character of his
action in throwing himself Into a
European squabble in time to settle
the Issue. And when he reflects that
he came In for purely idealistic rea-
sons eh is the more hurt that his
behavior Is not the mor appreciated
by those whom he benefited.
Te Frenchman or Briton from
the first considered the war
against the linn a struggle of
human civilization against bar
harlsm and every nation that
held out he regarded as a slavker.
When tbe mightiest "slacker na-
tion. as I have heard us called In
London at last did come In he
vras enthusiastic at the desperate
moment. Bat now that It Is all
oTer he Is Inclined to go bnek to
his old resentment that we did not
romr In sooner shoulder n fair
hare of the sacrifice shorten the
wnr by a year or two. And so he
feels no inclination to shed tears
of cratltude on our shoulders.
Then there Is a. disposition fed by
111 informed soldier gossip to believe
that the American troops once in the
field were deliberately sacrificed to
save the lives of allied soldiers. I
nave hpard men with irreat hitterness
tell how fresh French divisions last
summer were held safely In reserve
while half trained American dough-
boys were sent In to do the dirtiest.
oioodiest worK. And a prominent
American who was in France during
the last nhases told me how the Brit
Ish sent forward our two divisions
in the north to storm the Hlndenbnrg
line and kept the more experienced
Australian corps behind them to do
the "mopping up.
Xo Cause of Complaint.
Such comments as these would
arouse amazement and hot anger In
London or Paris. Tour Briton pr
Frenchman would merely remark.
"One million three hundred thousand
Frenchmen killed in action 900000
British S0.00O thousand Americans!"
And I feel most strongly that here
whatever the merits of the "grati
tude" controversy Americans are
wrong to criticise. Quite apart from
the dlsapproportlonate sacrifices ex-
acted from the nations before 1918
purely military considerations re-
ouired that the young vigorous en-
thusiastic doughboys be given as
much work to do as passible in hot
corners. For we ought not to for
get that practically all the younger
more husky Tommies and Poilus had
been killed or knocked out months
and year3 before the Argonne of-
fensive opened and that there were
no trooDS In Europe In either side
made up of such human material as
ours in the last campaign.
To sum un eastern onlnion aa T
found it:
The east believes that the treaty.
containing the covenant will be ratified.
But. for motives nartly comical and
partly due to genuine misgivings the
east noias mat tne senate win render
article 10 nonbindlng on America
without the specific consent of con-;
gress to our participation In war at
the time tbe contemnlateA acces
sion In Europe takes place and that
tne senate win also provide for the
withdrawal of America from the
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from governor O. A. Larrazolo. of New
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The protest Is similar to that re-
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