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Undignified is the word which best suits the latest move of the Senate in its war on the executive. According to last evening's papers, that body has taken as an official document a paper brought to this country by a Chicago newspaper man and has voted to introduce it into the Congressional record. No word of any sort confirming the authenticity of the document has come from the American representatives in Paris. The Senate is in reality going behind the back of the President, or as one Senator remarked "getting through the kitchen window...
Doubtless many will not be satisfied with particular clauses of the document; viewing it as a whole, however, with its ratification, a long step will be made toward establishing "the reign of law, based on the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind...
...statement was issued last Friday by President Lowell, Professor Charles R. Lanman and Professor Theodore W. Richards '86 that the use of their names in connection with certain peace propaganda was unauthorized. A document had been circulated under the heading of a "Request of the Dutch League of Nations Committee to the Rulers of States, Members of governments and of Parliaments, and Delegates to the Peace Conference" asking them "to forget and forgive" matters connected with the war. The University names were attached to this document without authorization, and President Lowell and the others entered a protest of "while fervently...
...touched upon rather than described or discussed the League of Nations, was a straightforward, manful appeal to high motives and farsight in public policy, which is the President's trump, and apparently the highest in the pack. He treated a combination of nations, on substantially the basis of the document that has been circulated throughout the world, as a foregone conclusion. Otherwise he said, the European war would have been fought in vain; the blood of America's sons would have been given in vain; the European peace will be made in vain...
...first time in history a great political document has been founded on the principle that what is applicable now will have to be modified by the next generation; that "good" and "bad" are relative terms, especially in politics. No arbitrary rules likely to become entangling precedents for futu4re statesmen are included in the pact. It remains for the people to interpret to modify or expand, and it is over duty as college students to prepare ourselves for the choice we must inevitable make. Whether we believe in President Wilson's ideals, or whether we think him and impractical dreamer...