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PRESENTATION COPIES: Many persons subscribe for friends. Those who desire to renew such subscriptions must do so before expiration. THE LITERARY DIGEST is published weekly by the Funk & Wagnalls Company, 354-360 Fourth Avenue, New York, and Salisbury Square, London, E. C. Entered as second-class matter, March 24, 1890, at the Post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Entered as second-class matter at the Post-office Department, Ottawa, Canada. PUBLIC OPINION (New York) combined with THE LITERARY DIGEST Published by Funk & Wagnalle Company (Adam W. Wagnalls, Pres.; Wilfred J. Funk, Vice-Pres.; Robert J. Cuddihy, Treas.; William Neisel, Sec'y), 354-360 Fourth Ave., New York Vol. LIX, No. 11 New York, December 14, 1918 Whole Number 1495 TOPICS OF THE DAY MAKING WAR ON OUR CHIEF PEACEMAKER IGHTLY OR WRONGLY, he goes to Versailles to represent America, and the time has come, say some R of his keenest critics, to see that our President is not placed at a disadvantage at the peace table by a fire of faultfinding in the rear. The fact of Mr. Wilson's going being accepted, says such an avowed political opponent as the New York Tribune (Rep.), "we can not afford to seem petty about it." The St. Louis Globe - Democrat (Rep.) knows of nothing "to be gained for our cause or for the dignity of the nation by a national controversy" over it. The choice having once been made, the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind.) likewise can not see how "matters would be helped by a barrage of political criticism following the President from Washington and discounting his prestige in Paris." This daily, widely read by Republicans and counting a Republican ex-President among its contributing editors, goes on to point out that Mr. Wilson "has made himself and surely it was not an unAmerican action-the foremost spokesman of the forwardlooking liberals of Europe," and asserts that "if Woodrow Wilson had not gone to the Peace Conference there are long-submerged millions on the plains of Czecho-Slovakia, in Jugo-Slavia, in Poland, and even in Russia, who would feel that a powerful friend on whom they had confidently counted would be absent." So consistent a critic of administration policies and performances as the New York Globe (Ind. Rep.) declares that the people of this country "do not doubt the sincerity of their President's devotion to great ideals," and "recognize he deems himself embarked on a high and noble enterprise"; it further admits that the honor paid America's chief in Europe is a tribute to this country, which should make us proud and will also "knit us closer to our neighbors and partners." The politically Copyrighted by Paul Thompson. independent Boston Christian Science Monitor is fully convinced that President Wilson "goes to the Peace Conference with the full faith and confidence of the great mass of his fellow citizens." The American people, the Boston Herald (Ind. Rep.) is inclined to believe, are disposed to trust President Wilson "to perform LEAVING CONFLICT HERE TO MAKE PEACE IN EUROPE. his duty in his own way." Influential Republican leaders in Congress advise party associates, still foaming against Wilson and hoping to hamper him, that the people will not "tolerate any meddling" in so important a matter. All sensible people, according to the New York Evening Post (Ind.) now hope for "a calm and dignified attitude on the part of Republicans and everybody else, so that the President of the United States, when abroad, will not appear to have left a squabbling people behind." And the Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.), declaring that if the President succeeds in his " "most difficult task" at Versailles, "he will be welcomed home with an enthusiasm from which even his most confirmed critics will be able to detract but little," adds these words of advice to readers of all parties: "Nothing is to be gained in behalf of the United States by keeping alive for the wonderment of Europe the spectacle of a sullen and resentful volume of public opinion, revealing a divided nation and a consequently weakened power at the peace table. Having rightly or wrongly determined to make himself a central figure at Versailles, the President is entitled to the reenforcement of the American people in his efforts to bring about a peace acceptable to them. We need not fear that any of our immortal privileges are to be bartered away, nor any of our fundamental doctrines and laws set at naught. The President is too good a constitutional lawyer to send to the Senate of the United States a treaty which public opinion would not permit that body to ratify. While the President is abroad let us, therefore, temporarily forget partizanship and regard |