President Wilson has continued his oratorical campaign on behalf of
the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations in the chief centres of Western America. He summed up the practical necessities of the case in the remark, at Los Angeles last Saturday, that " there is nothing which can more certainly put a drop of acid into every relationship we have in the world than if we now desert our former associates in the war, and America is no quitter." Meanwhile the Opposition in the Senate has been mustering its forces for the vote on the Treaty. The Senate can refuse to ratify the Treaty, but, despite all that has passed, we are unwilling to believe that President Wilson's opponents will go so far as to reject peace with Germany. The Covenant of the League of Nations can be amended here- after, but the Treaty as a whole must stand.
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