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Dearborn Street 1919 The Outlook JUNE 26, 1918 Offices, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York ENLIST FOR THE WAR SAVING ARMY On June 18 there began a campaign of war savings. Its objective-to use a military term-was to enlist every one in the United States in a great thrift army. The plan is to continue the campaign for eleven days, culminating on June 28, to be known as National War Savings Day. Those who enlist sign pledges to save regularly and to invest savings in War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps. The summons for this campaign was issued by President Wilson in the following words: I earnestly appeal to every man, woman, and child to pledge themselves, on or before the 28th of June, to save constantly and buy regularly Government securities. The person who buys War Savings Stamps transfers the purchasing power of his money to the United States Government until after the war. May there be none unenlisted in the great volunteer army of production and savings. It is almost impossible for any man or woman, quite impossible for any child, to appreciate the immense benefit that the country will derive from this campaign if men, women, and children throughout the country take part in this campaign whole-heartedly. It is expected that out of the consequent small savings the Nation will have secured the use of two billion dollars. It is to be remembered that this money is not given to the Nation, it is loaned. Beginning with the formation of war-saving societies, the campaign will continue by securing individual pledges; and it will culminate on June 28, when effort will be made to complete the full enlistment of this great army. Here is something that every child as well as every man and woman in the land can do to help win the war. The spirit of the people of America is irresistible, and it is bound to make this campaign a success. Enlist now. THE UNDERWOOD RESOLUTION The United States Senate has held fast to its prerogative of unlimited debate. By a vote of 41 to 34 it has defeated the resolution to limit speeches. The original proposal was that peeches be limited to an hour on the main question and twenty ninutes on an amendment. This was later amended to a total of an hour and a half, the Senator to be allowed to use his own liscretion as to whether he should discuss the bill or an amend nent. A still later amendment provided that the new rule hould not apply to any measure brought in by a majority aucus. The adoption of this amendment helped to kill the riginal resolution, because it would have embarrassed the Democratic majority in caucusing on the expected new tax bill. In a letter from Senator Underwood, the author of the resotion, we learn that President Wilson, although he did not take n active part in the fight, was heartily in favor of the resolution, nd that the final vote came as a surprise to the Administraon. The defeat came chiefly on account of the disaffection of dozen members on the Democratic side at the last moment. lost of these members were from the Southern States. They ere induced to vote against the proposed rule, it is believed, rgely because it was represented to them that if they did not o so certain Southern interests in which they were interested ight be seriously affected by drastic legislation, the result of mited debate. Although the Underwood resolution has gone down to defeat, ooner or later, we are sure, the logic of events will again bring t, or its equivalent, before the Senate and force its adoption. THE BORAH RESOLUTION By a much larger majority (namely, a vote of 50 to 23) than that in the case of the Underwood resolution, the Senate defeated the Borah resolution providing for the public consideration of treaties. In outlining peace terms before Congress on January 8, 1918, President Wilson declared that " open covenants of peace openly arrived at openly arrived at " are requisite to a lasting peace, and that "diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." This was welcome especially to William E. Borah, Senator from Idaho, who for the past eight years has opposed the Senate rule of secret consideration of treaties. In a letter to The Outlook since the defeat of his resolution Mr. Borah says that nothing has transpired " in any wise to dampen my ardor as to the righteousness of this contention. I have served a new notice for the change of the rule, and will continue to urge it at every proper moment so long as I am in public life. . . . If secret diplomacy and the making of treaties in a secret method are correct principles, then we are wholly mistaken as to the basic principles of democratic government.' ." Mr. Borah's resolution provided that all treaties should be considered by the Senate in open session, except when that body, by a two-thirds vote, should decide that the consideration should be secret. This resolution was practically the same as one offered by Mr. Borah some months ago but not reported. The proposal was defeated largely through the publication of a letter dated March 12-just after the original Borah resolution was introduced from President Wilson to Secretary Lansing. The President explained that his language of last January meant," not that there should be no private discussions of delicate matters, but that no secret agreement of any sort should be entered into, and that all international relations, when fixed, should be open, aboveboard, and explicit.” The danger of secret negotiations is illustrated by the pending treaty with Colombia, by which our Government obtains nothing except Colombia's consent to recognize the Republic of Panama and to delimit the boundary between herself and Panama. We, on the other hand, express regret that anything should have interrupted the friendship between the two countries (practically an apology for our course in Panama, every act of which was perfectly justifiable). We consent to hand over $25,000,000. We propose to violate the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty by giving Colombia free canal passage and to violate the favored-nation clause in many treaties by granting to Colombia other privileges extended to no other country. Does any one suppose that in open discussion such provisions would have been generally defended? On the other hand, the most elementary wisdom suggests limitations upon public discussion of treaties in the Senate. A rule requiring the discussion or negotiation of treaties always to be in the open would practically put us in a position of impotence in our foreign relations. The choice presented to the Senate was not one between an entirely secret and an entirely open diplomacy. Had that been the question, the vote might have been different. The issue was one between the present system, under which the rule is secrecy in any treaty discussion, while open discussion is exceptional, and the Borah resolution, under which the general rule would be publicity in discussion while secret discussion would be exceptional. The objection to the Borah plan is that it would instantly accentuate in the public mind those treaties requiring secrecy, and would awaken suspicion concerning them. The adverse |