(“Woodrow”). I present my thoughts and the thoughts of the people to congress and they are just rejected. Shouldn’t the people of The United States have a say in what should happen in our nation. So on January 8, 1920 I wrote a public letter stating that if the Republicans would not yield, then the people could decide the issue in "the great and solemn referendum," the election of 1920. On both votes in the Senate the treaty failed because neither side would budge, although considerably more than the necessary two thirds favored ratification in some form.We must know that when we make a decision it is not only for ourselves. We are highly looked at, and our choices and opinions are crucial. Once we put our foots down and go forward with this League of Nations the rest of the world will follow. So when we sit down at our tables today, I want the American people to think about where we want to go with this opposition. Then, once we get to our right frames of mind, I want the American people to march on down to congress and express their opinions about League of Nations, as well as the Versailles treaty (“League”).We are not asking for much we just want what fair. We can’t have a few republicans try to split up the nation and try to make this a republican, democrat issue. We have to stick together and better our nations as well as other nations. These are among the people who are trying to keep “prohibition” in our nation. Do we not know that they are the ones making these decisions for us and telling us what to do, and not to do?It is time for us to take matters of foreign affair into our own hands. Must we wait for tyrant or a monarch to take control and put the world in his own hands? We must be strong internationally. We must united and organize worldly affairs. Here is the opening to the League of Nations:In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve inte...
