"My desire is simply to have the constitution for a league proposed by the commission of the Peace Conference thoroughly and carefully discussed and considered.

"If it will not bear discussion, it is not fit for adoption. If it is what it ought to be, discussion will only strengthen it.

"There must be no haste and no rashness in determining the most momentous question ever presented to the people of the United States or to the world."

Senator Lodge declared his position several days ago in these words. The prominence given them in the newspapers of every section and of every shade of political opinion is, as we believe, eloquent of the national sympathy evoked by such a sane and strongly American declaration. For ours, after all, is a government by discussion, not a government by ukase; a government of delegated powers, not a government by divine right; a government of three separate branches, not a government of absolutism. Here the people are citizens, not subjects; their chosen leaders are their servants, not their masters. Here the only sovereign is the people, and their deliberate will the ultimate law of the land. Boston Transcript.