Show i Straight to Disaster The Tho favorite quotation of all the opponents of the tho l League ague of Nations Is Ls this from Washington's Farewell address Europe hus bus a a. set of ot primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation Hence I she must be be- be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of or which are essentially foreign to our concerns Those words were absolutely true when they were uttered Today they are absolutely untrue Except what happens in the United States nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing concerns us so 80 much as what happens I in Europe It concerns us politically It It concerns concerns us cuir It concerns us financially It ft t concerns us socially We can nomore nomore no nomore more escape from it than we can escape es escape escape es- es cape from any of th the other consequences conseRt consequences conse conse- Rt of at community existence W We Wo might as well say that it was no concern of ours whether our next- next 4 door neighbor had diphtheria or t whether his house burned down us to say Bay that we are not concerned with I what goes on In Europe Superficially nothing could bear Lear less relation to American affairs than the murder of an Austrian Archduke In la the streets of ot a town In tho the Bal Dal- kans Yet because of It more than Americans are filling soldiers' soldiers graves In France The rho thunder of American cannon has the tile castles castles cas ens- ties on the banks of ot the Rhine and great armies o of American troops are occupying German territory and administering administering administering ad ad- ministering tho the government of hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot thousands of ot Germans Theoretically we hav have very little concern with what happens In Russia Rus Rue sin sia la but when Russia goes gocs Bolshevist the menace to American institutions In to British is as great as tho time menace and French Institutions Even the United States Stales Senate responds to the cha challenge lenge Senator Bomb Borah is fB travelling around the country telling his audiences that tho the thing to to do Is to sta stand d where Washington stood leading the nations nations na- na of ot the world in the tho right path lath and anci then If It they did not choose to go that wa way it would be Gods God's will and not our fault That Is the way the Kaiser talks about this war It was Gods God's will or the wickedness of ot his enemies but It was not the fault of German Getman autocracy Yet if It there had been beers a League of ot Nations there would have been no war Hungary Austria-Hungary would have been comp compelled to submit the issue with Serbia to arbitration I There would have been heen no ultimatum The military masters masters a of Germany would have havo known In advance that It if they plunged Europe into war the I whole civilized world would be bo t I against them There would have been no gambling on the possibilities of an Irish revolution if U Great Bri Britain tain uphold her treaty obligations no question as to the part that all the theother theother other I-other other great nations would play if It Berlin Berj Ber- Ber j lin appealed to the sword to hack Its way to the mastery of the world Yet the and the Reeds and I I the and Shermans of the United States senate SOUl are exhorting exhorting exhort exhort- exhort I ing the American people that there must be bo no association of nations to tc prevent a repetition of ot that colossal crime that drat the moat most acred right of any country is fa to matte maue war 01 oa us neighbors whenever It believes that war will promote its own sel selfish M 1 in interests interests ts that the power u o oi the tho United States must not be exerted to maintain main tain tamn peace but used only to h help hr r u udo UP do the evil after It is done If It history and human humar experience t teaches aches anything it is that ha hat kind kindor of or of statesmanship can lea loal I tn only to dis dis- aster It can never nevor lend lead l anywhere nY else elso These men belong to th the g D r- r that preferred pox small to vaccination vaccination vaccination vac vac- and conflagrations to n o fire department |