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Show THE CITIZEN ference. He admits ruefully that he has raised the hopes of many wars and murders. It has not succeeded. Even the commandments ' of;Christ have not eliminated murder and .war. , millions and that he. is compelled to shatter these hopes. If the President has failed to provide a covenant that will Npf only that, but he goes forth from the Irish conference to another Irish problem in Asia. He hands over Shantung and serve peace he has no right to point the finger of scorn at those who 36,000,000 people to Japan on the frail promise of Tokio that it will 'find the flaws in'hjs plaii. Rather thej finger of scorn should turn jit1 his direction. r. ... n hand back to Japan, at an indefinite datei the vague entity of. a sov.. ruler-shi' p i ereignty that has nothing more in it than a;mere right to claim over a region which is owned and administered by a.; foreign The President says that if the covenant is passed without reservations the boys in khaki will never have, to cross the ocean again. power. Shantung has become the Ireland of Asia and President' Wilson Good heavens .He isnt going to keepour boys over there forever, is responsible for it. .. is he? ; ;. ' The pathetic, and forlorn picture he draws of himself for the ediiiii' fication of the 'Irish delegates is no excuse for such a betrayal of We do not believe the government should buy the packing plants American principles. all at once. They should begin with a bond issue and buy a steak. But these secret treaties, he will say, these terrible secret treaties were in my way, and when I pleaded justice and humanity, It has been discovered that the Bolsheviki are behind the negro Great Britain and France declared that the breaking of treaties riots. Thus the Bolshevik joins the negro in the woodpile. caused most wars. Therefore, the President, instead of demanding that Great Britain The Mexican cavalrymen say they shot our aviator because he and France abandon unjust treaties, submits to injustice and abanscared their horses. They are giving us the1 horse laugh. dons American principles. If a treaty founded on injustice fails it fails of its own corrupThe President says the treaty is shot through with American tion ; it fails because Europe is still wedded to wrong. principles. We think American principles are shot through. By a strange freak of forgetfulness the President declared in one of his speeches that Great Britain and France signed the secret Put up or shut up, you contemptible quitters,, said the heavy"with in into in she to was her the but war the war, get Japan treaty his fist in their faces. 1915 and the treaty was not signed until 1917. And so far as the weight champion, shaking American public is aware, Great Britain, France and Japan, kept all We understand that there is no such thing as a reservation on knowledge of that treaty from the United States government until after they had drawn us into the war. This is not to say that we Wilson's train. would not have gone into the war in any event, but to emphasize What the senators are asking is home rule for the United States. the duplicity of European transactions. It grows more and more apparent that the President's league is like a gigantic statue; one leg of which is of iron and the other of sand, the iron of American principles and the sand of duplicity. For a time the Irish in the United States thought that the League of Nations would afford a medium by which Ireland, after seven centuries of thralldom, might obtain her freedom, but the Presidents timidity and shuffling at Paris convinced them that the framers of the covenant were not concerned about Ireland. And no doubt a study of Article X has clinched their conviction, for Ireland could never obtain her freedom by force unless she received outside aid and Article X requires all the members of the league to protect one an: ; pfe-crea- te ... . . . ' ; I : . v-- . . , old-wor- ld other against external aggression. . Just now the issues involved in the treaty itself are most important, because by those issues the treaty must survive or perish. But whether the treaty is ratified or not; the Irish question is apt to be the outstanding case of small nationality. which will call most insistently for settlement. THE CHALLANGE President has. fallen into the smart habit of issuing THE Put up or shut up, he remarks with the familiar elegance of the pugilist ambitious to be the champion of the world. Those who criticise his plan for peace should accept it or provide something better, he declares. This has come to be one of the favorite, formulas of the loyal, contains an obvious fallacy which can be laid bare by leaguers, but-imeans of a parallel. . Suppose that art idealist declared that he would form a league oL municipalities to prevent murder. After he had labored for eight" months, let us suppose that he promulgated his scheme and that certain men wise in the law should point out fatal flaws and denounce the plan as the very stuff. of a diseased intellect. How absurd it: would be if the idealist, in his disappointment and chagrin, should t say:- - It's up to you, my critics, to provide a plan to prevent murders, The world has been, trying for thousands of years, to prevent Down Right Now That the officials of the Utah State Fair are preparing one of the greatest entertainment programs ever offered the people of the state. t Racing, Vaudeville, Carnival, Daredevil Rodeos and all of the good stuff that goes with a real Come on Along and. Relax Your Bones! iNMOSlKe |