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Show PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Managar. W. E. CHAMBERLIN, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Jii Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico 12.00 per year, $1.25 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $8.50 per year. Single copies, B cents. Payment should bo mads by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, Act of March1 3, 1879. City, Utah, under the Phone Wasatch 6409. 811-12-- 18 1919, Neea Bldg. at tha Poetofflce at 8alt Lake Salt Lake City, Utah. . LEAGUES VALUE DOUBTED BY ROOSEVELT of the of Nations have found it profitable FRIENDS with theLeague name of Roosevelt, to saying, If Roosevelt were with us he would be for the League of Nations. More modestly some use the phrase a league of nations rather than the league, for which they are to be extolled in this crisis of clashing partisanship. We desire to remark that if Roosevelt were alive he would say : I do not put much faith in the League of Nations or any corresponding cureall. In a word, he would oppose the league and would aiccept a league with skepticism. Some of our controversalists have had revelations from the other world concerning the League of Nations. The Democrats, for the first time in thei history, seem to be associating closely, with Divine Providence. They are having revelations. We trust that they will not awake to find that they have been conversing with the kaisers favorite deity. We have quoted Colonel Roosevelt just as if we, too, had had a revelation, and we are here to proclaim such a revelation. It does not come from the spirit world, but from that extremely materialistic person, Sir Henry Rider Haggard. A month before he died Colonel Roosevelt wrote the following letter, dated December 6, 1918, to the novelist : My Dear Rider Haggard: In a moment of pessimism the other , day I said I never wished to hear from any Englishman excepting .but that was because I had forgotten you. I doubt if I ever again will go back into public place. I have had to go into much and too bitter truth telling. Like you, I am not at all sure about the future. I hope that Germany has suffered a ' change of heart, but am anything but certain. I do not put much faith in the League of Nations or any corresponding universal cureall. When he wrote the letter he was familiar with the general outlines of the plan which the peace conference embodied in the league covenant. The plan embodies ideas long exploited by the League to Enforce Peace and other peace organizations, although it does not adhere to any one scheme, How many statesmen reputed for wisdom can be found who, if k state their views candidly, but would say: 'they should I do not put much faith in the League of Nations or any corresponding cureall. Even though we be i not wise ourselves we realize that these words breath much of the wisdom man has garnered through the ages. In these days of the spontaneous combustion of radicalism the old wisdom is apt to be obscured. When so many are seeing Red, when new projects are seething in many a witchs cauldron, we are blinded to the old viewpoints and lose faith in them. And yet they, may contain just the elements of wisdom most needed to calm the d and restore clarity of vision. let us have the best. Let If we are to have a League us adopt the Rooseveltian rather than the Taftian angle of vision. Let us not swallow whole, as did Taft, the very first plan put before us and then, as did Taft, recant and admit error after using all our skill for months to mislead our neighbors. How many of us, in our cooler moments, w'ould wish to adopt the league covenant without reservations? How many of us are willing to accept the revised covenant without even making clear its meaning? mob-min- of-Natio- How many of us would rush headlong into a league which British parliamentaries laugh at and which even the French, who hope to gain so much by it, do not intend to ratify without exhaustive discussion? The dispatches inform us that the French senate has postponed discussion of the league until September? How many of us, if we were in the United States Senate, would wish to cast our votes for the Shantung robbery and tyranny?. These are questions which each American should ask himself cooly. And when he has answered them without bias lie will cease to1 rail at those who think that the treaty needs mending. $ SANCTIFYING THE COVENANT of the most sinister developments of the treaty dispute is ONE tendency to picture the League of Nations and the treaty itself as in some manner inspired by heaven. Only the other day Mr. Cummings, the national chairman of the Democratic party, invoked upon the heads of the opponents of the treaty something very like a curse. He employed language which made it manifest that he considered the league a divine instrumentality for the preservation of peace. iji spirit and Those who believe that the treaty is conception cannot tolerate this attempt to influence an enlightened people by means of superstitution. Those who believe that the but that it is laying the mines that treaty is not only will explode into numerous wars regard with horror this attempt to give a divince sanction to an instrument which, in some of its parts at least, seems to be rife with the spirit of the nether regions. Wc must not lose sight of the fact that among the five greater un-Americ- un-Ameri- can an |