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Show THE CITIZEN that our forces in Germany would not be recalled. Thus, will show us only the bright side of the league and he will stir, our de-:- 1 hearts by appealing to us in the name of humanity and liberty. Once c Very fact of our association with the allies, we were from taking the action which seemed to have been warranted again the allies will be pictured as battling for the rights of small results of the last election.. We could not do as we wished. nations and as working for the good of the hundreds of millions a constraint of this kind which the allies are seeking to subject to the rule of the allies. We must be on our guard. We cannot afford to lose the results upon the' 'United States by getting it into the League of They want 'us to forget our history, our devotion to the of the last election. We are not so weak that we need yield to ns '..f human freedom, and join with them, at least by our silence, threats. Economically the nations must look to us for aid. They still have our $10,000,000,000 and they are paying no interest. They establishment' of 'imperialistic control of the world, They threaten us are using the money to build greater navies and maintain stupendous return, they .offer us nothing. we sia suer grave economic inconvenience, armies with which to exercise control of the world. We could afford tatW wc (() 110t riou-rciabarrier will be set up against iis and we shall not be to forgive that debt if an association of nations could be established on a basis of liberty and justice, but such an association would lloc! to share in the development of resources in those. regions liior than half the habitable globe ruled over by them and their necessarily, require an abandonment of the Versailles treaty. It Nor will our ships find easy sailing against the stiff breezes would require the elimination of the plan to give control of the feagUf1world into the hands of the great powers. It would require a vast 5f?uSiau' competition. If we choose to isolate ourselves from their Imperialism then their imperialism will do what it can to make us change in the relations of conqueror and conquered. It would be imperative that the nations should give up imperialism and adopt a JuffcfEr!lcnc Viviani will not voice these threats. On the contrary, he system of international brotherhood. iicc(l . l - - JAPAN FORMS SOCIETY TO GAIN THE WORLDS PRAISE V' I " n; mu 'Vnnaments are founded on the principle that our neighbors are i$t trusted. It is not always because our neighbors are thor-,- ! "v bad that we distrust them. Oftentimes it is their imperial- some other bad habit that makes them dangerous. And yet, xdtmust be admitted, that sometimes it is their national character that ty o t o be dcaiists them to be a menace. strain Japau they have formed an international peace association people of Nippon in a favorable light before the world and kcspetially before their misunderstanding friends in the United States, t All peoples have merits., and faults, but we are judged by our faults alone. says Viscount Kato. The viscount should not lose sight of the fact that it is a peoples 4 If all peoples were perfect as faults, not their merits, that cause war. there would be no wars. A reign of world-wid- e justice would per- Jo pvt the e-- ; t i disarmament. cct ,'We have said that armaments are founded on the principal that ii;Our neighbors are not to be trusted, but that docs not tell all. Arina;mehts are founded also on the principal that nations do not trust li mit universal - anthem selves. Applying this principal to Japan, we shall find that they do not ujtnist themselves to live in accord with their neighbors; therefore Their foreign policy is founded on t they must have armaments. mWhat they call racial expansion. The pressure of population : pV con-uli'strai- ns them to go forth and conquer, to annex a country such as Korea even though it be densely populated and to occupy Shantung, e which has in it 36,000,000 people. Consequently Japan must have a hcr-- j pavy. a vast army and military propaganda. She cannot trust self j to keep the peace because she does not rely on justice, cares jnothing about kepeing the world safe for democracy and thinks only rutpf a; Japan made greater at the expense of her neighbors. Some very good people, with the kindliest dispositions, have the acquisitive inclination and love power. They cannot complain if they teiare judged bv their faults because it is their faidts that cause trouble between them and their neighbors. fcj e hope that the new organization will accomplish much good. h may obliterate misunderstandings. It may demonstrate rtJhat the Japanese have not as many faults as their neighbors think, jor, rather, that thev have not some of those faults that cause their yaile,'slh"rs to be anxious, JWc think, however, that we can suggest an even more valuable ff. tfcfptinvation for international peace. We arc of the opinion that the Japan, s..- could do much to preserve peace by lorming an Association t niers;d Justice. Such an association would have for its main It 't lie establishment of justice between nation and nation. .Would oppose imperialism because imperialism connotes conqueioi j't - i and conquered, master and slave. It would oppose all racial expansion that meant racial suppression or injustice to ones neighbors. It would insist that nations keep their words and that old injustices be undone or redressed. And, of course, it would ask that justice begin at home, that Japan set the Koreans free and restore Shantung to China. After the Japanese had thus purified themselves they could bid the Association for Universal Peace commence its work and they could hope for prodgious success. Perhaps some sarcastic Nipponese might be prompted by our suggestion to suggest that the United States should be the first to form such an association', pointing out that we Americans have a fault or twb to remove: Put naturally the nation which has the most faults we mean the most faults dangerous to the peace of nations could do the most good by taking the lead in the labor for universal justice. Mayhap our Nipponese friend might say that the big American navy is a fault and might quote young Theodore Roosevelts recent speech : Some are perfectly sincere pacifists, sonic arc perfectly sincere fools, and, incidentally, they are the same thing. Our navy is not a fault. It is a great virtue so long as our neighbors arc imperialists and racial expansionists and annexationists. And so long as they will not rid themselves of their acquisitiveness and their love of power at the expense of others, a pacifist is just what our new assistant secretary of the navy says he is. The Japanese have many virtues, so many that it would be fatiguing to number them. It goes without saying that we hope to be better acquainted with their virtues, but we must continue to be solicitious about their faults because their faults arc dangerous to the rest of the world. We ought not complain because the Japanese diet defeated the There can be no curnaval and military curtailment resolution. tailment until Japan decides to do justice. She must have colossal armaments so long as she means to expand by taking her neighbors goods. ANOTHER SLAP AT THE U. S. How Wilsons mandates return to plague us is evidenced by the terms under which mandate territory of the 1 British empire is to be administered. The League of Nations has just issued the text of the terms for the administration of Samoa by New Zealand; of Nauru or Pleasant Island, in the Pacific, by Great Pritain; of German possessions in the Pacific other than Samoa and Nauru by Australia; and of the |