Show The Tue Jl Gro Grows GrOlL'S its it's T ERa fiddled while Rome burned Th e ca coni con con- i L under the pressure of President Wilson Vilson 1 il inlays ss 5 with Avith the league of nations while Bolshevism sw threatens Civilization gains nothing if it ends war Avar and ud establishes c anarchy in in its stead Once the central v powers were weI e severely er c ly beaten the they were ready for any terms the thc allies might impose We Ye have ha been slow to pronounce the sentence because be- be cause cause we were overcome o with the tile hope for the league t of nations nation Meanwhile le Bolshevism has hns spread through l. l the central powers seeking a foothold in iii Germany in in Austria an and in Hungary The peace conference has 1 g given gen en only passing concern to the problem of ism It expected no defiance despite that shown by bythe the iki of Russia Now that the Hungarian government go is overthrown o and md the ild assume control the civilized li world meets ets open d fiance defiance The Hungarian leaders announce their intention of casting their lot wit with II the tile Russian soviet government Viewed in the light of past rca rca- of f the peace conference this simply me means that Hungary 1 is passing from front the control of the peace conference con con- ference I IBy By our attitude toward the Russian iki we have e admitted our inability to cope with anarchy and revolution Te We Ve have laye dismissed the Russian problem as one ono of no concern to the powers represented at the peace conference If we are consistent the same relation relation rela- rela I tion will apply in ill Hungary notwithstanding ing the fact that we arc expecting her to do her part in righting l Prussian wrongs The Thc remainder of the central powers are susceptible to th the tho wiles and anti lures of Bolshevist doctrine doctrine- It is the straw to which drowning men will trust their future Bolshevism offers the quickest settlement of tile the enormous debts of the tho central powers providing we persist in a n policy of indifference toward Bolshevist campaigns If f we delay dclay th tho day of peace much longer longe we Ave will Avill face the tIle difficult task of trying in to force our decisions on a seething seething- mass of chaos Europe is afire and while the he blaze spreads we toy with the tile pleasing concoction designed to prevent future The Russian people kIlO ow that there thero is something in ill the tile world worse Averse than war Avar They surrendered themselves themselves them them- selves es to a n. false philosophy and found themselves the tile victims of anarchy Future wars war may be he averted and 1 they ma may not cither either with Avith or 01 without a len league ue of oC nations The immediate immediate- European menace however hower is not lot lot war but Bolshevism and it is not to be be solved by Ind indifference f or watchful waiting wailing The Tue establishment of ofa a stable peace is the lie first step in the preservation of oC government without which there can cnn be no peace J |