Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-26 | Page 6 | Argument for Pact

' .ARGUMENT FOR PACT. ; 1 r'cr'haps ii very good argument for i.onmi arrangement which will put an 1 curt lo international strife, whether through a league, of nations or other compact, is found in the fact that i while, the Paris conference approaches t!i'":fiiml Btagcs of its deliberations, 1 atiHui ing peace to western Europe, wars irivatill being waged on ten different fMiiV.s on the continent and in Siberia. J All '.of Paissia in Europe is involved ' in -armed conflict. In eastern Siberia : the ..Bolshevists and anti-Bolshevists are ' cqtiif.uctiiig an active campaign. In Si-I Si-I bor.tf'i: Bolshevist bauds are operating 1 (iTtn;r t ho I raiis-Siberian railway. In i the . .Crimea British ships have entered the. Sea of Azov. In Ekaterinoslav t the' Bolshevists and tho armies of Gen-: Gen-: oral Denekiiio are in a death grapple. In tho Ukraine great uprisings are threatening the .Moscow government of : Trot'.ky and Lcnine. In northern Eus-, Eus-, gia," lit the Archangel district, tho Bolshevists Bol-shevists have been forced back along ' the allied front. I'etrograd is reported i as 'being evacuated by tho Bolshevists, while Admiral Kolchak continues his Victorious advaneo against the Bolsho-viki. Bolsho-viki. -. fiq.mueh for Russia, the center of the... warlike disturbances now aggra- "YOt'iptf conditions caused by tho more tceViicndous simple terminated by tho armiptico of last November. In Asia j llinor the Greeks have entered Smyrna to frivo battle to the Turks. The Poles have-, taken the offensive against the I'Urai nia ns and also are fighting the JTolHlicvisU in Galieia, Volhynia and j Lithuania. The Austrians have driven ' the Vfugo-Slavs back and are invading j St:vria. In Afghanistan a holy war is j bhig preached from Kandahar and the ' wliolv. eastern front is active. Coming ; Uv" America, Costa Rica is involved in , rplution while Mexico continues its : internal eruptions with no immediate prospect of peace. , '&' that while peace is being preached - fnmi Paris the world is very far from beiri: peaceful. Doubtless Mother Karl-h never will be free from warfare, but it is possible to check the warlike teAdoueies of big and little nations. This is tho hope which has inspired the ; league of nations proposal. Any restraining re-straining influenco which the wisdom of mankind can evolve should be welcomed wel-comed by a world which for four years has dice n shaken to its depths by the cla'ifh of armed hosts.