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Show continuo until it ii. adjusted ri?;ht. And it is going to tax iho statesmanship of til?, -world to brine; about that sort of adjustment. RIUCH TO BE DONE. The ratification by tho French chamber, cham-ber, -with but one dissenting vote, of the peace treaty brings the formal establishment es-tablishment of peace a step nearer. Tha next act will bo tho signing of tho lYenck ratification by President Point-are. Certification of the ratification and formal proclamation of the treaty by the peace conference aro other f'ops to follow the action of tho threo powers of Great Britain, France and Italy in assenting to the agreement. So that presumably the allies soon will ta at peace with Germany, the power which upset a world by its mad ambitions more than five years ago. , But when will tho allies be at peace with the small nations of Europe, some of which have defied the powers with force of arms, while all of them fel that they have a large stock of grievances griev-ances against the entente? For these people the war is but half won. Ostensibly Os-tensibly it was fought to destroy a system and not an empire, but from the frozen sea to the Aegean there are abundant evidences that the roots of that system have struck down afresh. There are two kinds of Email nations: There are the compact race states like Esthoiiia. Letvia and, by stretching the term a bit, Rumania and Greece. Their right to exist is the fact that they are a people. Their problems are comparatively compara-tively simple. The other class comprises com-prises L-ll states or possible states on the shadowy line between great races nations that stand at the crossroads. Such are Belgium, Luxemburg and the provinces of Galicia, Upper iuiesia and Thrace. Here tha problems are just as insistent and recurrent as the hates of the mingling races. This latter class is by far the most important to world peace, since modern wars tend to arise over border rrovinces- Incidentally, the cause of the world war was Serbia's longing for an outlet to the sea through the kindred racts of Bosnia and Dalma-tia Dalma-tia and Austria's fear of the result. V.'bcre mixed races exist in all the misery of their century-old struggles the peace conference can either give them to one of their big neighbors outright, out-right, as it ha3 done in the case of Aisace-Lorraine, or it can form buffer states v.'hieh it is not doing. Tho first solution contemplates the grave danger of breeding fresh hatreds, but in the buffer state scheme strangely enough the hostile elements cohere, generally from fen.r of the ambitions of neighboring neigh-boring powers, and a very decent federation fed-eration slowly grows. Switzerland is an example of this cohesive growth. In eastern Galicia the people are wretchedly poor not yet suf f icwintly developed for complete independence. They are Poles and Jews and liuthenta or Ukrainian?., with the latter predominating. predomi-nating. Now Ukraine is more or lf'13 in anarchy and so is unable to care for hr o'-n. Yet a Ilutheno majority stoutly r.ppnses the ph'in to li.-md it over to the Poies. On the heels of the ratification of Tie treaty v. ith the c ntr.il power v hieh precipitated the world war con s what 7 World peace? The news dispatches dis-patches give the answer: Ireland in ferment; fer-ment; Italy reaching out after the Greek islands, Asia Minor, Albania, Dalrnafia and Flume; r-Wbia trying to digc.t Montenegro; Bulgaria and Greece squabbling over Thrace; the Rumanians in Hungary; the Cz'"'hs in the TV .y hen rer'ion; Gorm.'my joining haml-t with a f'.'i -; lian faction to tlirottlo a lialtie ;ie;j( v.i''i tj.e If-tts an t !, i r i:turicfl::;.t e prev; lie Piii-:h Si ic-;i:i in r(-',oI:ing : gaiii.-.t. Germany. Like ! he Con dot i ieri of t'O'i,- hundred years ago two military a r vei: turer i have nci.ed vliat they '.iiled to n-.ia: One if Von der Onll.., who is holding Courland and preparing to eononer Ft'JSitia.; tho other is D'An-n'ir.710 D'An-n'ir.710 jri riuino. Two crises ha.ve re-mlted from neglected neg-lected symptoms. The work of tho j-earo ronforeri': Fims far from being .i"r.om,!i':h d arid it, i-i within the prob-,-ir.il:ti"i Hint Die I ;. k mi list be mm-pl'teJ mm-pl'teJ ,-r a n ore a u Mm r i ' a t i c rigency. - ub'l 1; i 11 g fie eenir.il powerH and lh"ir (W. , i, T-.r! 1 "nl the .... v ;. 11 -,.' .-..(.: r'l V. i!li " Li' li l',r: .i'pri ef lie; .(,:,' 7. :j r r'O'f.eil . v , 11" ie 1, i .'I I moil nf n i n. ; ;, e r. -. I, f 'l Jl ' ri 1). pi e;,,,l,er ri' e ,,! v,,',,: i r' i:iri ' ; the ot li'T in ,,(..,., :,, . V. i.-in-rit. of r:i''i:d and l...r -I'r r',itr'iVfr-,ii -:' i " 1 1. rin i n ;'i 1 v, i ' It -I. i-;i.)ng a :,i t, i l i 'i n i ' f ni'ir'; ,o'.v' rf nl ' i;'iir,'ir :i". lo ;-' 'i.t. nlmo-il. iii:-.Nn r-,.! r-,.! I:i. I '. Iroul.l.; v.. II |