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Show THE CITIZEN & PURGING THE COVENANT seems LIBERTY reservations, it at this writing, will be Incorporated in the treaty of peace by the United States senate. The purpose will be to accomplish that which President Wilson fixed as his main object when he set out for Europe the making of the world safe for democracy. The sentiment of the country is turning strongly to the reservations. Even our friends who think that Woodrow Wilson was raised up of God to consummate a League of Nations seem inclined to think that even the senate of the United States may enter into the providential scheme of things. They find it rather difficult to station God on the side of Japan. , THE defenders of the covenant, the imperfec- admitting tions, declare that a League of Nations will not be established if the senate attaches reservations. They contend that the European nations will regard the reservations as amendments, to the treaty and will either reject it or demand a new conference. The critics of the League declare that the imperfections are so obvious and so easily rectified that the senate would not be fulfilling its duty to the country or to mankind if it failed to attach the remedial reservations. . must keep it in mind that the purposes of the League of Nations wpre to unite the free nations, to maintain their civilization and to secure justice thorughout the world. If we view the League from this point of view we shall appreciate how far short the covenant comes of WE attaining its object It is no defense to say that Presi- dent Wilson did the best he could and obtained a compromise which provided for the formation of a League. If the League is a mere body without a soul, or if its soul is a dual personality, at one time influenced by democracy and at another by autocracy, it is a monster to which the American people will not give their allegiance. The senate is taking the position that the imperfections of the League should be cured now. If a free pie consent in advance to compromise with injustice 'and autocracy they will find it difficult to extricate themselves from the trap into which they have stepped with their eyes wide open. . j . , the covenant is formulated it ASbreeds suspicion .and jealousy among the nations which are supposed to live together in harmony after. the . League is formed. Is it folly to in-sist that the causes of suspicion and jealousy shall be eliminated at the outset? If the League is to work at all the removal of suspicion is a .condition precedent There can be no there is doubt and peace where hatred. If we study the course of events, or rather of publicity, since the covenant was formed, we shall observe several conspicuous kinds of propaganda. One of the most salient might be called the Anglo-Saxo- n propaganda. Another is the Celtic propaganda, with Eamonn de Valera, president of the Irish republic, at its head. A third is the propaganda. A fourth might be described as Hun propaganda. It includes radical doctrine of various kinds, principally Bolshevism. anti-Japane- se ONE of the on By F. P. Gallagher most melancholy the globe is the alli- ance between Great Britain and Japan. Under the patronage of Great Britain the Japanese autocracy comes into the League of Nations with ambitions that smell rankly of the Hun autocracy which has gone down to de- feat Great Britain permits Japan to come into the League with unclesfa hands. If Great Britain were to give evidence of absolute sincerity would she not drop her secret- treaties with Japan and insist that the Nipponese enter the League on the same' terms fixed for other nations? Instead of coming in on a democratic basis Japan is given a right to exercise the special privileges of autocracy1 to oppress Korea and to wrest Shantung and its 36,000,000 peo pie from the republic of China. Nor does Great Britain herself enter the League with clean hands. She continues to support a minority in Ireland and to cry out that the Irish people cannot agree. Instead of supporting the minority she might try supporting the majority in a thoroughly democratic fashion. That would soon end the Irish trouble and would keep Ireland in the British empire as a free state and a willing supporter of the League of Nations. - All of these, propagandists create disharmony, threatening the success of the League of Nations, and yet they place their fingers on the sore spots of the world and demand remedies. If the remedies can be made effective in advance the League of Nations will stand a better chance of long existence. If. they are neglected now the League will begin its life with a fatal handicap. Better no League at all than a League condemned to death. propaganda a from thousand sources and its iterated plea is for the counof the English-speakintries. If we but hang together all will go well with the world," is the burden of the song. THE Anglo-Saxo- n on g This appeal has both inspiration and discouragement. To the true Anglo-Saxon- s nothing can seem of diviner mettle than an alliance of the English-speakincountries. They regard the world of tomorrow as a sort of an in which the Anglican paradise English culture shall dominate. The ideal is strangely like another which the world turned on in fury and attempted to stamp out the ideal of Germanic Kultur ruling the globe. VIEWED rightly the senate have for their I purpose, sians know little of the ways of ordered liberty. The Bolshevik regime is merely an inverted autocracy. When the Bolshevlki obtained power they had but one ideal of government a dictatorship. They established the dictatorship of the proletariat . and made it more tyrannical, more cruel, more murderous than the autocracy of the czars. In Siberia, however, there is apparently a different spirit and ultimately there will be a true spirit of liberty in Russia if the League of .Nations sets the proper example. It was Japans idea that the Russians could always be exploited against the western powers if given the support of Germany, Japan and India. If the United States repudiates t he Shantung deal the moral effect will be to strengthen the League of Nations rather than weaken it. If Japan sees fit to quit the League she will be morally ostracized. She will find herself an outlaw among the nations. Rather than put herself in such a position Japan probably will make concessions, but if she fails to harmonize her interests with the interests of free states she will be the loser in hte long run. , THE SHOCKER HE READ He was such a clear eyed, intelligent looking youngster. Yet he was sitting absorbed in a lurid, paperbacked volume, oblivious to the heat and the subway roar. A jagged yellow streak on its cover shrieked blood and thunder. not merely the safeguarding of American ideals and interests,, but the safeguarding of the ideals of liberty and justice the world over. They give the members of the League of Nations a chance to set their houses in order. I sighed inwardly. Diamond Dick, By adopting the reservation to ArtJesse James, the Liberty Boys wd icle X the senate would make it imhad the decency to devour them unpossible for the United States ever to der the porch steps or out in the join in military operations against opwoodshed. The present generation territo the preserve peoples pressed civilizations have grown flaunts its depravity! TWO free of And once the oppressors.tory 150 years power during the last The boy rose to go as the . train was Article is modified the nations comOne the Puritan and the Latin. slowed up for Grand Central. Reluctthe outgrowth of the English and mitted to despotic policies in certain thrillantly he closed the American revolutions; the other of quarters of the world will be powerer. Then, as I glimpsed the title, I the French revolution. During the war fully influenced to establish liberty started and blushed. For the penny Hilaire Belloc was fond of identifying and justice everywhere. To many it has seemed strange that dreadful was called Electricty for Beboth civilizations and comprehending ginners. New York Sun. them under the title of "Latin Civili- Japan should have exercised such a conzation." He was right only in the dominant lnfluenee at the peace sense that both are, in large measure, ference. Japan was the bully of the MAN constant conference. Its implied Roman of the continuations empires was that it would wreck the own our In civilization. day they are threat man. LIKE the plain so distinct in form that they never are League of Nations if it did not get I like his plain straightforward mistaken for one another, and yet what it demanded and that it would a new coalition against the free way. their spirit is much the same. Both join He goes right on from day to day, have ideals of liberty and justice in nations. The Japanese statesmen saw that Content to do the best he can. common. For that reason they can be working partners in a League of the League of Nations was on unsafe Hes built upon the Lincoln plan Honest, and not afraid to pray. Nations if they do not compromise ground so long as the hundreds of millions of Germany, Russia, Austria, I think it not too much to say, with tyranny and injustice. unwere and India, Egypt Turkey He is the true American. . It is because the two civilizations to to be allowed it it They which ought to make the world safe friendly about that if Great Britain, And when you've not a friend in town, for democracy are compromising with whispered France and the United States formed This man will see and understand. injustice and tyranny that the League exa of with Nations League Japan Most likely he will lend a hand, is endangered. Nothing could be more soon an would head opAnd stoop to raise you when youre thrilling than the Damon and Pythias cluded, Japan of autocratic peoples. down. loyalty of these two civiliaztions if position league .. man Such is the plain they remain faithful to their ideals, but already they have formed an alli- THE term autocratic peoples" is as I hail the true American. E. E. Stanard in Portland applicable to the Russians as ance which includes autocracy and to the Germans or Japanese. The Rus- tyranny. g - . , cheap-boun- d . OLD-FASHION- ED old-fashion- ed old-fashion- ed |