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Show THE CITIZEN 0 duty, of course, is to keep cases out of court if the ends of justice can be better accomplished in that fashion and it is no less their duty to keep hands off altogether if a settlement can be reached. Instead of helping in the. administration of justice they use all the arts of cajolery and deception to get a bad case into the courts. Nor do they hesitate at threats and blackmail when they think that thereby they can line their pockets with gold. If the courts and the members of the bar would bestir themselves from their dignity, which sometimes amounts to apathy, and find a way to brand these lawyer criminals with infamy the community would soon be purged of some of the poison at least. BULLITTS REVELATIONS treaty or none, the President solemnly assures us, and ATyetis this Lord Robert Cecil's draft of a league covenant contained like Article X, which Mr. Wilson declares is the heart of the compact. Which is to say that if the United States Senate rejects Article X the British cannot consistently refuse to abide by the decision. Testifying before the foreign relations committee of the Senate, W. C. Bullitt, whose task at Paris was to keep a record of conversations and memoranda, stated that Lord Robert's draft provided for arbitration and conciliation. That is the form the league should have taken. The plan for a league to enforce peace appealed to the imagination of a vast number, but in the cold light of reason its flaws became manifest. It is fundamentally wrong, for the basic principle is expressed in the Irishman's bull, I'll have peace if I have to fight for it. Although the British draft if we may so call Lord Robert Cecil's covenant did not contain Article X, the British delegates no doubt eagerly discarded their plan and accepted the article guaranteeing the territories of member nations. No power in the world stands to gain so much as does the British empire by Article X. It was handed to them on a gold platter by our President despite the protests of his own associates. They told him that it would absolutely nullify the Monroe doctrine and would permit the nations of Europe to interfere in American affairs. When they presented to him an article requiring European nations to recognize the Monroe doctrine he rejected it. Moreover, they advised him that the American people, if they ever got at the true meaning of the treaty, would spurn it. The President's support of Article X before the Versailles conference is one of the most grotesquely comic incidents in the annals of diplomacy. Here he was insisting on giving the nations of Europe tremendous guarantees they had not asked for ; here was the poorest trader at the conference absolutely forcing gifts on his colleagues, and they, with their faces in their hands, insisted that they must be permitted to divide the world among themselves before they would consent to accept his gift. Was there ever such trading as that since Adam and Eve made an unequal bargain with Satan? Secretary of State Lansing, General Bliss and Henry White, members of the American commission, condemned the covenant and 'She treaty and made their views known to the President. In Bullitts memoranda we find" the American delegates advising the President as .nothing 5 with the spirit of a community of nations. But the general policy of a guaranty against the acts of other states looks toward the intervention and war by one or more of the guarantors and is in accord only with the spirit of the old diplomacy. That the future attitude of the United States and its policy and should not be left to inference but be beyond that of doubt or question, the constitution of the League of Nations should contain an express recognition of the Monroe Doctrine. Such an express recognition is suggested, in the words of President Monroe, substituting only the word European' for extrinsic. President Wilson, in order to obtain his League of Nations with Article X in the covenant, acquiesced in the secret treaty giving Shantung and its 36, (XX), 000 people to Japan, conceded the British right to make a reservation by which Great Britain was to restrict the freedom of the seas and thereby conceded to Great Rritain the privilege of arming while the United States bound itself to disarm. As Senator Borah tells us Great Britain is building two warships where she built one before. And Senator Borah divines the purpose of the league and discloses it to us in these words : There are 300,000,000 people in the nations which will comprise this league and there are 800,000,000 subject peoples which would be under its control. We are asked to join in this infamous bargain to keep those 800,000,000 in subjection. At the very outset, The Citizen expressed the opinion that this was the purpose of the covenant and particularly of Article X. Many months ago we pointed out that the league would create a static world and that Article X would prevent subject peoples from gaining their liberty. And here again we run across another surrender by President Wilson. In his original Article X, written on White House stationery, we see that he had it in mind to guarantee to oppressed peoples, but in the final article he abandons this principle. and providing After adopting the principle of for its adoption by the other delegates, the President, not only abandoned the principle, but agreed to an article which makes impossible, for subject peoples can obtain their freedom in a revolt only when they are supported by an outside power. Such has been the history of revolutions ; such was the history of our own Latin-Ameri- ca self-determinat- self-determinat- ion ion self-determinat- ion revolution. What was the sinister influence at the Versailles conference which impelled our representative to abandon American principles, one after the other in rapid succession and yield to some of the most damnable steals in the annals of international spoliaself-appoint- ed tion? THE FAMILY AND ANARCHY WORSHIP of money is sapping the foundations of an institution than the constitution of the United States the family. It was the good old plan in our America to revere the trinity of the father, mother and child. The church might profitably revive respect for this institution. If it goes to pieces all our laws against anarchy. Bolshevism and radicalisms of whatever kind will prove worthless. The family is a profollows: the state Indeed, any guaranty of independence and integrity means war tection to the state and to religion, but both religion and The one approves divorce and the other by the guarantor if a breach of the independence or integrity of the arc neglecting the family. provides every facility to obtain divorce on trivial grounds. But this guaranteed state is attempted and persisted in. What the United States has done, is doing and will do for Eu- is not to be a homily on divorce. That subject would take us far afield and would, perhaps, weaken the emphasis which we wish to place rope, is enough without making an unasked sacrifice of her interests y conditions which arc preventing early marriages and those of by giving up a policy which has prevented upon present-dathe countries south of the Rio Grande from being like Africa, pawns in and resulting in a social chaos, which, in turn, produces anarchy. It is truly said that a radical frequently becomes conservative the diplomacy of Europe. That each power should covenant for itself to respect the in- when he buys a home or acquires any form of .valuable property. tegrity and independence of every other power in the League of Na- -. How much truer is it that the radical becomes safe and sane for his tions and that failure to observe such a covenant should subject the community and country when lie acquires a wife and family. Much vanish if our young men covenant-breakin- g power to the sanctions of the League of Nations, of the wild radicalism in this country would and women would marry early and settle down. is undoubted. We arc familiar with all the wise saws against marriage without That policy looks toward the peace of the world, and accords Latin-Ameri- ca |