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Show THE 6 CITIZEN money and we concede the common sense of many of them, but when the young people fix marriage for money as their standard of marital felicity they are striking at the very foundation of society, for they are striking at the family, the one institution which does the most for that reign of law and order without which the state cannot survive. Only the church can properly safeguard the family. The state with its easy dviorce laws safeguards the trial. marriage. The dominant church in Utah has, we believe, made early marriage and the rearing of children a sacred duty. The Catholic church has made marriage more than a mere civil contract, elevating it to the sanctity of a sacrament. Today the girl, wooed by one she loves and by another who has an automobile, pictures herself as standing between love and duty the automobile representing duty. Heroically, therefore, she abandons love and weds the automobile. Parents, too, are forgetting their early training. Many a mother who married for love and lived in a poor cottage, has forgotten that she was happy, has forgotten that her husband and she, by some mysterious providence, prospered, and now she teaches her daughters that their chief aim in life is to marry money instead of men. Only through the ministry of the churches can this dreadful condition be remedied. The state cannot do it and probably would not if it could. The churches can do it and if they are to be real defenders of civilization they will unite in a concerted effort to strengthen the sadly weakened institution of the Christian family. part to Japan, the least we could expect is that we should not be called upon to send our soldiers across the sea to preserve these territories to the nations we have enriched. The very least those nations can do is to defend their own possessions. If they are unable to do it without our blood and treasure they should not have taken over the plunder. . The germ of war in the Shantung affair is, perhaps, the most obvious of all. But, say the apologists for the robbery, you cannot restore Shantung to China; therefore, you should acquiesce.' Even if that were true America, for the sake of her historic record and for the sake of her future generations, ought not to condone the theft. But it is by no means certain that our repudiation of the perfidious compact will not result in the restoration of the province to China. Our refusal to be bound by the contract will have a moral influence which should have an almost immediate effect upon the allies and associates of Japan. Nor will the pressure be confined merely to the domain of moral influence.. We are told that the league will fail unless our country is in it.1 If that be. true the other signatories of the covenant will make some important concessions to keep us in the league. But whether this be true or not, the United States ought not to subject itself to a contract which threatens to involve it in many wars. We haye sacrificed the lives of nearly 60,000 men to give our European associates what they want. Now they should furnish the ships and men to maintain what .they took. We can maintain what we got out of the war with a single soldier. . r THE GERMS OF WAR CANADA OBJECTS. of all the debate on the League of Nation it is becoming manifest that the covenant has in it the germs of war. Looking at the formation of the league in its general outlines we see that it is controlled by great powers which have taken over, as part of their empires, a majority of the inhabitants of the earth. As a result of the war Great Britain obtains a third of the earths habitable d of the worlds population. France obtains vast rearea and gions in Asia Minor and Africa ; Italy adds immensely to her empire and Japan is given the ownership of 36,000,000 people and their industries in Shantung, also the German islands hundreds of them north of the equator. We do not get even the island of Yap and it is well. We asked for nothing; we got nothing. But we get something we did not ask, something we ought not to want. We get permission to defend with our lives and treasure the old and new areas of predatory empires. The inequality of the leagues burdens are becoming obvious to Americans. It is true," by the terms of Article X, the other members Of 'the league agree to preserve our territory as we agree to preserve theirs, but the germs of war are not in our territory, but in theirs. For. centuries. Great Britain has seldom been at peace and then only for a few months or a few years at most. Within her own empire, compared with which the Roman empire was but food for pgymy imaginations, she has been fighting almost constantly. At this very day she is at war in Ireland, India and Egypt and there is warlike discontent-iother parts of her dominions. . Having gained new possessions of great magnitude the nations of Europe and Asia would enlist our manpower to maintain these possessions. When they offer their manpower to defend our possessions they are offering virtually nothing at all, for if we mind our own business there is little chance that we shall become involved in a war that we cannot easily take care of ourselves. On the other hand, we undertake to underwrite the new and the old acquisitions, of all the principal powers and, in addition, to preserve those boundaries which are set up in Europe by the treaty of peace. In view of the fact that we asked for nothing and. got nothing, in . view of the fact that we divided the possessions of our enemies and handed them over to Great Britain, France and Italy, in view of the fact that we divided the empire of our friend, China, and. gave a great Liberals in Canada are inclined to await the action of the THE States before ratifying the peace treaty. Article X appears to be almost as offensive to them as it is to the opponents of the covenant in the United States. Senator Bostock of the Canadian parliament declared that Many Canadians had the feeling that Canada had quite enough to look after in her. own problems and in the development of the countryits resources and for that reason he opposed Article X, which -and called upon Canada to provide its share of the force required to enforce the terms of the treaty. It is apparent that Canadian statesmen regard the league as an alliance for war to enforce the terms of the. treaty. That is the view taken of Article X by many of our own statesmen. They see that it obligates the United States to provide its share of the force needed n to enforce the terms of the treaty, and that means constant to maintain the European boundaries fixed by the treaty. PUT one-thir- - JR ... inter-venio- Realizing the value of advertising,' some of the bank's have been going in for publicity extensively. Far be it from us to knock rival methods of advertising, but we note that one of the banks shows a large display of red lights on top of its building and we beg leave to inquire whether this means danger or devotion to soviet government? ' Everybody believes in more production. We ' met a profiteer thfe'. other day and he asked us to produce more coin. Did the police of Boston ever hear the ominous words: Striker out? What is all this talk about putting wages on another footing. The old footing takes enough of our wages. If Labor and Capital dont work together they will work apart. Hungary has returned to the status quo ante Bela Kun. A straw vote shows the way the wind is not blowing. To break a mans will, wait until, he is dead. |
