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Show T1" p amSSc r ' - - m 'SfcHyio a, f n I i i , V t THE CITIZEN gone beyond the peak we can return to it, but only by standing together. If there were war between Great Britain and the United Statfes that would be the end of the white race. It would mean that the dark races would overflow Europe and hold the western states of that continent. It is just here that we seemed to detect a flaw in Mr. Bedes argument. He said that the Irish question was being made an issue in this country and that it was one of the problems sure to come up for the consideration of the Republican administration. Therefore, so to speak. He Mr. Bede offered a solution of his own home-bremade the odd suggestion that Ireland be divided into four parts along the lines of the ancient four kingdoms. If Ireland should be divided into two parts there would be a religious war, he said, and the south of Ireland would be destroyed by those who would go into the north to help the people of that section. His conclusion was that the Irish ought to abandon their demand for independence. His argument seemed to amount to this, that the white nations should join together to deny independence to Ireland so that the menace of colored domination could be met. The flaw in the argument is obvious. You cannot unite the white race on a foundation of injustice. The only way the white race can bfe united is to set its house in order. But there is another flaw. The threat of war between the white and the dark races is being held before us by those who would fasten injustice upon subject peoples. And their propaganda deceives men as sagacious as J. Adam Bede. During the recent war Teutonic apologists hurled the threat at us with the power of Joves lightenings. Apparently their contention was that the white race ought to submit to German domination to escape domination by the dark races. And now the argument is used to scare us into winking at injustices in many parts of the world. The war between the white and the dark races is more apt to be precipitated by a denial of justice as between these races than by any division in the white race. The white race is holding too many of the peoples in subjection. How can the white race hope to keep control of hundreds of millions of subjects? Do. not the strongest intuitions of common sense warn us that if we are to get along with our neighbors of Asia and Africa we must abandon tyranny and establish w, f i . i A i M i. : i veto by a vote of 271 to 16 and why was it that only one se Kirby, a Democrat, of Arkansas, voted to sustain him ? We do not recollect ever to have heard before of an unanimous vote in the senate to set aside a presidents veto. The chief reason for the verdict was a desire to begin econl ing. The Republicans were eager to fulfill their pledge to the pie and the Democratic senators understood that the orgy of ' , flJJ vagance could not continue. Moreover; our national lawmakers saw that here was a to disarm and thus set an- example to the world. It was a act to begin a world-wid- e movement for smaller military estafif ments, an ideal toward which other nations profess they are ? gling. Each nation was saying that it could not begin to disarmfwS some other nation actually disarmed. This was Americas anpjf The reduction of our army by more than 100,000 men is an tion to the other nations to follow our example for the sake and for the sake of the general economy and thrift which the foundation of the new prosperity! ps. V There may be an element of peril in the action but we are able to take the chance than any other power. For at least a men ready, we shall have hundreds of thousands of j trained to form an army that can cope with any crisis. Back of the presidents veto was the hope he still chefe, that the United States will assume the role which he wished it in the drama of the League of Nations. He cannot abando opinion that world events will so shape themselves that this try will yet undertake the task of helping the successful ni regulate mankind. - $5-- f ex-serv- ice jfci jection oi mat plan, we Deneve mat r resident naming, wnakjpl world arrangement for peace he favors, is resolute in his deteijkify ft tion to avoid entangling foreign alliances. From many angles, therefore, the reduction of the army.ffi in the face of threatening conditions, was the right move. Pttii dark-skinn- ed - ' .r ,f, r l justice? years from now Englishmen will marvel that they ever tried to hold in subjection 300,000,000 people of Hindustan. We must, therefore, do justice not only among ourselves but to men everywhere. It is probable that by that means we may escape the most terrible of all wars the war of the races. There is something peculiarly fallacious about the argument A hundred that 400,000,000 Chinese will soon be ready to join with Japan in a on the white race. The Chinese hate the Japanese for their war tyranny. A war coalition between them is improbable within the t f i i lifetime of any of us. A war between the United States and Japan is probable and even such a war,, if it should come within the next fciw years, would-brinupon our land and upon the world generally conditions of poverty and distress such as Mr. Bede warns us against. However true, to the principles of justice we remain we may not be ablcto escape war if the militaristic Japanese, holding such greedy views of expansion and beholding such roseate visions of power, continue to violate the principles of justice. Granting, therefore that Mr. Bede may be wrong in most of his premisses, he may be right in enough of them to make his predictions so nearly accurate that we shall do well to heed his warning. But we shall be better friends of England if we join with her in establishing liberty and justice than in forcing injustice upon any people, white or dark. ARMY REDUCTION RIGHT MOVE In view of the argument made by President Wilson that the size of the army ought not to be reduced because world conditions continued menacing, why was it that the house voted to override his c par OUR DISHONEST LINOTYPE theh dark-skinn- ed i M :. lb lac A typographical error in our last weeks issue proved afriw3 need to the late unlamented county commission. Inasmuch jfaf re intended to to tell the whole truth we cannot permit a slip 'f Icae esteemed linotype to protect public offenders from the just 1,16 c ment of our editorial knout. SIS s We remarked that the late commission, in the last wcejj3 cost a disinfectants and at. soft soap offending, purchased ' nin?c It should have read $1,865. , Although the county was supplied with enough soft soatturil ' disinfectants to last for four or five years the commissioners pure nearly $2,000 worth. They were not quite satisfied with the of taxation they had placed upon the groaning owners. They saw the opportunity to add another stone, andl toirt tossing it into the pile, fled: fr p't re pic i The South Dakota legislature has been asked to pass which will permit any good citizen to get booze. And definition of a good citizen will be anyone who can get boc jght Ch The German government has forbidden the wearing of That is a law we respectfully urge upon our legislature betigiigh, will not interfere with the personal liberty of anybody in r nioi b-ni- Hai thts. Phi 8. tr. party in a Duluth hotel at of a revolver and took $2,000. It was a crooked deal, but lie8011, S. Wi how a man can play a lone hand at poker and win. M. U A bandit held up a poker ber When the legislators go to the next world we hope be found smoking in a public place. they The second French ace has come to the United States. has several more up her sleeve. ffRS. fit Vionipi t ( v |