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Show THE CITIZEN hi : s ; , Ferro-China-Ricc- . Bitu-rs- Ferro-China-Garibal- a, Hop di, Bit- - Beer to look as if the present administration would try .to of the': merits and defects of the law. . Much re a genuine test will of the officials in the various nds, f course, on the good Those qfficials whp are. in with the liquor interests will e la w and the. attorney general. is to a finish. The makers of illegal It wili be a great, fight if it f )aratioiiS, aided and abetted by friendly officers, and by boowill hot tamely submit to the state admin-itioths and moonshiners, Thus they will make it possible to demonstrate whether a which it framers pretended was one of the strictest ustU& nbitiun law, can really prohibit. n of iff in the United States, 'i if we 'ire candid we must admit that it is an open question-clostfVmuc t0 learn about prohibition and not a little about have st 3 ian nature in relation to prohibition laws. Human nature was vive$ unknown equation when the laws were passed and it still is. us knows wether prohibition is to succeed. It may be ie less failures in the history of On iate t iS of the most amazing thi other hand, as the fight for enforcement continues, we may learn Tk the law has unsuspected possibilities for reducing the manuthe re ure and distribution of liquor. But most of us will be on the side if we predict that even the most craftily devised pro-- h ion t! saf tion laws will be changed by the legislatures and by congress. with Wjat the final forms will be none of us can tell. We only know g for be better enforced, radically changed of abandoned but :ba the law must It begins . n. ? f law-makin- g. . i : igether. also sar . A ebrati PERIL OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY. revolt to seize Upper Silesia army of the League of Nations. To assert their rights to what, the fourteen points called they were compelled to battle with the soldiers of a league whose purposes were declared by its advocates to be When the Polish patriots united in a :hey came into conflict at once with an essentially pacific been in contact with the insur- and have been using the usual j Italians, British and French have vat : e .3 dits if so they may be called Had we indorsed the o ti eigue and accepted its obligations we would now have our soldiers l. i irjLpper Silesia probably fighting the patriots of Poland. J Indeed, some of our soldiers were ordered to Silesia just before porc e fa :h debate in the United States senate on the covenant became most fin atiite. When it was apparent to the Wilsonian administration that : xml he presence of armed Americans in Silesia would injure the Democratic cause in the senate the instructions to the contingent destined fdfl Silesia were withdrawnThe controversy between President Wilson and Senator Spencer ojof Missouri shed light on this phase of the case. It will be recalled that Senator Spencer quoted the president as declaring that should htt Romania or some of the new nations be threatened with loss of ter-- P ritory it would be necessary to send American soldiers to help them, icift Only the other day Senator Spencer obtained the full text of the presidents address and it confirmed the correctness of his quotation, The full text was as wljich had been denied by the president. ie mtthods of warfare to resist the uprising. - !S ; follows '5 cor ib' sjt pc I i rej 1 jvS al id, off : the last analysis the military and naval strength of the great powers will be the final There underlies all of guaranty of the peace of the world. of these transactions, the expectations on the part, for example, Rumania and of Czecho-Slovakand of Serbia, that if any covc-b- tf Hants iif this settlement arc not observed the United States will send We must not close our eyes to the fact that in ia her armies J and her navies to see that they are observed. 'j The Council of Ambassadors .has. just taken significant action with reference to' the Upper Silesian revolt. It has declared that itb.vill not be influenced bv anv action of the population and it reniiinh commission provided for under Germany that the inter-allie- d thi ersaillcs still authority over Upper Silesia until treaty possesses thi supreme council has announced its decision as to the plebiscite, 5 and to request Germany that it consequently abstain from all inter; ... vention. v If either "the Poles or the Germans resist this decree force must bie usedjaiddogjcally it. will be used by the League of Nations. The5, prelent position of the United States government with regard to the league, and its army in Upper Silesia is delicate. While the Harding administration has sent delegates to sit unofficially with the Supreme Council and the Council of Ambassadors the United States is not bound by the terms of a covenant it has not ratified. We cannot be drawn into the armed dispute by any terms of the covenant .or treaty. There is, however, one peril. Our associates may soon begin to argue that by accepting a place on the various councils we have support whatever action is taken. This accepted a moral obligation peril will become more obvious if the allies begin an invasion of Germany. Undoubtedly the strongest pressure will be exerted by our war associates and by their advocates in this country to force our government to send an army to the support of Great Britain, France, Belgium and whatever other nations, join in the occupation. And if we yield in that instance, we shall find- ourselves handicapped in any later crisis of a similar character. . 1 ' . . - l ; . . . LONDON SPECTATOR PROPOSES END OF THE UNITED STATES. If we accept the London Weekly Spectators demonstrations toward the United States at their face value we shall begin to weep with the enthusiasm of some of our folk who are always moved to tears by the greatness and goodness of the British. But if we are suspicious of British demonstrations of affection, as some of us are wont to be, we shall show ourselves hard and cruel toward the weeping zealots The Spectators article is decidedly shrewd. If called upon to write a caption for it the enthusiast would say, Britons Side With U. S. Against Japan. But that is not at all the purpose of the article. The Spectator begins by declaring that the British empire would be blown to smithereens if it went to war against America, not to support some rights of our own, but in order to help the Japanese. We must pause to note that nations never go to war except to support rights of their own, real or pretended. The Spectator then proceeds to show that in such a war Canada, Australia and New Zealand would side with the United States. To quote : They would not waste time in reading diplomatic papers or considering legal points They would say: With our own flesh and blood? If the poor old mother country has gone mad we cannot help it. Help the Japanese to take San Francisco by assault? Good heavens, what are you talking about Apparently, therefore, the purpose of the article is shown Great Britain how foolish it would be to renew its alliance with Japan adagainst the United States. We say against the United States visedly, for there is no country other than the United States likely to be involved in war with Japan. In reality the purpose of the article is quite different. We detect it in the Spectators two British proposals to the United States. The first of these, the newspaper says, would be to make our position absolutely clear to the whole American people and also to the people of our own empire, declaring we would not renew the in perfect Japanese alliance, although, of course, we would remain amity with Japan. Next we should propose a naval convention with the United States. We should say to America : You shall take over command of the sea throughout the Pacific and carry on the the Pacific, so wc policing of it. Just as you will be answerable for will have command of the sea in the Atlantic, which means not only all the northern waters of Europe and the Mediterranean, but also the waters encompassing the western and southern coasts of Africa The purpose of the article, therefore, is to make with the United States a deal by ...which wc shall have control of the Pacific and Great Britain control of the Atlantic. 1 - |