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Show THE CITIZEN 4 in France, the victor nation, will be less than the Germany, the defeated nation. per capita tax in If Lloyd Georges policy were pursued far it would mean th desertion by Great Britain of her ally and an automatic repproche-men- t with the enemy. It would be a consummation that ought to shock the sensibilities of the world, but circumstances may put Great Britain in a somewhat favorable light. The British premier probably expects the French to make many blunders and one of these, in his opinion, would be the seizure of the Rhur coal district. When the world war broke out Germany had three coal districts the Saar basin, Upper Silesia and the Rhur region. France fo the Saar basin, Upper Silesia is held by the insurgent Poles. remains to Germany the Rhur region only. If France seizes she has the power of life and death over German industry. Manifestly Lloyd George thinks he can win more by to the whole world than by talking to the supreme council in Sec conclave. It is rather easy to control public opinion by emotio, generalities. A careful analysis of the circumstances would not be favorable to the British view. tl CRITICS BREAK THEIR LANCES IN ATTACKS ON HARVEY Foes of the administration have been keen to dog the footsteps of our new ambassador to the court of St. James. In these parlous times they will not permit him the latitude which we usually concede to our envoy in London. For many years it has been expected that our ambassador would utter some cheering commonplaces about hands across the sea, and he has not been criticised for what was held to be within the canons of the diplomacy which has obtained between Washington and London. But to speak of hands across the sea now is to commit the administration to an alliance, we are told in effect. Colonel Harvey alliance. The is represented as pledging us to an Anglo-Saxo- n voluble Mr. Hitchcock has said as much, but the senator from Nebraska is somewhat discredited as an apologist for President Wilson by the fact that he was once seemed to be a bold opponent of the Democratic president became his most obsequious vassal. The Nebraska senator would have us believe that the ambassadors introductory address in England was shot through with shocking indiscretions. But behold how plain a tale shall set him down. The ambassador, in the simplest and most obvious terms, said that the United States would have nothing to do with the League of Nations. The covenant of that league bound us in alliance with Great Britain, in a warlike alliance to rule the world. How preposterous to suppose that Ambassador Harvey was rejecting one alliance for another! The American envoy may have been guilty of an indiscretion when he sought, to commit the administration to a definite policy, but here again he was speaking not without justification. Even if we assume that neither President Harding nor Secretary Hughes had authorized him to take such a positive stand on the League of Nations, can we escape the conviction that he was chosen ambassador just for those views he expressed so lucidly and vigorously during the I paign. He was not selected until he had held a number of conferee with the president. Presumably they had come to an understandi; on the chief question of foreign policy. Is it not, therefore, a lit: beside the question to say that the ambassador was indiscreet! cause he had not been authorized in specific terms to announce foreign policy. v 1S1 The comment in the British press on the Harvey speech was anesi a character to persuade us that he had spoken wisely. If we acct the comments at their face value we shall be of the opinion that t; ijni Qne English people were wholly at sea about President Hardings forei; f policy. They appear to have thought that there still was sor ifei chance for the League of Nations in its original or a slightly mo: 5 fied form. If they so believed they were in error. The preside $P1 ally has made it clear in this country that he has no intention of reco: lhe mending the entry of the United States into the League of Xatio: erics He has used language not essentially different in import from tl. dal which our ambassador employed. old Nor have his actions contradicted his words. The appointmr i nat of Colonel Harvey to sit with the supreme council tells its own sto: If the president had intended to bind the United States to the leaf rack he surelv would no have chosen an irreconsilable such as Harvev Jap represent the government in the council of nations. No, the United States is not going to join the worthless Leag en i of Nations. It is to do just what the ambassador said it would t men in every just and reasonable way with other r It is to wit tions to maintain peace and promote international comity. If iCO leads to a definite association of nations with pea trol friendship and world progress as its fundamental principles, w het cam c co-oper- ate L co-operat- ion 1 and good. con Th HUMANITY IS MAKING FOR HIGHER GOALS DESPITE WAR The humanitarian policy announced by Postmaster General Hays will make a wide appeal. It is wholly proper that the governmental departments should lead the way in humanitarian work. There is no department of the government more in need of such a policy than the department which Mr. Burleson left in such a deplorable plight. The new postmaster general says that while he is in office the postal employes will be considered, not as commodities, but as human beings. In itself that is a trite statement, but it becomes alive with inspiring significance when we know that it is the statement of a principle which Mr. Hays inends to put into effect. For years employers hae been mouthing this first principle of humanitarianism and many of them have made no effort to put it into practice in dealing with their employes. Others have earned the gratitude of the country and of their employes by acting in conformity with the principle by establishing welfare systems and by seeking every opportunity of improving the lot of those who toil. A welfare system, even if it is not altogether a success, is a rea r it orv ftp c landmark on the road to success in adjusting the relations ot er es plover and employe. It is a golden earnest of what men are strive trol for, of what is to be when the present period of readjustment t a ? isess vibrated into a new harmony of civilization. More and more the relationship between employer am! cmpl1-- oral is coming to be regarded as sacred. In it arc involved elements th P reach even beyond the limits of this world. Christian cm lovers. Ka far from thinking that they arc dealing with mere conmodit-obedien- vile j to the law of supply and demand, believe that the aredt to ing with immortal souls. They see themselves as trustees n,lt mere property, but of intelligent beings who arc to live b vondt Ins graves bourne. From that viewpoint the employe takes on inasrti of sacrcdness. Even employers who do not take this idealistic v:! na$ believe that human life is sufficiently sacred in itself and .hat - j M cannot do too much to make that life worthy of its dignity. We are not assuming that the newer altruism is alread acccp by the majority of employers. We know that it is not. 4 4 m : t t- w i lJ |