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Show H; , EVER CHANGING j President Wilson at the unveiling of H Barry monument, Washington, May 16, M h 1914, uttered these lofty words : H "Every man who worthily stands in H this presence should examine himself and M fj see whether he has the full conception of " what it means that America should live i her own life. Washington saw it when he wrote his Farewell Address. J ) "It was not merely because of passing and transient circumstances that Wash- ' ington said that we must keep free from m j entangling alliances. It was because he 1 J saw that no country had yet set its face H0 in the same direction in whidh America b had set her face. We cannot form alli- f ances with those who are not going our H J vay; and in our might and majesty and HHjt in the confidence and definiteness of our H bwn purpose we need not and we should M fj not form alliances with any nation in the Kj world. j, ' "Those who are riglit ,those who study ( conscience in determining their policies, M hf those who hold their honor higher than 1 , their advantage, do not need alliances. m ?j "You need alliances when you are not m strong, and you are we'ak only when you H II are ,not true to yourself. You are weak H :j only when you are in the wong;, y.ou are H I .weak only when you ae, afraid, to do M I right; you are weak only when fou doubt M I your cause and the majesty of a nation's B might asserted." M I . THE VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN sVsVsVsVsVsVJ H The latest information from Washing- H I ton is that the rate of interest and the H , date of maturity of the new government H ,i loan will not be definitely announced un- H V til about the time the loan is ready for H 1 public subscription. Even the total am- Hrf ount of this loan has not been officially H 'designated, though it is generally sup- H i posed the public will be ask'ed to subscribe H j some . $6,000,000,000. The official in- H ! formation about the loan thus far given H out by the treasury department is that H the campaign will begin Apil 21 and con- H : tinue for three weeks. H There is no question with regard to the H . necessity for making the new loan a suc- H cess'f As a result of the war the financial H - requirements, of the government" are en- H orrnpus, and even if we assume, -that H there has been a considerable degree of H wase , and extravagance wo. shall neyeiv Hj theless liave to shoulder the financial biir- H den iihat have already been incurred. We H cannot afford to be negligent Avhero. pur, H national integrity is concerned,-aria in H viewTfbf our unpreparedness it is doubt- bbbH less fotunate that our war bill is not (larger. The average citizen may, however, find it somewhat difficult to subscribe to the new loan. He has already purchased government gov-ernment bonds of the previous issues, and not infrequently to the limit of his s ' financial ability. He has just recently filed his income tax return. It will probably be necessary therefore, B i to offer more attractive terms than in H 'the case of the previous war loans. But B v unless the" prospective investor can learn B . in' advance what these terms are going to K be he cannot make arrangements to take K ! his full share of the loan. The govern- ; ment is now asking the people of this H country to prepare for the new loan, but h it is at the same time withholding the in- K; I' formation upon which they could base H J their investment calculations. -Chicago K 4 Tribune. Hi! - : FAITH WITH ITALY B J " ghall a treaty bebroken because it was BJ. not on "open" covenant "openly arrived H I I t! .. o at?" Here is a difficult question. France and Great Britain are being criticised for 'wanting to fulfill the obligations of the treaty made with Italy when Italy entered enter-ed the war. It was necessary, and at' the time not illigitimate . ,on their part, to make pledges to Italy. It is natural for Italy now to demand that these pledges shall be kept. Nearly all the territory in question has belohgea to enemy powers. The rest of it belonged to internationalized internationaliz-ed kingdom of Albania, which has gone into in-to bankruptcy, or in case of the Dode-canesua Dode-canesua consisted of former Turkish islands which Italy had occupied in 1910 and had held after the close of the Turco-Italian Turco-Italian war, under a conditional title. Greece has laid claim to these islands on the ground that the population is largely Greek. It is also urged that the fourteen points act as a repeater of all pre-existent arrangements among the entente belligerents. belliger-ents. But the fourteen points did not de-nonuce de-nonuce any existing conventions. They simply provided that after the, general peace all covenants between nations should be open and openly arrived at. It is iu no way clear that they have morally or practically nullified the compacts made by Great Britain and France with Italy. i : r , u jv- Ji,( Italy's bargains with the original entente en-tente povers are being subjected to a good deal of contemptuous criticism. But Jhey stand on exactly the same basis as France's and Great Britain's, bargains with each other, which have been generally gener-ally accepted as justifiable. There should bp rpason in these things. Greece, too, has territorial claims which apparently will be treated in a generous measure. Bu.i it cannot be forgotten that while Italy 'was. fighting on the side of the entente, tho Greek government, so long as King Constantine remained at the head of it, was persistently serving the cause of Germany. New York Tribune. a n ft WHAT TO DO WITH RAILROADS There have been at least seven formal proposals for the disposition, of the railroads. rail-roads. Of these only one that of the railway brotherhoods involves complete govenment ownership. The brotherhoods want to have the railroads Operated by the employees, who would pay the government gov-ernment a specified rental. It may be assumed that most Socialists are in sympathy sym-pathy with this program. The remaining proposals contemplate private ownership under some form of govenment control. Director General Hines suggests that the government should prescribe a "moderate" guaranty on capital ,that federal officials should have a large representation on railroad boards of directors and that, finally, the railway properties of this country should be consolidated under the management of a few large corporations "each of which will so combine the prosperous roads as to present a fair average result." Mr. Hines' suggestions seem to afford one of the most reasonable solutions of the railroad problem that has yet been proposed. It is obvious that the old system sys-tem of private management will have to be 'greatly modified; even the railwaex-. railwaex-. . ecutives, and security owners are opposed - to any return tOjthe conditions which, ex: , isted before we entered the war. By taking tak-ing over the operation of the railroads the government has introduced a number :of new factors into our national trans-; portation problem, and tliese factors are of such a nature.'as to prevent a successful success-ful restoration" of the old system. Our primary desire is to devise a meth-' od whereby the "railroads will best serve the national interest. Some roads, though necessay from this point of view, will inevitably be unprosperous. . Mr. Hines' -proposal that the more prosperous railroads should carry the burden of supporting sup-porting those which, for one reason or another, are unable to pay regular dividends divi-dends is one which appears to be sound if we take service as our chief criterion of railway transportation. But if we put this obligation on the stronger railroad corporations we must also provide some sort of guaranty of a reasonable rate of retvrn on the private investment. In that case wiFsnall of course be entitled to Insist In-sist .upon government representation, on the boards of directors aswell as a greater great-er degree of federal regulation than was-'exercised was-'exercised before the-war;-Chicago Tribune, Tri-bune, j STV'M' WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT BOLSHEVIST RUSSIA? And now the bolsheviki are virtually masters of Ukrania! Isn't is about time for us to find out for ourselves what the bolshevism is and amounts to in Russia? Haven't We by this time a rather vigorous suspicion that oUr news of that phenomenon has been and is 3octored for us and certainly nbt for our benefit, for it cannot benefit America to be deceived? When bolshevism first appeared in the Russian situation we were told it, was a noisy Minority which had no Influence among the Russians. When Bolshevism overthrew Kerensky we werp told that it would not hold power for any length of time. As time passed and bolshevism did not disappear, we were told it was the idictatorship of a few who were imposing their ambitious will by force. We were tfold that the mass of the Russian people were not bolshevist. We were told they would rise to welcome foreign aid and overthrow the tyranny which the bolshevist bol-shevist handful was so mysteriously able to impose upon them. - We were told that the allied troops were winning victories. They were strange victories which left the victors numerous versts farther away from their objective than before, strange victories in which the red troops suffered appalling losses while the allied forces lost few, but were able to retire with part of their own supplies, while punishing the enemy by burning the remainder. Always ,the red armies are, or are about to be, crushed, and now after months of .almost constant defeats we read that they are virtual monsters of Ukrania, that they have an army of half or three-quarters of a million inen, officered by trained sol-dies sol-dies of the former German and Russian armies. At the same time a representative In America of the Soviet government offers ori its behalf to deposit $200,000,000 in gold in American and European banks for the purchase of supplies and asks our gov ernment "to reestablish normal relations between' the twja cpuntries."s These are certainly not the accents of failure, weakness and despair. Lenine andTrotzky have been in power a year and a half. In spite of constant reports of defeats, famine and social chaos, In spite of the Murman and Siberian defections, defec-tions, they seem to be stronger than ev- er. There is a situation we are not permitted per-mitted to see. Raymond Robins evidently tried to describe it last summer, but he Jcould not get a hearing until the senate called him the other day. But the public has a right to know what this phase of the Russian upheaval really is and not be confined to partisan reports and sporadic rumors. Why has bolshevism survived and grown "in Russia? What is its strength there today? The measures in which we have joined up to this time seem to be futile fu-tile or worse. They were not our measures'. meas-ures'. It is time America asserted her , right- to know what she is aoout,vto male. , up hei own mind whether she is pulling tethers' ehestnuts out of the fire, pr ol-, lowing a policy; Consistent ,With' her own' interests, Chicago Tribune. - ' - ''ft ft ft . V ftRE TO'XQ HAVE X NEW jvORL'D 'i '. war?- ' '' 4i y The course of events in Hungary is not difficult to understand and is significant' of what may soon happen in Germany. .Hungary has been invaded on all frontiers fron-tiers by the allies of the entente.: On the west by the Czecho Slovaks, on the north by the Poles, on the east by the Roumanians, Rouman-ians, and on the' south by the Jugp Slavs. At the same time .although a republican government of all classes was set up in place of the former nionarehy, the fact has brought no relaxutionof'the hostility of the entente toward the Hungarians who could foresee nothing but loss of property pro-perty and territory to their favored neighbors and on top of that a heavy indemnity in-demnity to be paid out of their impoverishment impover-ishment to their conquerers. In the domestic do-mestic situation all conditions were such as to blow the flame of social revolution. Theye were large land holdings which the people wihtfd to 'divid and the propaganda propa-ganda of bolshevism has. saturated m the WMiwnirvi i iiii in utoiw ii i nwi ii'i iiiiffw.-ywagaio country for months. In such circumstances it is not to be wondered that the Hungarians threatened threaten-ed on all sides and' with an almost hope-' less future, should turn to the Russian' Bolshevist power for aid. In that direction direc-tion only was friendship apparently at- tamable. The same reasoning from similar caua-. r es may soon have its way in Cfermariy It - 1 is ominously significant that on the same r day we hear of the Hungarian Russian alliance al-liance we read that German foreign office of-fice has sent an emmissary, Carl Kautsky to Moscow to exariiine the possibilities . of an arrangemen.tAvith tlfe bolsKeyists. eMantime the allied peace terms hang like a cloud over Germany. So far as their proposed outlines are known, they will include not only large cessions of territory but the imposition of an indemnity indem-nity so enormous as virtually to mortgage, mort-gage, the energies of the German people for many years to come. , . u It is clear that if the terms ar too drastic dras-tic their acceptance by the Ebert government govern-ment will almost certainly mean its fajl ,i and the taking over power bf the radicals radi-cals who will thrive on the despair of the V (moment and once in power will very promptly make alliance with the militant bolsheviki of Russia. The conservative and moderate classes of Germany which i are still able to keep the revolution in check in that country will have little rea- V son for standing out to preserve condi- sl tions made too onerous by the pressure of the allied terms. 1 If this probability is realized Europe 1 with America Inextricagly involved, will 1 once more find itself divided in two great armies, with western democratic Europe . fighting as before for its very life and a good jpart of central Europe, supported now by' the vast- resources of Russia, bent upon a new but equally ruthless form of conquest, A red Germany, with Austria Hungary and Bulgaria again at her side, with bolshevik Russia" and its great resources re-sources as its ally, and with revolutionary propaganda actively at work among her enemies, would rise again like a phoenix from the flames. . On the allied side, England faces' a general strike and Ireland is still rebellious. rebelli-ous. In Italy revolutionary radicalism is held in check only by thedoubtful hopes of irredentism and national expansion. The radical movement in Spain is strong. It is reported that in Bohemia there is an active bolshevik peril. Roumania is with- out supplies or arms. Poland is fighting on all frontiers. The allies' expedition from Archangel has been thrown back. The bolsheviki have overrun Ukrania. The reports from Russia, far from showing show-ing a weakening of Lenine, indicate rath- er the spread of bolshevist power. . r f In short we have conditions and tendencies tenden-cies which threaten the greatest cataclysm cata-clysm in history. We are told that a league of nations must, be formed at once to saye us. But there is today one great league of nations, and another may be forming from those nations which are excluded frqm,the,existing league. to be founded on principals subversive of modern civilization civiliza-tion as yeiknow it, and profoundly, reac- itionary though'in the 6pinion of their ad-' herents, progressive. ., -.' Iv f The statesmen who stand for represen-, tatrteldernqcracy inisfcr.face Iprofourid-( Iprofourid-( forces which are moving in human, ev-;.,ents.' ev-;.,ents.' They have the choice1 of alnew war, more terrible and destructive than the last, or a peace of compromise and'eom-,mon and'eom-,mon sacrifices. It may off end the sense of ideal justice to rebate anything to the erimes of imperial Germany and Austria. But the crux of the present situation is whether Germany shall be thrust intov radicalism and an alliance with bolshevik J Russia or shall be helped to keep her foot- nf ing on the path of representative demo- 1 cracy and progress. The forces of revolution revolu-tion now gowing in Europe are not primarily pri-marily concerned with peace. They are making war fiercely at this momen. They are bent on a wosld revolution which shall make away with liberalism, individual liberty, private property, and the whole existing system of society. The Paris covenant offers nothing to these extremists extrem-ists and will not check them. The only thing, that will check them is immediate '1 material and moral support sto the . real 3 bulwarks of democracy wherever they still stand. Chicago Tribune. ITtf!ABtll'K-TWWiiffWliaiir if" i' ' ' " Tn ji mi.- r i ii 1 1 .,.. |