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Show PROSPECTS OF LEAGUE B Thqt the treaty of peace with Germany M and its annexed League of Nations cov- H enant will be ratified by the United States H seriate is fairly certain- However, in con- M nection with that ratification it is equally m certain there will be some reservations M made by the United States senate, these m serervations being practically elimina- B tion f rdni pr changes in the treaty as far 1 as the United States is concerned, B Article Ten of the League of 'Nations j covenant, will niostfcertainly be eliminate ' ed, as.ir'as" America is concerned. That is tbe article that provides that' each na- tion 'signatory to thejleague covenant M shall send armed forces to defend the ter--- ritorial integrity of any other country. m It would, as far as America is concerned, mean that America would have to enter into any war in Europe regarding any H, boundary matter or with any boundary H subject likely to come up during the Wars. Another reservation that will most like ly be niade by the United States senate will be such as to firmly guarantee the 1 Monroe doctrine which provides that no foreign power shall gain a foothold on M the American continent. M Then the United States Senate will al- M so make a reservation regarding the B, Shantung settlement, by which Japan has B been given a slice of China's coast, while M nothing is said in the treaty as to wheth- H er Japan shall ever return this territory H to China Senator Norris of Nebraska, H who has quite favorable views on the de- m.. sirability of some league of nations, poin- H tedly brought out the Shantung question H in the following: H "The Shantung settlement cannot pos- H sibly be defended before honest men or H squared with justice or honesty. I would H sacrifice almost anything to get a league H of nationsbut I would not commit mur- M der nor would I dishonor my country for H it There is nothing less than robbery of H defenseless China in this. I have studied H these Shantung provinces so far as I can H get the material for such a study. There M is nothing in the treaty whatever that m provides that Japan shall return this pen- H .insula to China, though we are informed H that outside of the treaty Japan privately H. has agreed on such return- Then why B should it not be written in the treaty?" H American public opinion is very clear B on thq Shantung proposition. There is a H feeling that China has been robbed, that H part of this defenseless country's land has H been given over to a neighbor that is H strong in military and naval affairs as a H price for Japan's entrance into the war. H America does not favor any such action in H a treaty that is presumed to provide jus- H- ticefor all the nations that were fighting B against Germany that list including B China which supplied large numbers of H men for what service they could give in H France. B With the important changes which the 11 senate is certain to make in the treaty B ' and the covenant, "thet eeth" of that let- B r ter past will be "pulled" President Wil B son's prestige as a peace maker will be H, gaved by such an action and, at the same H time, America will be fully protected from E . those clauses which are clearly not in fl lino within American principles as enun- B ciated by the greatest men in ths nation's B history- Ogden Examiner. H la n STRAWS IN THE WIND ' Little by little the country is learning B through disclosures of senators emerging B frotfl private "conferences at the White B - i B House the state of the President's mind. The latest information leaks out through Senator Capper of Kansas, one of the recent re-cent calllers, who reports that: 'President Wilson is still insistent that the poaee treaty and the league of nations covenant coven-ant be ratified without reservations" The senator further said: "The President did not present arguments, but simply stated facts leaving me to draw my own conclusions." In the ignorance of their outer darkness dark-ness the people can only conjectrre what is going on, but if straws show the way the wind is blowing we present herewith two or three little wisps caught upon vagrant va-grant breezes. David Lawrence, reputed to bo an ex-" pert interppreter of the Present's mind writes in the New York Evening Post: No one takes literally M" Wilson's Wil-son's remarks against reser '.'ions. A majority of the men in t e press gallery who have looked on disinterestedly disin-terestedly fully expect the peace treaty, league of nations included, to be ratified, but with certain reservations res-ervations tacked on by the Repub lican leaders. Then there is the following contribution contribu-tion from Arthur D- Howderi SmitiVof. supposed excellent standing in inneivarV ministration circles: 'Jp Already there is heard talk among am-ong men who hope to see the covenant cov-enant adopted of taking the matter into their own hand and endeavoring endeavor-ing to secure nonpartisan support for the ratification, with reservations reserva-tions which would win support without diminishing the strength of the league. Also it will be remembered tthe dispatches dis-patches stated the other day that, Senator Swanson of Virginia who seews at least temporarily, to have substituted for Senator Sen-ator Hitchcock as the administration's spokesman, said i'.iat "certain of the reservations res-ervations may bo supported bv the Democrats." Dem-ocrats." Therefore in view of the various: avowals avow-als that no reservations to the covenant will be tolerated but each time tempered by less insistence, it may not be unreasonable unreas-onable and we trust not indecorous to suggest sug-gest pleasing analogy between the president presi-dent and palpitating maiden who "whis pering she would ne'er consent, consent-ed."Salt consent-ed."Salt Lake Herald. THERE IS PEACE, BUT PLENTY OF WAR The signing of the treaty between Germany Ger-many and the Allied and associate pov' ers has brought peace to only one part of the world. Here are some of the conflicts still in progress. The Poles are fighting the Russian bol-sheviki. bol-sheviki. The Ukranians are also at War with the bolsheviki. The Germans are fighting the Lithun-ions, Lithun-ions, who themselves are at war with the bolsheviki- The Finns are fighting the bolsheviki. CiVil war continuesv in Russia where the bolsheviki are hard pressed by their Russian Rus-sian enemies on several fronts. . The Hungarian communists are fighting fight-ing the Czecho-Slovaks and the Ruman ians. The seizure of Smyra by the Allies ha$ led to fighting between the Turks and the Greek forces of occupation. On the northwestern frontier of India the Afghas are fighting the British-China British-China is again in the throes of a civil war. Carranza is fighting Villa and other rebel re-bel leaders for the control of Mexico. In Costa Rica the Tinoca government has driven the rebels over the border into in-to Nicaragua and the latter country, fearing an invasion, has appealed to the United States for protection. pa fn ru "I have ever had a moment's, doubt as to where the heart and purpose of this people lay," said President Wilson. The last show down on President Wilson's comprehension of the views of the America Amer-ica came at the election of November 5th last- Artemus Ward said: "It is better not to know so much, than to know so much that it ain't so." Pt Pi ft "Kings are no more, but.only names of Kings," soulfully sings Robert Underwood Under-wood Johnson in a poem lauding the Versailles Ver-sailles covenant as a charter of freedom, Cable the news to the Mikado of Japan by way of Shantung. The kings are still with us but the jacks seem to be numerous |