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Show H OPPOSED TO H Expreuslng disappointment over the B outcome of the Washington confer- H ence. Prank H. Slmonds, the hlstor H lan, declares the arms conference H doomed to take the sum course of H failure as that of the Versailles gain H ering. He foretold the death ot the league of nation". He now forecasts i disaster fbr the second attempt to bring peace to tbe world. It was quite apparent three years ! ago," he says, "that tbe American , people would never accept the com-Imltmente, com-Imltmente, compromises and conces sions made in .their name at Paris, j but made without their knowledge. I Today the situation Is not different. Within the part week we hae consented con-sented to amendments in proposed treaties which would bind us not to fortify our own territory, while no j similarly restrictive agreements hae been undertaken on the same scale by our neighbors. At this moment J we are proposing a Chinese arrange- i ment which iy tantamount to a com plete abandonment of China and seeking to give this desertion the color of a victory for the American principle of the 'open door.' Meantime Mean-time it is daily becoming plainer that' the revolt against the commitments j (made in the present conference by J the American delegates is spreadinc in the senate and already almost certainly cer-tainly dooms all ten treaties which !are now planned. A month aso il Iwrs difficult to count six votes against the proposed treaties; today the opposition Is changed to more than thirty and it is even asserted on good authority that but one vole, is lacking In tbe senate to defeat' all the conference commitments Siinonds never has had faith in the talk of international peaci Hp i--an avowed perslmlst, and seems to' think along the lines held to by I Borah. Johnson and others of the lr reconcilable group. Although the treaty of dlsarma-1 !ment may fail of the high attain ! ment hoped for by its authors, we can see no harm in ratification and 'the making of a real effort to establish estab-lish a spirit of confidence and amity jamonc nations. America is a powerful country and 'need not be alarmed over Its own safety, even though completely dis-armed dis-armed It micht place itself at a disadvantage, but its security from i calamity is assured by the fact that! In men. natural icsources and machinery ma-chinery which Is at ihe basis of war's equipment, no country can; compare with the United States. i Of course if wc are to guarantee the iulegrlty of China and pull the Japanese out of Siberia and Man I ehurla. it would be well to avoid an i. angling alliance which will give Japan ten years of undisturbed op-! jportunity to proceed with th peaceful peace-ful assimilation ot the people of all northern Asia. |