The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-06-01
British Press Impressed With
Possibility of United States
Becoming Party to
New Alliance. Ia
SCOUT EARLY PEACE TALK
Wilson's Speech of Saturday
Night Leads to Much Seri-.
Gus Speculation About
the Future.

London, May 30.-"Trresponsiblt
peace talk received its quietus from Sir
Edward Grey last week, but no doubt
President Wilson's speech before the
league to enforce peace will revive the
discussion in certain quarters" says
the Liverpool Post. Its definiteness
in certain particulars Is arresting, but
perhaps to many Of his own country
men tho air of definiteness which the
president gives to some of his phrases,
may seem elusive.
"One can imagine many being spe-
cfally disappointed, when he says that
with the causes and objects Of the war
the United States has no concern. To
us, who believe we arc opposing an at
tempt at world domination, IL Is hard
to believe that the cause for which we
stand is not Of some concern to the
great republic of the west"
The Post argues that the entente
allies are fighting for virtually the
same object for which President Will
son proposes league Of nations.
Holds Leagues Necessary.
The Manchester Guardian says this
plan Of the president Is almost as old
as the first formulation of the ideal OF
organized peace, but that 1t never be-
fore in any part of the world, has COM
manded the support accorded 1t in
America today. This newspaper says
further: LIS
The president inevitably has con-
fined himself to cautious and general
terms, but 1t Is impossible to miss the
significance OF his declaration that the
United States would be ready to be-
come party to any feasible league OF
nations. Twenty-one months OF war
have done much to undermine even the
rooted aversion from alliances and
leagues"
The Westminster Gazette says that IL
one Is to understand what President
Wilson Is driving at his speech must
be considered from two points OF view
and the immediate point of view of
the war and the more remote one OF
reconstruction after the war. It con-
tinues: III
This proviso is necessary for the
presidents neutrality in mind and
thought Is an ice cold abstraction for
a belligerent who believes he is fight
ing In the sacred cause of law and
right. We do not understand how q
neutral can expect to influence these
events If he begins by declaring him
self not to be concerned with their
causes and objects. We do not see
how he is to control this 'stupenduous
flood If he Is not interested to search
for or explore the obscure fountains
from which they burst forth"
Deny Equal Guilt.
Presenting the argument that the en-
tente allies cannot be expected to well
come the implied Judgment that they
really are responsible with their
enemies for starting the war, the Ga
Eette continues: H..
I'VE must guard ourselves in adj
vance against being thought unreason-
able or aggressive if we are unable to
accept peace overtures based on the
assumption of equal guilt.
That being said about the i'm
mediate prospect, we should be ex-
.remely foolish to write of as unim-
potant or impracticable what the pres
dent says about reconstruction after
the war"
The Gazette considers President Will
sons declaration that the United States
g willing to become a partner in any
feasible association of nations as q
nomentuouS one, and asserts that
Great Britain's record for a century is
an Endorsement Of his suggestion for
establishing the security OF the high
ways Of the seas. 1t adds that If the
president means sea power in war is
10 be reduced or limited in such a way
as to deprive us of our principal
weapon and means of defense, we
should naturally have a good deal to
say on that subject"
But the association of nations to pre-
vent war has the hearty assent Of this
Influential newspaper, which says that
the presidents speech can be taken
as q desire Of the nation Of the United
States to this idea it has high signifi-
canoe "for it brings the United States
definitely into world politics and makes
her from henceforth one of the nations
that must be reckoned with in any
scheme of international politics, bal
ance of power association of nations
or whatever 1t may be-"
Pointing out that an association of
nations would be compelled to use force
to prevent any nation from commit
ting an act Of aggression, the Gazetta
says that If the United States join with
Europe as peacemakers economic
weapons would come into play. ~ O..