The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-02-01
soRAH AND PROPOSED LEAGUE
TO ENFORCE PEACE.

Senator Borah does not propose to
let President Wilson get by" with his
scheme to commit the people of this
country to his scheme to join the ma
tions OF the world in league 20 en-
force peace; at least the senator will
rot permit 1t to be accomplished un-
til the full significance OF the propos-
ed radical change in the national pol
ley is thoroughly understood by the
people who would be called upon to
make 1t effective. Senator Borah has
introduced a resolution in the senate
which reaffirms faith and confidence
In the permanent worth and wisdom"
of Washington, jefferson and Monroe
which would keep this country for
ever free from "entangling alliances"
with the nations of Europe and pre-
vent the encroachment of those ma
tions upon territory of the western
hemisphere. The alliance proposed in
the league to enforce peace Is a com
plete abandonment of this time-hon-
ored policy, and one that is fraught
with the direst consequences regard
ing the peace and safety of the Unit
ed States. The friends of the presi-
dent in the senate contend that the
Borah resolution is not in conflict
with the presidents peace note, nor
with his spectacular address to the
senate in which he elaborated his plan
for an alliance to enforce peace. If
1t is not in conflict, then the words of
Washington and Jefferson, after be-
Ing accepted without question for over
one hundred years, have now lost
their meaning through the more pro-
found wisdom of Woodrow Wilson. In |
discussing the new national policy
proposed by the president, Senator
8orah said in an address delivered a
ew days ago to the Michigan society
n Washington:
If the people of this country want
0 enter European politics. take part
European controversies, become
ntangled in its dynastical dissen-
ions; If they want to furnish money q
nd soldiers, ships and men to be sub
ect to the call of some tribunal or
'ague, in which tribunal we will have
ut one vote, very well. The people
ave right to enter that perilous L
purse If they choose for this is the t
copies government. But let us I'M V
perfectly what it means be- =
IRE we take the step. Let us not be
eceived nor deceive ourselves We
lould debate and consider every step '
efore We take it for these are steps o
hich once taken 1t is impossible for A
people to retrace. :,
once in a maelstrom of European
'litics and it will be almost impos-
bic to get out. Once involved in 81
e matter of economically boycotting ia
in the matter of enforcing DEGREES eli
military force, it will be practically ~,
possible to get back to the policy
der which we have lived and
for more than a century.
The singular and startling vicious
SIS of this whole proposition of a
lgue to ensure peace or to enforce
ace is this: We enter the league.
+ contribute our portion of ships and -.
diers for a police force of the world 81
force large enough and strong W
'ugh to crush those who do not 81
unit their vital interests to arbi- 0e
ton or Cancellation, Then some
'stion arises as to immigration,
zenship or of territorial propin- 0o'
" to which we decline as a people
submit, especially to a tribunal so WI
in numbers against ="
Then we have agreed in advance
this force, which we have helped
reate, shall attack and assail us as -
eople. mu
Without assuming TO assail indi- ~
lais' denounce this principle as Oh .
ectly vicious, as perfectly heinous, toh,
fensible in morals and not even ,,t,
Ily a proper subject for these af-
dinner speeches. =,
cent
silent PROMOTES PERSON. VIII.