TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-08-02


groups who make selfish choices
of their own"
Now that we are in the wa,
we must fight with all our nigh.
to bring the war to an end. w
cannot look back. We can lool
ahead! But how?
There is one idea which oul
Government might we'll adop.
and ask all other nations t
adopt. If other nations shoulc
adopt it, the end Of the wa
would be in sight and there
would be no need Of a league
to enforce peace afterward.
1t would end all secret diplom
acy.
1t would also end autocracy
It would make the world SAFE
for democracy"
The idea is that no war 0
aggression against any natior
shall be declared by any natior
except by the majority vote o
all the people thereof, men anc
women voters alike. MI. Hears
said in his signed editorial O
July |: :,
every nation in this world
war has been precipitated into
the war by its RULERS, and no
nation has gone into the war
through a REFERENDUM
VOTE OF THE PEOPLE. The
only way actually to prevent
war is to repose the right and
power to declare war with the
people alone, and to make it inn
possible for war to be declared
except through a REFEREN-
dunn VOTE of the people.
IF no country could go to
war until the question of going
to war had been submitted to
the people and had been ap-
proved by the people by a refe-
rendum vote IN WHICH
BOTH THE MEN AND
WOMEN participated equally,
there would be no aggressive
warfare in the world, and that
would practically mean the end
Of war;"
This would require, of course
a Constitutional amendment il
the United States.
1t would take away iron
Congress the constitutions
power to declare war and yes
it in the people. Congresse
have been known to yield t
Presidential dictation; the PEG
pie never.
Such an amendment woul'
not abridge the right and dut.
of the President to repel attacI
or resist foreign invasion, or t
prepare adequately for the coun
try's defense.
Such an amendment woul,
stop extreme denunciations o
the President for not interven
ing in the Experimentation 0
the sort that many eminent ant
influential men like Presiden
Emeritus Eliot of Harvard, Dr.
Hart, Professor of History a
Harvard; DR.. Stowell of Column
bia, President Hibben of Prince
ton, and many high fnancier
c~easelessly directed agains
President Wilson when he stoo,
for reelection and was re-elect
ed on the platform: "He KEEP
Us Out of War"
With such an amendment j,
force appeals of this sort >woul,
be addressed directly to tn
people, for in that way onl.
could pressure Of public opinio,
be exerted upon the Presiden
to induce him to issue a pro
clamation submitting the ques
ton of wal or peace to the PEG
pie.
The smoothness and c%elerit,
with which ten million peopl
registered under the Universe
Service Law as the result of
simple proclamation of tn
President, three weeks in ad
vance, proves how easy it woul,
be at any time for a Presiden
by proclamation to call for al
expression of the will of the ma
ton upon a simple question
like this:
Shall the army and nav
and all the resources of tn.
United States be used to max.
war against the imperial gov
eminent of Germany? Vote
Yes, or
No.
Those who declare-and the,
are many-that this wal mus
not end until the Hohenzollern
are turned out, and until tn,
Government of Germany i
made to conform to the theorie
Of other people, not Germans
are blind to all the lessons O
history.