The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-09
WORLD LEAGUE OF
PEACE EXPECTED
sEEMS TO BE THE ONLY GREAT
RESULT OF THE WAR THAT
CAN BE PREDICTED.
FIERY WORDS FROM KENYON
Iowa Senator Declares No One VIII
Want to Buy German Goods After
Conflict Has Ended-king Deplores
Political Heresies.
BY ARTHUR W. DUNN.

~ HhiF'Oh W. OOiNNs
WashingtOn.-1f the ideas Of Presi-
dent Wilson and Lloyd-George prevail,
one outcome of the great war will be
a world league of peace. 1t is interest
Ing to note that the movement for such
a league was started by peace advo-
Gates, those who afterward became
known as pacifsts, but 1t will be the
outcome of the greatest war in history.
While this nation was taking no part
In the war and doing its utmost to keep
neutral, the advocates of a world pence
organization were intoxicating their
doctrines by speeches, lectures and the
distribution of literature. 1t is doubt
full whether their efforts had much eff
feet, although Endorsed by many promi-
nent, earnest people.
A world peace league is promised as
one of the results of war; it is so de-
clared by the two most conspicuous
men of the war today. If it can be ac-
complished 1t will be a most important
outcome of the war, and at this time
Is about the only great result which
can be safely predicted.
A world weary of war will welcome
any agreement which might prevent
another such cataclysm as that we are
passing through.
In the early stages of discussion the
world peace league met opposition
from those in this country who feared
that it mean embodiment in old world
affairs and that it would sacrifice u
Monroe doctrine. Whether these objec-
lions will be raised again cannot be
determined until the world peace
league takes definite shape at the end
of the war.
Trade With Germany.
While the discussion is going on as
to whether our people will trade with
Germany after the war, perhaps an
excerpt from the speech of Senator
Kenyon of Iowa would be interesting
reading:
"Who will buy German goods after
the war;" he asked. "Who wants any
thing in his home made by the same
hands that have shot poor little chill
dren and women of Belgium; hands
that have ~bayonetted women and car
ried away as relics parts of women's
breasts? Who wants any utensils made
by those who have carried women and
children into exile; who have blown
up the homes of the people in northern
France; who have sent women and
children down into the seas with the
hellish torpedo and submarine; who
have shelled boats in which people
were trying to escape from their devil
ish work who have let drop the muir
derous bomb upon hospitals where men
were already living in pain; who have
blOtted out from the sky, contrary to
all edicts of warfare, poor men and
their families? Who wants anything
made by the outlaw? Let her take her
products to hell. That is the only
place she would find a market"
Senator King of Utah is a Demo-
cratic senator who wants to return to
what was once the good old Demo.
cratic faith. 1.-THE people in theory
pass their power to the congress-" he
said in the senate, land congress passes
the power over to the president, execu.
tive departments, commissions and Blu.
reaus. If we continue our present pro-
gram there will be no more great cap.
tains of industry. We have chloro-
formed the energies Of the people
States have been d~ebauched and bribed
by appropriations of the federal gov,
ernment."
Have we as Democrats" said Kine
later, departed from the faith of the
fathers of our party? Since l returned
to congress l have been amazed to fine
so many heresies and isms prevailing
As to Railroad Control.
The real fight over government con
troll Of railroads will come on the prop
osition of ~surrendering such contro
after the war. The opponents of gov
eminent ownership will propose tina
the railroads shall be restored to the
owners after the war closes, either IL
six months or a year.
Doubt is expressed whether such al
amendment can be made to the rail
road bill In view of the tendency
toward government control of every
thing. Open advocates of government
ownership of all public utilities are
t urging the continued control of thu
J railroads regardless of war. Thos'
: who oppose government ownership ar,
l looking forward to a hard fight t
: secure a provision in the railroad bill
which will turn the roads back to tn,
Owners after the var.
1t was only a few years ago-be
tween 1905 and 1909, to be exact
that an antismoke law was vigorousl.
enforced in Washington. After Marcl
|, A, 1909. 1t was ~disregarded, but previ
Gus to that time there was every indl
cation that bituminous coal would b.
driven out of the capital.
But how different nowl Our fuel ad
ministrators have laid heavy hand
ON anthracite coal they have decree,
4 that only persons haying ancient In