The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-12-27
UTOPIA POSSIBLE BY
LEAGUE, SAYS MAT|N
Paris Paper Permitted to Print
Suppressed Article.
ENEMIES MUST PAY DAMAGES
Three Stages to Constitute Organiza-
tion-Principles to Be Determines
by the AlIies-Compulsory Ar
bitration Will Come First.

headline of which read: Yesterdays
Utopia, TOmOrrow's Reality" sets
forth the manner of procedure of the
promoters of league of nations act
ing in agreement with the allied gov
ernments."
The formation of a league of ma
tons, the article says, will be in three
stages. The allied governments will
decide the principles of such an or
ganizatiOn, which will include com
pulsOry arbitration and limitation OF
ornaments. Germany and her former
allies will then be told that they must
accept these principles, after which
the treaty of peace will be formulated.
Later conference will be held to dis.
cuss the formation of league. Neu-
trails will be admitted, the article CON
tinues, but Germany would not have
an equal standing until she had expi-
ated her misdeeds, and before she can
do so an international organization
will be working.
Three Stages in Formation.
There will be three stages" the
Matin says. ''First, the allied govern
ments will settle among themselves the
principles of the league. AS a funda-
mental rule they will set down the
right of people to decide their own
destinies. AS practical consequence
it follows that there will be limitation
of ornaments and compulsory arbitra-
ton among the nations 1t seems in
dispensable that at this point the en-.
tente countries bind themselves to put
these clauses in the preliminaries of
peace.
ut has appeared absolutely neceS-
sary to the promoters that the regime
of the future world should be fixed in
it's main outlines before there are any
questions of indemnities and terrific
ries, so that for the first time in
history the deliberations of the pleni-
pOtentiaries should be dominated by
higher ideals than mere individual in
tereSt.
''The second act will consist in no
ylItS IuC ChCliy po"OAS VI tfAN AOAA
damental principles laid down in the
preliminaries and requiring from them
their adhesion to these principles. AS
to other conditions of peace prelimi-
naries. as in the case of stipulatiOns
of a territorial, financial and economic
character, no discussion will be admit
ted. The entente delegates will say
to Germany and her allies:
Compulsory arbitration and limi
tatiOn of ornaments are integral parts
of our. conditions. You must subscribe
to them at once. You will know later
how these principles will be applied
Universal Conference Last Stage.
'The preliminaries once signed, de.
tails of the peace treaty will be dis
cussed among the belligerents and
only after the signing of this treaty OF
peace proper will the third stage be
reached. This will be universal. con
ference to settle the new relations tC
be created between the peoples.
''To this conference neutrals may be
admitted. No nation, however, will be
admitted to full membership in the
league of nations if it does not offer
sufficient guarantees. Germany, having
started the war, will have been con
demned by the peace conference to
make restitution and reparatl0n. She
cannot be regarded as being on an
equal footing with other nations until
she has paid her debt. Germany has
committed crime and she must
atone for it before she can be admit
ted to the ranks of honest and civil
lied peoples.
''Yet while the other countries will
be united by formal agreements a
world police will have been created
and sanctions of all kinds will have
been instituted. An international tri,
bunal will be working and the specter
of war, as far as it is humanity posi-
BILE, will be banished from the path of
civilization"
u. S. Gunboats on Guard.
With the American Army of Occu-
patton. Dec. Z4.-AmGflCdn DdIrOI
boats, each armed with machine gun
used by the marines at scissors or in
other drives, are plying the Rhine. The
Rhine american fleet consists of l.
boats, ten patrol craft, one supply
boat and the Prussian, which is being
used by General Dickman.
The Prussian was requisitioned
from the head mayor of the CoblenZ
district. and is one of the finest steam
yachts on the Rhine.
Foes Hear U. S. Anthem.
Coblenz, Dec. 24.-For the first time
since the occupation of their city the
people of Coblenz heard 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" 1t was played by
a French band during review OF
French troops by General Dickman.
American officials have directed the
affairs OF the city in the same unob-
trusive manner that marked the actual
taking over of Coblenz, and the pass
ing of French troops through the town