Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-07
Might Help 70 Victory.

advertisement IN the London Times.
What might help to win the war? Not
by in any degree relaxing the allies
efforts to develop the efficiency of their
military and naval operations to the full
est extent: neither can q "peace by agree
ment' with the existing authorities hl
Germany be entertained, as such a peace
could not be satisfactory or permanent.
IT Is. however, here suggested that If def
mite effect could 'now'' be given to a
league or brotherhood of nations. and
on the lines hereunder stated, it might
materially assist in bringing about the
s~ubjugation Of the central powers.
But such a league must not be sur
rounded with complications ana contro-
versial conditions. but be reduced to the
simplest possible issues. Its success will
depend on the simplicity of its conditions.
30 that. subject to the -four fundamental
principles hereunder stated. nations and
-nationalities may be able to exercise a
free n unfettered hand in the conduct
OF their own affairs.
Ito mutually guarantee the territorial
integrity n the political and economical
league.
z. Limitation of ornaments on land and
sea, on some basis, must be agreed to by
mutual arrangement.
3. In all nations parties to the brother
hood or league there must be "a constitu-
ton with an assembly elected by manhood
suffrage Especial regulations for colorei
populations), with ministers responsible
to that assembly and therefore 20 the peo-
pie. This will not prevent such a nation
from having a second hamber of sover-
eign power at It's head, or votes for wom-
en-, or such constitution as an assembly
elected by the people may decide.
4. All parties to the league Of nations
must undertake not to carry on any trade
Intercourse. either directly or Indirectly,
with a nation that IL not a party to the
league.
These four principles should be suffi-
Client; but imagine their effect on all peo-
ers. IL the allies enter into such a league
not by secret treaties. but by a treaty
signed in the light Of day and proclaimed
to the whole world.
The majority of neutral nations would
gladly join the league; som. would OBJ
viously raise difficulties to the operation
OF clause four, but, except perhaps in the
case of those neutral nations which abs.
lutely abut on to the central powers, and
are therefore at a risk of invasion. no
state desirous Of Joining the league should
be exempt from the operation Of claus.
four.
Tho rigid enforcement Of this clause liz
as essential now to help to end the war
as 1t will be effective after the war in
keeping the league together. The fear OF
an economic boycott would be a powerful
lever In preserving the worlds peace.
But now, what will be the position OF tine
central powers II the league becomes an
accomplished fact IN the above lines?
Their peoples will be greatly disturbed
and will soon recognize hat they are UP
against q barrier which neither Krupr
guns nor spaemodic victories can over
come.
The terms Of the league will in some re-
spects be dktasteful to autocratic Ger
many, but the peoples Of the central pow.
ere may think differently, and soon realize
that they cannot exist outside the league,
and that they must therefore accede to
the peace terms of the allies, which have
now been clearly defined, or be faced with
state bankruptcy" and industrial ruins