The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-02

rarely Is in international relations. there
liz the material consideration. Unless
we do liberate and furtlfy these races
we shall have to fight the German
again, and he will again be able TO
throw these people against Us and to
use their labor and their lands to sup
port his war upon us.
Equal Rights.
The question of the league Of nations
involves other considerations; yet, even
here, we may be sure that no league
of nations can nave even a ghost OF q
chance of success, II 1t Is not founded
upon the doctrine of equal rights for
all races. AS a mere insurance against
wal this league of nations will be AZ
impotent as the holy alliance OF the
more recent concert of Europe, II un-
derneath It there exists an ulcer such
as the eastern. question or the problem
Italy presented after the congress Of
Vienna, If we make peace without
bestowing liberty upon n race, that
race will repudlate our agreements,
seek its own rights and inevitably over
set our league OF nations as the Bal
kan states overturned the concert Of
Europe.
TO make peace permanent we must
abolish evils, which are n menace to
permanent peace, and the greatest Of
kntn tNIlS Is Nht SUI WYNN VI ihtNi no
tlonal Injustice expressed in the denial
Of liberty to any race or nation. The
refusal OF Europe, divided by ITS own
selfish ambitions, to do justice 10 the
small Balkan states led the Balkan
states to act for themselves, led ines
capably through serajevo to Artnageds
don,
The question OF Poland, Of Rumania,
OF the Austrian Slavs, Is not, then, a
remote and relatively unimportant
question for Americans. On the con-
trary, It is the most vital of all ques-
tions, once Germany has been beaten
and forced to surrender. Our mission,
If we are to have q mission, In the
making OF peace, must lie In r~esolute
championship Of the rights of all the
peoples, whose condition In the past
has been such rs to make a world con
flagratlon possible, inevitable, II we do
not desire again TO send our boys to
Lorraine and to Champagne n genera
ton hence, we must see to II that the
| protection against a new German as
sault upon our common civilization Is
| made possible. And we must do this,
| not BY making Germany weak-a thing
which can not be done permanently In
| any case or wisely In any degree-but
by making strong those peoples whc
| collectively supply the one sure barrier
to a recurrence OF the German attack
Many Problems.
II Is with this situation IN view that
we must consider the problems sup.
piled by Poland, BY Rufnanis, by III,
| CzechoI Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs, II
is with this consideration In mind tina
we must examine the map of Europe
studying IN the boundaries not merel!
the political ~boundariea between exist
ing states, but the ethnosraphic mai
-, A.lIAl aan ...HAAtaN TIA NNFY.1np t al
between races, to find the solution. I
Germany Ia not 10 fiRht the wort,
again. harnessing TO her war chario
the Poles. the SlRvs, the R~unanians,
must he because we have so writte'
our European settlement that she cal
no longer control these races and tina
these races, Joined voluntarily and log
ically with us, will make a force to-
great for the German to challenge,
So much for the material considera
tons. We in America are so remot
from the battlefield and from the Ques
tons which through the centuries hay
plagued European statesmen that " !
not strange that neither on the militar
nor on the political side Is there an
general grasp Of affairs, And Yet It |
essential that there should he som
grasp, now that n new phase Is I
open. To the information of his fello'
countrymen the president had contrib
uted nue. ON MS ItieithNNs w Nhllou
problems In his celebrated IA points,
which, so far as they concern tn
fighting OF wrongs and the bestows
Of liberty, have the unanimous approve
OF ali mankind,
But we Ia America must not thin
that the settlement OF the Polish cues
ton. for example, or the liberation {
the Austrian Slavs, Ia q remote an
Intricate European affair. There are y
longer any exclusively European al
fairs, as our course In this war ha
proven, II is no longer possible ft
Europe to fight a general wal .withot
involving the United states, and hence
forth our frontiers of interest, II nj
OF geography, are European MS well .
AslatIc. Ii the present settlement doc
) not abolish the German peril we sha
have TO Join IN tho next battle to I,
7 sist Il. aud therefore II Is for us
contribute what we can to the erei
, tinn Of barriers against such a ne
German eruption.
, A New Poland.
! A new Poland, a unified Rumeni
I two new Slav states, one on the Adr
|, attic and one along the old trontte
. hot " Russia. Germany and Austri
four states whose combined populate
/, win exceed $4,000, Don, q population &
greater than that uf France, Of Gre
/ Rritain or uf Italy; these will be ha
a rjers to any new German dream OF 9.
pansion through the Balkans to Asi
l while i'm Asiatic Turkey, other state
Z Armenian. syrian and Arabian, guaral
= teed and protected by France and Bri
i. ain. will present no opportunity I
!. I,errnan exploitation.
NIhd without these things. withp