Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-14
A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

The proposed League of Nations is
profound subject, which has been
talked Of for many years. President
Wilson, believing that. time for its
complete organization had arrived,
has acted as pathfinder in the new d.
rection, looking to its final cOnsumma-
ton. Certainly the time never seemed
ripper for q League Of Nations to be
put into effect than now.
But there Is part playing in the
present proposal which may upset the
affair altogether-the part of politics.
However much of value and even of
necessity in the thought of League
of Nations, it is largely question OF
leadership in getting it effective in
complete organization. President Will
son has not only opponents, but enc
mics. His enemies charge selfish in
terests with all Of his proposals, yet In
the final analysis it is a question If
any great ruler ever put into effect
more wholesome legislation than his
or who was more altruistic in purpose
and more self abnegative in principle.
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sonal interest in the new thought of
League of Nations, 1t can never be
realized dream without leadership,
whether the driving force be conferred
in Lloyd George, Clemenceau or
Woodrow Wilson. No great world
benefaction could come into being
without DIRECTORS If these are not
put aside by an onsweep of approval
of and faith in League of Nations at
the peace table 1t will be difficult to
carry. At the conference every atten-
ton will be given to all sides of this
great issue, on which the thought of
the whole world is now conferred. The
difficulties in the way of its final ac-
complishment are many, but somehow
it seems logical to lean towards 1t as
the greatest boon for the future gov
eminent of the world. 1t does not
stop initiative; it has no relation to
legitimate competition in the worlds
manufactures and their disposal and
distribution among other nations ev-
erywhere.
The greatest concentration of inter-
est AT this time, Of course, is the ad-
mission of Germany into any interna-
tional, worldwide agreement among
nations. Frankly we do not approve
of Germany coming in League of
Nations on equal terms. Having upset
the whole world in its progress and
unbalanced civilization itself through
it's unparalleled barbarism in war,
having been the direct and positive
cause of the loss of ten millions of
lives and forty millions of casualties,
she must now do penance and do 1t as
a criminal nation. To admit Germany
into the council of the worlds peoples
would be to invite a murderer to go
free and enter the drawing room of
respectable society. Germany must do
two things, renOunce her villainies
and pay for her deviltry in the war
and do penance until her people prove
loyalty to true ideals and honor
among men. There is such thing as
honor, but German autocracy never
exhibited it. Besides, brought to her
knees, she may still cherish revenge
and go secretly about the discovery of
some new process of organized fright
fulness. And League of Nations will
police and search her confines to I'M
earth such scheme if they dare go
about its development.
Give us the League of Nations, but
handcuff Germany in its making.