The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-08
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 Will Want to Buy German Goods After Conflict Has Ended-King Deplores Political Heresies.
By ARTHUR W. DUNN.

By ARTHUR w. DUNN.
 WashingtOn.-If the ideas of Presi- dent Wilson and Lloyd-George prevail, one outcome of the great war will be a world league of peace. It is interest Ing to note that the movement for such league was started by peace advo- cates, those who afterward became known as pacifists, but it will be the outcome of the greatest war in history
 While this nation was taking no part In the war and doing it's utmost to keeI neutral, the advocates of world peace organization were inculcating theil doctrines by speeches, lectures and tht distribution of literature. It is doubt full whether their efforts had much eff feet although indorsed 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 1t can be ac- complished 1t will be 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 meant embodiment in old world affairs and that it would sacrifice our Monroe doctrine. Whether these objec- tions 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 chiI- dren and women of Belgium; hands
 
 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 Ch fv, h ,f,l, l. were trying to escape from their devil lsh work who have let drop the mur- | derous bomb upon hospitals where men were already living in pain; who have | plotted 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 market"
 Senator King of Utah Is Demo- cratic senator who wants to return to what was once the good old Demo- cratic faith. .sThe 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 bu- 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 debauched and bribed by appropriations of the federal gov ernment."
 Have we as Democrats" said King later, departed from the faith of the fathers of our party? Since I returned to congress I have been amazed to finC so many heresies and isms prevailing.
 As to Railroad Control.
 The real fight over government COT trol of railroads will come on the proI osition of surrendering such contr, after the war. The opponents of go ! ernment ownership will propose tn the railroads shall be restored to u owners after the war closes, either six months or a year.
 Doubt is expressed whether such amendment can be made to the ra road bill in view of the tenden, toward government control of ever thing. Open advocates of governmel ownership of all public utilities al urging the continued control of tn railroads regardless of war. Thos who oppose government ownership ar looking forward to a hard fight t secure a provision In the railroad bill which will turn the roads back to th owners after the war.
 It was only a few years ago-be tween 1905 and 1909, to be exact that an antismoke law was vigorously enforced in Washington. After Marcf 4, 1909, 1t was disregarded, but previ ous to that time there was every indi cation that bituminous coal would bt driven out of the capital.
 But how different nowl Our fuel ad ministrators have laid heavy hand: on anthracite coal; they have decreet that only persons having ancient la trobes, more ancient base burners, ant the almost unused hot-air heating plant, shall be permitted to use an thracite coal.
 The result has been the extensive use of bituminous coal and volumes O