The Carlisle independent., 1918-02-07
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.

one outcome of the great war will be a world league of peace. It is interest Ing to note that the movement for such a 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 Tn the war and doing its utmost to keep neutral, the advocates of a world peace organization were inculcating their doctrines by speeches, lectures and the distribution of literature. It is doubt full whether their efforts had much ef- feet, although indorsed by many promi- nent, earnest people.
 A world peace league is promised as one of the results of war; 1t is so de- clared by the two most conspicuous men of the war today. If it can be ac- complished it will be a 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 1t meant embodiment in old world affairs and that 1t 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 chill dren and women of Belgium; hands that have bayonetted women and car 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 have shelled boats in which people 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 a market"
 Senator King of Utah is a Demo- cratic senator who wants to return to what was once the good old Demo- cratic faith. ''The people in theory pass their power to the congress" he sah 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 find so many heresies and isms prevailing"
 As to Railroad Control.
 The real fight over government con trol of railroads will come on the prop osition of surrendering such control after the war. The opponents of gov ernment ownership will propose that the railroads shall be restored to the owners after the war closes, either in six months or a year.
 Doubt is expressed whether such an amendment can be made to the rail road bill in view of the tendency toward government control of every thing. Open advocates of government ownership of all public utilities are urging the continued control of the railroads regardless of war. Those who oppose government ownership are looking forward to hard fight to secure a provision in the railroad bill which will turn the roads back to the 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 March 4, 1909, 1t was disregarded, but previ- ous to that time there was every indi- cation that bituminous coal would be driven out of the capital.
 But how different nowl Our fuel ad- ministrators have laid heavy hands on anthracite coal; they have decreed that only persons having ancient la-