The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
THE LIMITS OF VISION

SPITE of it's years which are great both origins and it's membership the senate continues to act with he nreectng sponaneiy school boy whose teacher is temporarily the What could be evdental youth spirit escape discipline than the half begun canty pursued and finally abandoned attempt to fbuster he Victory bonding bill into the next session.
 attitude the senate toward the League of Nations scarcely adult in it's management and execution Div senator's elderly enough with respect to years but quite outhful inexperienced with respect 10 what going the world shout out various objections which recorded IS erudlte mastery as showing profound legal lo"IedGe md the like It is if the onbs opened and the dead If centuries houd begin to talk in the political legal indus rial and economic terms of the stone age.
 Senator Knox who his field is excellent lawyer, ushe breahess into inc senatorial talking contests to pro- laim that the United States as of the League will vote nine And t7 tremendous discovery is nailed juristic, super wonderful and so on.
 Such arguments this would abolish democracy altogeth ar all the practice of democracy based upon the ,ression popular will by ballot The American citizen who proud his title nevertheless has but vote in mil The several states of the Unified States have but soe for every 48 more or less in the Congress
 would be indeed impractical to form League of Nations which the United States would have all the votes and other nation any voe The opinions Of these learned lawyers welded their books of weight than the opinions of the ordinary laymen of the world
 The League of Nations is great original determination, proceeding from the minds of lawyers but from the minds peoples The peoples who set up parlaments, cuives and judiciary are merely considering will up purposes larger parliament i've judiciary The jurst worthy and necessary
 man 7ariv trained o understand the law as if is It is his function at all to agate for those original mandates of mankind, which not law until they given.
 The League of Nations depends simply upon this. Are
 
 the and simple conditions elaborated in the const of the league? open covenant openly arrived which r Wilson has brought homo with him for the inspection he American people.
 The consequences of such agreement may be passing they may be enduring and vast Just nobody could for dynamo when the first expermener rubbed amber and electrical attraction and just the gner of the Federal constitution could not forsee the present conditions United States so no one can see or know with oearnes much of the future of the League of Nations.
 All that do with respect to this magnificent ure to enquire appears be adapted to give effect heir purposes They to stop and to decrease the os of military preparation They to prevent wholesale laughter of the of They wish again millions in direct and thirteen millions indirectly because of
 plan to achieve this purpose has been prepared if heablest in the world for this purpose at least hose whom vast emergency has placed in control
 The step will be taken if it is delayed all consequences of forseen Man does anything which he know the remote consequences. All that oes he does in the light of the hour seeing way into he darkness that covers tomorrow.
 In the League America will have but nine, which should be soothing to Knox who has but