Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-05

Don call me "hamerad'!
George j. Eager Jr
cellen question for high school debating society.
Any trained will realize we are simply extending the
Monroe Docrineif you interpret that with any
realization of the march history Not even Senator
Lodge and his predecessors have been able prevent
the discovery of the of the invention of
the telegraph and telephone the bringing the whole
would in closer communication than Boston was with
trine formulated protect small and weak nations
in the western hemisphere from exploitation by big and
aggressive nations abroad What liberal spirit the
age is endeavorng do tomorrow at Versailles to
extend the Monroe Doctrine the whole world read
the Monroe Doctrine In the light of the inventions Of
Fulton Bell Marcon and not to treat as if it
was frozen thing incapable of growth We want an
arrangement that will protect only Brazil but Bel
GUM and Serbia Bohemia JugoSlavia and Pol
and Does Senator Lodge want the nations the
Czecho- Slovaks the Jugo-Savs to depend on their
strength? Does want the new Jewish nation in
Palestine to defend itself? Would he like have China
dependent her own strength? He says Let us be
honest with ourselves" Well echo that statement Let
him be honest with himself and tell what thinks
the state which his doctrines have now brought ste
world
He tries to throw a into us about immigration
and tariffs If I writing pages instead of para
graphs, nothing would amuse me more than to take up
each one of his points in succession and show hundred
per cent shaowness, Neither the League to Enforce
Peace the League of Free Nations Association has
said or means to that immigration question to
be decided by the League of Nations. I fancy that the
majority of the officials of both these organizations think
1t to be domestic question Certainly do, and would
it to settle the negro question in our Southern states The
league in fact has comparatively little to do with the
domestic questions of advanced and sef-governings
nations The greatest of in modern times is
the race to control the undeveoped of
the backward countries when Lodge tries to raise
tariff he overooks the difference between tariffs
free and sef-governings country may make for its do
nestle welfare and tariffs which might mean that one of
the great assuming the right to cut off from
the other powers to the materials of some
place in Africa Asia Minor over which it assumed
sovereignty.
You see, the whole trouble with the attitude of Lodge
and Knox is that they doing what certain type of
corporation lawyer tries to do he to knock out
statute enacted with the purpose helping along some
aspect of civil progress He not lend bis intellect
and experience to try to reshape some clause in the
statute to make effective He gets his microscope
and what detail he can find that may possibly admit
of successful attack technical grounds and uses any
such point to upset the whole statute
If minds like Lodges and Knoxs were turned in the
other direction and trying to help the world build
wsest and most fertile their assistance would be
invaluable AS, however, they simply following the
tuntes to throw the machinery of progress out of work
ing order wherever they find the opportunity they
are bearing responsibility as grave as men in high Of
flee could possibly bear They dashing the hopes
mankind They endeavorng tell the world that the
total result of the measureess woe of this war shall be
precisely nothing that it shall leave the world exactly
where it before its baptism sorrow; that any man
and any group of men who endeavor to from the
ruins of Europe the foundations of better world shall
have from. them nothing but obstruction and
disbursement