The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-04
Senator Owen Says This Is So
Because the People Now
Rule.
ATTACKS LODGES ARGUMENT
Oklahoma Senator Says Republican
Leader Seems to Forget That
Military Autocracies Have
Been Swept Away.

VaSiilHgtOns aug. OU.--ScHAIOr owen
OF Oklahoma. in a speech in the senate
Saturday replied to the arguments adj
vaneed August i by Senator Lodge
against the League of Nations. The
Oklahoma senator devoted his atten-
ton particularly to the fundamental
purpose of the League of Nations,
namely, an instrumentality for the
maintenance of the world $ peace.
'Phe Massachusetts senator calls.
attention" he said, ''to the allSring
promises made in the treaty of Paris
of November 20, 1916, and the high
purposes alleged in the treaty of the
Holy Alliance, and shows historically
that wars followed, and not peace. He
argued by necessary inference that
these promises of peace and assurance
of high purposes did not produce
peace, but war, and therefore that the
declaration of purposes found in the
present covenant of the League of Ma
lions would naturally be followed by
war, because mankind repeats itself
1.-THE obvious fallacy of this argu-
ment is that the alleged purposes of
the Holy Alliance had nothing to do
with the consequences which ensued
from that alliance. War did not re-
suit from the yirtuous promises made
to the people by the Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance made willfully de-
ceitful and false promises of broth
erly love and peace in order to deceive
the people of Russia, Prussia and Aus
tria, and thus, sIrevent them from go
Ing into revolution, as the people
had done in France under, the condi-
tons of tyranny and brutal military
power The fact that wars followed
the Holy Alliance was because the
treaty was between military dynaSties,
controlled by intrigue, by rival arma-
ments and by ambitious secret pur-
poses. They were lined up against
other similar governments at that time
not greatly In advance Of them lin
structure of government or in con-
ception Of liberty and popular rights
England, however, was becoming stead
lily more democratic and soon with
drew.
1.-THE cause of war was wrapped up
In the treaty Of the Holy Alliance of
Russia, Austria and Prussia, because
of their then several secret, dynastic
and military ambitions. There was
during that period no available or
possible provision in the world for
Cancellation and arbitration in, the set
Element of international disputes
There was no means of promoting pro-
gressive disarmament, and the lust
for power, unrestrained by law, un-
ayoidably led to war as necessary
consequence. There was no adequate
restraining power in all the world, and
no forum where the organized opinion
and power Of mankind could make
itself effective for peace as there is
available now.
The trouble with the senator from
Massac husetts is that he has shown
himself unable to discriminate be-
tween the consequences of govern
ments based upon tyranny and brute
force such as Russia, Prussia and Aus
tria, Bulgaria and Turkey, and the con-
sequences favorable to peace of gov
ernments based on the consent of the
governed, on justice and liberty, such
as the United States and Canada, the
South American republics. Australia,
Great Britain, France, Belgium and
Italy
The senator from Massachusetts
has failed to discover what every stu
dent of history ought to know, who
has discerning mind and an inteIli-
gent comprehension, that the insta-
biiity and wars Of military dynasties
had an adequate cause, and that these
causes rest in the rule of the few
moved by intrigue, by gross human
seldshness, by ambition and lust for
the property of other people, leading
them to develop great armies nominal
~ for peace but always secretly for
offenSe, so we'll described by Won Bern
harLi, in his description of the Hohen-
zollerns and Frederick H. Everybody
seems to know this except the senator
from Massachusetts. The stability of
republics and their power for peace is
not based on preambles nor lofty prom
ises of high purposes, as the senator
from Massachusetts seems TO think.
They are based upon sound principles
affecting the structure of government.
Which go~to guarantee justice, liberty
and humanity and the organized self
government of the people. These are
the principles which guarantee stabil-
ity. These are the principles which
not only promise but will make sure
the peace Of the world
1.-THE senator loosely argues, That
since mankind repeats ITSELF and
since the Holy Alliance made virtu-
Gus promises and war followed, there
fore that the virtuous promises of the
present covenant of league Of free
nations can mean nothing but war.
The senator argues from the false pre-
mise that the promises Of the auto
Gratis of the Holy Alliance were sim
cere They were not sincere. They
were wickedly false.
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