Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-08
AMERICA WITH THE WORLD.

Many queer things have come out
of the argument over the League of
Nations. According to Lodge Borah,
and Knox, the league will be an in
strument of war and not Il means
of preventing it. In .other words,
Woodrow Wilson is trying to get the
world into more trouble.
While some opposition to the Paris
plan has come from Democratic SEN
ators, by far the larger opposition has
been from Republican opponents, thus
making it Il partisan plea, instead of
an American objection The New
York Tribune this week takes up three
plans and does away with two of
them, the accepted idea being to have
England, France, Italy, Japan and the
United States form compact, five
party agreement to stand together
as ii bulwark against war.
That is virtually and exactly what
the present plan is. The supreme
council of the League of Nations will
be the five big nations Their power
and influence will direct it. If. as the
is the union of the five great powers,
what more is to be desired?
SO many things are said about
America (the United States) being the
goat as the financial sustaining in
fiuence. We can only pay our pro rata
share of the cash of maintaining the
league. What force can make us pay
| l. in, no, 10.
we can come out Provision is made
for all these things. We are begin
ming to fight imaginary enemies and
to picture fictional intrigue against
America where none is in sight. Either
the league is good for all nations.
or it is not The worlds greatest
leaders assembled i'll Paris see its
righteousness While few partisan
leaders over here see us being made
monkeys out of.
The League of Nations is going to
be fact. Taft told the Republican
machine men to get on the band wagon
weeks ago. Theodore Roosevelt was
beginning to see the necessity of Il
league of some sort against war. Mr.
Lodge wants something; Mr. Root
doesn't want anything: Mr.. Knox
wants different kind of il league
with halo around the Monroe Doc
ttrine. the vaguest document in the
world today. Nobody wants to in
terfere with the Monroe Doctrine.
The league does not, but appears to
desire its extension over the world.
AS for the Monroe Doctrine, what
was it worth in the United States?
Germany had planted her colonies all
over this country. The lying devils
took our oath of allegiance and re-
nOunced their own fatherland only to
live and thrive as home Germans
the Kaisers bugle call, and that's
what the most of them did.
Every opponent of the League of
Nations is willingly or otherwise play
ing into Germany's hands Nobody
wants to bind Germany with chains,
but the world wants Il guarantee that
she shall behave herself And the
world is going to see to this. She is
sore spot today. If by good conduct
and rule of the people instead of
an autocrat she energies new and
loyal Germany-loyal to the prin-
ciples of truth and honor-the world
will recognize her rights as free ma
ton. But we have got to watch her
every minute. Our alien custodian is
fast unshackling her commercial
strangle hold in America, and they
won't go at it again in hurry. After
awhile whatever is done in this coun-
try will be under the new order, and
it will be American with the world,
and leading it.