The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-02-19

limits subsisting at the outbreak OF
the French revolution; the restoration
of the Austrian monarchy without
Belgium, Bresgau and West Galicia,
but with the addition of what has
come to be known in our day as Italia
Irredenta, namely Venetia, Dalamatia,
etc; the restoration Of the Prussian
monarchy without most of the terri
tory taken in 1907 to form the duchy
of Warsaw and with the addition OF
half of Saxony, territories in the re-
gion Of the Rhine and Swedish Pomer-
ania; the formation of the German
confederation under the hegemony OF
Austria; the creation of a new king
dom of Poland under the Russian dyn-
asty; the establishment of the King
dom of the Netherlands, including Hol-
land and Belgium; the retention OF
Norway by Sweden, the retention OF
Finland by Russia; the restoration Of
the Sandman monarchy with the an
nexation of Genoa; the restoration of
the states Of the church; Avignon and
Venaissin being left to France; the
reconstruction of the Swiss confed-
eracy with enlarged limits; the re-
tention by Great Britain of Cape Col
ony, Ceylon, part of Dutch Guiana,
Mauritius, Tobago, Malta and Heligo-
land; the establishment of a British
protectorate over the Ionian islands;
the restoration of the Burbons and
other former dynasties in Spain,
Naples, Tuscany and Modena."
When we scan these terms we can
not but wonder what the people of
hundred years from now will say Of
the terms agreed upon at Versailles.
Will they say that the United States,
although it set out in crusading
spirit to make the world safe for de-
mocracy, was content simply to re-
constitute the dynasies of Belgium
and Serbia, to enlarge the kingdom
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Moslems among various competitors,
to reconstitute Poland, Bohemia and
Rumania; to establish Jugo-Slavia
and to give Great Britain the German
colonies? Or will they say that some
grand ideal such as the league of ma
lions was result, a concert of the
powers to maintain peace and interna-
tional justice. Will they say that the
peace conference made the world
safe for democracy or that it merely
resulted in reactionary movement
similar to the holy alliance which was
a concert of the powers to maintain
the dynasties of Europe, to save Spain
its American colonies and eventually
to crush out republication in the new
world.
In these days we are somewhat
losing sight of the fact that the gov
eminent of the United States is a re-
public and not a democracy, a repre-
sentative government and not a gov
eminent directly by the people,
Sometimes our British cousins are
fond of describing our government as
a "monarchical republic" because they
discern in it strongly centralized ele-
ments which, in their opinion, make it
much more enduring than pure de-
morcacy.
1t is perhaps necessary to keep this
distinction in mind if we are to view
the proceedings of the peace congress
and it's conclusions in a clear light.
At the time of the congress of vi
emma men were mounting the word
liberty" for had not the French
revolution fired the world with new
ideals and aspirations and had not the
American republic already shown the
power of republican institutions :?
Even Metternich talked of liberty, al
though his main purpose was to estab-
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store order and permanent govern
ment for Europe.
Much Of the radicalism preached by
those we colloquially call the Reds"
today goes by the name democracy.
Men of such differing minds as Wood
row Wilson and Lloyd George on the
one side and Trotzky, Lenine, Debs
and Mooney on the other call them
selves democrats" or social demo
Gratis"
Will the RED" democracy be as
popular hundred years from now as
republican-that is to say, representa-
tive institutions-are today? viii
radicalism have asserted it's suprem-
!acy and will the men of those days re-
gard Woodrow Wilson as reaction
airy like Metternich?
There are some reasons for believ-
ing that history will not repeat itself
IN this regard. Remember, that rep
resentative governments as exempli-
fed by Great Britain and the United