The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-05

-~AIL FOR DALLAS'--t 0UE
or NATIONS AGAiN--A MODERN
PARABI.E-UNTRUTH vs. NOR
THY ENTERPRIsE-~D0NT
LAUGH.
staff Correspondence.
Dallas. Texas. April 2. 1919.
Hits The Trail.
FAEreesbis to announcement ] leave
! DaiIas tonight for 1T. Worth, where
\ viii be the guest OF the Hotel
ls4er,s Progressive Association OF
Texas. M. H. 10. jackson is the
piesldent MIR. o. d. Williams Is the
Gecsetary. Ii will cost 81 to raise
q plate at the table, tbs true. While
/ Il comes high we must have Il. From
III Worth / 60 10 Abilene and ON
as per dates in the Dallas Express
OF this issue on page s. Prof. @. w.
jackson at Corsicana, has already
written me to come on the 18th, but
| / cannot cnange these dates. will
be In Corsicana, April 3 unless.
All for Dallas.
/ have just passed through the
city campaign here in Dallas and
Notwithstanding, was on the side
on right, fell outside the breast
work. There were only about 1900
qualified Colored votes in the city,
when there should have been 5000.
The only ward in the city controlled
BY Colored men, cast 81 votes for the
present administration and SO against
1t.
The campaign SO far as the Colored
people were concerned, was conduct
ed on q high plane, except for the
incorporate remarks of one or two
speakers. The vote was gotten out
In large numbers and majority
OF the Colored voters cast their lots
with the present Mayor. who had
shown himself a man of heart II
the white voter had been controlled
as was the Col0red vote, Lawther
and not Wozencraft would be the
Mayor. But enough Now, tat Capt.
Wozencraft has been elected, let
politics be adjourned and let every
man put his shoulder to the wheel
and make Dallas bigger and better
place in which to live.
The League Of Nations Again.
In the meantime let us not forget
that the Treaty OF Peace has not
been signed yet and the country il
still on war footing AS for the
League OF Nations, that thing Is
something In the making and when
| II Is made, very likely 1t viii be
found, that 1t will fall to pieces OF
It's own weight. / have been trying
| to see even possibility OF 1t pre-
venting future warfare: but / con-
fess / am too obtruse TO see the
point. At best the League cannot
be more than rope OF sand which
| by its very hugeness will prevent
certain OF the smaller families OF
nations violating its mandates. but
what OF the five countries which con
stitute the Supreme COuncil-G
Britain, France. Italy, Japan ant
United States? They being par
OF the machinery which insure:
peace by guaranteeing settlement o.
| all outside themselves. have no ar.
rang1nent by which to settle diff.
erences amongst themselves, and b,
the way they are quite as liable Il
run upon the rocks as other nations
They will be bound merely by whai
is known in diplomatic circle as s
~gentleman's agreement"
It Is not news to STUDENTS Of his.
tory that thore have been gentlemen'i
agreements "between nations in all
the past ages. They stand some
strain. They unquestionably render
some service, but the sphere OF, theil
usefulness has always been limited
/ BY the fairness and squareness o.
the parties there. Up till this hour
the necessary to maintain peace hal
always vanished in proportion al
personal interest and insatiate am.
bition appeared. OF course wher
these qualities assume proportions
sufficiently large, peace has always
taken the wings Of the morning
Beware, lect history repeats itself
The fairness which must be resi-
dent in the countries which consti.
titute the Supreme Council England
France. Italy. Japan and United
States-m be based on justice al
home A nation must have charity
like nan, and like a man its char.
ify must begin at home and spread
abroad. True charity and simple
Justice are hand maidene. who wall
the world, side by each. and they
do unto others as they would that
others should do unto them. They
seek to help the man farthest down
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