The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-05

power or authority expect themselves.
Is it sane and wise for our people
and our government to be placed un-
der the control of such an over-top-
ping, all-powerful, irresponsible, I'M
restricted, international government?
We are told in the Book Genesis,
18th Chapter) that there was day
and time when "the whole earth was
of one language and of one speech, "
and that as "they journeyed from the
East they found plain in the land of
Shinar and dwelt there" and "they
said Let us make brick, and let
Jus build US a city and a tower whose
top may reach unto heaven,
and make US name, let we be scat
tered abroad upon the face of the
Yhole earth" "And the Lord came
down to see the city and the tower
which the children of men builded."
"And the Lord said, Behold the peo-
/ pie is one, and they all have one Ian
guage; and this they begin to do; and
inow nothing will be restrained from
Them which they have planned to do
let US 90 down, and there con-
found their language that they may
not understand one another's speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the
EARTH and they left off to build the
CITY,"
Can man reserve this decree, or dis
pensation, eyes" but what will the
firm believer in the Book answer?
End what does history answer? There
are twenty-seven different govern
ments in Europe, under which there
live seventy different nationalities,
and for centuries these men have
been edeavoring to reconcile the ra-
cial tastes, instincts and differences
Sf these seventy nationalities, all of
which efforts have failed Why?
Up to the time of the dispersal and
confusion of the speech of mankind
there had never been a war, but soon
thereafter, we are told in the Book,
that four of the tribes or nationah-
ties into which the human family had
been divided joined in a war against
five other tribes, and still little lat
err these warred amongst themselves,
and so it has been ever since Can it
be, that at the time of the dispersal
on the plains of Shinar, there was i'm
planted in their nature racial preju-
dices, which naturally produced an.
tagonisms, which have remained
throughout all time? No matter how
the question may be answered, the
facts remain. Ask the Greek, the
Pole, the Slav, the Irish, etc, ant
near our time, the French in Lorraine
and Alsace, and in Quebec, who have
been held in subsection by force viii
the same kind of government Ceagut
Of nations) change human nature?
Government for these various PEG
pies with the sovereignty and voting
power in them, would be PRACTICAL!
impossible, save and except through
force. 1t matters not what you cal
hat government; whether league
coalition, or what not, if it be a gov
eminent having and exercising gov
ornamental powers and perm2nence
This means armies and navies, as rec
ognized in the proposed "constitu
ton" Of the proposed league of ma
tons.
1t must be apparent to all who reat
md thing that the United States
powerful in men and wealth, separ
ated from all Europe, Asia and Afri
- "A, b,, cooc WOULD he loor,oJ 10 ,ono;, 81 e,
in every emergency, with the resul
that the financial burden cast upol
it in the future would be so enormou
as to become unboarable, No on
has even yet contended that the Unit
; ID States would be benefited in an,
t way by joining the proposed leagu
of nations, but Europeans say, "Yor