Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-12

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was done to raped Belgium and hard.
pressed France; that self-seekina
England's navy was solely responsible
for Congressman Greene performing
his job in Washington at this moment
instead of holding it down somewhere
out around Kansas City OF Denver
He treats of England as den OF
iniquity and oppression from which
we fed to escape persecution instead
Of remembering how those English
kept July 4th last year and what
Lloyd George said Oh that occasion
and that England and America, stand
ing together, can tell all the world
to 60 to hatch and boss the whole
gosh-blamed universe as they please
which they will do if the COM
mon people of the two countries have
anything to say about it. He says q
few votes at the council table over
at Versailles, might dictate to us
whether OF not we could intervene in
South America or Mexico if some
pinheaded diplomat got the Hohen-
zollern malady and started something,
forgetting that the broad purpose of
the league is to fix things so that no
pinhead diplomat can start anything.
He says that there are no fights like
family fights where the parties know
one another thoroughly and so it will
be among the family of nations if
we join together, forgetting that
fights between members of the same
family are the exception and not the
rule and that ninety percent of
human families live together in peace
and reasonable harmony at least 1863
days out of each year.
We would like to debate this ques-
ton point by point with our very en-
thusiastic live-wire Congressman for
there was not one point in all his
argument with the Caledonian Man in
the afternoon last Friday at Mont
peler or in his address in the evening
that cannot be land by this time has
been more or less) exploded as old
stuff on a par with the liquormen's
contention that booze is a good thing
for man as a stimulant and the
economics of the country will go to
pot if we turn our breweries into
candy factories.
Sometimes We sit back and wonder
Just how we are going to hold to our
Monroe Doctrine and splendid iso-
lation" when we can go to Europe by
airship from one noontime to an
other; when Zeppelins by the
hundreds are lighting all over our
country from other countries daily.
We wonder how we are going to hold
to our Monroe Doctrine and intensi-
fled combative offensive Americanism
if the other nations of the world 60
ahead and form the League without
us. We wonder what right we have
to talk about Europe-ism versus
Americanism when the tables have
exactly turned about and within the
last decade Europe has almost shown
itself far more American than our
own United States.
The fact is, the world is coming
together, just as individual members
of the human family have been COM
ing together, just as states have been
coming together into nations, just as
religions and theologies have lost
their original arbitrariness and come
together, just as little businesses
have pooled their interests and be-
come trusts. 1t is evolution, the
order of all things human. And those
who cannot see it are woefully be-
hind the times. The question is
"How Shall We Get Together Most
Advantageously for All of Us?" not
"Shall We Get Together At All?"
The start must be made sometime.
What more fitting time than at the
close of the most gigantic cataclysm
the world has ever known.
The League won't work any
smoother at first than the union of
the thirteen colonies worked smooth
ly up to the Civil War. We predict
there will be a great martial test of
whether one nation or any nation
shall have the right to secede or
whether the world federation shall
endure. And it will be decided that
the federation will endure. After
that next great struggle we shall
have the real earnest parliament of
nan.
But the League of Nations must
be concrete thing with a physical
force in the shape of police ships, ter
ritcry, a revenue and other outward
manifestations of authority. 1t must
have Q flag and an executive rJvern-
ment 1t must have physica' features
to help roor human nature to realize
it is a concrete thing. 10 mere writ
ing like tie old treaties that could be
rubbed out with "a sweep of the hand
or tearinr OF a document into little
pieces, No mere arbitration board
will answer or any international de-
bathg society. 1t must be something
that evokes human regard, admira-
Ion, respect, obedience. And we,
with England. must be the prime
in it, first. last and always.
Greene loves his country just as
much as we do, no doubt. But it's a
pretty poor man who loves his own
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