The Irish standard., 1919-10-25
50 many evident wrongs in Europe
are left unredressed.
Champions Of Freedom.


But, then, whose fault is that?
He went into the war, and brought
in American as the champion of small
nations, as the emancipator and lib
orator, as the apostle of Liberty.
He is ending the struggle by what
appears to be complete surrender to
all the forces of Hunnism, of Imper-
ialism, of plunder in France, in Eng
land, and even in Italy, though to the
claims of the latter country he made
public show of resistance in the case
of Fiume.
On more than one occasion during
the war we appealed to President Will
son not to betray mankind, not to
raise the hopes of the oppressed to
high Heaven only to cast them down
in despair. ....
We foresaw the foes he would have
to encounter.
We prophesied that he would find
the real enemies of his proposals and
his doctrines among the Allied ma
tions.
We ventured to warn him as we'll
as to appeal to him.
Our fears were only too real, too
true.
Ireland, India, Egypt, Malta, and
other portions of this ramShackle
pirate Empire are knocking at the
door of the American Senate and
asking that Wilson's promises shall
be made good. ..
the Treaty, and apparently of the
rejection of all their appeals, and
asks America to endorse the bargain
he has made.
Our Judas.
In this country also, a campaign in
favor of the League is to be inaugur-
ated by that blasphemer of freedom,
Lloyd George.
That is surely enough, it will be said,
to stamp the thing as a fraud and a
falsehood?
Is the outlook, then, for Justice and
Liberty, and the triumph of right in
the world, black and hopeless?
We do not say so, nor do we so
think.
The League of Nations can be made
in the end just what the people who
constitute it, wish it, to be.
Take the case of this Empire, now
ruled by our Huns, Junker profiteers,
and exploiters.
We know what sort of rulers they
are and what sort of League of Ma
tion they aim at.
But what chance have they of con-
tinuing to rule?
What is their future?
We see what has become of Hohen-
zollern, Hapsburg, and Romanoff, of
Cultaus and Kings, of Prussian Junk
ers and Militarists, and of all their
accursed schemes.
The Peoples Chance.
L The people of this country can
make clean sweep of all the evil
forces that now dominate and mis-
represent them, and can also make
government of their own, and a
League of Nations rejecting that gov
ernment and the aims of democracy.
And what the people of this land
can do, can be done by other peo-
pies as WELL
AS is the world, so will the League
be.
If it is world of greedy, selfish,
governments, the League will do just
little to restrain and influence them
and delay an outbreak Of war.
If the people make their govern
ments in their own image and like
ness, and if the peoples are pacific,
just, honorable, lovers of Liberty and
of their fellowmen and nations, then
| the League can give strength and pur-
pose to high and noble sentiment, and
aspirations, and translate them into
| act.
Some Thoughts.
The wrongs of mankinds, or any
part of it, will not be remedied in a
day. That we know.
There is even now a general strike
in parts of Alsace and Lorraine, and
the French authorities have pro.
claimed martial law.
French militarism and Prussian
militarism are not so much unlike
one another. Nor is the English ar
ticle very dissimilar.
WHOLE COUNTRY HoNoRs
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