The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-05-03
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1t is real hard to keep editorial pace
today with the worlds many-sided mad
ness. Revolutions and counter revolt
tons, schisms, splits and broken alliances
IN every sphere of influence, in every ma
ton, are being enacted with such rapidity
just now, that they almost become ancient
history ere they can be recited Men can
neither agree nor agree to disagree. Even
the pacts among thieves, politicians, pluto
cratic money mongerS, and even domestic
parties, are being made mere scraps of
paper" in the mad militance of our day.
There is nothing certain but the uncer-
taintv Of all things, and there is nothing
regular but the irregularities of men, The
peace conference itself seems to be pro-
life cause of international war talk, and
its effort to enthrone international law
seems rather destined to call forth much
national lawlessness.
Our friends the Japanese are expressing
great sympathy with the Italians TODAY in
their avowed purpose to forcib1y annex
Fiume and the Dalmation coast, in spite
of President Wilson's opposition. They
have also done some real depressing" in
reference to Mr. Wilson's forcing a re-
cognition of the Monroe doctrine into the
League of Nations covenant.
Mr.. Cemenceaus letter to Italy ~ex-
pressing the sympathies of France with
Italv's aspirations for Fiume and the Dal-
matian coast of the Adriatic Sea is very
significant 1t implies that if Italy seizes
the country, France will be merely a pas
sive spectator. Japan feels likewise, and
England has but feeble resistance toward
the Italian demands Neither France nor
ENGLAND wants to be placed in the national
"Ananias" scrap of paper" club. 1t looks
as if President Wilson had unintentionallv
called for the singing of the "Hymn of
Hate" at the international love feast of
the Peace Conference.
Our American fleet happens, of course,
providentialy, to be right now in the Ad-
riatic Sea, adjacent to Fiume. Admiral
Andrews, its commander, is under direc-
tions to keep order there This being the
case, there may soon be a discordant Jar in
the harmony of the Peace Conference, if
the Italians fail to use great decorum in
their procedure of annexing Fiume Mr..
Wilson's early statement is being reversed,
and from a peace without victory" we
seem to have victory without peace.
1t is thought, in some quarters, to be
a fact that England would like to be well
rid of her Nipponese ally, and for this rea-
son she is anxious for the success of the
League of Nations idea, and the friendli-
ness of the United States Canada and
Australia, her best colonies, hold about the
same attitude toward yellow emigration to
their boarders as Americans do. If break
comes between Japan and England, look
for the immediate creation of great north
eastern confederacy, which will include
Japan, Russia, Germany, and several
smaller states. From present indications,
Italy may Join in such a coalition. The
fear of this fact will make the League
of Nations a downright necessity, and the
fear of the League of Nations, on the other
hand, will make this Northeastern Con-
federacv an inevitable certainty. Then these
two militant hemispheres of an uncivilized
civilization will stage a world-war, which
God describes as the Great Tribuation.
The commission on international labor
legislation that formed an adjunct Of the
Peace Conference, now proposes to per-
petuate itself by the creation of an inter
national labor conference to settle all labor
legislation disputes and capitalistic condi-
tons for the whole world in the future.
Their avowed aim is "a better social order
and the birth of new civilization. Their
first meeting is to be at Washington, D. c.,
next October. Here is an extremely slgn1-