The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-07-01

United States entered the war it did so
with a solemn declaration that it took
up arms to establish new world order,p
that the proposed league of nations
scheme demands "the same high and hon
orable standards of conduct among ma
tons as those which pertain among high
minded honorable men," and that it was
the new idealism of the Versailles coven-
ant for which the youth of the allied ma
tons gave up their lives on the battlefield.
1t seems somewhat cynical common
tary upon the Christianity of nineteen
centuries to set up the claim that not un-
til 1919, at the Paris peace conference,
has there been made serious effort to
"estblish the Kingdom of Christ on
earth" Some people cling to the belief
that Christ expected the establishment of
His kingdom through spiritual, rather
than political means Nor is it clear, from
reading of the covenant, jut how the
document is going to Establish the King
dom of Christ" The emperor of japan
whose representatives helped formulate
this treaty, and who is an object of re-
ligious worship himself, might be able to
throw some light on this proposition, but
the pronunciamento of the Church I'm
ion deals only in glittering generalties
and is therefore not convincing in the
discussion of this subject.
That the United States announced at
the beginning of the war that it took up
arms to establish new world order, is
not well remembered by the American
people who do recall that President Will
son in his message asking for declara-
ton OF war, gave as the basis for the de-
claration that American lives and Ameri-
can rights had been assailed, Congress
passed a resolution declaring that the
acts of Germany in these specific matters
created state of war. The record is
clear on this subject.
If the Versailles covenant demands the
same high and honorable standards of
conduct among nations as those which
pertain among high minded, honorable
men, this memorial to the senate ought
to have included an explanation of the
act Of the diplomats who framed this
covenant in taking from China the prov
ince of Shantung ad delivering it over
with forty million people to the control
OF Japan That act is on par morally
with the seizure of Belgium by Germany.
The United States is asked, by signing
the covenant, to endorse and perpetuate
this wrong, the greatest international
outrage ever committed, except by force,
in all the worlds history
The statement that the Americans who
fought in France did so for the purpose
of making possible the Versailles league
of nations covenant, is frequently made.
Those who died in battle cannot deny this
statement, of course. Many of the sur
viving soldiers do deny it vehemently AS
matter of ordinary common sense, peo-
pie generally understand that the Amer
lean soldier fought in this war as in 9TH
er wars, not for any vague International
ism or any one mans scheme for world
league based upon his own fourteen, or
forty or fifty seven points, but for his
country and his flag.
1t is to be feared that the churches and
the cause of religion will be made to suf-
fer through the activities of many church
leaders in behalf of scheme which mil
hons of good patriots and Christians be-
lieve is violative of the fundamentals of
Americanism. The right of these leaders
to declare themselves as individuals is of
course, not to be questioned, but the pull
pits, church publications and other relig-
ious agencies have been used as channels
of propaganda for the national admins
tration in way that will be more harm
full to the churches than helpful to any
politician who wants to make himself
either first term President of the World
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