The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-01-09

a mistake. u VIII say 10 the schatoi
from Illinois, In not giving due weight
TO those passions for development and
growth, for liberty as a people con-
ceive IL, which no power can control
or dominate, and which you can not
destroy.
over a century ago league OF ma
tons combined and separated, dis
membered, and destroyed Poland. For
a century and half she has been a
waif upon the face of the earth.
There has hardly been revolution in
Europe in that time that has not been
led by some Polish spirit, and today,
after $50 years Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT by
powerful league of nations, the
strongest national spirit in Europe is
the Polish spirit, and you can not
dominate 1t or control it by a league
of nations.
MR.. LEWIS. If the senator will
tolerate me, by the test of the very IL
lustration he gives ! ask his judgment.
In the first place. as to Ireland, does
not the senator's observation finally
lead to this conclusion, that every
thing turns upon that public opinion
which surrounds the judgment and
the sense of justice which accompan-
les it? Second, does not the senator
concede that different atmosphere
and life are now ours than century
ago. and that the selfishness which
produced all the evils to which he al
ludes at least have been relieved from
In part, and that the object OF the lea
que Is to prevent the very things
which he says were wrongfully done
to these nations?
MR.. BORAH The senator presents
a question which | should like to an
swer; but do not feel that this Is the
time, perhaps, to dwell upon some
facts which have developed since the
armistice was signed between the diff
ferent nations which carried on this
war against Germany. There Is no
possible doubt but that this war
leaves the situation just about as the
Napoleonic wars left the situation,
with very strong feeling in favor of
some understanding among the ma
tons by which to prevent wars; but 1t
Is Just as equally true that all of these
separate nations have their ambitions,
their commercial desires and appe-
tites and their jealousies, If you may
say so, in a business way. which are
going to lead to precisely the same
national rivalry. the same national
ambitions that have always character
lied the different nations of the world;
and | sincerely hope that the time will
never come in the history OF the
world when there will not be that dis
tinct national spirit and national am
biton characterizing the different ma
tons of the earth
MIR. WILLIAMS. Mr.. President
will the senator from Idaho permit an
interruption there?
MIR. BORAH. Yes.
MR.. WILLIAMS. OF course, every
body agrees with him that there ought
to be among nations very strong ma
tional spirit to carry forward the Gull
ture and the civilization of nations,
Just as there ought to be among in
Idividuals very strong individualistic
feeling to carry forward individual
development; but we have long since
agreed that individual development
must submit itself to some tribunal OF
Arbitration when it came to a row be-
tween him and me or between any
other two people. Now, the senator
from Missouri has read the high
sounding tones of the Holy Alliance
declaration. There was not anything
SO wrong about the tone. What was
wrong was that they never meant It,
land never intended to keep it, and
never did keep it, and the really CIV
ilized nations of the world never en-
tered into the agreement, neither
Great Britain nor ourselves.
MR.. BORAH Great Britain did
not actually sign the agreement, but
she adhered to 1t nevertheless.
MIR. REED. And indorsed 1t.
MR.. BORAH. And she met with
them at three separate congresses, ano
sat in with them and decided theil
policies with them, and was one OF
the advisers Of the Holy Alliance;
and she never withdrew from the al
liance and severed herself from the
alliance until she found that the ALI
ance was engaged in the destruction
of free government and then she sep
arated
MIR. WILLIAMS. There is no diff
ference between the senator and me
about historical facts. Great Britain
did not enter into the agreement. She
did let it go with EN- arriere pensee OF
her own; and at the final time, when
she found what the holy alliance was
trying to do, not in accordance with
it's previous agreement, but in viola
ton of it, to-wit extinguish free gov
eminent from the earth--she did then
Suggest to the United States what we
now call the Monroe Doctrine, and we
adopted il in order that the South
American republics might have their
freedom.
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