The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1919-01-09

jealousies are gone. When we ask
q1esrious and seek to fud our bearings
on the chart or return to our own land
marks TO exolore this picture land
those who ere seeking TO bc our gnides
are angry and insist we rlsh en- blind
folded across the desols'io1 that the
! = has wronght TO the place OF their
| d,,sms, When We seek explanation
q, to where this land really is and who
ioh4bit il thy become wid wi h IurV
AID cell US hvd nams They pom
to the blood and d,sola'i>n around US
and insist we wish - coaliunc snch
horrors, We spspsci tina! such leaders
lack any details themselves and ar.
dealing only in pe'tervid rhetoric.
History has known no such thing
as successful permanent league Of
nations They have all turned out to
be nothing more than temporary ex
p dients to meet a crisis during which
people have in the presence OF outside
danger been willing to act in unison
with other people. Even under such
strain most Of them have collapsed and
gone down under the might Of peoples
who have possessed a real national
consciousness Such for instance was
the fate Of the Achean League that
sought to save Greek independenc. /.
f;om the power Of Rome.
II is safe TO say that historically no
such thing as a league OF nations can
endure. Either it will break up in
rival states with differing interests or it
will develope sufficient national con
scioness TO become a nation, not a
league. Whenever the latter condi
ton comes to pass the legue ceases 10
exist for instead OF nations it becomes
nation. The difference between a
nation and q league Of nations, funda'
m ntally, is that in league we have
a number OF equal or independent
states that enter into agreements with
each other to do certain things. This
league can not act directly upon the
citizens OF any OF the contracting
parties but upon The states themselves.
In a nation the authority acts directly
upon the citizens. We are sometimes
told that the United States is league
oi nations, NJ more will and vicious
doctrine could be advanced. 1t was
this notion that the old slave sriStoc'
racy OF the south advanced as an tx.
cuse for its attempt to destroy the
Union. 1t is true the people Of the
Colonies did try a league OF nations
from the time Of the Revolution to the
adoption OF The Constitution in 1889
NJ more critical period ever existed
than The years Of wild disorder between
the signing of thu treaty Of peace in
1888 and the organic ,tion OF our pres
ent government under the Constitution
OF 1889 Ii will be noted that when
our fathers made this new government
that they specifically stated that it was
the people Of the United States, not
the states, nor even the people Of ;ha
states who organized this government.
s. il considering this rhetorical ere
a,ior. "A League Of Nations" let US
insist that the creators be little more
spec'f, End give details. And in the
study Of such details let US remember
clearly Just what Is involved. We
understand that this is to be League
{ na'iors, not Super state though
some Imaginative interpreter OF Mr..
Wilson has progressed 10 the point oil
,e'iag a wonderful su ,Ar state which
suppose would mingle Chinese Coolies,
VI, xican greasers and Bolsheviki cui
throats in one heterogeneous mess with
sane and sensible French, Englis1 ar Z
Americans From M Wis n himsel
we have had no detail SO we take i
for granted that he merely prop ses I
league not Super-s,ate
Let US consider what league woulC
mean. All the nations OF the ear,l
would be represented. No ore ha
yet advanced aby notion as TO how G
what The relative weight OF each na,iol