The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-07-05
PEACE SIGNED.
BY Prof. VIM. H. Dawley.

Saturday, June 20, 1919 the peace
ending the World War, was signed by
the representatives of the German
people and the Entente allies. Exact
ly five years before the proximate
cause of this war happened in Serajevo
the assassination of Austria's Arch.
duke Ferdinand and his wife. Kaiser
William End. in imitation of his great
ancestor seized the pretext of Aus.
tria's position to precipitate a war
that rendered that of Frederick End
miniature Notwithstanding It drew
from Macaulay's the significant but
true statement: "In Order that he
Frederick 2nd-might rob a neighbor,
whom he had promised to defend,
black men fought on the coast Of Cor
omandel and rcd men scalped each
other by the Great Lakes of North
America" At the close of this, the
War of the Austrian succession, the
treaty of AK La Chapelle 174S is thus
summed up by Carlyle-"To friedrich
Silesia, as to the rest, wholly as they
were"
Thus started the Prussian SCRAP of
paper idea. In their first clash Aus
tria lost Silesia to Prussia, but re.
NAMED in the a%scendancy, in their
last at Sadowa in 1866 she was pushed
from her high estate, which vas re-
linquished to Prussia.
Frederick 2nd and William Bird, re-
semble each other only in the numer-
ical part Of their title. Frederick earn
ed the title the Great and was the last
to be called so. William in attempting
to eclispe their lost his crown and is
despised. He copied the vices of the
Hohenzollerns.
For Frederick, in all matters con-
corning foreign states, according to
Prof. Myers, did whatever he thought
would ~agrandize Prussia and glorify
himself without any regard to truth,
honesty, or honor. But for his guild.
ance inrelation to his own people he
had an admirable moral CODE He
himself speaks. "If I had more than
n life, I would give it for myfath-
erland. I have never applied public
revenues to my personal advantage
Frederick 2nd never abandoned his
army. He never sought safety in bat.
tie. but led in the thickest of the fight.
The Peace at Versailles June %,
1919 removes Germany from leader
ship in World or even European af-
fairs. England is in the ascendency
in Europe, Japan in the far East,
the United States in the West also
an ally of England and France. For
the present no move can be made in
world affairs without consulting the
United States. Such was Prussia's
position at Versailles in 1871. Why
has she fallen from that place? Blood
and iron. Love is stranger than these.
Now that the war is over and peace
signed our Government will ratify it
and rsume her interrupted program of
making the United States the ideal
democracy, lifting all men up and
pressing no man down. At home she
will eXemplify what she has preached
to the nations.
Our president is not divine or infale-
BILE but human. He meant well for
nations of the earth but he was power
less to realize his dreams because
the odds were too tremendous. Ma
lions that had been deeply wronged,
wounded and Inundated, when they
got the upper hand were in no mood
to hearken readily to the charge:
Little Children, love one another
eYt it is safe to say the Presidents
prolonged slap in Europe, despite the
fact that one item of its cost for a
long time has been $4,000 a day
stayed Bolshevism. Had he LETT
Europe when the George Washington
arrived, who can tell but what Bolshe-
vism would have overrun Germany,
crossed the Rhine and the channel,
even crossed the Atlantic and swept
over the land of the free.
The peace is a disappointment to
the American Negro. He thought his
unsurpassed valor would bring to him
unadulterated liberty or at least the
safety extended to the conscientious
objector, not withstanding his country
studiously avoided promising any
thing, He has however one hope yet
and one only-an abiding answering
and unfaltering trust in God that slim
ulates him to repeat with the Quaker
Whittier:
Il know not where His islands left
Their fronded palms in air,
only know cannot drift