Arizona republican., 1919-03-23
The Second AmphictyonIc League

The League of Nations is thing" said Secretary of War Baker at Fl Paso. The secretary was right whereas he has generally been The League of Nations is thing. Leagues of peo- ples for one purpose another old history and not one of them has survived The league of the greatest longevity and which in many. respects corresponds closely to the proposed League of Nations was the Amphictyonic league council, com posed of eleven of the known and one unknown tribe or state of Greece. At the time of its organization and throughout it's existence, Greece was. so far as Greece was concerned. the whole world. It had noth ing or little to fear from the outside The League of Nations is also to be world league.
 Each state was represented in the council by two delegates and two meetings were held each year at Delphi and Thermopylae instead of Paris and The Hague These deputies possessed equal authority in the league and as the representation equal the distribution was rather fairer than that proposed in the covenant of the League of Nations.
 The Amphictyonc league was at first religious body having like the League of Nations under sideration at Paris to only with heavenly things. The league assumed the of the temple of Appoo Delphi the protection of the holy lands, treasures and other perquisites of the god" Naturally this protection be effective carried with it the power prosecute and punish those who injured the majesty of the god
 The covenant of the council of the Amphictyons and suppose they had covenant has been lost, so we do not know how the mandatory authority was ordered, but Apollo worshipped in all the doubt each, Boeotia, Thessaly Ionia etc., was assigned the business of protecting Apollo within it's boundaries under the local Monroe Doctrine of those times. We do not suppose that the young men of the Locrians to be sent to punish those who among the Dorians had nsuted the god or infringed upon his property
 In assuming the power to prosecute and punish offenders the league naturally and necessarily as- sumed judicial powers, and equally naturally it should take political functions. So, it became a peace league Its members bound themselves by an oath not to destroy any city of the Amphictyons cut off their streams in peace; aso any should break this oath to unite in proceeding against and destroying such a state"
 Now it fully developed league of peace. It was in control the religion and politics of it's mem bers It had warning world by the tail with a down. hill pull; Mars permanently of a job. The outlook for humanity and posterity was fine the pacifists were in their glory. But all this was on paper-rather, papyrus.
 Though the most famous of all leagues for the setting up of Utopia, it vanished wiped out by con- tinual among it's members, provoked, we sup pose, by that chafng and friction which inevitably of proximity. The members became irritable at the continual touch of another. The relation and the restrictions were unnatural It was like lv- ing with mother in law. At any rate during the latter stages of the Amphctyonic council Greece was rent by wars as never before. And the Ahphctyonic league came to be among the Greeks a reproach the name of anything that was particularly futie.
 Since then there have been other leagues and al liances, but only with a limited membership not for the peace of the world but for the benefit of the members and to the disadvantage of those who were not members. Not until now, since the Amphctyons dsbanded in the third century before Christ has there been movement to enable the whole world to lift itself by it's boot straps out of the ruck of war