The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-01-16
The League Of Nations Discussed
Fror, III. london Spectator. oetob.r q. 1915.

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tional circle. Above all we must never forget that freedom is essen
involve /, freedom e Do wrong. and that It is never possible Pc to y
9isR # T his 1se choosing Ps the other to sh'4 TSer fs = eas tr pati si Mseh t s, ngt the he
prove vsrHabIe svaddIng clothes, and to turn the nations aHoaa int into u .
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VIII nOI MAX men despair OF seeing what they wall regard G 8 an
essential improvement. Thus, though treaty contracts a. long as
they + IN existence must be maintained by the whole weight and
power of mankind, the nations which entered into them must be alln
to free themselves from their contractual bonds, if they deem it essen.
al to their welfare to do so, without intolerable. difficulty O. delay.
- We s. suggest that # mankind acting in unison shall be bound to
uphold n sanctlty OF treaties, q years notice shall free any nation
from its diplomatic Instruments. Any recourse to arms before that
year has expired, no matter what the alleged excuse, and nc matter
what the merits, must be dealt with with the utmost sternness Ri.
1t must not be dealt with by war, for that would mean some system
OF International armies and fleets and air squadrons, which. men
being being what what they are, would open up a hopeless vista Of intrigue. We
must have recourse to nonlntercourse as the weapon by which the
sanctHy OF treaties is to be upheld. We believe tina: compulsory dis.
a anma1 fnder COMPULSORY an arp arbt1 ratio A compulsory entry into an intsrna-
amy. and intrigue, and ultimately either to the loss Of that national
Individuality which the peoples rightly cherish, or to the breaking up
OF the league a $ a hopeless failure. Instead of all these high sounding
aims, we desire to have the one clear obligation that nations nusf
respect their treaty pledges. -
Remember that no nation which was restrained from fighting for
one year would be able to say, as it might in the case of arbitration
that 1t must refuse to submit to the ruling of a court OF which the
judges could De alleged to be foolish, inhuman, prejudiced, bribed. or
capable o OF "a acting as politicians rather than as jurihs. By our plan
we avoid all these apparently good excuses for war. We avoid also
the danger of the great powers being judges in their cause or
else OF having to submit issues of supreme importance to the legal
representatives of the smaller nations. as the only persons proc,robla
who could be regarded as wholly impartial.