The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-03-20

world whose sons we have consigned to
the hell Of battle and whose future we
have cruelty cheated of the blessings Of
universal peace.
This fallacy is of the same character,
and it is held by much the same people as
the prewar charge that all who counseled
preparedness for war were i'm favor of
war. R
AS to the Paris covenant, it does not ev-
en- purport to abolish war. Senator Knox
in his searching analysis of the document
shows that itpermits the use of armed
force in at least seven cases and affirma-
lively provides for it in three others.
The appeal to the mother instinct Of the
world by those who are for blind accep-
lance of the Paris covenant, unaltered as
Mr.. Wilson has said it must be accepted,
seems as cruel mockery as headlCng
sentimentalism could be guilty Of. Even
Mr. Taft who is assuring us on his own
authority of so many things which the
covenant is supposed to imply or not to
imply, does not deny that war is permits
sable under the covenant. Only he says
it may be advised and not ordered. If
this is true it removes one of the most SER
ious objections against the instrument,
but not the objection that the instrument
does not assure us by Its phraseology
that it is true.
Finally we would ask the many amiable
people who have been inclined to accept
the Paris covenant without Analysing it
to clarity their minds on these points
namely:
The Paris covenant is human docu-
ment, drawn by human beings. 1t is not
to our knowledge, inspired, and being of
human origin it may be defective and in
need of amendment. We think it is very
defective and that we can name its de-
fects. Furthermore the Paris covenants
is not a synonym for the league of ma
tions. 1t is just one attempt to organize
a league of nations. Its correction or
abandonment does not destroy the league
of nations ideal. On the contrary, it may
save it.
Opposition to the unamended Paris COW
enant as it is is therefore not opposition
to league of nations, but opposition to
one attempt establish it. Criticism and
opposition to the Articles of Federation
which proved in our history so defective
was not criticism of or opposition, to a
proper union of the American colonies or
to the ideal of union or ofAmerican ma
tionality.
The Tribune is as anxious to assist in
the evolution of what is called, very loose
ly, the league of nations, as the most i'm
FASHIONED professor. The Tribune believes
progress lies wholly in the path of closer
and higher forms of international cooper
alton and the growth of world regime
of law founded on justice. The Tribune
abhors war and would insist to the ex-
tent of its power to diminish the chances
of war, or, if possible abolish it.
But the Tribune is convinced that the
Paris covenant, as it has been put forth,
will not prevent wars but create them.
through Misunderstanding and the per-
petuation, if not ADMINISTRATION, of ex-
listing nationalistic politics. We think it
leaves the legitimate policies of America
and the security of America without suf-
ficient protection or support and does
not provide that America may have a
voice proportionate to her responsible
ties, her purposes or her deserts in the
ordering of international relations.
The cutlery against criticism of and OPP
position to the Paris covenant and to Mr..
Wilson's inconsiderate proposal that we
swallow it whole seems to the Tribune
hysterical and mischevious in the ex-
IRENE. 1t is an expression of an emotional
pacifism and idealism which refuses to
look realities in the face or to tackle diff
ficulties, falling back upon mere aspira-
lions, if not dogmatic assumptions, of SUI
perior virtue.