South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-24

tons at once for the next"
"
EVTEDGED in between these extremes-Over
Wv and against this motley company,-is the
great mass of American people; the people whose
boys did the fighting in the war just closed-and
whose boys boys will do the fighting in the next
war;" if there ever is
These and the people who otherwise con-
cerned in peace, disciples of humanity, and de-
voices of the popular welfare; people with ideals
founded on reason, and sentiments the outgrowth
oe Christian enlightenment; lot of people
Of business acumen, who greater proht
for the masses In peace than in war, and even tor
industry such does not thrive directly upon
wars alarms; people who have the moral and m
teIlectual stamina to place principle above fads,
honest design above selfish interests and partisan
prejudice; who can think, and reason, and Will,
and not tire-such the legions that FaistaH
and his army are maneuverng to cut IN two.
True, these Iegions too made up of divers
elements, for in the very nature of things, pop
ular cause can ever have purely homogeneous
following, but however diverse they may be IN
matters of religious political creed, IN the
larger purposes of life, they are a unit They are
opposite purposes.
They look to the League of Nations, the atten-
dant force behind the German treaty, as the struc-
tue out Of which will grow the contamination OF
that for which their sons and brothers on the bat
uefelds fought and died.
Lincoln in his second inaugural expressed the
inspiration:
LET us strive on to finish the work IN
1922; to do all which may achieve and cherish
just and lasting peace among ourselves and with
all nations"
They are not to be dissuaded Distracted;
cot to be cut off or apart They know; as the IN
visible force behind the league opposition knows
that the failure of the Paris treaty-whch must
stand or fall with the league in it-means the
BalkanZation of the world.
IT would mean that at least-and it might mean
L more 1t might mean, and there grave
dangers of it, the bolsheviking Of the world. Hats
of to Lenine and Trotzky if the Paris peace fails
of American adoption. 1t will be because Amer
lea went to sleep at the switch; too tired, too
lazy, too indolent, too self-centered-to take
warning and ACT upon it.
There has been warning enough. All OF Eu-
rope has been warning us. he warning sIzzes
within our own gates. We ceased to be gov
eminent by the people" just that much the other
day. and gave way to sovietiSm, when congress
repealed the daylight saving law over the presl-
dents veto, in response to the demands OF or
gained" agricultWalsts.
That means government by organizations or
business; government by representatives of crafts
arts and industries, instead OF the unorganizSo
masses.
Another specimen is the demand Of the rail
road brotherhoods-not Of the members as
American citizens but of the organizaton,-lor
government ownership and tripartite manage
nent of the railroads.
If the invisible hand Of Falstaf, the
profteer, representing the interests that thrive
upon war and the preparations for it, can because
of their money, neutrality-suspicious. power,
and control of legislation, crush the America Will
and falsify her ideals as the defeat Of the Paris
treaty and League covenant would-it makes OF
it an open field, and the organization
that enters for control through the open gate, Is
not half the chief and robber" he who
sneaks in through mere hog-hole IN the rear
fence.
Russia today shivers in fear that America viii
ratify the League. II means lost hope for the
bolshevists; lost hope of alliance with Ger
many, and number of other powers, perhaps
Japan and certain of the Balkans-in a contest
for new balance of power hopeful of ruling the
world
Where would our splendid isolation" be
then-vvith the bolshevists In midst taking
new hope, encouraged by the prospective ascend
ency Of the Russian god-mother?
Fifty thousand letters; letters of men, women
and children who believe IN peace, IN America
maintaining her leadership IN the affairs Of the
world, and who prefer democracy-the rule Of
the people,-over bolshevism-the rule Of the
crafts,-should emerge from this city the
very morrow, insisting that United States
senator representative of Indiana, stop monkey
ing with the buzz-saw; that they transfer their
allegiance from Falstah's scissors to the people
whom they are at least presumed to serve.
Think not for a moment that they not
hearing from Germany's emissaries here; the