The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-31
NO SUBSTITUTE FOR FREE NATIONS.

Beaten down by facts and reasoning that Is based upon
hem President Wilson is retiring gracefully as pos
sble from his untenable position the question Of the
league Of nations The supreme council is helping him
to save his face by outlining solcalled league Of
Ons which is as different from his original proposal
day is from night The league as now agreed upon will
be nothing more than an international association without
power Sovereign nations like the United States viii re-
main sovereign determining for themselves, absolutely
without interference upon such Of action at any
time as seems best them The world is merely to have
another advisory, statistical rhetorical headquarters.
President Wilson's original league of nations the United
States Of the World armed with military and naval pow
and bound to suppress any nation that should dare
disturb the worlds peace has gone gmmerng into the
shadows of Never-Never land.
, 1t is WELL There should not be any league of nations
the original plan 1t in its essence internatiOnalsm
destructive Of nations and therefore dangerously resemb
ling boshevism. In order to live such league of ma
tons would have to draw It's strength from the nations
and therefore each nation would have been left weaker
than before No nations peculiar problems could have
been solved by itself alone but would have been passed
The hard facts which have wrecked the ideal super
nation these The civilized peoples Of Europe have
just saved themselves from slavery by the exercise Of
their strength organized in separate distinct nations
These nations far from perfect organizations but
they the best working systems yet devised by for
making his lfe liberty and welfare reasonably
By grouping themselves in nations peoples of the
blood and sympathy able to combine their individual
strength in fairly effective cooperation Autocracy de-
creed that there should be only nation bolshevsm
DEGREES that there shall be nations The free and civ
zed peoples beat Of their assailants by sticking to
the plan of fighting by nations The fight with the other
assailant is now beginning.
TIE logical deductions from the foregoing facts are
these: Governments organized and maintained by free
peoples elective barriers against the tyranny of both
autocrats and anarchists. Any project which aims
weakening free nations therefore dangerous if not ia
tall to liberty. league of nations acting as a subst
cute for free nations is experiment If not powerful
cannot prevails and if powerful it must derive its powe
from free nations, thereby weakening their individual
strength. Free peoples cooperate within nation but
whether the would cooperate in universal league Of
nations is doubtful for this reasons In nation all
is purged, but in league there may be traitor
TONS. Racial Differences form barriers which moi
removed by formal compacts and different standards Of
living form economic obstacles which league sur
mount
Nations must determine their standards of living
according to their ability In certain every nation
perpetualy at with other nations, with o*ensiv,
end defensive economic weapons Since the proposed
league Of nations essentially project to deprive in
dvidua nations of these weapons, it attack upor
them They resisted the destructive effect of direct at
tack by autOcracy They resisting the destructive
attack which would dsarm them. They win resist the de
uctive effect of direct attack by boshevism go down
in universal anarchy.
In the oncoming between liberty and anarchy there
other plan which takes the place of organized nations
acting harmony according to the exgencies of the hour
If civilization to be saved it will be saved by free
tons, not by substitute--Wa Washington Post