Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-03

fathers set up upon those shores and
~ one rIoc Itro OK ; sc, back the hands On
wishes to do this in order that the
srecial form of privileged autocracy
which which governs ,n; Ens;and may regain
mighty strength and unlimited re-
! sources bring about that junction OF
agents, like Carneeit and Rhodes. have
foretold and for which they have Ia
oo:cd for two generations.
He has hoped. because OF his easy
wouId md 'e ehas the dead ha na n oi
Rhodes had actually won the victory.
But he was astounded to find not alone
the Senate OF the United States stand
ing like adamant against the proposed
league of nations but the public senti-
ment OF the people of America, aroused
9sSs sS Sn DO to what asene
complains Of as an insolcnt thing
TO interfere in domestic" problems OF
English politics.
He is Mortified to find that in spite
OF huge expenditures. that In spite OF
the British propaganda of Northcline.
Parker and others OF that ilk. America
refuses TO be made again into a colony.
and that interest in the freedom OF
the seas has been aroused in America
as never before.
He had been brought to believe dur
Ing the pressure OF the war that Amcri-
OF English public opinion. and is as
founded now to ind that his complete
victory ut Paris is likely to be turned
into complete defeat at Washington,
where. In spite of his hopes to the con-
trary. and to his utter CONSERVATION,
nc hnds the real seat OF American gov
eminent still continues TO be found.
Rcni Strength of England.
England, while fastening to assure
us IN hundred ways that she had no
selfish interest to serve in asking to
have the league OF nations made opera
tive and the integrity OF the British
empire guaranteed by the power and
resources OF the United States. has un-
wittinsly, shown her own weakness.
More and more thoughtful observers
throughout the world are able to read
In that demand the real opinion Of
English statesmen as to their own
strength.
As fash OF lightning in storm
enableS the observer in second to sec
his way through the darkness. so the
request for such guarantee by Lord
Cecil has revealed the real weakness
OF England. instead of the apparent
strength which he and his group have
been teaching us to observe
1t is at once made clear that the
England which must call on the world
10 guarantee its possessions is in n
bad way both at home and abroad II
is an admission that il can no longer
hope to call upon the strength of other
countries in it's hour OF peril in order
TO preserve il. rs IL called the world
into arms against France under Napo-
leon and against Germany under Will
helm.
In spite Of its censorship the rumb-
linGs of Industrial labor troubles with
miners and transport workers and rail
way men are being heard in the land
The uprisings in India and in ECypt
the dissatisfaction in Australia and in
Canada, and above ALL the settled de-
termination upon the part of the peoplc
or Ireland to take at it's face value
the promises of Wilson. Clemcnccau
Lloyd George and Orlando and to in :
sist upon absolute Sclf-dctcrmination
arc matters which arc calling the nj
tcntion OF mankind 10 tho fact that there
is and there can he no freedom on earth
while this distended and gigantic an
petite called the British empire con
,inues TO threaten and to prey upon
mankind.
America mt Parting OF Ways.
The parting OF the ways has come for
AMERICA Either we remain true to
past. still the moral leader of man
kind and the hope of the oppressed
people of the earth. or we join with
the privileged class of England and
become one Of the predatory powers
Of the world.
Either we continue TO lead the forces
OF republ!canism whe Their they oppost
the central empires OF the Continent.
the Cars OF the RussiaS or whether
tours of England or the M!kado o.