The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-03-22
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1t is evident all capable Of susceptible to- reason
that when President Wilson coined and gave currency his
concerning self determination of government by each couns nhab
tan neither vvng the extreme doctrine Of states rights
endorsing personal rights theories Of philosophical anarchists
Self determination like liberty freedom, justice and the like is
term that briefly expresses prncpe and before such principle
self selection of the laws may obey the government prop
ey may be taxed BY impossible the absolute liberty do
peases absolute freedom from all regulation restraint
Absolute liberty chaos absolute Justice means such cold
and exact melting out Of punshmen that would escape pn
and absolute self determination unlimited license for each do
as he Rsass Absolute self determination Of states counties
credited this country by resort in the Civil War;
To be practicable all these things must be tempered by related
sderaons that fix the which they may safely practically
and the limit beyond which they do not apply The liberty of
tempered by the liberty Of another Personal liberty is necessarily
limited by social requirements Even Justice tempered by mercy to
make its operation serve the best interests Of mankind And self deter
mnaon Of conduct fidelity loyalty degnerats speedily
hnes unless includes than consideration self or
ones immediate interests
It probable that when President Wilson spoke Of self deemna
on the principle which should take precedence in de-
nor space in the document under his hand to explain all these things
to those who would hang single
capital BY juggling abstract term He left part his meaning to
enlightened understanding thereby paying compliment those who
might deliberate his briefly stated though comprehensive outline Of
Ia just and peaceprOducng settlement Of international affairs
If Ireland has the moral right withdraw from the United King
dom then Ulster has the moral right cde from Ireland the
incentive to one greater than the incentive the other such
application determination is sane and practicable then the
notification doctrine asserted by one Of our own states and tho
secession doctrine that led to civil deserved better fate than be-
fell them.
ach that great community from the United States and up rival
nation with Mexico Any sister the
northern border might dah itself transfer its territories the Do
minon Of Canada.
The evil Of such possibility would lie the loss Of
provinces states by the nations they desert the breaking up
nations the very time that demands lesson of the great
that the worlds peace and welfare promoted by perfect
organization and defeated by such proposed dganzaon In
there strength for ALL and dsunon condition and the in
cenye to such disruption would logically result political chaos
This sCness and silly cry Of self determination for Ireland but
the latest symptom Of an old disorder What ai Ireland not its
union with England but the gospel Of discomfort which the pop agents
have preached religion to the Irish people for generations
Popemade propaganda having the effect ireland that
kaisermade kr imposed upon the German people Geranys
content with other nations and Ieand concabe dsaecon
England originated two imperial courts the Berlin and the
other in Rome The disease has been working Irish that
filed the heads German peasants with dreams of world conquest
which ended in the nightmare Of
Popemade propaganda what ai Ireland Just
ku made Germany warmad The result the one case should
prove warning in the other