The sun., 1919-05-10

here and abroad. All the vicious In
huence Of press agency and under
ground propagandism has been en-
ployed to the limit whenever possible.
While talking noble generallties Of
peace and harmony and new order
of things in the family of nations
whenever a crowd was available in
any visited part of Europe, the Presi-
dent has gone out behind the barn
whenever the real business Of trading
was to be conducted, and has COM
pleted the TRANSACTION with the vari-
Gus parties of the second part in the
shadow Of convenient seclusion, with
out witnesses to attest or secretariat
to make public record.
.. The freedom of the seas, one Of
the prime aims Of the declaration Of
war against Germany by Congress,
has dropped utterly out of sight In
the course Of the Presidents trading
with the eminent and loyal represen-
tatives Of Britain's sen dominion.
Where in the covenant or treaty do
We find the remotest practical refer
ence to the subject which stood 30
proudly near the head of the impress
sive category Of the international vir-
tues: stood second only to open cove
nants, openly arrived at? Never, so
far as can be known, has Great Brit
aims early reservation as to this prin-
ciple been invaded or disrespectfully
questioned by the once infiexible pro-
claimer of that very principle. TO a
certain extent his country Is under
obligations to the President for his
non-assertlveness; for just as it was
the right and duty Of British states
manship to safeguard Britain's i'm
mense and essential sea power SUI
premacy, so Is 1t the right and duty
of American craftsmanship to safe
guard our own traditional policy Of
non-interference in European political
affairs not directly concerning us.
8. For Frances acceptance of the
shell of the kernel the President has
apparently consented to ignore his
third principle, so fine in its original
enunciatlon. Instead of the removal
so far as possible, of all economic
barriers and the establishment OF an
equality of trade conditions among
all the nations consenting to the
peace and associating themselves for
it's maintenance, he has consented
without moral Qualm TO the eco
homie strait acketing not only Of the
present Germany but OF the Ger
many Of long future. Just or I'M
Just. the retributlve terms to which
Mr.. WILSON has so readily Yielded
for a consideration Of the old, ugly
fashion-his moral interest in Princi-
pie Three are unexampled in history.
We have already spoken Of this SUI
perlative severity in relation to the
vanquished nations power TO pay the
penalty Of its crime against the world.
We are speaking now only Of the
Presidents easy surrender of the prin-
clple held out to Germany at the time
Of The armistice as an inducement not
to continue the hopeless struggle.
4. AS TO the reduction of arma-
ments. the abandonment of Principle
-Four is as glsring a fact ms can be
observed in the case OF any other Of
The Fourteen. The question is turned
over. in form at least, to the nebulous
organization by and by to be housed,
under Mr.. WILSON'S presidency, on
the beautiful banks Of Lake Leman.
Meanwhile the Wilson Adminlstra-
ton, in its home activities, is rightly
proposing plans for continuing and
improving an armament which shall
be adequate to the defence Of this
Republic in all contingencies.
5. The free, open minded and inn
partial adjustment of all colonial
claims, based upon a strict observ-
ance of the principle that in deter
mining all such questions of sover-
eighty the interests of the population
must have equal weight with the
equitable claims of the Government
whose title Is to be determined" turns
out as practically interpreted by the
President to mean the transfer, by
The old method Of arbitrary partition,
Of Germany's late colonial territory