The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-24
There will be no millennium after this war.

Trust not a league OF nations to preserve eternal peace.
This league OF nations, with its worldwide program. is but aTl
other evidence Of how little our learned men know.
Poor old Carnegie. horribly unedpcated and horribly rich, picked
up some apparent truismg which we're exploded fallaCiss and constructed
a world peace plan. He threw money behind it, great tanks Of money,
and he attracted ~hishbrows and lowbrows, dreaners aud some good men.
What a curse to civilization the ignorant rich are. Men listen to
their foolshness and idioees often installing a success from luck for
From 1905 70 1912 the brain Of the world went miik..soPpy Or
that t asl professional on b sGIdisr wastes was Tsg1 SdSea as .S a eq 4sIhrSssd sd and a ST fs9Ser.
less men were 50 busy talking peace that even even as st the y, war clouds IS gain,
first firing fmn across the Belsian border.
by fo4e s''c THERE HEi ! HAS PSHSf RI" Been N ANY : PEACE ESSl / EXCEPT SeisP a PEACE
World peace conferences and peace leagues are as old as creation
Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel formed a world peace, Quartet. and Cain
:. The me; Jews ", g, fst that they Wv were the s.sssSSS;s.n1. people . ss e ! ::I and yet
The Greek considerations were limited peace leagues, but they
The Roman empire. ater it was gorged on riches, attempted to live
in : state q peace and fat contentment, 1t became rotten and the bar
The pope; q the middle age, attempted to establish 4 league Of
sr9stional questions could ( settled y ARBITRATION. Soon after some
nations ain SRsn g thousand { Sn aR gs4 70 ago so' tSa a1ssl VA, a great bishop presiding
S syssD tas d ! issss % u aa9 nsi,on ie to syG 0yessr 2 pan q q o sSS1ahins war and
drottus, tPs father q modern international laws the ribs q which
Of settling ali intsrnstioaal disputes By arsamsnts and judicial decision,
with bis system va. that he made himself or France the srSHer. Ma,
isagqs made : fatal mistake By not swing England ! ; ,nenDership,
many ~ e S9f i ia Z years. Russia ssfx & x eaasi pPSssi : : and !" England S1ssr T finally SiG
against Napoleon and the French one hundred and six years ago as are
S e os"Ss was sSs' sos st1m and Sc sent tf 70 an 1 iaian n' to Ss eo9I off and @i'S Sfe' TWO 'F''i'
Then we had a holy alliance, whose purpose was to hold Europe
in q state OF peace forever,
After 1870 we find Bismarck making a dual alliance for the pur-
pose of keeping peace, and a little later we find a triple alliance.
And now we find preachments of how the peace Of the world is
to be maintained. 1t is to be done by the governments becoming up
linsrs" The leading ~highbrovs are to evolve a system whereby all
differences between nations will be composed and all disputes will be
arranged out Of a book Of civilian oeatttudes 70 be prepared later.
There are to be no more big armies, and therefore no more wars
lust nice little armies and dainty little warships.
IL some nation becomes recalchTant its leaders are to be slapped
upon the wrists and the other nations are to cut its acquaintance. A
bad nation Is TO be treated much rs a society bounder is snubbed by q
were potsingers.
We are In the very fMx OF problems whose solution demands strong
minds, strong men and maybe strong force.
II the little nations are to become free and independent with big
doses OF democracy, it will drive some OF them drunk and mad. Think,
Ing that democracy means absolute liberty and freedom Of action. re.
gardless Of law and conventions, on the slightest difference they will fly
at one andher's threats people as well as q king can make wal.
The program is that Austria is TO be dissolved into half a dozen
understanding republics. When the dissolution comes there must be