The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-16
The PEACE TREATY.

fed at the terms Of the treaty as Off.
eially announced at Paris on the ami
hia.c The military terms leave moth
ing to be desired. In some instances
! they indicate compromise between
the idea1ism of the President and the
realism OF the grand old French
statesman. In addition to utterly de-
! stroying the military and naval power
ofsGerinany the treaty provides an al
. Nance between France England and
America against any further aggres
sions OF the Germans.
i Germany is stripped of all her colo
t5rsary OF the sinking of the Lusita-
MES in the East and in Africa. They
are divided between Great Britain, her
colonies and the Japanese, the South
African empire Of Germany going to
Great Britain and and her dominiions Of
South Africa. This is as it-should be.
nl :Vpitppfsthe ,Anglo.saxon
! these great wastes will be developed
and within q few years will, become
!. the abiding place of culture and eiyilt
.sation. Whersver !, the Anglo-saxon
has had domiifi6n Whether on the con.
tinsnt of America, ins AfricaH sunny
i cline or on the coral strands bf India
! civilization has been the gamer.
sAisace-Lorraine are restored to
s. r.
/ France where they rightfully belong
and amends are made for the crime of
J 1911 when these territories were
! wrested from the French people.
= They have remained French during
! all the years that have interviewed.
! They are once more united with the
I mother country and let us hope for
ever. These territories have been out
.sswardly German for forty-six yeas, but
& the heart OF the people has been un.
y. deniahly French. Il 49,
I'M IN Fdditionals securities. are given
~ France which will administer the Saal
J. valley. fol-. fifteen yearsssseAtathe end
OF that time a ,plebescite will deter
mine the future allegiance of the PEG
,aleple. q This Is one of the weak places
~ inFethes treaty. It recalls to the stu
ffAahbrfcah liistofy'the 'traim'oi
y. evils that followed similar provision
In the Kansas Nebraska bill, Congress
~ provided that these territories should
.f De admitted as slave or free states
I according as majority OF the inhab
itants decided. The result was state
3. OF civil war in the territories, because
both slave owners and abolitionists
tucked there and sought to control
the election. Generally they used
force instead OF the peaceful ballot.
Germany's feet is reduced to impo
tence. The use of submarines is al
1 together forbidden. It's navy will now
"a be that of fifth rate power No for
/. tifications can be maintained West Of
!. .. point fifty miles East of the Rhine
Helgoland Is no longer to be a menace
to England. The Kiel canal will BIZ
discontinued as the harbor for the as
. -ssassinsAu deep. The army tina,
Germany may maintain will be little
more than an effective police force
CONSUMPTION is abolished and a body
blow struck at nilitarism.
: Territory wrested from Denmark il
= 1856 wifi be restored II the people
lsf thersofsb desire Important cessions
y ars made to Poland and Dantzig is
made . free city or internationalized
The alliance OF Germany, and Austrif
s'ssi Nj forbidden
IT was altogether appropriate ant
in.through harmony with the enterna
fitness Of things that the terms would
have been presented to Germany OIL
the anniversary Of the sinking of thu
Lusitania. In four years the worlt
had been mighty transformed. In MAJ
1915 Germany was at the height of he
glory. Drunk with power, confiden
OF at, last finding her 'place in tn,
ouis oiO CihpoihCu upOH q pOilCy u
frightfulness that proved to be he
doom. Casting aside all pretense o
compliance with the canons of inter
national law; eschewing every rule o
civilized warfare; throwing to tn,
winds the, obligations imposed upol
,beligerents, she deliberately made
herself an outlaw to Christian civiliza
ton, Her one idea was to terroriz,
the world; to destroy the morale o
/ the peoples of France and England b.
alseries of outrages never contemplat
ed before by any nation PROCESSING
Christian civilization 1t then becam,
more than struggle to save the ma
tional integrity of France; to pre-
serve the great British empire: t,
safeguard the rights of free peoples
1t was a desperate struggle to saw
Christian civilization, all that man
kind had achieved through the toll
some and costly centuries durinI
which he had emerged from barbal
barism. The issue was whether or no
the. world should revert to the barbal