New Britain herald., 1919-03-11

avail naught to mitigate such condl- 1 llonS? Is it not an amazing position i Tor representative men of a free and enlightened democracy to assume, set l tlhS themselves in opposition to the } most practical plan ever offered 10 | the end that self destruction ot hu~ manity through the brutality of war. 1 may cease, No man can look for an 1 Utopia while men with opinions like l those of the opposing senators have ] any power No man expects the mll~ lennium to result from the league, 1 but many of us do expect an inn proved state of affairs in the world which will Ike possible an accel- l"rated progress toward a higher and better state of civilization.
 Possibly there was q time when we 1 could Scgrcgatc ourselves as a nation and remain an entity apart from the rest or the world. But that time, II t ever existed, has passed beyond re call When we threw wide our ports and invited immigration from the ut tcrmost parts of Europe then began the development of a CoSm opoltan America with ties across the sea too strong for isolation. Then our inter nUtio ionaIity began.
 Oul, war with Spain plunged us full fcdeed into the thcatcr of world af- fairs. and we cannot if we would re- sumc our former isolation. It is an utterly selfish attitude that shrinks from assuming duties of helpfulncSs, and brotherhood to our fellow men; that pretcnds to keep America free and cares nought if the liberty of the rest of the world perishes that would withhold the blessings of democratic institutions and teachings from Eu-
 rope, Asia and Africa, because 1t might cause us some trou bleSOme extra effort, some expenditure of the abundant wealth we are so prone to talk about, to make sure their cstab- ljShmcnt. such reasoning forgets that the wider the scope Of liberty in the world the more secure our own free dom becomes.
 Why do certain of our senators take the stand they have taken on this great question? Are they really democratic or are they at heart au- tocratiC? An autocrat desires that conditions that produce war should not be changed. A democrat seeks to favor conditions that secure freedom and do away with war Where do these men stand? Pretending to de- nouncc Mars they secretly worship at his shrine. Masquerading as tribun es of the people, they adopt the arro- Sance of the p3trician. Posing as ad- Nocates of peace they strive to pre- vent arrang gcmen to do away with war. Are these senators-I alm ost said conSpira tors again, to ] establish an economic tyranny? If so let them beware lest they promote anarchy. The friends of Bolshevsm could desire no better supporters than this body of misrepresentatYe Sena- tors. They are worth thousands of avoWed BO1SheNiSts. Mark this pre- diCtiOn well if our arrangement through the League Of Nations be not adopted, and an effort Is made to re- turn to pre-wa,r conditions. Bolshe- vism will spread throughout the world like a prairie fire. The masses Of the world are utterly sick of be-
 ing pittcd against each other as pawns for the benefit of modern ty- rants, be they called kings, autocrats or demagogues If the representa- lives of democracy after the defeat of autocracys strongest empire has nothing better than that to offer the seeker for chance 10 live peaCeably in the world, then the masses will in
 
 m ensures offered by the I. ". w. and the opponents of classes eVerywh gre.
 IL is time for the real lover of dem- ocratic institutions to be up and doing lest a worse condition befall us. h. stead of traitorously pulling down let US Loyalty help to build up. Let us be very sure that the peace plans of the Lea aguc of Ma ations is wrong be- fore we oppose it. Let us be very sure that senators and prominent men who are throwing their influence against it. are not demasogues striving to play in the political linn elight of the world. Let us be very sure they have no personal spite behind their actions before we credit them with the eH- cesSive wisdom they claim to possess. Let us be sure that envy of men, their superiorS in every way, is not the basis of their otherwise uncx- pained actions. and let us he doubly sure they are not the agents of cer- tain evil economic forces ready to sacrifice the well being of mankind for purely selfish reasons.
 They have much to explain in or der to justify their position 10 think ing men and women.
 On the other hand is there not in spiratioh in the thought that we may now fulfill our manifest duty to the cnslaved peoples of the world. That we may secure to them the freedom, they have hoped for with bitter long ing yet have been unable to secure for them selves.
 If these things do not come to pass then the war has been in vain. Then the vast sacrifice of more than 7,0O0,- 900 human beings on the altar of Moloch has availed naught to lessen the misery of the world,
 It is safe to say they cannot come