The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1919-06-12

secretly concocteQ League o! NauonS
as a remedy for all war. Though the
dicta,crs sit in secret council more
closely guarded than the star chambers
Of ancient kings, and the citizens OF
the free American republic are not per
mitted to see the text OF the peace
treaty Of which this mons,rosity is a
part we are told we are to accept it
without question. II this is such a
sure cure for war why does it not put
an end 10 soma Of the b,oodshed that
is making OF Russia desolaIlon1 Not
even the most brutal inhumanities cf
the kaiser and his servants brought
such wholesale death to non combat
ants as the bloody Bolshsviki have
brought to Russia. Even in the dark
est hours Of brutality that was practiced
upon the people Of northern France
and Belgium there was no such riot Of
debased beastiality as characterizes
Russia under the reign Of Lenine and
Tro,sky. The League is in operation,
the armies are in the field, the Big
-Four sit in secret council where their
word makes Law for the world. They
have but to whisper and a power such
as Napoleon or Caesar never dreamed
Of will respond vet war RACES unhnder
ed and unchecked. Or il it is moral
suasiOn that they desire they have had
six months OF untroubled rule. AT
the bidding Of Mr.. Wilson the old
Congress which was but the echo Of
his will gave one hundred million dol
lars TO feed Europe. Countless other
millions have been put in his hands
and he has used such instruments as
pleased his fancy to secure results, yet
the wars 90 on. II the four great
nations Of the earth, their leaders in
possession Of powers such as kings
might have envied, can not end war
how will the League Of Nations do ii
when it will have drawn into its folds a
mess OF hall baked nations now rising
in the secret kitchens Of the Paris con
ferencea When 10 the sane and
stable nations we have added the hall.
civilized countries Of which Haiti and
Santo Domingo are types how will the
League work. As moral force the
League is dead, as physical force
events show it lacks courage 10 meet
the issue. This discredits it in ad-
vance.
Some years ago when the kaiser
went OFT on saber-raItling expedition
into Morocco and had the world on
the verge Of war there sat in the white
house at Washington a real virie
American. Theodore Roosevelt quiet
Iy advised the kaiser that if he pro-
voked a wanton and unjust war that
America would not be indifferent.
The kaiser backed down and went
home, In 1914 the kaiser would not
have provoked war if the twittering oI
English leaders had not made him be
lieve that England would awaken too
late. As for America the bloody
Hohenzollern was sure our leadership
was too proud to fight. 10 this he
reckoned without the aroused public
sentiment Of the United States led BY
the clear'visioned and fearless Theo
dore Roosevelt who by the sheel
power Of his moral courage and un
f;nching fidelity to sane Americanisu
| iJrced tardy action. We have beer
told that the proposed League woulC
nave prevented the present war. How
II would have stopped such a terrible
machine as Prussia had builded wher
it stands helpless and trembling in th'
presence Of the ignorant gangs {
murderers that carry on more crue
war than even the kaiser dreamed o
passes my understanding. Thi
SQUADS again like the wonderful musi,
Of the fourteen points which pToclaiu
that peace shall come by open cove
nan,s openly arrived at but It pfactice
behind closed doors from which n
whisper Is allowed 10 come, Freedom
Of the Seas which has never been mer
toned, selidstetminatiOn Of peopl
while giving forty million unwillin