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promises of what Congress is to do.
That is the argument. Now, the
treaty making power is not a per-
forming power. 1t is a promising
power. When the government prom
Uses to another nation by contract, 1t
is the treaty making power that acts
for the government and is the gov
eminent. The promises to be per-
formed are generally promises that
can only be performed by Congress.
Is is possible that the treaty-making
power may not make a contract for
the government to do thing which it
is for Congress to do under the Con-
stitution? If that is true, then we
cannot make treaties at all. There
is no use having the treaty-making
power, If that be true. Then the
United States cannot promise, as 4.
has promised time after time, to pay
money, because Congress has to ap.
propriate 1t when the payment is due.
That question was raised with re-
spect to the Jay Treaty. After the
Jay Treaty had been made, Congress
demanded the letters between Wash
ington and Jay as to the Treaty in
order that it might investigate the
Jay Treaty. Washington said no, the
treaty making power has bound you
to make certain payments; that is
your obligation; you are not part of
the treaty making power; therefore,
you are not entitled to go to the foun-
dations Of that treaty. And Congress
passed resolution, called the Blunt
Resolution" in which it "resoluted"
that it was entitled to consider the
Treaty-but she paid the money with
out getting the letters.
l maintain, because this is funda-
distinction, that the treaty.
power is the promising power
so far as other nations are concerned.
Congress may join that promise, but
1t does not add any constitutional val
idity or strength to the promise be-
cause one congress cannot bind an
other congress to a policy unless it
has the promising power Under the
Constitution, the President and the
thirds-have the prom
Using power. Now that means the
power for this government
and that means that when this gov
eminent is bound by that promise
then it must be performed by Con-
gress.
1t may be said that limits the con-
discretion of Congress. 1t
does in this sense, that Congress is
under a moral and legal obligation to
do the thing that honor and legal OBJ
legation require, but Congress repre-
sents the government and has the SOW
ereignty of the government placed in
It, and one of the evidences of that
sovereignty is the power to do the
wrong thing, is the power to dishonor
It's obligation legally made. That
choice Of right or wrong is what con-
stitutes freedom and sovereignty, but
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HERE ARE THE PROPHEsIEs:

Foofng are some prophees by
ho that League Nations dney inspired
o prevent wars They published by Joseph Smith the
MORMON prophet IN 1892
laid l. Neph beheld that the Gentes that had
fs Eere delivered by power God OUT HANDS OF
6f,Iss OFFER NATIoNS."-I Nephi XIII 10.
Snd this land shall liberty and
be NO KINGS upon the land who shall unto the
Centi1es:
TIoNSg-II Iephi, K, HIP.
whatsoever nation shall uphold such SECRET coMBA-
TOs 10 get until shall the nation
BSiIoiiD THEY SHALL BE DEsTRoYED"-Ethe VIII, o.
ehold this land, shall possess
shan and from captivity AND FROM ALL 9TH
UNDER HEAVEN If they will but the God Of the
Iand! who is Jesus Christ"-Ether IL, IL.
verify saith the Lord concerning the that will shortly
beginning rebellion South Carolina, which will
eventually terminate death Of many
days that will poured all nations
beginning at that place.
And thus with sword by boodshed inhabitants
with famine and plague and earthquakes and
and the fierce vivid lightning also shall the
the wrath and indignation and
Christening Almighty UNTIL THE CONSUMPTION DE-
CREED hath FULL END OF ALL NATIONS Doctrine
and Covenants, Section 81, verses 1t6
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Lite. There is correct size for every
make and mo6eI Of car. AS the Off
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this territory We will be glad to extend
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it does not render invalid the original
obligation entered into as the consti-
tuition directs, by the power given in
the Constitution to promise and con-
tract for the government with foreign
nations.
Therefore, what we do here is to
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such information as can gather
upon the experience of Built in
Moscow, for examples that the
Bo'shevists will consent, provided
only that the border states in max
ing peace will also offer the assur.
ance that the Great Powers, who
have backed these border states and
pushed them into war with the Boil
shevlsts, will also recognize the Boil
shevists.
In other words, in varying de-
grees, but still Enthusiastically. the
border states have become hostages
for the Bolshevists. Now that Deni-
kline, Ko chak and Yudenitch have
been sound.y beaten the time is at
hand when the Bolshevists may be
able to mass armies against tho
Poles or the Films, the Esthonians
or the Let's. Then, if the Western
Allies do not shaneless'y y desert these
border races, they will either have
to defend them, which means new
wars and the dispatch of armies to
he Russian frontiers, thing still
impossible in view of public senti
nlent, or they will have to buy the
BOlsheviStS off by RECOGNITION.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

rags. as we in America call them
over his own dirty clothes.
AFTER much palaver, our cook was
allowed to make us cup of coffee and
to bring us some dry bread. Most OF US
popped few pieces in our pockets, not
knowing when, if ever, we should get
another meal. Opinion seemed to be-
about equally divided as to whether
Villa would kill us or demand ransom.
Personally was convinced that he
would take the latter course. so made
up my mind that a long march lay
ahead of me. All this while one of
these gentry was lying full leng h, boots
and ali, on one of our beds. Fortunately
they did not discover our small stock
OF liquor, for had they got drunk they
would probably have committed other
excesses and, moreover, would have in
creased the anger of Don Pancho. as
V1ila is famiiarly called, for he is a
very strict abstainer.
Then noticed a Mexican whom |
knew walking up the hill at Francisco
Villas back, for was standing close
to Don Pancho. This man turned
round, and recognized Antonio Ca
bello, the former Gefe Politico
(Mayor) of Santa Eulalia, but his face
was blanched and distorted. Where, I
asked myself, is he going? Where, in
deed? One of Villas soldiers was on
either side of him. 'Adois, mi general
SAID ne, but Don Pancho never so much
as turned his head. Cabello was led
up the hill about fifty yards and then.
when under an aerial tramway, he was
made to mount a horse. A rope was
put round his neck and the other end
fastened to the aerial tramway The
horse was Aicked away and down fell
Don Antonio, never to smile again.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

were guarded by Villas officers. In
front of us were collected about two
thousand men employed in the mines.
lhree or four men rode up, the leader
dlsmounted, and Francisco Villa. ar
rayed in brilliant scarlet, yellow and
green blanket, stood by one side, facing
the workmen. He certainly looked the
very picture of health and was clean
shaven but for heavy mustacne.
which he continued to stroke with his
right hand. When not thus employed
noticed that his fingers kept opening
and closing on the pa ms y. his hands
as though he were itching to do some
thing. Villa did not take the very
smallest notice of his foreign guests
but Immediately addressed the work
ingmen somewhat as follows:
Mexican brothers. you all know
me, Francisco Villa. am the biggest
bandit in the world have come to
help you. am the champion of ius-
tlce. What do you want me to do :?
Shall l blow up these mines or will
you demand your rights?'
1.-The men replied that they would de-
mand their rights.
"'Then. said Villa, 4 will not blow
up the mines, but what shall do with
these foreigners l have not yet made
up my mind. l don't know whether l
shall hang them or shoot them
I'VE were then ordered back to our
offices, where we were guarded by sew
eral armed men, while the rest broke
open the safes and ransacked our
houses, stealing anything they wanted
In some instances the men had taken
on their rags and dressed themselves
up in good American clothes. At a
neighboring mine one of the bandits
put on suit Of dress eloths.-'elad
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

kipo proposal into a preliminary step
IN the direction of recognition.
AS consequence the efforts Of
Den;kine and Kolchak came to
rothing. Meanwhile, the border races
steadily grew tired Of their role. The
western Allies had declined or failed
to obtain for these border races any
a '"!rance of independence. As a
result, the border races lost interest.
For e ample, at critical moment in
the Siberian campaign a Rumanian
general, commanding nearly 10000
Rumanian troops which had been or
ganized from various directions, was
asked by Kolchak to undertake a
costly offensive against the Bolshe-
visits. He visited Kolchak and asked
to know in advance what position
Ko,chak took in the matter of Bes-
arabia. When Kolchak declined to
promise to recognize Rumanian pos
session the Rumanian general took
his troops out of line.
In the same way the Gcorgians,
FAR to the south, having organized a
separate state and being ready to
aid Denikine against the Bolshevists
provided he would recognize their in
dependence, were attacked by Deni-
kline, who wasted his strength in this
campaign rather than in the battle
against the Bolshevists.
Meantime, the Poles, having OBJ
tanned several divisions, which had
tcen organized in the United States
and trained and equipped in France,
and failing to reach any agreement
with the Ukrainians, sent these divi-
'ions to Eastern Galicia, took Lem
Nerg and broke the back of the
UArainian military strength, which
should have been available against
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

no one left the house. However, they
dld not leave us for long but soon re-
turned to escort US down to the patio
at Santo Domingo.
There we're four Americans. bes;des
myself, and a Chinaman, our cook. The
bandits had also caught a British sub.
Ject, who had come over from a neirh.
boring mine to find out the fate Of
Santa Eulalia, village two miles off
which we all knew had been attacked
that morning. Later on we found out
that Martin Lopez, who was Villas sec.
ond in command, had captured that
place and, after sacking the stores of
all he wanted, had informed the in.
haoitants that they could help them
selves to the rest. The permission was
acted on so completely and expedi-
t'ously that the storekeepers were soon
left with their shelves bare and their
tlils empty. Within the last few wears
| have seen Santa Eulalia similarly
treated four times.
"by invariably giving the inhabi-
tants something free. Villa has always
been able to keep the greater number
OF the people on his side, for thew
come in for share Of the plunder
And then. too, he attracts the law
element to his colors, since it is so
very clearly seen how easy is the life
OF bandit. Should these outlaws
catch any of those whose political
opinions differ from their own they
are generally given the opportunity of
Joining up with the band, with the al
tentative of sudden death. Quite nat
urally the choice almost invariably
alls on the first way of escape.
But to go back to the patio at Sauto
Domingo, where we seven foxsirnsrs
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
The Deadly Blockade

AS for the Bolshevists, they need
peace as much as any one; above all,
they need to have the fatal blockade
| fted which is starving many parts
Of Russia to death and constitutes
he real menace to Bolshevist su-
premacy. To get the blockade liiteo
md obtain recognition by the west
ern nations they would, in all hu-
nan probability, judging croln the
terms Lenine gave to Bullitt to
transmit to the Peace Conference,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

the Bolshevists, while Denikine COM
pleted the wreck by attacking the
Pet4ura forces on the other sides.
The Firms, Too
Precisely in the same way the aid
of the Firms was lost at the critical
moment when Yudenitch was MAX
ing his campaign for Petrograd.
Like the Poles and the Rumanians,
the Firms were early ready to at
tack the Bolshevists, but, like these
other states, they demanded in ad-
vance q guarantee that their newly
acquired independence should be rec
ognized. When Yudenitch refused
this, fearing to affront Russian SEN
timent, and the Allies were thus un-
able to guarantee this independence
because of the attitude Of Kolchak
and Denikine, as we'll as Of Yude-
mitch, the Firms sat back, and the COL
'apse of the Yudenitch campaign for
Petrograd became inevitable.
1t is clear now, therefore, that
the policy Of the Gordon sanitaire has
gone the way Of the older and
sounder policy of combined Allied
military operations. The Allies are
still unable to supply troops, they
are finding it impossible longer to
bear the burden of supplying arms
and munitions, which has cost the
British more than billion in the
last year Therefore, the border
states, sensing the approach of a
time when they will be deserted, are
ready to make peace with the Boi-
shevists, as the Dorpat ponwparlers
indicated.
1t remains to be seen whether the
Bo,shevists will now consent tc
peace. My own notion, based Oh
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Red Russia Is Now the Worlds Great Mena
Peace Must Soon Be Made Witb
Lenine and Trotzky,
Says Simonds

practically all ne elements in II.
nation, save the extreme Royalistx
themselves negligible, had rallied IA
the Consulate, or at least to the Em
pire. This did not lessen, but A..
tually increased, the danger Of En-
rope, because an ordered France fo
lowing lmperia.i istic aspirations was
not less dangerous than reyop
tionary France striving to preserys
its existence nleLaced by foreign in.
yocior
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

provinces. 1t had been left there be-
cause the Allies believed tn t
should it withdraw on the signing of
the armistice with Germany on No
vember II, 1918, the Bolshevists
would pour in and occup' the terri
tory before Allied troops could be
sent. But Allied troops were not
Forthcoming thereafter, and the Ger
mans began to make arrangements
with the Bolsheviks. They had
hnally, as we saw recently, to be
driven out by the Let's and Lithu-
anians in the Riga region, after the
demands of the Paris Coaferes ce
served upon Berlin had totally failed
to accomplish anything.
Secret Conferences
In all these complications the
Allies found no solution, but ever
multiplying difficulties. AS result
they had recourse during last winter
to the dangerous expedient of secret
negotiations with the Bolshevists
which eliminated in the proposal for
a conference at Prinkipo. Nothing
came Of the conference, because the
public opinion of France and Great
Brltaln, on the one side, would not
tolerate such a tacit recognition of
the Bolshevists, While, on the other
side the Bolshevists were in no
mood to accept the terms prescribed
Tor such conference.
Unhappily, the proposal had one
clear result. 1t broke the back of
the purely Russian resistance to the
Bolshevists. The various elements
hostile to Lenine and Trotzky felt
themselves betrayed, they saw them
selves abandoned, and the Boshe.
visits were able to translate the Prin-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

IVA w CIIdC lGuCNO villa is
VI reported to have been
seized by his own men
and held for a reward of
$4,000, it is interesting to get
even by the roundabout way of
London, the following description.
by correspondent of "The London
llmes,' who was in the grip of the
Mexican bandit during one of his
raida last winter. He is a not unen-
tertaining desperate, according to
the writer, who says:
Those of US who were in the min
ing camp OF Santa Eulalia on January
% last had an experience we do not
want repeated. was awakened very
early that morning by four armed men
who stood at my bedroom door with
their six-shooters and rifles leveled at
me. The leader. in deep. husky voice.
demanded 'Armas y dinero.' pointed
to our six-shooters, which were on a
small table by my bed, and the money
told them was in a bag under my
bed. They Immediately helped them
selves, and were not slow in appropri-
ating many other things, including a
camera. an excellent pair of field
glasses, two watches. couple Of pairs
OF boots, and pair Of blankets. The
bandits then departed. the leader in
very loud voice charging one of his
band to guard the door and - that
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

agree to recognize the independence
of Finland, of the Baltic provinces,
of Lithuania and Poland, and the
Rumanian possession Of Bessarabia.
But it is essential to recognize
that such an agreement would be
for the Bolshevists only another
Brest-Litovsk. In other words, they
would bow to force Of events, but
they would regard the peace only as
truce and seek to organize Russia
| for renewal of the conflict, while
they would continue their effort to
undermine western political and
economic structures by propaganda
If one regards Bolshevism as dis
ease it will be plain that any effort
to localize the disease must prove
in the end futile and that only COM
plete eradication in every center of
contamination can avail.
On the other hand, it is clear that
"""nr+ -,onths there has been a
gradual drift to the Bolshevists by
....s mo were IN the nature Of
,hings hostile to Lenine and Trot-
zky. More and more it has become
low - "ho'.rhterl Russ ans that
their western allies would not
..4d no.--save them. 1t has been
lain that to build upon the support
Of the border tribes and the tacit
support of the western nations, at
east, the price of liberation would
be the surrender Of all that Russia
las won between the period of Peter
he Great ard that cf the last Car.
Parallels with the French Revo-
luton are dangerous; they have
been the cause of much stupidity
and Misunderstanding in the case of
Russia ever since February, 1917.
So far as one can see now, there
has been nothing in the Russian sit
"ation to suggest the patriotism
which was the most marvellous rev.
elation of the French explosion
But on the military side, at least,
the resemblances must be patent.
The United States. France and
Great Britain have failed to achieve
+he liberation of Russia from the
Rclshevists as Austria, Prussia and
Britain failed to deliver Fra &c
from the Revolution. Many Of the
reasons have been Identical. The
domestic revo'ts in Russia have not
nassed in comparative extent the
Rovalist rising, century and
quarter ago, in the Vendee and else
here. Trotz'y, on the whole, how
ever dcspicable he may seem on the
hunan SIDE, is beginning to take on
something of the character of tn
elder Garnet as the organizer Of
~atonaI defense.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Shaky Boisherisn,

At the same moment the Bolshe-
vfst influence in Russia had sunk 70
the lowest conceivable point. hun
ger, misery, dlsorganlzation, had
stirred even the passive Russian
millions to protest All there was
left of the Bolshevist military
strength was shaky facade, sup
piled by lily organized and badly
equipped mercenar.es collected by
the lndefatigable Trotzky.
What was then necessary, and
alone necessary, to the liberation OF
Russia and the world from the Boz
shevist nightmare was prompt ana
extensive military concentration
arainst Russia. Half million men
,iaced on the Russian trlnges, IN
Finland, in the Baltic States, IN Ru-
mania, in Poland, TO serve as the
foundation of armies to be raised oy
these states would have suttlced TO
Law the foundation for spring cam
pa.gn VIII .ch would beyond question
have broken the back of -snevisnl.
But the moment the Allied and as
sociated governments turned TO tnlS
natural and logical course they were
confronted by two impossible OBJ
stacles. The soldiers of the various
Au.ed armies would not fight any
more, and the people of the various
countries would not consent to the
use of troops. The nations that had
fought Germany and won were "fed
up'' with war, they were resolved
against any further sacrifices or
suffering.
Thus, all in a moment, the one
clear and reasonable policy was
eliminated. Mutinies by Allied troops,
protests in the various legislatures,
even more serious threats of do
mestic disorder, brought any prep
arations for Russian campaign to
a halt There was moment when
the Allies hoped that the army of
-.he United States, which had, rela-
lively, suffered least, would be avail
able for the Russian job, but this
notion was promptly banished.
The only sane alternative to max
rng war upon the Bolshevists was
making peace with them. But here
again the obstacles were impass-
able. The French and British peo-
Piles were bitter in the extreme at
the Russian desertion, which had
cost them tremendous losses and al
most resulted in the loss of the war.
Moreover, the Bolshevist doctrine
aimed at destroying the political and
economic fabric Of all the western
nations. 1t was, in its essence, a
state of war against western ideas.
Therefore, it was impossible to make
peace without inviting further dan
gers, while popular sentiment had a
violent prejudice against taking
hands that were still bloody.
Then Compromise
There was nothing left but COM
promise, and as a result we have had