The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-03-28
STRAIGHT TO DISASTER.

STRAIGHT TO DISASTER.
 The favorite quotation of all the oppon- ,ents of the League of Nations is this, from Washington's s Farewell Address:
 Europe has set of primary inter-
 ests which to us have none or very
 remote relation. Hence she must be
 engaged in frequent controversies the
 causes of which are essentially for
 eign to our concerns.
 Those words were absolutely true when they were uttered. Today they are absolu- tely untrue Except what happens in the U. S., nothing concerns much what hap pens in Europe. It concerns us politically. It concerns us economically. It concerns financially It concerns socially. We can no more escape from 1t than we can escape from any of the other consequences of con- munity existence. We might well say that it concern of whether next door neighbor had diphtheria or whether his house burned down as to say that not concerned with what goes in Europe,
 Superfcially nothing could bear less re- lation to American affairs than the murder of an Austrian Archduke in the streets of town in the Balkans. Yet because of it more than 60,0OO Americans are filling soldiers graves in France. The thunder of American cannon has shaken the castles the banks of the Rhine and great armies of American troops occupying German territory and admin istering the government of hundreds of thousands of Germans.
 Theoretically we have very little concern with what happens in Russia, but when Rus sia goes Bolshevist the menace to American institutions is great as the menace to the British and French institutions. Even the United States Senate responds to the chal- lenge
 Senator Borah is travelling around the country telling his audiences-that the thing to do is to stand where Washington stood Heading the nations of the world in the right path, and then if they did not choose to go that way it would be Gods will and not our fault" That is the way the Kaiser talks about It Gods will or the wicked ness of his enemies, but it not the fault of German autocracy Yet if there had been q League of Nations there would have been no war. Austria Hungary would have been com pelled to submit the issue with Serbia to arbi- tration. There would have been no ultima tum.
 The military masters of Germany would have known in advance that if they plunged Europe into war the whole civilized world would be against them. There would have been no gambling on he possibilities of an Irish revolution if Great Britain upheld her treaty obligations, question as to the part that all the other great nations would play if Berlin appealed to the sword to back it's way to the mastery of the world.
 Yet the Borahs and the Reeds and the Thomases and the Shermans of the United States Senate are exhorting the American peo- pie that there must be association of tions to prevent a repetition of that colossal crime; that the most sacred right of any country is to make war on its neighbors when ever it believes that will promote its own selfish interests; that the power of the United States must not be eXerted to maintain peace but used only to help undo the evil after it is done
 If history and human experience teaches anything it is that that kind of statesman ship lead only to disaster It can never lead anywhere else. These men belong to the generation that preferred smallpox to vac cination and confagrations to fire depart ment.
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