The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-26
NO PEACE THROUGH INTERMEDDLINc.

The term sof the peace treaty. far as revealed are
evidence of the mpossbity of achieving real peace
Hatred fills the hars of all Huns and rooted aversion and
dstrust fill the hearts of all allied peoples There is no
room for the working of the Christian spirit for the rea
son that the enemy is still indicative unreconciled and
intent upon evil The civilized nations cannot take the
Huns to their bosoms without inviting destruction. They
must bind them fast with the steel of armed force and
the throngs of expaton The Christian cannot set aside
truth for the sake of mercy reconciliation. The SER
pent remains serpent and the Hun remains a Hun
Therefore the treaty to be made at Paris will not be
peace treaty in the ordinary 1t will be definition
ftems to be imposed, rather than statement of mu
ua agreements If Germany signs, it will be with q
vengeful and lying heart with full intent to violate the
terms whenever possible. If Germany does not sign al
once she will sign another paper later and the effect
will be the same in the end-the imposition upon beaten
but rreconcabe people of condition called as dis
tngushed from military hostiltcs This condition vii
be static hostility not peace. 1t will resembe peace on!
by the absence of boodshed 1t will be truly related
war as live Goals are related to flames.
The allies are relying upon paper called the league OF
nations to the worlds peace including peace with
Germany Germany is excluded from the eague and il
to be fore ID to declare herself unfit to join the league
Thus the treaty provides that there shall be spirit OF
war underlying the socaed peace But instead of openly
recognizing the impossiby of making real peace the al
lies gloss over the situation with lot of words which pur
port to create world league of peace.
The league of nations provided for in the treaty with
Germany is not world league although it pretends to be
1t does not insure peace with Germany although it
tends to do So 1t claims the right to interfere in any
question that arises anywhere in the world which may
threaten peace but at the time it lodges the most
important question of alhat of Russia 1t declares that
any nation which starts will be attacked by all other
nations but its declaration is not backed by any force
whatever 1t asserts control the entire world and
then pretends to avoid interference with the Monroe doc
trine and the LansingIsh agreement; that u.s. it ex
empts the western hemisphere and Asia from its ursdic
ion or seems to do so. Possibly must be fought
to determine exactly whether the league the Lansing
Tshii agreement is paramount in Asia Thus in case
China should make Japan the United States would
be compelled to betray Japan China and go to fo
one against the other.
The mind of the people in allied countries has been mis-
led into believing that the league of nations will prevent
war As the truth forces itself to the front, the Amer
lean people their boys held in Germany year after
year and more of their boys sent to fight in regions OF
Europe and Asia that perpeualy at war; they will see
what terrible mistake made when the representa-
ves of the United States embroed this country in Euro
pean affairs under the mistaken ideal of forming uni
versal war-prevenng alliance of nations. There be
universal alliance for the civilized nations will not ally
themselves with the Huns and the boshevik Any league
short of universal alliance is merely lineup of one
group of nations against another group in anticipation Of
war.
The mischief of the proposed league of nations aside
from the bitter establishment it will bring to peaceovne
men everywhere is in the fact that enanges the Unit
ed States in Europe The allied nations of Europe are
fully justified in forming permanent alliance. They
must do So in fact whether they wish not But the
United States need not and should not join their alliance
The United States should declare its sympathy with sucl
an alliance formed for the purpose of Stacking the Ger
mans and maintaining free government ;but the United
States merely makes the situation worse when it enters
into European politics. takes sides in European squabbes
sets itself up arbter of European boundary anc
commercial disputes and invites disgust and hatred by be
coming busybody in other nations affairs.
The manner in which President Wilson alienated himself
the admiration and sympathy of the whole Italian peo
ple in single day by single act, reminder
to Americans that they cannot expect to end in Eu
rope by the simple process of medding-W ashingtor
Post.
What is the of hurrying? There is time enough foI
work and they who work and scurry through day ae,
day. vainly endeavoring to do little than any