The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-07-18

use of its port and exceptional rela.
tons with state of which 1t was not
to form part: properly safeguarded
pleblscites could not be provided for,
where populations were at some fu
ture date to make choice what sOver-
eighty they would live under; no GER
tain and uniform method of arbitra.
ton could be secured for the settle
nent Of anticipated difficulties Of final
decision. with regard to many matters
dealt with in the treaty itself; the
lOng-cOnttnued supervision Of the task
Of PREPARATION which Germany was to
undertake to complete within the next
generation might entirely break down;
the reconsideration and revision Of nd.
ministrative arrangements and restric-
tiOns which the treaty prescribed. bur
which it was recognized might not
prove Of lasting advantage or entirely
fair II too long enforced. would be i'm.
practicable.
A league Of free nations had become
a practical necessity. Examine the
treaty of peace. and you will find tina
everywhere throughout it's manifold
provisions its trainers have felt obliged
to turn to the League of Nations as an
Indispensable instrumentality for the
maintenance of the new order it has
been their purpose to set up in the
world. the world Of civilized men.
That there should be Il League Of
Nations tn steady the cOunSelS and
maintain the peaceful understanding
Of the world. to Nuke. not treaties
alone. but the accepted principles Of
international law as well, the actual
rule of conduct among the govern
mentS of the world. has been one Of
the agreements accepted from the first
as the basis Of peace with the central
powers.
Saw Necessity for League.
The statesmen Of all the helIgerent
countries were agreed thai such Il
league must be created to sustain the
settlements that were to be effected.
But at first think there was Il feel
ing among some Of them that. while
it must be attempted, the formation OF
such league was perhaps IL counsel
of perfection which practical men,
long experience in the world of affairs,
must agree to very cautiously and
with many misgivings.
Ii was only as the difficult work of
arranging an all but universal adjust
ment of the worlds affairs advanced
from day to day. from one stage ot
conference to another. that it became
evident to them that what they We're
seeking would be little more than
something written upon paper. TO he
interpreted and applied by such meth
DDS as the chances of politics might
make available. if they did not provide
| Il means of common counsel which ali
We're obliged to accept Il common au
thOrity whose decisions would he rec
OgniZed as decisions which all must
respect.
Skeptical Turn to League.
And so the most practical, the mos
Skeptical among them turned mos
and more to the league as the author
ity through which international aclio,
was To be secured. the authority with
out which, as they had come to see it
it would be difficult, to give assured
effect to this treaty or to any other in
ternational understanding upon which
they were to depend for the mainte
nance Of peace.
The most practical of the con
fereeS We're at last the most read,
to refer to the league of nation
the superintentlance Of all interest!
which did not admit of immediate
de, ernination of all administrator,
problems which We're to require
continuing oversight. What hat
seemed II counsel of perfection ha,
come To seem a plain counsel of neceS
>ity. The league Of nations was tn,
practical >;ate>man's hope OF success
in many of the most Difficult, thing
he was attempting.
And il had validated itself in tn,
thought OF every member of the con
ference as something much bigger
much greater every WAY than a ner'
visions of Il particular treaty. Ii VA
universally recognized that all TIL
peoples of the world demanded of tn
conference that it should create sucl
n continuing concert of free nation
as would make wars of aggression
and >polia,iOn. such as this that ha
just ended. forever impossible. \ or,
had gone Out from every home II
every stricken land from which son
and brothers and fathers had gon
forth to the great sacrifice that Sucl
n sacrifice should never again b.
exacted.
Ii was manifest why ii had heel
exac;ed 1t had been exacted because
one nation desired dominion and Othe
nations had known no means Of de
Tense except ornaments and alliances
People Now Know Truth.
War had lain at the heart Of ever.
arrangement of Europe--of ever.
arrunyement Of the WOrld-that Orp