Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-02

Mia IL LIN 14No,
other nations are not so minded
then they have no place in it; and
such a place should not be prepared
for them"
Our former Ambassador to Ger
many, who evidently agrees with
many of his countrymen as to the
folly of providing for a peace here
after while neglecting the immedi-
ate duty Of transfusing an armistice
into an actual peace without delay,
! declares the League SIS in its essence
nothing but written form of an
understanding for mutual defense
against an enemy not wholly over
come"
IF the enemy" he continues,
had been made to acknowledge de-
feat at the moment when he really
was defeated, all this circumlocu-
h, tion would have been avoided. The
Entente would have obtained la vic
] toire integrale, and a chastened Ger
many would now be rehabilitating
her national life, as it is her right
and duty to do, in order to suppress
Bolshevism, instead of allying herself
with it, and preparing to take a
normal and useful part in the So
ciety OF States"
In the dispassionate judgment of
many thoughtful opponents of the
peace scheme just promulgated
overseas. Germany and her asso-
ciates in the crime of the ages must
fore she and they shall be given any
| place in the family of nations. DR..
Hill says the problem now is not
| reconciliation and it never was. The
real problem was and is to show the
Central Powers, and particularly
Germany, that ruthless aggression
and violation OF the Law of Nations
cannot be tolerated, and cannot es-
cape just punishment. There
must be a peace of victory and not
a peace of compromise, or there will
never be any sure peace in the
world"
Ex-President Taft and the former
Ambassador differ radically as to
Article y, constituting the new ma
tionalities and fixing their frontiers.
DR.. Hill believes this provision, so
much discussed, must endanger fu-
ture peace; that under its operation
elf-determination, so far as national
allegiance is concerned, would be
finally repressed. He makes the
significant point that sit is for the
peoples by choice and agreement to
make the map and not the ethno-
graphers," and further observes that
the most pernicious vice in the sys-
tenn of ideas upon which this League
is founded, is that peace can be Sc
cured without the existence of i'm
mense armed forces by artificial lines
drawn on a map. The
secret of peace does not lie in geog-
raphy, but in institutions, political
and economic. The one great lesson
that constitutional self-government
has brought, is that peace and con-
tentment are not created by geo.
graphic boundaries, but by just laws
and the economic opportunities af-
forded under good government"
More than two hundred years ago
the learned Able de st. Pierre, dur
ing the Congress of Utrecht, in 1918,
proposed a peace league which was
practically the same in its substan-
tial provisions as the one just for
mulated at Paris as something abso-
lutely new and original, but it was
rejected as impracticable, because
it ignored two persistent tendencies
of human nature-the ambition of
rulers on the one hand and national
aspiration for freedom and equality
on the other"
We shall have to wait and see
whether human nature has so
changed in these two hundred years
as to justify the hopes of the found
ers of the latest plan for universal
peace.