Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-01
UTOPIA POSSIBLE BY
LEAGUE, SAYsMATIX
Paris Paper Permitted to Print
Suppressed Article.
ENEMIES MUST PAY DAMAGES
Three Stages to Constitute organiza-
tion-PrincipIes to Be Determined
by the AIlies-compuisory Ar
bitration Will Come First.


Paris, Dec 24.-The Matin was au-
thorized TO print an article, the first
headline of which read: Yesterdays
Utopia, Tomorrow's Reality" sets
forth the manner of procedure of the
promoters of a league of nations act
ing in agreement with the allied gov
ernments."
The formation of a league of ma
tons, the article says, will be in three
stages. The allied governments will
decide the principles of such an or
ganiZatiOn, which will include COM
pulsory arbitration and limitation of
ornaments. Germany and her former
allies will then be told that they must
accept these principles, after which
the treaty of peace will be formulated.
Later a conference will be held to dis
cuss the formation of league. Neu-
trails will be admitted, the article con-
tinues, but Germany would not have
an equal standing until she had expi-
ated her misdeeds, and before she can
do so an international organization
VIII Bt WOEhlus.
Three Stages in Formation.
There will be three stages" the
Matin says First, the allied govern
ments will settle among themselves the
principles of league. AS a funda-
mental rule they will set down the
right of peoples to decide their own
destinies. AS a practical consequence
it follows that there viii be limitation
of ornaments and compulsory arbitra-
ton among the nations. 1t seems in
dispensable that at this point the en-
tente countries bind themselves to put
these clauses in the preliminaries of
peace
at has appeared absolutely neces-
sary to the promoters that the regime
of the future world should be fixed in
its main outlines before there are any
questions of indemnities and terrific
ries, so that for the first time in
history the deliberations of the pleni-
pOtentiaries should be dominated by
higher ideals than mere individual in
terest.
The second act will consist in no.
tifying the enemy powers of the fun
damental principles laid down in the
preliminaries and requiring from them
their adhesion to these principles. AS
to other conditions of peace prelimi-
naries. as in the case of stipulations
of Il territorial, financial and economic
character. no discussion will be admit
ted. The entente delegates will say
to Germany and her allies:
Compulsory arbitration and limi-
tatiOn of ornaments are integral parts
of our conditions. You must subscribe
to them at once. You will know later
how these principles will be applied
Universal Conference Last Stage.
THE preliminaries once signed, Cle-
tails OF the peace treaty will be dis
cussed among the belligerents and
only after the signing of this treaty of
peace proper will the third stage be
reached. This will be universal con-
ference to settle the new relations to
be created between the peoples
IL lUlS COlileItnCt uculIdiS may De
admitted No nation, however, will be
admitted to full membership in the
league of nations if it does not offer
sufficient guarantees. Germany, having
started the war. will have been con-
demned by the peace conference TO
make restitution and reparation. She
cannot be regarded as being on an
equal footing with other nations until
she has paid her debt. Germany has
committed a crime and she must
atone for it before she can be admit
ted to the ranks of honest and civil
lied peoples.
yet while the other countries will
be united by formal agreements
world police will have been created
and sanctions of all kinds will have
been instituted. An international tri-
bunal will be working and the specter
of war, as far as it is humanity posi-
BILE, will be banished from the path of
civilization