The Washington herald., 1919-06-20

at all today. and the 100000, 900
grown ups who for almost ave years
bore the cross of war sufferings in
good faith in the cause Of the
fatherland cannot be treated like q
naughty child which is stood in a
corner until 1t begs on with prom
ises to behave better. Whoever
does not show faith in the Germans
cannot expect useful performance
from them.
president Wilson's arsepaI be-
came empty when he could no long
er point out the perils of German
victory or harp on the imperative
need of American armed help. The
nations of Europe. exhausted by
loss of blood and money. wished
when victory came to enjoy with
ali their senses the fruits of sue
cess. to hear. see. smell, taste and
touch their splendors.
weeds springfng Up.
The proclaimer of a great thought,
promising far-reaching results. has
no right to- shrink from hindrances
and to drop his thought like found
ling. The President had to remain
and see all manner of weeds spring
ing I'D, Sout ana tul-
| fering, In order to bring the harvest
from the seed of his spirit into the
granary.
The agency through which this har-
vest will be transformed into food
| for humanity can be only the league
of nations. Whoever does not want
the league of nations desires thar
humanity starve.
I can understand the resistance to
the proposed Anglo-AmeGican defen-
siye alliance which is said to have
| been arranged for the protection of
France. Those who object to such
an alliance have not yet recognized
that it is promise which merely
presses a plaster on the wound of
| French sensibilities. It reflects a
| strange mixture of pride and fear
over the REIMBURSEMENT on the left
bank of the Rhine. Since a German
attack is not thinkable, the hour
for this alliance TO go into effect
can never come.
Hinderine World Change.
But whoever fights against the
| creation of a league of nations
thrusts it aside as a Wilson Utopia
and hinders the world change
/ WHICH dlOut Cdn ItuttIn Ine dIrOC1-
ties of the war. An American op-
ponent can only expose himself to
reproach for having sQuandered the
blood of his countrymen for an old
style place, purchasable with
! money; and he paves the way for a
Lenine Utopia, because belief in
human progres and in the union OF
| humanity seems Utopian to him.
hA oil
rights do not succeed in creating a
supernatural tribunal. whose task
/ will be the moral regeneration OF
the lives of the nations and. the So
c:alization of all countries, then the
decaying citadel of capital will not
J long withstand the fury of the mas
| ses.
/ II the league of nations were
only a hope. even then il would be
criminal to nip it in the bud before
it could prove that its fruit could
ripen. Woe to those who would be-
! come responsible for the defeat of
the league project.
Called Predestined Agent.
manity through the experiences of the
available means for good. Therefore
believe in the league Of nations and
that Woodrow Wilson was predes-
| tined to create and establish it.
In every myth and every holy book
OF East and West the spirit OF the
new has always been victorious over
the old. Americas active entry into
the war brought a decision for the
! New World in the armed struggle of
Europe. the Old World. That decision