Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-01
AS freshmen SEE IRELAND
X Jurst Authority Affairs Erin, Discusses Long
Battle Freedom
BY HON. DANIEL. COHALAN,
Justice Supreme Court,
Article No. NO & VIII he Published

England may control statesmen she
may thunder from the pulpts and she
may speak through the impcrsonal edi-
turials Of the press in various coun-
tries She may purchase poets. she
may hire apolisSts.. she may, rewrite
there Will be men rising up through
out the world TO thwart her schemes.
l. prevent IN" contamination of her
carefully laid plans. to point out the
libcrty-loviuG people of the world to
a realization of the fact that there
can be no freedom on earth until the
autocracy which hides behind the
broken as was that which was covered
mask Of navalism is completely
by the garb OF militarism.
England may succeed-as she has
sucCee dcd-in caioling or outma-
neuvering the Spokesman Of free peo-
pies at the Conference OF Versailles:
She may write the terms of peace there
as she write them at Vienna a century
bcforc-but she cannot strife the con-
science OF the world. She cannot sat
the war has been won because Ger
man and Russian militar!sm has been
broken.
nut an end to autocracy, and that
means autocracy in every form. Amer
lea entered the war TO break down
special privileges in all governments
and To see that not only militarism.
hut it's twin sister. navalism, was
broken beyond repair.
If America had not gone into the
~ different way. We threw our
strength. our youth. our vigor. our
idcalism into the scales and We freely
expressed our belief that when we won
we went into the war-thcre would be
an end of autocracy.
We declared there would be self-de-
termination for all people: that there
would be freedom OF the seas-that
freedom for which America through all
her history has contended and for
which she waged one victorious war.
American Won the War.
Ameica won the war. Sir Douglas
Haigs comments to the contrary not
withstanding. America threw her soul.
her honor. her ideals into the winning
OF the war. and America will not now
be satisfied until all the peoples of the
earth gather In the fruits OF that VIC
tory.
There can be no just or permanent
peace If. after destroying one form
more strongly entrenched than ever and
resting upon frmer foundation. The
plain people throughout the world will
not rest while two great empires re-
main, their strength buttrcssed and
fortified By a peace which able spokes-
men of these empires. with superior
sourase. superior diplomaeg; Win
America magniiicently won the war.
America has failed to make the peace.
Americas spoke smen laid down Splen-
to SATISFY the world and which were
agreed to in advance by the spokcsine n
OF England. of France, of Italy But
played outclasse by the veteran
diplomats of the latter countries.
America was satisfied with the pro
posed terms Of peace. She is utterly
dissatisfied with the proposed peace
nations as drawn by Cecil and SHUTS
and now urged by the President of the
which he may hide the discontinue re-
skilled diplomats of tho old World.
Gloss over the story as one may. the
cnce at Versailles there have emerged
two great powers greatly strengthen
Japan. These two empires are now
Selling and taking to themselves the
choicest spots on the earth. adding
tremendously 20 their already swollen
wnr Enthroncx Autocrncy.
England. whose spokesman assured
us one hundred times during the war
that she sought no territory, has had, in
her unwilling" shoulders huge strips
OF land which nominally belonged TO
tho German Empire, but which really
belonged to their inhabitants These
people. as the result of the war. are
simply transferred from one group of
eXploitcrs to another and more eX-
pericnCcd group.
Forty million Chinese Republicans
were torn from their own country with
the immense province of Shantung and
thus making Ii larger, in point of
population, than the United States Of
America.
he war. on visit, OF Isalfour TO Wash
inSton, was In the throes OF despair
and on the verge OF defeat, can now
proudly proclaim through her mouth
piece. Lord Cecil that she emerge s
from the war richer and stronger. ac-
tually and relatively. than any other
coun'r? on earth.
The war tough, for democracy. may
end with a peace which greatly in
crcascs the power OF autocracy. The
war. fought to bring freedom of the
seas. ends with Enelamd in mnques-
toned control Of al. the oceans Of the
earth. The war. fought 10 bring self
determination 10 al! the peoples OF the
earth. has the doctrine OF English pre-
determination applied to some parts
o! the Continent. in order temporarily
20 break up and permanently to Grip
pie her European rivals. This doctrine
Is applied 10 ASIA in such way that
tn" Japanese p-cdctcrminktion may
apply Ito In. Continent OF Asia 20 the
end that She may eventually absorb
ally and close friend England, for any
emergency that may arise in any part
of the world.
lnsi>t America Guarantee Possessions,
Not satisfied with their own power
TO retain that which the seif-sntisncd
and temporary Spokesman for America
mas permitted them to absorb, England
and Japan are insisting through
clause y. in the proposed league of
nations that America shall guarantee
for all time the present territorial in
tcGrity Of The two remaining empires
on earth.
one little knows the force passion
for democracy which burns In the
/ hrcas, of the average American IL he
thinks that such scheme will ever
succeed. For one hundred and forty
three years America has been fighting
with ever increasing viSor the battle
OF democracy