The Bolivar County Democrat., 1919-07-19


plebiscites could not be proyide& ad
where populations were at SON.. ~,
ture date to make choice what -. ~
eighty they would live under. NJ ''
tain and uniform method of arh,. ''
tion could be secured for the ssa,
ment of anticipated difficulties 90 sT
decision, with regard to many m...
dealt with in the treaty itself.
long-continued supervision of tba %
of reparation which Germany woo sS
undertake to complete within the - -. .
generation might entirely break do. 1
the reconsideration and revision =.
ministrative arrangements and rae ~
tions which the treaty prescrihed !.
which it was recognized might W
prove of lasting advantage or ent,,.'
fair If too long enforced, would ha =
practicable.
A league of free nations had bac,.
a practical necessity. Examine ~
treaty of peace, and you will find ,s.' s
everywhere throughout its manis.,,
provisions it's trainers have felt obras'
to turn to the League of Nations % % ~
indispensable instrumentality for a.
maintenance of the new order Il ~
been their purpose to set an in a.
world. the world of civilized men
That there should be Leamo :,
Nations to steady the counsels a,s1
maintain the peaceful Understand.
of the world, to make, not treatis'
alone, but the accepted principes !
international law as well, the actr,,,
rule of conduct among the gova,,
ments Of the world, has been ono :,
the agreements accepted from the 6,,,
as the basis of peace with the Central
powers.
Saw Necessity for League.
The statesmen of all the bellieern,
countries were agreed that such n
league must be created to sustain N.
settlements that were to be effectS
But at first / think there was foil
ing among some of them that vhl.
it must be attempted, the formation Il
such a league was perhaps a couDSl
of perfection which practical men
long experience in the world of affair."
must agree to very cautiously ami
with many misgivings.
1t was only as the difficult work NJ
arranging an all but universal adius
ment of the worlds affairs advanced
from day to day, from one stage n
conference to another, that 1t becama
evident to them that what they wen
seeking would be little more than
something. written upon paper, to III
interpreted and applied by such meth
DDS as the chances of politics NIGH
make available, if they did not proyd,
means of common counsel which adj
We're obliged to accept, common atI
thority whose decisions would be rN
ogniZed as decisions which all mux
respect.
Skeptical Turn to League.
And so the most practical, the mos
skeptical among them turned mq{
and more to the league as the auth8
ity through which international acda
was to be secured, the authority with
out which, as they had come to see
it would be difficult to give assura
effect to this treaty or to any other d
ternational understanding upon whh
they were to depend for the mans
nance of peace.
The most practical Of the CO.
ferees were at last the most read
to refer to the league of natis
the superintendance Of all intersa
which did not admit of immedl
determination Of all administrat
problems which were to requln
continuing oversight. What b
seemed a counsel of perfection
come to seem a plain counsel Of nea
sity. The league of nations was
practical statesman's hope of sucsa
in many of the most difficult thla
he was attempting.
And it had validated itself in
thought of every member of the y
ference as something much Dig
much greater every way than nd
instrument for carrying out the
visions of a particular treaty. II Y
universally recognized that all
peoples of the world demanded Of
conference that 1t should create
a continuing concert Of free naue
as would make wars OF aggreS
and spoliation, such as this thal
Just ended, forever impossible. "a
had gone out from every nome
every stricken land from which
and brothers and fathers had
forth to the great sacrifice that
sacrifice should never agal
exacted.
1t was manifest why 1t had
exacted. 1t had been exacted beca
one nation desired dominion ana
nations had known no means ol
tense except armaments ana allla'
People Now Know Truth
War had lain at the heart OF
arrangement of Europe-ol
arrangement of the world-tha'
ceded the war. Restive peope
been told that fleets and armies
they toiled to sustain. meant
and they now know that they hau
lied to; that fleets and armie
been maintained to promote ha'
ambitions and meant war. Ihes,
that no olS policy meant anythlns
but force, force-always force
they knew that It was intola,
bureau reports that nurl