El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-11-06
Great Virtue of Treaty Of Versailles Now Target OF
World Wide Exeeraton, is Degree to Which it Recog
nized Peoples Rights to Dispose of Own Allegiance;
Some Mistakes Made in Achieving Liberation.

: be true. but peace founded upon
slavery was at once unjust and I'M
permanent Again, II is argued thar
while justice has been done, injus-
tice has also been similarly done, that
we have enslayed as well as liberated.
that we have abolished old slavery 70
create new
The oasis for this contention may
be found in the fact that IN many
cases there have been included with
in the frontiers Of new states frac-
rions Of races. which were lately mas
ters Danzig. which is not included
within Polish frontiers, but created
q free city. the German population IN
districts assigned 10 the Poles. the
Austrian-G German minorities In Bone
mia. the TyrOlese Germans south OF
the Alps in new Italian districts. and
with ever growing insistence. the case
Of the Saar basin, are presented as
examples.
Freed seek 10 EnsInve Others.
Further than this. it Is argued, with
no small justice. that the races newly
liberated are displaying an eagerness
I q enslave their neighbors wholly
comparable with the spirit displayed
by their own masters yesterday Out
Of this situation have grown innu-
mera bic disputes. the Poles seek 70
extend their frontiers south and east
+ at the expense Of Lithunians. ~ mite
Russians and Ruthenians. the Czecho-
Slovalzs seek territories inhabited oy
8 Poles and by Ruthenians, in Iescnen
and at the southwestern end Of the
I Carps thians. Thus we have abolished
one set Of war-causing disputes only
10 find that we have soWn new
crop. the first harvest from which is
now being gathered
3 Yet recognizing the measure OF
truth IN all these arguments. two
things are still manifest, first that Il
was not less necessary TO uoerate
the 10000 GOO. whether the result
+ would lead TO general peace or 70 new
g rivalries; and second II injustice has
been done, the aggregate injustice is
Z FAR less considerabl than that Wnlcn
{ has been abolished. Measured by hu-
man beings, the gain tor freedom is
still enormous.
Millions Of poles Freed.
To take the case OF Germany. alone,
we have liberated within her old IRON
tiers between five and six millions Of
Z Poles. isace-Lorrainer and Danes
f BY contrast we have, at most. given
half q million Germans to Poland OF
! placed them outside the German IRON
tiers and under the control OF the
3 league OF nations In the same way
I we have placed an equal number OF
Z Germans under the ten porary control
I OF France, subject TO the supervision
Of the league Of nations with the
z right to vote 10 return to Germany
lis years hence And If we have thus
{ put Germans under alien rule against
their will we have left almost an
/ equal number Of Poles under German
IN lfberating 2o.0O0.0oO Of Poles We
! have temporarily failed to separate
+ from the new Poland Galician dis
trict which were Polish before the
partlti1ns and contain a Polish MI
norfty, along with a Ruthenian ma
3 iority. but there has been no settle
meut Of this issue and these same
3 Ruthenians we're under alien Austrian
I rule, before the war: and they have
changed masters. but not their con-
ditions. that is all
Much Given to Italy.
We have given italy, along with
some million Of Italian speaking peo-
pie in the Trentino and Triest, a
quarter Of a million Of Tyrolese Ger
mans in the upper Adige valley and
an equal number Of Slovenians back
! OF Triest. but as TO the SloVenians.
5 they were subjects OF German AUS
. tria before the war and have thus
neither gained nor lost, so far as ma
Tyroless decision Is concerned The