The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-07-15

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safe guards about the rights Of racial,
national and religious M ,ritles by
sc.aen International covenant; IN
opportunity to limit and regulate
military ablishments where they
were most likely to be mlschievous;
an opportunity to effect completed
and systematic Observation-Disclosures
of waterways and railways which
We're necessary to the free economic
life of more than one nation and to
clear many Of the normal channels OF
commerce Of unfair instructions OF
law or of privilege, and the very vel
come opportunity to secure for labor
the concerted protection Of the detin-
ite international pledges Of principle
and practice.
''These were not tasks which the
conference looked about it to find
an; v,cn5 cut Of its way to perform.
They we're inseparable from the set
t,,er:c,:s CT peace. They were thr2st
71pon It by circumstances which could
not be overlooked. The way had
created them. They had to be set
right by applying some uniform prin-
ciple Of justice or enlightened exped-
iency. And they could not be adjust
ed by merely prescribing in a treaty
what should be done. New States
were to be set up which coUld not
hope to live through their first period
OF weakness without assured support
~ The q eat nations that had COY
sented to their creation and won for
for them their independence. III
governed colonies could not be put
in the hands of governments which
were to act as trustees for their peo-
pie and not as their masters If there
was to be no common authority
among the nations to which they
were to be responsible for the eXecu-
ton of their trust. Future lnterna-
tional conventions with regard to the
CO ltrol of waterways, with regard to
illicit traffic Of many kinds, IN arms
or in deadly drugs, or with regard to
The adjustment Of many varying IN
ternational administrative arrange
ments could rot be assured if the
treaty were to provide no permanent
common international agency, If its
execution in such matters was to be
left to the Slow and uncertain pro-
cesses of cooperation by ordinary
methods of negotiation. If the peace
conference itself was to be the end
of cooperative authority and common
counsel among the governments to
which the world was looking to en-
force justice and give pledges Of an
enduring settlement, regions like the
Star Basin could not be put under a
temporary administrative regime
which did not involve a transfer of
political sovereignty and which con-
templated a final determination OF
it's political connections by popular
vote to be taken at distant date;
no free city like Danzig could be
created which was, under elab-
crate international guarantees, to
accept exceptional obligations with
regard to the use Of it's port and ex-
ceptional relations with a state of
which it was not to form part, pro-
perly safeguarded plebiscites could
not be provided for where popula-
tions were at some future date to
make choice what sovereignty they
would live under; no certain and uni
form method Of arbitration could be
secured for the settlement of antic-
ipated difficulties Of final decision
with regard to many matters dealt
with in the treaty itself, the long
continued supervision of the task Of
reparation which Germany was to-
undertake to complete within the
next generation might entirely break
down; the reconsideration and re-
vision of administrative arrangements
and restrictions which the treaty pre-
scribed but which it was recognized
might not prove of lasting advantage
or entirely fair if too long enforced
would be impracticable. The promises
governments were making to one an
other about the way in which labor
was to be dealt with, by law not only
but in fact as we'll, would remain a
mere humane thesis if there was to
be no common tribunal of opinion
and judgement to which liberal
statesmen could resort for the influ-
ence which alone might secure their
rodonontion A leacue of free nations