The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-07-17
BORAH CHARGES WILSON
BATTERED WITH FRANCE
FORMED ALLIANCE FOR WAR TO
GET SUPPORT FOR LEA.
CUE OF PEACE.
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The proposed United States Brit
ish- French alliance was agreed to by
President Wilson in exchange for
Frances support of the league of ma
tions, declared Senator Borah recent
ly in a statement attacking the agree
ment under which the United States
and England would go to the assist
ance of France in case Germany should
make an unprovoked attack upon that
country.
Alliance for War.
"Those who sincerely believed that
league of nations meant peace and
the doing away of the old balance of
power and alliances of war; the pro-
posed special alliance between the
United States, Great Britain and
France must come as a rude awak-
ening," said Senator Borah. For six
months we have been assured from
the rostrum and by the organized pro-
paganda that the league meant peace.
And now there comes stalking in up
on the old war monster-special Euro
pean alliances. THE only difference
between the old and the new alliance
is that the United States has been
drawn into the European system. The
French British united States alliance
is based upon the theory of war; it is
made in expectation of war; it is like
all such alliances-a war alliance.
1.-The question naturally arises, if
the league means peace, why this in
decent haste to form an alliance for
war? Could there be more open
confession by the authors of the lea
que that the league means neither
peace nor disarmament? No one has
more severely condemned the special
alliance policy than the president. He
not only denounced it as a breeder of
wars, but he solemnly warned the Am
erican people against any such alli-
ances. Furthermore, he pledged the
American people that he would not
commit them to such an alliance.
Asked to Draw Line.
"a short time before the president
left for Europe he said special alli-
ances have been the prolific cause in
the modern world of the plans and
passions that produce war Yet, not
withstanding this statement so very
frankly made, we are now asked to
draw a line through Washington's
farewell address, put behind us the
policy of our government during its
entire life and enter into special al
lance, an alliance which will include
Great Britain and France and posi-
bly, Italy and Belgium, for both have
indicated desire to get in.
Upon the same occasion he declar-
ed, there can be no alliance within the
general league of nations In the face
of this statement there is to be form
ed within this league a special alli-
ance and this special alliance Is to be
formed upon the initiative of the au-
thors of the league of nations. This
special alliance will lead inevitably, in
fact will compel, other nations to
form special alliances. The old Eur
opean system will be inaugurated and
inaugurated at the instance OF those
who were to do away with it. We are
to have league for peace and an al
lance for war; That is like advising
a friend to TRIP patent medicine cure
all, but to be sure to have his physi-
clan and a stomach pump at hand
Wilson on Alliances.
Upon another occasion after the
p1 esident had most earnestly denounc-
ed such alliances as being the auth
ors of wars and the intolerable condi-
tions Of Europe, he used this Ian
guage:
1.-THE United States will enter into
no special arrangements or under
standings with particular nations The
fact is, the European system has won
completely. Clemenceau declared for
special alliances. Wilson met the
challenge in his speech at Manchester,
England, but Clemenceau has his way
and the people Of the United States
are asked to pledge themselves now
in advance that they will enter the
next war between Germany and
France regardless Of what the people
who must fight the war at that partic-
uIar time think about it,
while the people of the United
States are being urged to adopt this
league Of nations in order to insure
peace, they are being tied up to an al
lance which throws them into war
without the people having any say
about it whatever
Yielded to Clenenceau.
This alliance Is the premature obit-
uary of the league Of nations as lea
que of peace, and, strange to say, the
obituary seems to delight the authors
of the league just as much as the lea
que itself. They are just as earnest
and Just as enthusiastic for one as
they are for the other The real ex-
PLANTATION of the situation is this, that
Clemenceau demanded the special al
lance as a consideration for his sup
port of the league of nations. And we
dad with him In the same way