South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-27


many has as yet been signed. readers being sup
posed 10 swallow that -four months with gulp-
not stopping TO refresh their memories the fac
that it is only trihe months since
conference began. four since the armisticc was
signed.
Get this: It was Aug g. 1898 that Spain ac-
cepted Pres't McElinley's peace. the armis
lice being signed Aug. IL. It was not until oct.
]. however. that the peace conference convened
In Paris. and the treaty signed until
Dec. 10; just little "dinky" war that common
parIanee has always referred to as a mere un-
pleasantness." Well this has been a world war OF
momentuous proportions involving every nation
and every earth. The aFmistice signed
Nov. Il, and the peace conference began its
sions -. about ten DAYS longer than took
the spanish American peace commission to get
down business. Now, after months and a hail.
in the of the world war treaty is practically
ready for Germany. with covenants for a League of
Nations attached making OF / a treaty with all
tiuns that in. 1t took months and
ter days to settle the little difficulty with Spain
Which OF these peace conferences We wonder
has had the greater job, which must have had tho
better settled policy and which has been guilty OF
the greater datoriness? OF course had it been put
up the press correspondents. the matter would
doubt have been settled long ago, and they seem
have. some OF them assurance from somewhere
tnal anything they might nave done would have
settled with the bolshevists. and without reserve
right the bat Furthermore. in their infinite wis.
dom, they would have know that Germany would
have accepted anything that they might have pro
posed. Too bad that such "A bunch ''boneheads'
should bc al the head of the allied governments.
prattling for peace when there much waste
timber sxuIkng about in the outskirts with pencil
and paper, that knows it all
An. but they say. the peace conference should
have sent armies right into Russia and put down
boshevism: protected Poland Roumania. Ukraine
Serbia, Hungary. Jugo-Slovaka. Czecho-Slovaka."
everywhere it seems-anything except American
guardianship Armenia under a League CT Ma
tions,-thar is, the peace conference should have
done these things because didn't 90 them If il
had done something OF that sort, quite withouf
doubt there would have been a roar from the press
gallery Just vehement because american lives
being sacrificed" and american money
pended" and because the boys were needed
home. "-n nothing then about the much mooted
army of unemployed that boys would nave
helped to swell. In other words is carping criti-
csm, and that is all it is
Likewise with respect the conferences dealing
with Germany. Granting these critics the largest
logical measure of intellectual honesty nothing il
palmer than that their abence of visiOn-through
citing their thirst for blinded by their
ignorance of history. control - is making of
them culprits of passion. This is peace
ference. not war conference. The aim is perma-
nent peace international justice, spoil
alton of the vanQushed. The settling upon other
nations of some particular forms of government
ternay they have d right to what they want
whether autocratc. democratic. soviet Making
the world safe for democracy, is a thing that in
wolves Characterization. external-o preston,
and the criticism that comes out of France de
rogatory such policy 5 militarist "junkerdom
and nothing else; either the propaganda of the
auocracy of the family the autocracy of wealth,
upon self preservation than peace. OF
anything else.
Wonderfully analytical minds these that sti about
the wine tables in Paris with pencil and pad
the fore, and able to solve on-hand, at a single
flourish destinies o the world with scarce d
modicum of the information before them that is
vOuehsafed 20 the peace delegates, and only a
sixteenth reliable. they say let there light,
and are supposed not to be able TO distinguish
between their power that of the Almighty as
recorded in Genesis. Never in all the history
kind has group of faced such a stupenduous
task. has these peace delegates. has any
group men accomplished a like time. fol-
lowing settled policy. When they set ready
the results too we opne that 1t will
indicate a peace from the peace tables the wine
tabes-where few whins. and thinks
ne is a millionaire has transcribed infinite wisdom.
and needs only say the word make his dreams
true.
We do mean to insinuate that such is the
source of the press correspondence that comes
of Paris. but only that it would be good
for it, To mind there is knavery back OF
than there is in the wine glass.
suggest it a lOOp-hOle through which those who
need when time comes can crawl out. \
drunken man could scarcely show less patriotic or
intellectual honesty.