The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-06-27
Bv Prince Lichnowsky

ing Germany's guilt IN starting the
war;
Although the final results of the
war cannot yet be fully seen, we are
already in a position to say that in
the future we must follow approxima.
tely the opposite policy to the one we
followed before, and that we shall
adopt that policy under far less prom
Using conditions than would have ex-
listed had we espoused it earlier. AT
that time, we were the leading mill
tary and commercial power of the con-
tinent and all other political govern
ments desired to live in harmony and
good relations with us. Everywhere
statesmen were willing to make us ex-
tcnsive concessions, if they might thus
inspire us to relinguish our policy of
tests of strength, humiliating our
neighbors, threatening them, ana chal-
longing them. Now we have no power
whatever which other Governments
need to take into consideration. Ma
tions that desired to be our friends
have been converted into enemies, and
nations that never will love have been
made politically independent by the
war.
But let US assume, none the less, that
nation of the cultural and material
importance of the German nation, with
70, O00,0 900, or if we include German
Austria, possibly 100000 people, al
though it be weakened and set back
for decades, cannot be permanently
dismissed from consideration in the
worlds affairs and that the general
foreign policy of the civilized nations
will have to take into account the Ger
man government later as it will have
government.
Russia has suffered immeasurably
more that we have by the war, but
it would be mistake to suppose that
Russia could be disregarded as a po-
litica and economic factor in the fu-
ture. Its fragments will probably
unite on some new Federal democrat
ic basis after Bolshevism has been
swept aside.
The Russian people, n'spite of all
fair theories of sclf-determination and
international leagues, will extend its
influence in Asia, acquire new terri
tories and remain for all time great
power with a semiasiGtic complex
ion.
Has not the American union ac-
complished the same thing with the
Indians, French, Spaniards, negroes
and even such Russians as were in
Alaska?
Has it not developed from n prim-
tive agricultural settlement to the
leading capitalist power of the world
Have not the Anglo-Saxon colonists
continued to press farther and far.
ther toward the west and south, anC
carried the starry banner with them
Has not the Union laid its hand up.
on the PHILIPPINES, Honolulu, Cuba ant
Hayti?
What reason have we to suppose
that Republican Russia will not de-
the same in Persia, Central Asia -aflc
Mongolia, countries where the Russian
settler and trader with few soldier.
at their back meet but weak resist
Gnce?
World policy will have to reckon
with US in the future as it will with
Russia, although we may not be able
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spirc the same respect that we die
between 1871 and 1914, and although
we have been deprived of every chance
of floating our flag over foreign ter
ritories.
We need not anticipate a permanent
political and economic boycott, be
cause such a measure presupposes thu
complete unanimity of all other coun
tries, and it is matter of experienced
that such unanimity never survive!
the common enemy that creates it
Hatred and indignation alone will MOI
be sufficient to inspire such policy
for all time to come, no matter how
powerful these sentiments may mo
mentarily be in the hearts of all oui
enemies. Gradually other considera
tions and feelings will press to the
front and will destroy the unity Of
our opponents, which is cemented sole.
ly by common dangers and threats
By policy, the inherited burdens Of
which will never cease to be source
of complaint, promoted by a regular
succession of imbccile or pathological
officials and by vicious method Of
COHuuCIlIlS DuSlHesS OHiy COilpdIdDlt
with that of the princely houses them.
selves, we succeeded in creating a sit
uation where all the other great Pow
ers buried their differences and united
to defend themselves against US.
They formed cooperative organ
ization for mutual insurance against
our aggression, and they gradually ex
tended it to cover the whole face Of
the earth, after our last test Of
strength miscarried and brought thu
world war on our heads. Our defeat
has removed the former danger.
A new peril is facing mankind to-
day, but it is Bolshevism rather thar
militarism. Even the new holy ALI
ance will find its bonds loosening a.
time goes on, although we may have tx
recoken with it under the American
honorary president and the English
president. Men and nations will fint
it as impossible to support life on alb
stract theories and maxims as it is tt
do so on hate and lust. The League O.
Nations is no more likely to inaugu
rate an entirely new system of inter
national relations than is social de
mocracy likely to inaugurate an en-
tirely new system Of social and eco
nomic relations.
The outcome of the war will ulti
mately mean nothing more in eithe
of these two direction than an accel