El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-31

present hour is such that q bolshevist
: supremacy in Europe is by no means
out Of the range Of possibility ~
the mast three years this bolshevlst
doctrine and the leaders who profess
I il have gained control OF an empire
Of more than 125. 000. 600 Of people,
that is OF Russia. exclusive OF the
4 border tribes and Of eastern Siperla.
= It is actually extending rs 9oIl ., y
I into the territories OF the border
( tribes and even into eastern SIBERIA
[ IN its pathway westward today only
: two feeble states. Poland and Czecno-
I SlovalSia. separate it from the middle
: OF Europe
Today Poland fulfills the same role
that serbia had in 1915. that Con-
stantinonls had in the fifteenth CEN
fury. She IS the advanced sentinel
Of our western democracies. just as
Byzantium was the single barrier OF
Christiqnitv against the militant Cos
pel Of Mohammed. But Poland can
not single handed hold the gate nor
Is Il for the immediate interests o.
the Germans that she should occupy
that gate
the bolshevfsts' agents were listening
in Brest Litovsk TO the harsh sen
fence imnosed by victorious MILL
tarfstic Germany. They we're com
PEELED TO cede provinces. recognize
OBLIGATIONS EAEAQ ever LAAAAlA= -AAe
world laughed a rather WY laugh at
the plight Of Trotzky and Lenine-
But today the Russian revolu-
ffOu Il master OF most Of HHSsius
the Ukraine has fallen, the Bal
tie provinces wait like rine plumE
to fall to thu now unreElsted In
vader. The last Eenhlnnce Of do
nestle revolt II being crushed
ont. Only Poland Il left
A year ago the world waited I'M
patiently upon the Paris conference,
Just coming together, to obtain peace
Il believed that by some mysterious
leEerdemain the few score OF states
men and politicians. soldiers and off
Gals gathered at the French canital
could organize the chaos created BY
nearly five years OF destruction and
that by drawing a few lines on the
map, accommodating a mass Of words
on white paper. these men restore
order. prosperity. comfort-do every
thing but recall the dead. who lay by
millions on all the hattlefields from
the Marne 10 the Vistula-
Today q similar delUsion takes the
form Of a faith that II the treaty OF
peace drafted at Paris IS only rati-
fled by the United States II the SEN
ate sitting in solemn session on Can't
toi Hill only sufficiently reverses its
previous stand that the votes Of the
two-thirds needed to approve the
treaty be obtained. then peace will
result. that from Esthonia 20 Dalua-
tia. through all the regions where
men stand in arms OF women and
children starve. order viii come auto
maticaily-
Truth Otherwise.
The truth is otherwise whatever
else one may say for for the ratifica-
ton OF the treaty BY the United states
nothing is surer than that this ratifi-
cation will not materially affect the
situation IN Russia Il viii not auto
matica1ly compel the Kurd to give
over rnassacreing the Armenian. Il
will not modify the situation along
the eastern shore Of the Adratic. %
viii not allav the passions reused BY
French occupation OF Syria OF British
adventure in Mesopotamia-
Pence can only he restored when
we have restored eou1uiHn basis
Of cooperation between the great
masses Of men who nre now semi
rated by old and by new as well
rs old intellectual. moral and "a
cial nnimOEifies- HolSheTiEm II
state OF war AGAINST organized
society nE we know II.
We can not make peace effectively
with a state OF war. even though We
sign endless papers and retire our IN
fluence TO its own territory. Ameri-
can liberals fill the world with de-
nunciations OF the western govern
ments for their invasion" OF Russia.
but what Of the Russian invasion Of
America. Italy. OF all western coun-
tries2
Our neighbors are immensely ex-
cited at the presence IN their com