The Washington times., 1920-08-16
Today
Who Shall Dominate?
Harding's Four Points.
Japan's Worry.
lenin's Newest Idea.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE.

Cox says Republican Senators,
In opposing the Peace League, are
-trying To annex the Presidency
Of the United States to their domi-
nation" "A
May be so, but that would please
Americans at least as we'll as to
have Mr.. Cox, as advocate of the
Peace League, annex the whole
United States TO the domination of
+, Europe
AS between control Of the
United States by Republican Sen
ators and domination by a Eu-
ropean council, the people of this
country would prefer the Republi-
can Senators, however, little they
may think of Republican Senators
generally.
Senator Harding announces his
Presidential fight on four issues
Labor, Peace League, Farm
and Tariff" AS the fight will be
against the Peace League, that
makes four American issues. The
four issues may not be exactly
ideal or complete from every
standpoint, but they compare ia
vorably with four such issues, for
instance, as "Bessarabis, Mesopo-
tamia, Armenia, Siberia"
To have a candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States appar-
emily taking interest in things
that concern the United States is
a refreshing change from Czecho-
Slovakia and the fourteen little
points east of the Atlantic ocean.
Japan, for a change, has some
thing to worry about more i'm
portant than the fact that Califor..
MIA does not want her land owned
by the Japanese, or the color OF
her population changed to yellow.
The Japanese worry about China.
They suspect a social revolution
there, and well they may suspect
it, considering that the Russian
Bolshevists have been very busy on
Chinese soil.
Naturally, Japan does not like
the idea of having right next door
hundreds of millions of Chinese in
spired with the Bolshevist spirit
and the Bolshevist fighting capac-
ity. If a ferret, preparing to eat
a nice fat rabbit, saw the rabbit
turning into a wolf, that wouldn't
please the ferret. Japan, prepar-
ing to swallow nice fat China. is
not pleased with the idea of Boil
shevist China that may turn
around and swallow japan.
Russia announces her plan to re-
duce the regular army Of Poland
to $4,000 men, and at the same
time supplying the workmen Of
Poland, especially those organized
in workmen's unions, all the arms
they want. Lenis says that the
regular Polish army belongs to
"imperialistic landlords" whom he
does not like or trust. Therefore
he will not let them have many
soldiers.
But he has confidence that the
Polish workmen, if armed, will use
their arms to protect themselves,
protect peace, and prevent war;
therefore he is going to supply
the workers of Poland with arms
and ammunition, while taking
away a big army from what he
called the "imperialistic Polish
landlords"
, Lenin puts it mildly when he
says this is quite a new idea in
international affairs"
1t is entirely new idea to take
power from constituted govern
ment and give it to workmen, or
ganized or not organized. 7 Lenin's
theory is that government is bad,
those that have seized power are
wicked and use it only for them
selves. Ordinary workmen are
good, and if you give thine power
they will use it for good.
That is one of many interesting
ideas and experiments that came
out of Russia. How it will work
we shall know later.
Those that now do the ruling
and executive thinking for the
world will continue to believe until
the contrary is demonstrated that
it is a little dangerous to take
power away from the head and
give it to the feet.
The same message from Lenin,
through his foreign minister,
Tchitcherin, conveys what may be
called a "hurry-up calP' for Eng
land. Lenin says until a general
agreement is reached with Great
Britain the Soviet government has
an absolutely free hand in the
Orient"
Bolshevism is at work among
the hundreds of millions that the
British Empire controls in India.
1t is pushing into Persia, which is
now under a British protectorate,
and will eventually become part Of
the British Empire, after the fash
ion of Egypt.
Bolshevistic activities in the
, "Orient." that is to say, in the out
living parts of the British Empire,
make England anxious for a Rus
alan peaoe and cause lack Of inter-
est in the French effort to collect
her thirty billions Of francs lent
10 the Gar. The position OF Eng
land is that she wants to keep the
empire that she has and doesn't
want Russian Bolshevism to inter-