Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-20

fair and honest substance it ought not to be ratified. I hope the treaty will
 be, ratified with the Reservations long
 before the Presidential election. That will be done if the President permits it. If that is not done, then that is what I think the Republican Party
 ought to stand for.
 Immediately after the fourth of March, 1921, a Republican President should urge upon the Society of Ma I'tions the reform of the Lea que Coven-
 ant, so as to make it establish the rule
 of public right rather than the rule
 of mere. expediency, so as to make the
 peace of the world rest primarily upon
 law, and upon the effectiveness and enforcement of law. A Congress of all nations should be called to con
 slider and declare what of International law still remains of binding force, and
 to provide for the further development
 and extension Jf that law, and for the
 application of the law to all justifi- able cases of cohtroyersy between na- tiens by Impartial judicial tribunals, and to make the decisions of such tri- bunalS upon questions of fact and upon questions of law binding and effective. That is the old American doctrine, and that Is the necessary method of demo- cracies, for democraci6s can live only under governments Of law, and not of men.
 The extreme effects of the posses sion of arbitrary power are Seen in the extraordinary letters of the Presi- dent to Secretary Lansing published on the 14th of February. 1920, by which it appears that honest and in- dependent advice from officers of the Presidents own selection is an offensA, and that the exercise of the most ordi- nary powers of the heads of depart nients without consulting the President when his illness prevented coi1sdlta- ton is cause for resentment.
 Tt is interesting to observe that l staff headquarters declared allegiance 1 many citzens-officiaI and unofficiai-i who are willing that the country l should assume the startling obligations of Article X are opposing the system | Of universal military training, without 1 which our obligation would be worth | less, and which intensfvely applied en- abled the United States to turn the scale of war against Germany. They 1 say we have millions of young men | already trained, but how long is the | service which these spplendid and | patriotic youths have already rendered 1 to their country to be made the ground | for imposing upon them exclusively 1 the burden of further service, and | leaving the millions of young men who 1 come to military age year after year | untrained and unfitted to do their part | for the defense of our c0untry?'
 Principles of our goyerennent, Mr. l Root urged, should be applied to the | relations between organized labor and the public; first, to assert the con- trol of the whole people of the United l States within it's field, and the whole l of each state within it's field, over mat ters essential to the life of the coin- munity, to the exclusive of any class control in such matters, and, second, 1 to exercise that popular control by making and applying such laws and establishing such institutions of gov ernment, as to secure justice, within the law to members of every class and calling, so that our system of govern ment will be Justified by its work"
 The people over whom one class or section holds lawful power of life or death to compel compliance with it's demands is not sovereign but sub ject to the control of the dominating class, Mr. Root observed The de- demands may be moderate today, he said. but with power unrestrained, the QSIldIfuS W4II Oppf6SS1N6 to- morrow.
 eve should not attempt to make any man worka gainst his will or take away his right to strike, he asserted. but we should v law l.ss it that right to strike at a point where it comes in conflict with the comfnunity's high right of self preservation. No man or set of men can justly claim the right to undertake the performance of a service upon which the health and life of others depend, and then to abandon the service at will. The line between such 8 performance and an ordinary strike should be drawn by law.
 "Inseparably connected with the right of control by the governing peo- pie is the duty of justice resting upon them. If the people by law prohibit organized labor from holding them up to enforce its demands, the people are bound to provide means to ascertain whether the demands are just, and for enforcing them if found just That duty calls for the establishment of a competent and impartial tribunal, and for the enforcement of it's decisions"
 Referring to the question of eco- nomy, MT. Root declared it is true that political party cannot make in dividuals thrifty, but a political party can produce the shining and potent