The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-12

hosts Of the despair- driven swells into
an armed legion.
Neither In the social nor in the In
tarnational policies of the United
states must the greed of rich heirs
become the motor or the seifishness
of individuals the pilot, of the national
will
For If either be allowed to happen.
the stars must pale upon the banner
of freedom.
The fact that the chief executive
signed his name to a treaty and Leo ~ue
of nations covenant could not, i'm free
reoublic, prevent single senator con-
scinus of his responsibility from OPP
posing any and every obligation which
seems to him unworthy or harmful.
Obviously, the United States cannot
join a league in which another nation
because the greater parts of Its EN-
oire consists of dominions far distant
from the mother countrv--cou'd ~ st
more votes into the scale of decision
4 At4.4-AH 4eEie=- AaEsalf and IN rif4a4a
Americas sovereignty and freedom of
action could be limited to a greater
degree than those of other powers.
However, at the same time the
United States cannot afford to cut on
with hedge clippers q young. budding,
progressive world-idea or allow 1t to
rot to early death. merely because, like
all human creations in contrast with
the works of God. it has weaknesses,
faults. blots and warts To cleanse and
rid it of these defects and to ennoble
If SO that body and face will one day
he perfected in beauty and grandeur
that il the call Of sacred duty TO
avery one in the new world.
THE DOCTOR
For 1t alone has today the untouched
strength, the prestige, and the means
for spreading, fostering and perfecting
that Thought has everything nec-
essarv to cleanse, purify and heal the
world.
Without the new world any league of
nations would be but torso. make
shift born of emergency and need,
lacking the organs that are indispensa-
bic to vital work.
In such league those peoples which
defeat has reduced to proletariat
states, and which are now greedily
gathering about Russia's sources OF
raw materials, would soon win The
upperhand, no matter how thoroughly
bound and gagged they may now APP
pear.
peace treaty not ratified by the
United States would be only truce.
as It has been ever since the West
falian r1~-
Not for that. not for phantoms has
the blood of American men been shed.
The wide rich, free country which
placed upon the necks OF those men
the cross of combat and send them
into the hell of modern, unchivalrously
j trcacherous wnr.
Only children and such as are doni-
mated by whims. are deferred by dis
appointment and blink a noble work
~ -fS {rRn f,sJ1 .xxrrt t,1
ton.
And 1t was for a noble work that
America laid aside her peaceful tools
and sprang to arms it was to create for
: SUFFERING humanity a new. earth to live
( upon and TO prepare a new heaven for
the sonl Of mankind.
From that decision there is no way
nut leading back into narrow seIish-
ness and former isolation---no path
which a nation could tread unpunish-
ed
Everywhers noble forces--rnost OF
them still bound in misery and serf
dom--are awaiting the savior. TIC
collect these forces aca co 10 STRENGTH
an them that the ignoble ones will
never again be able TO rise in super
ieritv. Thi'har noints the compass Of
ENLIGHTENED humanity
A tremendous work of awakening
and educating lies ahead
I Ancestors md owsnring the voice oj
hloomino life and II" diving glance OF
the fal'"n. hero on distant battlefield
ALI thesn sound solemn warning
aga inst lazy eomplacency.
Will an American senator sneak to-
morrow in this sense ami spirit? II
50 monument whose white body viii
never wither, il assured him In the
memory OF mankind