The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-09

NO secure basis for the peace which
the whole world SO longingly desires
and SO desperately needs. II Article
10 Is not adopted and acted upon, the
governments which reject It will,
think. be guilty Of bad faith to their
people whom they induced to make
the infinite sacrifices OF the war by
the pledge that they would be fighting
to redeem the world from the old or
der Of force and aggression. They
VIII be acting also In bad faith to the
opinion of the world at large, to which
they appealed for support in a con-
certed stand against the aggressions
and pretensions Of Germany. II we
were to reject Article 10 or to so
weaken 1t as to take its full force out
OF 1t, 1t would mark us as desiring to
return to the old world of jealous riv.
airy and Misunderstanding, from
which our gallant soldiers have res
cued us. and would leave US without
any vision or new conception Of Jus
dce and peace, We would have learned
no lesson from the war but gained
only the regret that It had involved
US In its maelstrom of suffering. II
America has awakened. as the rest of
the world has. to the vision Of a new
day In which the mistakes Of the past
are to be corrected, she must share
the responsibilities Of Article 10.
lmperlalists Still Active
ut must not be forgotten. senator,
that the article constitutes a renunci-
alton Of wrong ambition on the part Of
powerful nations with whom we were
associated in the war. 1t is by no
means certain that without this article
any such remuneration will take place.
Militar1stic ambitions and imperialistic
policies are by no means dead, even If
the counsels of the nations whom we
most trust and with whom we most
desire to be associated in the tasks Of
peace. Throughout the sessions of the
conference in Paris 1t was evident that
a militaristic party, under The most in
fluential leadership in the counsels of
France. They were defeated then, but
are IN control now. The chief argu-
ments advanced in Paris in support of
the Italian claims on the Adriatic
were strategic arguments, that Is to
say military arguments, which had at
their back the thought of naval SUI
premacy in that sea. For my own
part, am as intolerant of imperialistic
designs on the part Of other nations as
I was Of such designs on the part of
Germany.
1.-THE choice Is between two ideals:
On the one hand, the ideal of demo-
cracy, which represents the rights of
free people everywhere to govern
themselves, and on the other hand. the
ideal of imperialism, which seeks to
dominate by force and unjust power
an ideal which is by no means dead
and which Is earnestly held In many
quarters still. Every imperialistic in
fluence In Europe was hostile to the
embodiment of Article 10 in the cove
nant of the League of Nations and it's
defeat now would markk the complete
contamination of their efforts to nullify
the treaty. I hold the doctrine of
Article 10 to be che essence of Ameri-
canism. We cannot repudiate 1t or
weaken it without at the sane time
repudiating our own principals.
Would Bring Old Order
"The imperialists want no league of
nations, but if, in response to the uni
versal cry of the masses everywhere,
there is to be one. he is Interested to
secure one suited to his own purposes,
one that will permit him to continue
the historic game of pawns and peo-
ples,-the juggling of provinces. the
old balance of power, and the newt