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

munity OF one or two or half a dozen
Z Russian reds" But the prospect OF
Z the occupation Of a whole province
on the Baltic by the Russian red
forces. the arrival OF bolshev.st
armies In the environs OF Euga leaves
them cold. Exactly in the same way
for nearly three years We were ter
ribly excited over German propagan-
dists and agents IN America. but ad-
mirably self restrained when German
armies came to Brussels. t0 Antwerp.
TO Constantinople- Those OF rs who
in that hour warned our fellow coun-
trymen that in the end we should
have no other choice than TO fight the
German were regarded as mad. were
treated with contempt and even with
anger as disturbers OF the invaluable
peace.
Sending the reds home to Russia
and permitting the Russian reds TO
oyerrun Europe is as futile a policy
( German officials was not so many
years ago. The note that fetched a
real response was handed to the kali
ser on the shores Of the Meuse and
not on the banks Of the Spree and IL
was transmitted by cannon and not
Same Indifference.
The atmosphere TODAY reminds me
Of the atmosphere which prevailed in
the early autumn OF 1915. when I Wis
tied the city. There was the same
Indifference to the world problems
the same confidence that America was
unconcerned- There was too, the
same irritation at the domestic cir
cumstance Of German activity. But
the idea that we should be dragged
or drawn into the world was was
held by no one OF real Importance.
Yet the circumstances are un-
mistaknhly similar. Germanfsm
was before all else. challenge
to our systems OF government. to
our political. economic md in
telieetuul civilization BOlshe-
Vism l. eUnctiy -as open n chaI-
lenEe-
We shut our eyes from 1919 TO 1917
TO the Significance to our own country
OF the world war. we relied on noes,
as We are now relying upon the prom
ised ratification OF another scrap OF
paper" WIN the consequences be less
grave II in the present year Poland
fails and the bolshevists arrive in the
heart OF Europe?
War Is Not Over.
The fact which is becoming clearer
and clearer with each successive
month is that the world war is not
over, that we have not achieved
peace: that the great conflict. like the
french revolutionary upheaval. which
II daily tends to resemble more. viii
prove struggle Of many phases and
that we are, in fact. merely entering
a second phase.
Europe can not long continue half
bolshevist and half democratic. Nor
can Europe. left to itself, find the
moral or the material strength TO DO
feat bolshevism. The situation IS the
situation Of the war. when the wet
ern nations were only saved from de-
feat by the enlistment OF America I
confess that every shred Of evidence
that comes to me in Washington from
European sources. save in the case Of
Britain and France, points straight
toward the triumph Of bolshevism on
the continent or else to the resqra-
tion OF German militarism to fun
strength and vigor as the opponent OF
the reds Either solution is hardly
less dangerous for America than for
Britain and for France As between
Ludendorff and Trotzky. what IS
there for US TO choose2
The way to get into trouble Is
TO run nway from fts we proved
that in tn German case.
You can't stay long in Washington
1T the present hour without feeling
that our Russian policy Is an exact
replica Of our German course and that
IL VIII lead US back to Europe by the
same ir7oble and expensive method
Copyrii. NJ, 1920. Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.