The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

one class In the world q power SO
great that political governments would
be puppets in their hands, and yet in
the light of the happenings of the last
five years labor could not be blamed.
The world is entitled to protection
against such slaughter as we have just
gone through, and if the political gov
ernments fail to take the necessary
steps the plain people will.
World Now Closely Knit.
Internationalism is coming-in fact
it is already here. Inventions have
brought the people of the world close
together. The wireless and the cable
give US the happenings of remote parts
of the world in a few hours. Distance
has been destroyed. We are becom-
ing neighbors in knowledge of each
other whether we live on the same
continent or not. Modern transporta-
ton is shortening the time between
places. An air service is in prospect
which promises to make London as
near New York tomorrow as Chicago
is today.
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nationaliSm in finance and credits. Big
| business long ago obliterated national
lines. The commerce of the world is
already organized internationally.
The important question at this time
| is what form will the new information
alism take? Win it be an information
alism of organized dollars? If so, the
world is in serious danger of finan-
cial autocracy Will it be an inter-
nationalism of organized labor? If
| this happens 1t means the dictatorship
of the proletariat. Both are equally
| undesirable. No part of the people
should be permitted to enforce their
cry is as bad as another. The great
ma jority of the human race wants
freedom, not advantage. 1t is not am
bilious to dictate-it will not be die
tated to.
A League of Nations is the solution.
1t is a union of the nations of the
world, and as the nations of the world
represent all the people of the various
states such a combination is demo
cratic. That it is necessary is
plain. Rivalry for markets, COM
petition for trade, are bound 10
lead to war unless we have an agree
ment that these and other problems
wilt be submitted TO arbitration. Ii
is not necessary to submit questions
involving national honor. Few of such
questions ever directly provoke war.
1t is when nations fighting each other
for markets reach point of positive
disagreement that they begin calling
each other names. These insults
wound honor, war results.
Peace Table Proves Worth.
A League of Nations is a continu-
ance of the peace table. and notwith-
standing the wranglings of the pres
ent peace table there would have been
war in Europe before this If it was
not sitting ia Paris. Two cases serve
to illustrate. The coal fields of upper
Galicia, TO be determined by a plebi-
scte between Poland and Germany
would have been cause of war if
the peace table was not in existence.
HOldnu fldu troops Oh the bOIuci- bCi-
many had her soldiers at the frontier.
Zone thing, and one thing alone. pre-
+ vented war-it was the fear of the
, peace table. The same facts de-
scribed the controversy between Po-
land and Czeeho-Slovakia war has
been avoided by the peace table sub
hitting the Teschen question to a vote
: of the people of the territory.
: No League of Nations will have
: much effect upon the future peace OF
Europe which does not include the
? United States. The nations of Europe
, do not trust each other. Every one
2 respects the fact that the United
States does not seek territory in Eu
rope This gives our country the
commanding place as the one disin
terested power, in the world. Will
this moral force we can do much tc
maintain the peace of the world.
The propaganda of revolution com
ing out of bolshevik Russia, urging the
workers to organize an international
: dictatorship of the proletariat anC
seize the world, is not nearly as dan
gerous to the peace of the world as the
political heckling against the League
of Nations.
a Copyright. 1890. Western Newspaper Union'
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