The Washington times., 1920-01-14

Lawyers Need Trouble.
Elephant and Mouse.
Very Busy Japan.
Why Not In Church,
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(CepyriSht. IsSs.)


The biggest lawyers In the
Stste Of New York. including Mr..
Hughes, late Of the Supreme
Bench, will fight on the side Of
five assemblymen expelled because
they were elected on the Socialist
ticket.
That is double wisdom. The
lawyers want to save their friends
of Frightened Finance from q
foolish mistake.
Besides, nothing is more valu-
able 10 a big lawyer than little
men whose talk and plans fright
On the large financial whales.
When the big financier is
frightened, which he usually is, he
needs his clever lawyer TO soothe
him, saying: "They can't take
your property. They CAN'T put
yea in Jail"
The mouse that makes the
elephant tremble increases the in
fluence of the elephant keeper. A
little Socialist assemblyman, not
important il left free to spout in
this large conservative country,
Is the mouse that makes the fl
nancial elephant call piteously for
Elihu Root, Levy Mayer and the
other legal mahouts.
In one preliminary fight a Ko-
rean army has beaten Japanese
forces, SO says a dispatch from
Honolulu. Such things as this,
plus the "Heavy, heavy, what
hangs over" hostility of huge
China, may interfere usefully with
Japan's innocent dreams of
Asiatic and world power. Uncle
Sam should not trust to Korea or
China, but take out his own in
surance.
Japan shipping arms into Mex
leo. And a Japanese warship es-
corting the shipment. How does
that impress you as friendly
after-the-war "all good little
friends together" proposition?
The fact that England, Japan's
ally, is filled with bitter and not
at all concealed hatred Of the
United States, because of our fall
ure to take the United States
pocketbook into the peace league,
makes the japanese and Mexican
enterprise all the more interest
Ing. 1t ought to teach Americans
that they need to keep their money
and their men for use at home.
The Reverend Percy Stickney
Grant, OF the Church Of the 'Ascen-
sion. ON Fifth Avenue. New York
City, has learned something. His
Bishop says. Il object to the use
of the church for the airing Of
radical opinions. / would have no
objection II the parish houses were
used for that purpose"
DR.. Grant, who opposed deport-
ing radicals, may have to stand
trial.
What would the Founder Of
Christianity have said had a
Bishop" told Him He must not
use the temple for the expression
OF his radical views, driving out
money changers, turning over their
tables and beating them?
That was radical conduct near
ly two thousand years ago. and
the worlds greatest teacher paid
the penalty. Yet the temple was
the right place for that radical
protest.
And if a modern preacher has
anything to say worth hearing,
should he not say it in church?
Why tell him to hide in the parish
house or the subway to say it,?
Americans do not mind CRITICS.
ing themselves, but can get along
without help from England.
George Bernard Shaw, who dwells
in the ranks of comfortable So
cialists, broad views and a gener-
Gus income, says Americans are
all savages and wonders when
they will pull down the Liberty
Statue.
Mr.. Shaw knows that England
does not throw out labor men and
Socialists only because the Eng
lish financiers, less able than
those in America, are also less
courageous.
The British tory spirit is will
ing enough. 1t is not so long since
the great DR.. Arnold, of Rugby,
father of Mrs. Humphry Ward,
said, concerning freedom Of
speech, that he would allow Mr..
Mill just as long to express his
opinions as it would take to send
him IN Rotapy hay