The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-03-25
WILSON PEACE"
Is CRITICIZED

washington. - PRESIDENT wilson's
failure at the peace conference and
his determination to stick to the terms
of that failure despite the efforts of
the Republicans in the Senate to
Americanize the treaty, are brought
out in publication by DR.. Dillon, a
famous European publicist, and read
to the Senate by Senator William E.
Borah, of Idaho. DR.. Dillon says:
"The conference has transformed
Europe into seething mass Of mutu-
ally hostile states powerless to face
the economic competition of their
overseas rivals, and has left the very
elements of society in fux.
at is practices like these which Ill
timately determine the worth of the
treaties and the covenant which Mr..
Wilson was content to take back with
him to Washington as the final out
come of what was to have been the
most superb achievement of historic
man. Of the new ethical principles,
of the generous remuneration of privi-
leges, of the righting of secular wrongs
of the respect that was to be shown
for the weak, which were to have
cemented the union of peoples into
one pacific if not b1issful family, there
remained but the memory. No such
bitter draught of disappointment was
swallowed by the nations since the
world first had political history.
Utterances Switched.
"Many of the resounding phrases
that once fortokened new era of
peace, right and equity, were not
merely emptied of their contents but
made to connote their opposites. Free
dom of the seas became supremacy of
the seas, which may turn out to be
a blessed contamination for all con-
cerned, but should not have been
struggled in under gross misnomer.
The abolition of war means, as British
and American and French generals and
admirals have since told their fellow
citizens, thorough preparations for
the next war, which are not to be
confined as heretofore to the so-called
military states, but are to extend over
all Anglo Saxondom.
Open Covenants.
"Open covenants openly arrived at
signify secret conclaves and conspira-
tive deliberations, carried on in i'm
penetrable secrecy which cannot be
dispensed with even after the whole
business has passed into history. The
self-determination of peoples finds
it's limit in the rights of every great
power to hold it's subject nationalities
in thrall on the ground that their
reciprocal relations appertain to the
domestic policy of the state. 1t means,
further, the privilege of those who use
superior force to put irresistible pres
sure upon those who are weak, and the
lever which it places in their hands
for the purpose is to be known under
the attractive name of the protection
of minorities.
Head Home Affairs.
"Abstention from interference in the
home affairs of neighboring comru-
nifty is made to cover intermeddling
OF the most irkscme and humiliating
character in matters which have no
hSAuo WIFI lACSIIdJlOIldl laws lux IL
they had, the rule would be applicable
to all nations. The lesser peoples
must harken to injunctions of the
greater states. They must likewise
allow the great powers dictate to them
their legislation. For the great pow
ers, however, this law of minorities
was not written. They are above the
law. Their warrant is force. In a
word, force is the trump card in the
future, as it was in that Of the past.
And M. Clemenceau's reminder so the
petty states at the opening of the con-
ference that the weilders of 12,000,o 900
troops are the masters Of the situa-
ton, was appropriate. Thus the war
which was provoked by the transfer
nation of a solemn treaty into scrap
of paper, was concluded by the presen-
tation Of two scraps of paper and a
covenant for the moral renovation of
the world. Truth, justice, equity and
liberty have been twisted and pressed
into the service of economlco political
! boards"