The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-07-15
DOVE LIGHTS AT LAST

Peace with Germany is at last a
fact. Almost two years and eight
months after the actual cessation of
hostilities, the war, so far as the
United States is concerned, is official
ly declared at an end. There is no
more remarkable chapter in the his
tory of the country than that recount
ing the events of the armistice period.
The people have been helpless to
bring an earlier peace. Their Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress
performed their duty when they enact
ed a peace resolution last winter and
sent it to the President for his sig
but he negatived their efforts
with an executive veto. He served
notice to the country and the world
that he intended the war to continue
until peace could be written on terms
dictated by him alone.
But those terms held little favor
with the great majority of the people,
and through their Republican Sena-
tors they proclaimed their preference
for technical war rather than submit
to dictation by a coterie of foreign
diplomats in all their future dealings
with the other nations of the world.
AS the months go by added proof is
forthcoming of the wisdom of our Re-
publican legislators in refusing to bind
the country as the Democratic Presi-
dent urged. Extolled as the means by
which the world would be regenerated
and saved from all future wars, the
league of nations has become a COM
plete %nonentity. With more than 40
members, including the greatest pow
ars of the world other than the United
States, it has utterly failed to pre-
cent fighting in various parts of the
earth; in fact, practical measures for
peace have not been even attempted.
1t has been proclaimed many times
hat without the United States as a
member, the league of nations could
lot successfully function. That has
been amply demonstrated, but along
With the demonstration has gone the
realization that if the United States
we're to become a member she would
,e called to carry into execution her
self all the onerous duties imposed
" the provisions of the league W
liant. Those nations that are so faith
ess in carrying out their own obliga-
ions under that instrument would be
he first to hold the United States to
/. strict accountability for the fullest
performance Of her own pledges.
The ultimate purpose of the league
vas to put an end to war. 1t has alb
iectly failed to take a step in that
direction. The United States acting
alone and Independently has not only
low ended it's war with Germany with
out mourning any Of the obligations
of the Versailles Treaty that the other
belligerents signed, but it has effect
lively prevented a war between Pana-
ma and Costa Rica, subdued the war
ike element in Haiti and San Domin-
70, removed the causes for a bloody
revolution brewing in China,
aking steps to arbitrate differences
between this country and Japan, and
n other ways contributed materially
o world peace.
And all this has been done without
he slightest yield of the national
,overeigney; in fact, the world has
,een made to see that the supine at
itude that characterized the conduct
# our foreign relations in the recent
,ast has been laid aside, and that
America will not longer play the role
# a supreme sacrifice on the altar
# the world. The American notes
the powers on the general principle
# mandates, coupled with official ut
of our representatives at
and abroad, have brought other
to a proper conception of
Americas place in the world.
The approval of the resolution
marked the final act in bringing the
independence from the inter
.lationalism that has hung over it for
long. The future celebrations of
Independence Day will have a two
old significance. They will comment
our freedom from European
domination in 1776, and equally our
inal freedom in 1921 from the dast-
.rdly attempt to return to that dom
The executive approval of
he peace resolution is the browning
Incident to the most glroious achieve
nent of the Republican party.