The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-10


degree lu the prescntmcnt Of Senator LaFolctte.
The high command of the American army, as
weu as the lcm7r commanders emphatcslly
deny the ridlcuiousiy ioosf statements OF some
private unknown to these gentlemen, yet the
unknown private Is quo d in apparent belief
whiio tho men 81 established reputation and
known truaworthlness and crodibity are
questioned The assumption seems TO be that
status NJ prejudced Ignorance criminal
sclf-inicrcat is 30 DC desired above that OF dis
uncilon and established reputation.
Again We soc tho symptom In the attitude Of
Tho labor leaders towards every gesture of gov.
eminent calculated 10 bring labor disputcs
under the control OF governments orderly
processes Air Gombcrs and his Tx without a
Fointla OF evidence worthy o' consideration,
before oven any fact has been established aRsail
an Industrial court simply because II waH
created 10 take cognizance Of laborplisputes ana
by adjudicaunE them Just as other differences
bctwcon citizens are adjudlcatod, give adequate
protection to tho body polite The instant men
arc aelcctod by government 10 discharge grave
duties FOR the benefit OF the entire citizenship
thar Instant those men become less Trustworthy
than the speclous, insinoerc and mlschcvous
agltntors who have very selfish and dangerous
axe of their own to grind.
Akhln we dlAcbNNr the symptom IN tho hcuon
OF that faction Of tho American Legion which
seeks to secure an impropricty from government
pay for demonstrated patriotism. \ bonus
for iho citizen who does his duty Hero again
the selected agent or agencies or government
nre leas to be trusted than the leaders Of
movement reeklng IN eclnshncss
For an Intelligent man to assert or oven in
timate that the destiny OF the public ls lees
secure when entrusted to the hands OF such
men Lodge, Root Underwood and Hughes
IN the private chamber Of the diplomatic sos.
sion than Il would be n entrusted 60 the hands
OF tho various half-bakod semi sensational and
In many cases positively ignorant pens Of the
thousand and writer's swarming about the
capitol Ia for that intelligent man 30 arouse
just suspicion concerning both his intelligence
and his sanity.
How pueriIe and lnsnccrc TO suggest that It
was secret sessions which threatened the destiny
OF the nations at Paris In done in the
tcnco, Tho destiny OF the nation has been
staked once In secret session. 1t should not be
stakcd again" II this gentlemen should stake
n thousand dollars on a poker hand and lose
he would probably never think OF attributing
his loss TO tho fact that the poker game
hold behind closed and mayhap locked dbors
That would have precisely nothing TO do with
II nt ALL His loss grew out OF one OF two Inn
portsnt factors-his own bad judgment In too
enthusiastically backing hand capable OF
being beaten and the skill Of the gentlemen sit
ting opposite him.
The difficulty at Paris in no sense grew out
! OF the secret sessions excepting that In voting
to close and lock the doors the mbled gen
| tlemen were forced to disown their pre-
! vlous commitments and thus make themselves
| ri bpf ho IN
! cause to question their sincerity on other points
| That is all there Is to the secret session busl
! ness
! 2 The Versailles, LOSSES came result OF inn
| properly backing boatable hands; hands, indeed
! that were foredoomed TO defeat. And further
! duo to tho fact that the game at Versailles was
! as near an absolutely no-limlt game as men
! over engaged In, The stakes were everything
| loose capable OF being Jared loose on the
! earth, In the waters under the earth and even,
AZ the supreme moment OF a sacrilegious ses-
! sion. threatened to invade the precincts Of
Deity Tho game attempted by the Versailles
! conference failed because It could not be sue
cessfully played either In public or private But
| the fact remains that an accommodation, how
/ ever Erotesque and impossible It may have
| been was achieved at all, only because. OF the
| privacy surrounding the pnrlcys. Had the
doors been open no engagement would nave
been possible ON any lines while 1t Is prac-
tical certainty that tho allied and associated
nations would have been at each others throats
within a fortnight and the enemy nations would
have emerged triumphant
Insinccrlty and hypocrisy the elements
which play the very devil with these human
undertakings aud not the closing OF tho doors
against the curious and mlschievous. II the
Wellington conference makes prctcnse OF open
covenants openly arrived at 1T win be more
lnsinrcrity and hypocrisy." Somewhere, some
time some official representatives OF the inter.
ostcd governments will meet and decide just
what each Is to say when the doors are thrown