The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-08-11
THE WORLDS CHANCE FOR PEACE


it that it is piece of honest amateur diplomacy Its in
cepon not in the minds of statesmen and diplomat
ists but in the hearts of the plain people of America
When Senator William E. Borah introduced the reso-
luton authorizing Mr. Hapdngs the Powers he
acted spokesman for virtually the entire nation He
fully aware if resolution passed it would
that the people would be allowed to initiate def
mite step in diplomacy step that would surely be met
with ruthless opposition from many quarters. Only the
other day he said of the in the House his reso
luton
This is a step. 1t is only the beginning and must
be followed up with the persistence and the
determination clear through to the end
The resolutions Senate and House now have passed
rather behind public sentiment than in front OF it,
In order to win we regard this adj
toward the goal and keep up the drive Disarm
be accomplished unless the masses keep
their shoulder the wheel every hour of the contest
This is the peoples salvation and it is therefore,
the peoples fight.
The eaeerness with which other nations have accepted
Americas invitation clearly indicates that the
failure the proposed conference depends largely
upon ability vast unorganzed maorites in various
parts the world the obstacles that will be
thrust their path by SMALL closely knit influential
minorties.
Armament industry and that industry is threat
In every nation there is compact and powerful
body that draws its sustenance from and
These persons took for their living
just naturally and with little thought of evil the
looks the soil the miner to the underground
wealth that his drill and dynamite. International
slaughter their birhght and their harvest field and
yet be said in their behalf that the bond between
patriotism much frequently exploited
than the link between and the love of country that
the dangerous jingoes often sincere and high
minded
In every country those whom war swift for
fabulous profits notably successful in fright
enng ministers acceptance If beliefs that make for
the perpetuation of But while this has been going
on and few hundred statesmen have been pilne war
broken backed world the of taxes, the
millions of ordinary uninsped people whose flesh and
blood may day be requistoned to yet
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toward learning lesson that civilization has
before seriously studied
Germany textbook in which that basic lesson
the economics peace ard is mos. plainly writ
lection of rones commonly known the Treaty of Yer
saes that which required the disarmament of the fall
len foe All the world knows that those sections of
the treaty that designed to leave Germany bereft OF
all aggressive military power comforting upon her
and unsuspected economic power.
The Treaty of Versailles is doing for Germany what
guardian does for young bankrupt spendthrft He sets
him to work pay his old debts He gives him barely
enough live He presses his down the grind
husbands his assets for his future benefit. No
road to ovency is known The bankrupt has but to
live Germany the worlds greatest spend
thrift By force of her enemies have compelled her
stop her and to her into the
industries which depends her future salvation Month
by month she carries out the program laid down for her
makes her future brighter and assured
The world has before witnessed such swift rehab
aton the part of nation overwhelmed by defeat
No Japanese Englishman, Frenchman, Italian, in
deed thinking citizen of any bellgerent nation who
the state of Germany and
with that of his country help asking himself
conquered respects better off than the
conquerors Thoughtful in all the Entente nations
Germany struggling painfully but surely back toward
the terra economic sovency while the and
of needless expenditures bearing their
own governments farther and farther out to
To such distraught, unhappy invitation was
addressed. Our note appealed to the worldwide sent
ment of narticulate people who waiting for just
such opportunity to give effect to their nmos convic
and desires No minister for foreign affairs
mier would have dared to receive with cold indifference
the proposals embodied in the American No party
that desired to remain in power would have
hardhood naught the unceasing national
demands for economic relief.
The real will when the conference actually
and the sincerity nsncery of its delegates
is revealed by the nature of the proceedings If the great
populations that truly desire future represented
by earnestly bent carrying out the popular
WILL the good that may spring from the conference can
scarcely be overestmated
The moral vitality that resides in the call for
the conference the fact that it had its birth and
breeding among the rank and file of the people The
whole is scarcely eight months old For few
Washington regarded it the puny and futile idea
visionary pacists but it made such strong and
fervent appeal the good of the nation that it
swept the country its merits and its most powerful
opponents the first the folly of trying to ig
more it, bottle it up laugh it out of existence
One great element of strength in the Forthcoming
that is based proposals that do not
tend alrustic. Though the burdens that rest
upon lighter than those borne by of he
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