The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-16
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BY new TREATY
"PoIiticus" Also Ayers Pact 10
Potent With Possibilities
Of War.

Potent with PossibiIfties
Of War.
BY POLITICUs.
In the face Of the steady
stream Of agreements and treaties
that are issuing from the secret
sessions Of the Big Three at the
Arms Conference, it is no light
responsibility to warn 100000
readers daily to be on their guard.
or even to advise the United
States Senate to reject the treaties
that are being signed.
Pacts Patent With War.
Already there comes tho cry from
those who are responsible for the
treaties that their objection entails
the possibility Of war. The propo-
nents of these conventions declaim
loudly that even TO apply to the
treaties the ordinary tests Of national
sovereignty and security = tanta-
mount to treason to the great cause
Of world peace.
To those who argue in this way. III
has always been easier to surrender
than to fight The North could have
had peace with the South II 1t had
only yielded peacefully to the sece5-
stop of the slave States. Ireland
could have had peace with England
700 years ago II 1t had Frustrated
itself supinely under the iron heol
of the conqueror. The American
IL they had been willing to foreEo
their inalienable right to life. liberty
ana the pursuit Of happiness to &C
cept, at the hands OF the British
government, such tyranny or beneyo-
lence as British caprice might dc
tate.
So today, there b no doubt that ~
far as the United States ID concerned,
n can have perpetual peace IL Il VIII
only yield its future to the keeping
Of Great Britain.
II can avoid IN possibility Of con
flict in the Far East II II viii with.
draw its flag from the Philippines.
scuttle its forts In Guam. and Leave
China and Russia to the tender mercy
of Japan and Of Great Britain.
Sees Hr1t1Sn fc1ce.
There are many such roads to har.
mony in this world. II the nations
of the globe would club together an
purchase for Great Britain an ar
mazda of super-Hoods and then scrap
all their own navies. there would be
no difficulty about the mainten-
ance Of eternal peace.
But II would be British peace.
hn rvftfcol situation
which the United States Senate will
confront when the various treaties
that, grow out of the arms conference
are laid before II by the President.
II the Senate will accept the agree
ments framed by the Big three, u 1t
will ratify the treaties that bar the
magic. signatures OF Charles e.
Hughes and Elihu Root. II Il will
consent To yield to the imperialism
of Great Britain and Of japan the
primacy in the Pacific-and for that
matter in the world-it will be able
to escape the charge that It has
blocked the progress Of peace by .
stubborn insstence upon the sov-,
ereignty and the rights OF the United
States.
II would be 80 easy to permit the
diplomacy of Great Britain to frame
ever of the charge Of marring the
harmonious concord which Great
Britain is willing to confer upon q
subject world.
II tho seaafs wishes to accomplish
that object II need only ratify. with
out reservations, the treaties that
are being written in the Washington
conference.
1t need Xonly to close its eyes to
the facts and to stop its ears to the
appeals OF American independence
and Of American sovereignty, and to
vote to ratify the compacts that bind
Il to the chariot wheels of an alien
imperialism and make it the vessel
and the protector of the nations tha4-
hold half the world in dominion.
Geddes In Boastful Speech.
THE British Empire has dominions
on every continent and islands on
every sea-" declared Sir Auckland
Geddes, the British ambassador to
the United States, in a boastful
speech not long ago.
How much easier would sleep the
head that wears the British crown II
the United States would only with
draw its claim to rank among the
first powers Of the globe and leave
not only of these dCminions and
these islands, but the continents and
the seas as well.
Woodrow Wilson made the same
arguments about the sanctity of the
treaties he had signed at Paris when
he sought to force the Senate to
abandon it's right to pass upon his
.handiwork two years ago. His argu-
ment failed.