The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-17
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THE PEACE PACT
With the ratification Of the Kellogg peace pact.
other significant step toward adjustment Of nterna
ona friction without recourse to has been achieved
The pact already had been signed by 60 Of the worlds
nations when the u s. senate ratified it, Tuesday by
vote Of IS to /. It delayed in the senate by the
fear that the Monroe Doctrine would be compromised BY
it, adoption There also the question whether 1t
was interpretable as bar to war In self-defense.
Senator Borah. who steered the BILL took the ground
that the treaty in way would prevent between
nations each going to battle under self-defense plea
It may seem to some Americans that not much
gained with such loopholes in the plan Some may
think with the late Theodore Roosevelt that is
biological recurrence But 1t is to be assumed that most
people will feel with the late President Harding. that
1T must not again. and will hail the pact
great international achievement.
At most the treaty may be only gesture It u.s. how
ever step In the right diection-with reservations
Perhaps under its MANTLE sgnatory nations may
take cunning advantages Of each other They have
given their assent to stipulation that they "solemny
declare In the OF their respective peoples that
they condemn recourse to for the solution inter-
national controversies and renounce 1t instrument
Of national policy in their relations with one another
The high contracting parties agree that the settlement
O. solution of all disputes conflicts whatever nature
Of whatever origin they may be- which may arise among
the shall never be sought except by pacific MEANS"
This may hold them but then it may all be treated
some day as another mere scrap Of paper AS Senator
Boeah put It, - nation must answer to the tribunal OF
public opinion as to her right to 60 to war; The only
censor Of her action is the power Of public opinion"
Certain 1t Is that the world has not been honest on
matters Of peace and war since the peace of Paris
Germany was disarmed as guarantee OF peace. One
tn get nfo oevte
after that expedient to guarantee protection from beyond
the Rhine had been achieved. No other nation could
Be regarded Is menacing at the time Such others as
might be In their size and international power capable
OF making France trouble under some concevably un-
friendly Development had all been allies Of France in
the war and their hostility was not to be thought Of
Nevertheless France from that time forward took steps
10 increase her military establishment
Tnen recently there was exposed an attempt behind
the hack Of tho United States to unite France and Eng
land IN naval agreement Exposure broke up the deal
nut the dsquiettng fact remained that allies which had
1gottted by the Intervention and sacrifice Of men and
MILLIONS IN the World War not beyond such smart
practices Is. in the vernacular playing the United
States g q sucker"
AZ this has been dsquieting for the friends OF the
Keogg pact but they have risen above the petty prac-
Toes Of Europe and have put the treaty over in the
0ope q reforming the international morals Of Europe
nhey also have overcome the whole dscoragne back
and charlatanry. Perhaps the wish behind the pact
Intimately viii prevail In the establishment OF nterna-
conM relations 30 grounded IN confidence and trust
fnas Tecourse to VIII be eliminated more because
. goodwill than because Of the treaty
AZ any rate. passage Of the pact was noble expert
mani Il was step In advance Outlawing war may not
hAve been s chief effect There Is q distinct advance
tne announcement itself that war Is deulorable IN
sunent for settling international Disbursements The
Omitted States and Great Britain long since have been
49, 70 adjust their differences BY arbtrational means
ana y Win b wen Tor the world to follow Ia their stems
as hope not pacifism any more than qualification
mat Canada and the United States or for that ater
tne sates Of the American Union able to exist side
~ side without armed conflict would be pacifism
e tie KELLOGG pact comes into ratified effect in an
setting that needs while q the same time
casting doubt upon It's efficacy when it Is TO come to the
- Reaction to It Il likely to be wholesome but for
- moment some skepticxm Is not going to be easy OF
lpatic0. Anyhow It does not seem to have derived
- united States Of anything Such questions IS this
eefy has 70 b dealt with between It and other m
o - not intense acute and the nation would not
eAdnk q ther adjustment otherwise than BY pacific
neonA Ihe 1eaty simply provides guarantee for In
s,n9 ofher nations q tho world 70 assume similar
noea WheeheE + achieves the status Of IN epochal
49, eoWo1d world freed q war or remains in sas-
pene = Iofy gesture It has merit ana must ~
1nlpd - - charter q higher relationship hetveen
|tIsa n1f,pnx
N. LAWS vs.. CHARACTER
poop1o O. ~ Omitted States have eroot faltl, II fe
no1& q ~ sntutG of legiGlatiye snactneute tev ~
ne* 1a9lA Not svsn ~ supernatural could achieve
80 datiss the people impose upon the laws their
II .!. y. u rsEssnEfattsss maie for than.