Judge — September 18, 1920 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Groxce I. Scercner, S Recvaes P. Suescuen, President Jastes S. Mercatre, Perriton Maxwett, Edit Hasurtos, drt Editor ociate EB wer, Treasurer Grant E. J. AL Watnnos, 4 = HERE'S reserves.” A message like that received at headquarters or at one of the police stations of the new League of Nations—not the Wilsonian League which has so completely fizzled out—might serve to save the world from a great war springing from some local and petty brawl or outbreak of racial feelings. Such a League has become a possibility of the not remote future. It is by no means a new idea and began to take form with the establishment of the Hague Tribunal. Its friends and advocates encountered and became acquainted with the enor- mous difficulties of making a whole world appreciate the bene- fits and join in the establishment of a league which should wipe out the horrors of war. hey went ahead but, as they were compelled to, slowly. They gained a partial acquiescence of nations in the establishment of a court to which differences might voluntarily be referred instead of settling them by a re- sort to arms. The great war gave all humanity such a terrific object lesson in the cruelty and suicidal waste of the old method of settling national disputes that it became evident to thinkers and states- men that the time would soon be ripe to put in effect the new and more rational method of a decision by an international court and the enforcement of its decrees by irresistible joint action. riot down at Clancy’s. Send the ‘FORTUNATELY President Wilson grasped the world’s opportunity as his own, individual opportunity. As with oling’s monkey, there was too much ego in his cosmos. He saw the immediate possibility of a world blessing as many others had seen it before him. But he saw also the glory that would accrue to the one man who could make it seem his own, individual accomplishment. That glory he was unwilling to share with any one else. To insure it to himself he refused to accept counsel or to postpone his demands until peace was made and the nations had had time to bind up their wounds. The formula of his making must be accepted instantly, then and there, without the dotting of an i or the crossing of a t. To carry his compact, he sought to con vey the impression that to it he had the authority to bind the honor of his own country. Even though those with whom he dealt had notice to the contrary, their need was so great for a settlement of some kind that they were glad to accept even this uncertain assurance. The rest is too fresh in mind to need detailed repeating. Fortunately for us and for the future of a new League there were in Washington enough Americans of clear vision and cour geous patriotism to postpone assent to President Wilson’s individual aspirations and plans long enough for the whole people to become aware of their true nature and their alarming possibilities for America 'HE people have made up their minds. This is evident so early in the presidential campaign that it seems a pity so much importance was given to the issue of Mr. Wilson’s League that we were denied the opportunity of fighting out the election on questions now of more importance to the American people than just how the Wilson project is to receive its quietus. This does not mean that we are not to have a League of Na- tions. Even now there is one in the process of making but it will be the product of wise thought and careful consideration and not the hurried offspring of one man’s urgency and insistence. It will avert the wars of the future, a thing which it is made more evident every day Mr. Wilson’s League never could have done. Its signatories will sign under no duress and with no false pre tences. When America joins it will be with full knowledge of what the new League implies in sacrifice, what it proposes to accomplish and what it may reasonably be expected to do. It will receive the assent of the whole people instead of merely the signatures of the President and the selected few he chose to sign with him. It will be a product of sane human sense and not of a misguided, hysterical horror of war. The decrees of its courts will be respected and enforced by the public opinion of the world If there is a riot at Clancy’s or on the confines of Mesopota- mia, Uruguay, Poland or Persia, the international police will stop the fight and the offenders will be bound over to keep the peace. T! TE Ponzi episode raises the question of whether such a thing s popular education is possible. From the days of the Mississippi scheme and the South Sea Bubble down to those of Five-hundred-and-twenty-per-cent Miller and later, no