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FEBRUARY 27 1919 While there ts Lie there's Ho, Published by LIFE sident and Treasurer West Thirty-f Rolls Hox Anpeew Mi English Offices. HY Mr. Wil son clected to disembark at Boston is not ob- vious, but per haps it was be se the Mayor invited him. We should have thought of Boston as a hostile port, but possibly Mr. Wil son h : to discover just how much of Boston is represented tle curiosity by Senator Lodge and the Transcript. Mr. Lodge will be in Washington when the George Washington docks, the Old Lady in Bombazine will hardly make the effort to meet the ship, and the y may pull down its shades, but, no doubt, part of Boston will get to the wharf and the papers will print the news. We rather let Mr. Wilson expound his first draft of the League of Nations than do it for him, and he ys he will expound it at earliest con- venience after he arrives. It has been received with enthusiasm of all should de- grees from boundless down to moder- ate, from persons who wanted a plan to stop wars, and with more or less nom by persons who prefer the old order, wars and all, to any new one the pains they not proved. Dr. Butler of Columbia thinks the draft a clumsy literary job, but he does not condemn the idea. Mr. Taft says it is not all he had wished, but ter than he had hoped for. Plenty of newspapers and plenty of people, in view of what it stands for, say it is the greatest poll brought to a head. whereof have document ever Washington is reported to be an ious because it considers that the League will abolish the Monroe Doc- PUBLISHING COMPANY Jases S. New York » Bldgs,. Lor Mrreatrn, Seerel Street, trine. Maybe so. But after all it would not be a weighty objection to a plan to abate murder that it would incidentally The Monroe Doc- trine gives notice that we will knock the abolish hanging block off of any nation that meddles with any nation on this continent in a manner which, for stated reasons, we If the block off of any disapprove to knock the jon that so misbehaves to avy oth" nation, it will induce a dormant condition of limited undertaking League undertakes our separate and to that effect so long as the larger con- And, after all, Mr. eces that tract holds good Wit what he was after was to make a Mon- Doctrine that include all the world. If the League plan works, that will have been done. ‘on said in one of his roe would to work. That the five chief powers in the combination against Germany should have accepted the draft is a very great matter. the woods, but there is a League, and the new plan for the management of the world has been put into words and ac- cepted by the nations that have the power to make it work. They propose to make it as hot for any nation that starts a war, as ordinary law makes it for persons who kill folks. To that end and to the end that nations may get justice without going to war for it, the League plan provides for courts, judgments and penalties, and power to put them through To deprive the nations of the privi- The League is not out of lege of going to war on their own hook is awful, of course, but the world gun-shy, gas-shy, submarine-shy and tired to the last extreme of modern war. And _ particularly tired are men who have had actual experic of it.) They don’t like it at all, end those who have survived it want no Ask one of them i gas is intolerable and he will say but liquid fire is worse. more of it ever These persous on whom government money has beon lavished to such an incredible extent and for whose welfare and pros} in their employment the resources the nations have been drained almost to exhaustion, have hardly a good we to say for the employment. They I it worse, if possible, than their bret! do who have paid for it In that cnormous world-wide disa; proval of up-to-date war lies the best hope for the success of the new league The world has had a frightful lickir It is sore and sad and would rather be xood than be licked any more. It w even consent to be wise if somebod. will show it how. HE chief objection to the Lea in this country seems to be that if it prospers and amounts to something, Mr. Wilson will get some credit. It seems unavoidable, but it may be possible to postpone a good deal of it and let it be liquidated like the war bonds, by posterity, For our part, we are for having it done so, and it seems likely that that method will be acceptable also to Mr Wilson. He must be quite fed up with applause, and is probably tired, and he probably longs for the time when he shall have accomplished the chief con cerns that have been on his mind, and he can go and sit in the shade some He must need t swear very much, though, after all, his efforts have been sweetened by sucl extraordinary bursts of expert encom: 1m and popular approval, and by such remarkable outbreaks of creet objurgation, that his temper may be blander than one would expect. Surely it will be a joy to him to read Mr. James M. Beck’s remarks about where and swear. very indis- Ccomicbooks.com