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After the League, What?
The league of nations is dead. There
tan be no laboring over tho fact. It
has been abandoncd by its very crea
tors. It was blown to a great size for
a time; it lies now, a pricked balloon, on
the doorstep of the Quai d'Orsay. He is
a shortsighted statesman who would
wasto time to kick it. It has failed ut
terly of its grandiose purpose.
The revised covenant may or may not
survive as a Hague tribunal and a well
meant gesture of internationalism nnd
be adopted by the nations. When the
Full text of the revised covenant has
been published it will be time enough
jto decido whether or not the arbitral
ifeatures of its charter ean justify the
lacceptance. It may still be so inept and
conglomerate and contradictory as to
compel rejection. Or it may seem an
unobjectionablo minor aid to interna?
tional understanding worth preserving.
That will be as the facts fall.
But, whatever thc decision shall he, the
league, as a means of enforcing peace,
"has perished. It never possessed any suffi
cient authority to halt a war; and what?
ever vestige of authority it once had has
been removed. When another Germany
bursts across a frontier the league can?
not command a single rifle or brandish
a single sword. It cannot even reach a
judgment unless all nine nations on the
council can agree; and, as The Spring
tield Republican, stanch advocate of the
league, has said: "An unclue emphasis
.on the principle of unanimity would
wreck a society of angels at the millen
nium, let alone a league of nations in
1920 A. D." The clauses of arbitration
alone remain, whether more or less effi
, cient than under the Hague treaties is
not yet clear.
That is the fact at Paris, and the
sooner the people3 of America and the
Allies realize it the better. Thc* fate of
the league has become an insignificant
and petty concern. The real issue, the
vastest issue that ever faccd an assem
blage of men, the fate of France, of
civilized Europe, remains untouched, un
solved.
For four months "idealism" has wres
tled with facts at tho Quai d'Orsay and
sought to create a vast political
chine from the sheer stuff of theory.
Instead of taking the alliance of civiliza?
tion born of the war and establishing it
for sIot-7 evolution in the future, the
erTort was to break with all the past
and set up suddenly a Utopia coexten
sive with mankind. The personal faults,
the greatnesses and pettinesses of the
conference, the episodes and blunders
that marked the rise and fail of the
league, are past and ponc. There will
bc an abundance of years in which to fix
personal respor.sibility. The Tribune
conceives that to-day the peril is too
urgent, the time too brief, to permit of
such criticism now. We ask only that
our readers, that the American people,
face the facts aa they are, and that they
realize what was attempted and what
has failed, and that, thus realizing, they
set their face."* toward the gn
?'?maining.
That tank is the aafeguarding of civ
"ilization, so far as human wisdom can
now achleve that end. Not the abolitlon
Iof war, for that we conceive to be be?
yond thc present capacity of human",.
But an organization of the civilized
forces of the world in such fashion as
<to limit the chances of war und ln
event of war to make the defeat of bar
Ibarism a certainty.
g In a measure, the successful perform
ance of that tai-.k has already been i om
?promised at Paris. The world has been
' led astray aft<:r a false hope. Relying
[upon a prospective league of nations
with power and capacity, arrangements
i have been made which now become pre
posterous and dangerous. We must real
ji*&e this fact frankly and fully, We
'must see that with>the coliapse of the
.ifoundation thc whole unnatural super
structure fal!? to the ground.
The surn of the catastrophe at Paris is
that Internatlonftlism has failed. Na
*,tionalir,m must take its place. If the
world has, indesd, learned this
from the three months of foily and blck
frfng at the Quai d'Orsay, < ven this cost
^iy and dangerous waste will have been
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justified. But the lesson must be
learned. It will not be learned from
statesmen at Paris who have tried and
failed and who have never shown ca?
pacity for admitting mistakes. The can
dor, the self-examinations, the ruthless
cutting away of fond hopes, the resolu
tion for new action?all this the peoplc
must supply. They supplied it once be?
fore when p.'U'irisin failed and war be
came imporative. They must supply it
again, now that intcrnationalisiu has
failed and nations must return to their
natural tasks.
The rndicala are now writing scorn
fully of the Fourteen Points and the
troachcrous breach of them at; Paris.
But we think tho truth is alroady plain
Lo most Americans. The Fourteen Points
wero a well nieant attempt to accom
pliah tho impossible, They sought to
solvo n most complox sot of practical
human problems with r set of briof ab
:*.t I'.'ictions. When the actual clash of
phrnso wllh situation ennio nt Paris Uio
phrnso neoosanvily splintorcd. The cen?
tral phrtiso wna "sclf-deterniinntion." lt
WRS siniple, i! souildod well, it appealed
to the democratic instincts of thc nge.
I'.ul wo now see that it was fittcd to
olve not a single one of the real tcrri
I torial problems that confronted the
J peace. conference. It said nothing to
' the problem of a hopeless niixturc- of
pcoples. It said nothing to the great
question of nationalism. The conferrees
at Paris found themselves expected to
solve a complex algebraic equation with
. the assertion that two and two make
; four.
Thc Tribune has attempted in the last
few days to expound what it concoives
to be thc primary guarantees of peace.
. Briefly, those guarantees consist in the
ction and development of sturdy na?
tionalism. Obviously, alien populations
are a dangerous element, subversive of
nationality. They should be reduced to
the lowest limits. Tlie broad principle
of self-determination must be conceded.
But it must never be permitted 1o
weaken and threaten the growth or safe
ty of a nation. The factor of geoR-raphy
cannot bc ignored. Our Monroe Doc?
trine as applied at Magdalena Bay is an
utter denial of the principle of self-de?
termination and a frank recognition of
the needs of nationalism. We must con
cede the same protection to the nations
of Furope, those in existence and those
to be born of the peace. Poland must
have her Danzig, for example, not
through any absurd compromise under
the name of "internationalization,"
which merely will perpetuate a grlev
ance and supply fuel for a fresh war
without in the least creating the Poland
that civilization needs and must have.
These territorial settlements are one
half of the immediate peace problem at
Paris. The other half is money repara?
tion. The absurd notion that Germany
must be excused and apologized for
aml let off with a fine she can comfort
ably afford to pay seems to have been
overwhelmed by the rising tide of opin?
ion of the French and Fnglish peoples.
Statesmen have heard the roar of break
ers and yielded. The punishment of
Germany must be long and severe.
Treacherv. harbaritv. rnvptnusness -m-tisf
be so sentenced that the warning for
Germany and for the world will he un
mistakable.
We thus come to the crucial problem
remaining after the immediate settle
ts are completed. Who shall main
tain peace after it has been made? Who
will exact the punishment civilization
must, for reasons of self-preservatlon,
enforce? Already, in secret, Paris is'
stumbhng toward the truth. There has
be :i no frank concession that the league
failed, that stronger arms must in
I rvene. There will be no such frank I
concession if wc may judge by the
Lloyd George speech of optimism in thc |
House of Commons. But the facts must
bc met. The facts are, if rumor is true,
being met.
As pointed out in these columns, the
reparation provision frankly gives the
: "Allied and associated governments"
power to collect from Germany in such
fashion as they may see fit. Why does
not the league collect? Because it has
I ?? power to collect a bill from the
of Morocco. Here is a nucleus
of what must be, here is a frank indi
n that Paris is, belatedly, silent.lv,
backing toward the light.
The other sign is the perslstent ru
of "guarantees" for France by
?iil and America. Why guarantees?
Why ia anything else needed than the
r the league of nations? Possibly
: all bc told that France was timor
OUB and needed this extra protection as
a Bop, But we think the truth is al?
ready dawning. When the lnst teeth
were drawn from thc Icaguothe crcatora
of thc lcaguo could no longer malntain
pri tencc. The French plea, per
prc onted by tho gn at
man of tho war, tho great man of tho
peace, provailed or wo tru?t haa pro
Ied.
Tho path la aln udy Indicated. I' la
? % i rod by reluctant fcot.. What
tho American people must now inalat
upon ia that tho changed situation bo
candldly conceded and the wholo fabric
of our peace bo treated accordingly.
We do not pretend to draw offhand
new constitution of peace. We do
not say that there must be an alliance
or an entente, or who shall be ita mem
We do say that the hope of th<>
world must be builded upon a friendly
? among England, France
and America. We ask that these na
now arrange for whatever defen
I eivo undertakinga practical wiadom
': ahall determine to be necessary.
'i ho falao hopo haa perished. The
flame of internationalism, so carefully
lit and fanned by the thcorista of the
world, haa been blown out by tho gu tj
winda of Paris, We aee now that it
COuld have lasted. It would have
;,, en a falao and fllckering light to foi
low could it have been kept alive. But
it is gone and the future remains. Fort
unately thc old tires of nationalism re
main. By their sure and steady lights
we must chart our new course.
The New Felony
Amid the changes of a world in
transformation the hen, it appears, par
ticipates. She shares in the general
uplift, has gaincd a new status, Long
noglected, tho law now throws around
her its protecting arms and it becomes a
crime to abduct her.
For tho first time in its long history
Sing Sing prison is to reeeive to-day
two chicken thicves, convicted iu a
Dutchess County court and sentenccd I
spend not less than two and one-half
years or moro than fivo years in
duranco. llerotoforo it haa been tho
practice to judge tho robbing of roosts
lenieiitly. The offonco was a joko, nkill
to I'ifling a watei melon pntcli; nt
worst it. was but. potit lurcoiiy. Bul
tho envnged poulterers Dutchess way
indueed tho grand jury to itldicl for
burglary and grand lurcony, and there
was a swift verdict.
Tho chicken is now weighed on jew?
ellers' scales. FIcr chief product i i Id
by thc one and not by the dozen; a
golden glory has departed from thc
American breakfast table, and the de
lectable compound known as cake has
become thc wiry, asbestos steel wool
substance, whose consumption is one of
the causes of European decadence. So
to preserve the Republic nothing too
much can be done to give the pullets
peace and quiet as they perform their
duty; to lift from their lives the shadow
of the fear of being yanked off perches
in dead of night and thrust into a
gunny sack. But the new policing
should carefully bc done. South of
Mason and Dixon line, for cxample,
it may not be well to hurry innova
tions.
-?.'.. '.":-r?
Itaiy and the Fourteen Points
American opposition at Paris to
Italy's Adriatic claims is usually de
fended on the ground that these claims
are in contravention of the fourteen
points. The applicability of the four?
teen points is taken for granted. Is
this assumption warranted?
Austria-Hungary made an appeal for
an armistice beforc Germany did. Last
fall she. sent a plea to Washington for
a settlement on the basis of President
Wilson's fourteen conditions. She could
well afford to do this, because Article
X of the celebrated fourteen contained
this outright guarantee of Austi'O
Hungarian sovereignty:
"X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary,
whose (Austria-Hungary' place among1
the nations we wish to sea safeguarded and
secured, should be ac ord d the free op
portunit.y of autonomous devclopment."
The President, through Mr. Lansing,
thcreupon informed tho Vienna govern?
ment that it: would be impossible to
consider the tenth article as any longer
binding. The United States had rec
ognized the belligerency of the new
Czoeho-Slov.'ik state and h.nd al=n com
mittcd itself to a recognition of the
claims of the Jugo-Slavs to indepen?
dence.
In October last, when this reply was
dispatched, the Hapsburg monarchy
was nearing dissolution. The authori
ty of the central government was re
laxed. Revolution was at hand. The
authorities in Vienna made a second
effort to secure a general statement of
peace terms such as was given to Ger?
many. But this effort failed. Aus
tria-Hungary was finally informed that
if she wanted an armistice she should
follow Bulgaria's example. and apply
to the commander in chief of the Italian
armies.
This course was followed. Vienna
received no guarantee that the fourteen
points would be adhered to in the nego
tiation of peace. She surrendered at
discretion, just as Bulgaria did and as
Turkey did. Nothing is now left of
the Hapsburg empire but a contracted
Hungary, which. has gone over to Bol?
shevism, aud a German Austrjan So
cialist republie, which wants to east its
lot with Germany.
How can the fourteen poinl *? apply
to a peace settlemenl with the defunct
Dual Monarchy? Austria and Hungary
are, in fact, only remotcly involved in
the dispute over the eastern Adriatic
coast. For the territory on that i
hitherto theirs, i i no ???? to go either to
Italy ot to Ht" new Jugo-Slav king
dom. The distribution i i an Allied
family matter, It, should he made with
full recognition of Italy'.. claims undcr
the Treaty of London, which . till
in force ho far aa France, Grc'nt Bril
ain and Italy nre conccrncd, and of ,an
amicable ni Ignmenl of what remnina
io thc new South Rlav tato.
ln this matter thc fourteen pointu
com I rain not:'* of Lho ncgotiato
Paris. Pul, tho Trcuty of London rc
mains mandntory on three of thc four
members of whal i left of fhe Couneil
| of Ten.
A deadlock om II Adriatic question
would mark a depl< n hlo failure of di
plomacy. A fair settlt ment presents few
difficulties and raiscs no questions which
could involve a clcar yielding of prin?
ciple.
For the present, we will not say "red"
when we refer to Lhe little i ihoolhousc
of that color.
"If I were king"?the dominanl motive
in Bolshevism.
Afruid to Co } lome, Eh?
. / ,.,.,. Tho Waal.,ton I Im i
Membnrs of Congro i havo como to i <?
gard this cit;.i pli n a nl und highly in
terestlng place to live di" yenr 'round.
The Conn ing Tower
You Know the Tune
A renting profiteer sat in his iimousine,
And on his guitar played a tune, dcar,
The music so sweet he'd oftimea repeat?
Thc rental of apartments for you, dcar.
Chorus
Pay, darling pay, or move the first of May;
Pay ;. rn ise of y-five pcr cent, dear,
oon fade away
Rumember I'M have to raiao the rent, dcar.
The young w >m in vv bo i >ld I' o bond yes
terday apoloi .:. ,! for not h i ng a receipt
1 o give us, ''You kno ," hc said, "tl
thu I '.'. ?;,,. hmdlord
Lhat noxt mra:!;.
Tho President, in sending back tho George
??,,,, wishos i' undevstood ihat no
lack of litei .: \ moril i i implied,
SainpUng the I'rcnldont
II ? , ul) lo and Mncchinvellian Uml
: im tlirrct nnd I rd to thoso
who nro Ied Into 1 in him. TIc
i rio i '" do \\ liat is i h.t, hul v\ hat ir expcdh nt
nnd i ti o -. ,.!:?,' ,,,' expeilieney has been
gnined hy lonc | ticnt hours of Bcl E com ?
munion. Mr bring i (., bear on all mal
a narrow vi ? i d i n '; o sl udy, nnd
this provcs his idealism ??> his supporters.
When he .ii agrei i with the majority and
this is often he accuses this majority of
having "pygmy minds"; and goes ahead in
spito of all ri': ta. le i, ir duding the (lonstil u
tion of the United States; that, of course,
to his worshippers, i< unthinking altruism.
1!.' i - b ? to risk the displcasure of -
the Republican party; particularly if one or
two un-American Dcmocrats join the opposl
l.ion. H,> has never ; ?', scorned intrigue and
political chicancry, if thereby his own posi?
tion might '?' ? be.ttercd. llr belicvcs that a
man'a attitude toward his own ideas is of
prime importance. la short, hr is a political
opportunist with a ? 'aring, driving ambition,
and a. dictionary is not needed to show us
why he is looking ahead to thr possibly false
judgment of post. rity rather than to present
popularity. S. C.
According to Howard, tho typical Ameri?
can is one who, having just returned from
an eight months' dict of dried beef and
water crackers, now roars terrible things at
his ninetj five pound cook when she brings
in his four-minutc i ? g boilcd three minutes.
That. rather, in our opinion, is thc typical
as Bi iggs has it Oh, Man!
'lhe Xafive New Yorkcr Reuils Oveh
Sir: I havo lived in this town so long
'hat I remember the Sunday colored cut
out supplemcnts of tho New York Recorder,
and the only times \ have ovor heard any
one say Woild, Joinal, and boin have been
wh.cn somo one from Baltimore or Chicago
was giving an alleged imitation of the way
a native New Yorkcr pronounces World,
Journal, and burn. The n. N.-Y.-er does not
say Woild, Joinal, boin. llr says Weuild,
Jeuinal, beuin, the "eui" sound being pre
that of thc French feuillc. As Mr.
ken would say, the prime requisite, in
cri ng pronunciat ion, \-> nn ear for
vocal ? ... c ? . SM EED.
It r.ppears that Franqoise's plan for
! Temperature Saving is 01.1 Stuff, .after all.
Burrowing in th" library of Mr. Montague
. we chanced upon this from a book
| called "Worrying Won't Win": " . . . it
seems to mo, Abe, that a great deal of time
nnd money is wasted by legislatures making
hv. i for ui roasonablc people. For instance,
if you cl g ? the clocks to save time where
are you going to stop? The next thing you
know I ;;.-,. would bo trying to save
coal by i . hermometer in v\
so thal :':. ;ii ?, point from December
| Mai ;. first v ould be forty-five de
'' ''?..: ;. people liv?
ing in 1 ? lated in cities of the first,
second ;. i third cla ises kept their hou ies
up to a sixty-oighl degree new style, which
ty-fivc degrees old style, they would
bo feeling perfectly eomfortable under tbe
statue in ich ? a ie i tade and provided. Also
legislatui i ould bc making laws for tbe
pi r ' l ol th igar shortage, changing tli ?
dials on spring scalcs by bringing the pounds
closer together, so that a pound of sugar
would contain sixteen ounces new style, '
being equivalenl to twelve ounces old style.
"When Old Hey Broun, tho gifted commen
tator on Matters Literary, says that Simeon
Strunsky is tho only essayist who doesn't ;
patronizo baseball, he forpots tho unpatroniz- :
ing brochures of Rollin Lynde Hartt, in "The
People at Play."
The Compleat Slangler
ire, in "The Two Noble Kins
n," A ' II, Scene !_':
SERVANT: Vot. good madam,
? falls for it; a maid,
Sometimos her modesty will blow nn far
? ? xample by her. R C. M.
On tho way to the galleys yesterday, we
o men ' inkoring with a fliv's
! lugs. And the first thing wo r ad,
"ti an i : i' ' he di ik, was thi s, from M r.
Ford's Own Prfge in tha Dearborn Indo
pondent: "Every man is better for n period
idi r tho open sl y, D clcars his
mind of cobwebs lt drawa away lho 111
htimoi s of lhe bl.! "
When '?!. ? (reno Mclntyre gave us a
doughnul Lt AiiHouvillt! about n year ago,
' i : l.i t. ii dartln proml cd hei thal vo'd
pul her name ln 'l ho Ti Ibuna i ome day, Ml-.-t
ln no came Imi k lo Mounl V. i non '?' mdny
and hi i > i, ),?- ?- name, i ight out,
"in mj opinion tho pairiotiBm thal i wopl
> tho country bred In lho warp and the
ol t ho bona ol overy i ruo Amcrican "
I- oi no r :'. of tha T. McAdoo
? ou !? now why bouoa knil.
"A real diplomat," says the Dearborn hidc
j pendent, "sends twenly two ro es to a woman
j on her forty fourth birthday." And she cir
culafe . t ho rumor i hal hc is a wad.
lt i C. I,.'.-i con-.!.-Mon thal lhe athalctic
young man was on tho BtafT of the Chief of
O.rdinance.
To tho various members of tho various
commiltcea that have askod us lo i.-.hori our
readers to invest in tho Vidory Loan, our
ai wer Is thal lho readi rs of this Plinl h
o P ITlle aro nol t ho Borl thnl need tirging
lo ? uch obviou ly goi d ucts.
I" "nt- roader : Don't throw .. down
n?w-] F. P. A.
Germany To-day
A Huddled, Bleating Flock
By Samuel Crowther
Special Correspondent of Thc Tribune, Just Returned From Germany
Ii
rr-MIK German is not accuatomod to trou
% blc of any kind. To-day, just as ln*
" ' did beforo tho war and during the
war, ho expecta ordorlinoss nnd neatnesa
in every part of his lifo. He expecta tho
government ti> do most things for him or
to tell him what* to do. Ho doos not ex?
pect. I.i think I'or himself or to aet for him
il any important. part ieulnr. lio ht?8
long l.n aceustomed to ubsoluto snfoty
ln his going aboul ind, if ho happens t<> be
rich, io !>e shown n lurgo monsuro of rc
spc-l. To day he cannol understaiid why
things are not aa they were before. He
doea not, undorstand why there ia no police,
why railway stations aro dirty or why
itrcets are nol cleaned with absolute regu
larity. lle cannot grasp tho meaning of
workmen and soldiera strolling about pub
iic officea with pufflng cigars, and it seems
a monstroua thing to him to have large
bodies of workmen asking for higher and
higher wages and striking if they do not
get them. * And because the old order is a
part of tbe German nature, any departure
from it even in the slightest degree is
taken as a sign of revolution. Every change.
from the old order is a stop toward Sparta
; cism.
Mo Indeprndent Thought
: We are apt to forget, in taking the Ger
man's own estimate of conditions, the fact
1 that he is quite unaccustomed to indepen
i dent thought or to rowdyism. In spite of
i all that has happened, be is convinced'that
the ()ld ways were essentially perfect and
needed only a slight readjustment.
And this sentiment cxtends down through
, every class, for the whole German organi
zation is rcally feudal. The rich man ex
'iccts deference to bo paid to him by every
body, an.l espccially by those who are not
so rich, and so on down the scale to the
very poor man, who looks for respect from
his own wife and family. But it so hap
[ pens that a very few graceless folk do r.ot
give the respect as of old. The German
scapegraces are loose in a degree; the peo?
ple who would ordinarily be in jail were
; all in the army, and they are now at, large,
: and have been joined by adventurers from
other countries, notably from Russia,
where excessive competition is driving
many thieves out of business. And it is
? this outer fringo of society that is now
called Spartacist, because it finds it most
profitable to join with the forces of ex
treme socialism. This criminal element is
not abnormally large, but it is armed and
ha3 discovered that burglary and highway
robbery are much more dangerous and
much loss profitable than combined attacks
upon public offices and bank buildings.
Praetieally all of the rank and iile of
Spartacists who have been taken dead or
alive have had previous non-political crimi?
nal records. The leaders are, without ex?
ception, men of a higher type, who think
to use the criminals to promote their own
idea of government, and they aro well sup
plied with Russian money.
This might seem to hold Spartacism too
lightly and to take radical socialism as a
criminal rather than as a political move
ment, but such is the result of my personal
, tigations. I cannot find any strong
adherence to socialism other than ^state so?
cialism, and the apparent strength of the
Left, or Indepondent Socialists, is not be?
cause of their proletarian views as such,
but because they are the only party which
h 7 not had its chance and failed.
ijrnitl of a JSameless Thitif*
The German depends upon leadership,
and thero is none in Germany to-day. The
Majority Socialists have dono nothing but
talk and tho country has moved along un
der tho momentum of the former regime, !
and that momentum is rapidly spending.
\(. government offlcer is sure of what he is
doing. For instance, a foroigner can vio
late almost any rule hy making a !>"?>'
row and insistinp that the old law is not
now in force. The native oboya thc old
rules hy force of habit, hut thc few who do
not have the habit may do about what thoy
hl,,.. The mnsa of tho population are ns a
flock of sheep wiihout thoir Bhcphcrd; thoy
stand huddlcd togothcr and blotiting. They
are .nfraid of some nameloss thitlg, and, for
want of a better term, they have called
thc thing Spartaci m.
The German fear <>f to-morrow is
puthetic. It is almost impossible to con
ccivo how ahject and fearsomo thc people
nre. They dread everything and without
thoughl of rcsistance. Where lhe Holland
crs are ready to reeeive thc first symptoms
of Bolshevism with bullets thc Germans
looked for protection solcfy from thc out?
side. It is this pnlsy of fear which makes
it possible for a very small group of
Spartacists to hulk large. In llamburg, for
instance, tho original revolutionary group
consisted of thirty sailors from. Kiel. They
disarmed a whole regiment and took over
the government of the city for a few days.
An even smaller number took Diisseldorf,
and, with the exception of Berlin, at no
time could I find that the various revolts
were start.,1 hy more than fifty people, a!
though in each case a larger number of
citizens was impresscd into service. rhe
ordinary police force in each district, had
it been functioning, would have l>""n moro
than suflicicnt to restore oi'der, or even to
prevent disorder. But the police are just
as much afraid of their shadows as are the
populace, and if a Spartacist happens to
walk into police headquarters and an?
nounco that the organization is disbanded,
the police disband without a word. '
Councils Kopt Order
In the days of the revolution it was ex
tremely easy for Spartacists to gain power
and to appoint Soldiers' and- Workers'
Councils, but these very councils, instead
of putting the proletariat into power and
destroying capital, became the stronpest
forces for order, and I have been assured
cverywhere that the appointment of these
councils was all that nrevented a vast crim
inal outbreak. Now, most of the councils
aro controlled hy the Majority Socialists,
and it is proposed to merge them into a
large scheme of industrial organization
somewhat on the lines of the proposed
joint industrial councils of England.
The people themselves want nothing of
Bolshevism. For instance, the great gen?
eral strike in Leipxig which was called for
the express purpose of breakiiiT: down cap?
ital eollapsed when the bourgeoisie also
I struck in reply. The whole strike passed
? off absolutely without disorder. First the
' workers went out and were .io'med by the
raiiway people, while the leaders got out
:, handbills to the general effect that the mil
lennium had arrived. But Leipzig is made
i up of a number of rather canny merchants,
and they got toget'ner and called a strike
' of the boyrgeoisir. Clerks descrted their
' offices, doctors refused to attend patients
' and banks refused to pay money. The
proletarian leaders protested, hut the bour
gcois answer was that they, too, recognized
the right to live without. labor and
going to have a try at it. Tho raiiway
people quickly decided that thcy had some?
what misunderstood the rhcory of the
strike, and went back to work; other work?
ers followed, and within a few days '.'ne
strike leaders found themselves alone, and
forthwith decamped. That was the end of
the -widely advertised Saxony strike which
was to spread throughout Germany.
What has actually happened and what is
appening are not known to moBt Germans
lecausc one part of thc country is isolated
??om another, at'.d oe.ly the rurnora get
hrough. And rui h and
arity in transit. 'I hey al! i nd ll eir
v;,v to Berlin nnd nre taken at face value
._v the nowspapera, by all rich men and by
he government. Any one who ,; yg
ime in Borlin and d
o h"
onvincod ' T|l(>
?ery rvtmoaphcrc of '? harg-ad
vith it, an.l i
ind lurid poatcri" pul up b> ??
?i t ;... ng tho v \ the
:ull wouid dei ' roj -!
The Only Bulttark
Horo ia whal b t ery rich b ker l old mf,
md he is thoroughly repre - of thc
'. r ?
lield offici ; ' ad
i/isers of tho Kaiser until tl ry men
trained a complete ascendancy:
"The world ivill und that in cle-=troyinir
strong government in Germany it has de
stroyed itself. The peoplc are more in
clined to Bo to Al?
lied rule or to living in a wreckcd Ger
many. Withoul food and withoul work the
ple i
. id they will in
sian force to invade the > lesi
Germany i,! reconstitutcd a
the on ? will
be gone and II be no wi
the ivoi Id. 11
h nnd occupy (',. rrr . -.;.* or
permit the
?i. But to
only be to reinforce the B
idl ? ai ?-::> :'t-. f rl ile grou prop
ts. And if ? lermany goe S] arta
cist all Europe will quicklj
"The people are -. th*
peace I
check, ? ' etn
pire to withstand them. " ' ca:.
possibly avert a revolution. but I have nol
seen any disposition o i I do,
They seem to be following France in her
effort to c. ! away
all means of r*-o-,;!c' ion and 1
a heavy indemnity wl - ' >: :bly
bi ?
I have ta
and their views are from
tht.se of thc bankers. Taki I
sailmaker in Hai
is out of work, and I v::;g upoi
ployment allowance:
Peace Delay Dangerous
"We have no work because we I .-.-? r
1 . work with or ships to
them in. There is nothing for us to
and we cannot oi
money paid for out of work. We i
know where to turn to or what to do.
does not America ser.d us f< od and r ivt
ials so we can all g > back to our work
again? We are afraid
soon atul d
everything, and then we will r.ot be abl
to work when the raw n and th<
food do come. TTie i work
and eat."
The delays of the peace c
inter.si
the gei eral
delay migh .
of sinh g< i ? -pr
1 be able to - over
?
for ' he presi nt Gi rmany :< q
Engla:
tion, s
For -.' ?
?
- sny
policy whii
The Left Wing
Advances
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Either Mr. Raymond Robins has two
minds, one nccessible to the well-to-do and
one to the labor unions, or clso he knows
nothing about tho situation in Russia -
nothing about any connection between tho
Soviet s and the Bolsheviki. To ono audience
ho says, "I am opposed to Bolshevism." But
on the other hand the retiring president of
tho new, openly Bolshevik lllinois Lnbor
party has said (according to the ppecial
correspondent of The Tribune), "Raymond
Robins told me that the only tbing reprc
senting decency and the hope of humanity
in Russia are the Soviets."
Those who are so keenly appreciutiv* of
a government hy Soviets will note with
plensuro that not only tho coming "Labor
party" but the Socialists as a body as Well
a rr making rapld progrcsa toward lhe vIcwm
of ihn dominant Russians, The Left Wlng
hat already captured tho party In ? nuni
ber -.r clt les Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit
und ' lovoland among Ihem, Their manl
? ?., ;,-, adopted, for Instance, at a recent
min ' Ing oi i he Quochm County Soclull it i,
tati 'h'f "tho :',.ciaii i. party of Amoricu
roorganize itaolf, muut prepare to come
to gripH with tho maator class, must prcach
revolutionary induetrlol unionism." Thero
is no mlnclng of words in thia, Further rea
olutiona adopted by the Queena County
Socialists wero of this tenor:
"Whoroaa, wo desire lo placo ourselves
clcarly on reeord for, nnd openly nnd ac
tivcly align ourselves with, thc revolution?
ary proletariat the world over, as at pres
i ent expreased by tho policies and tactics
of the communist party of Russia (Bolshe?
viki), tho Communist Labor party of Ger?
many (SpartacanB), and other partics in
harmony with them, bc it.
"Resolved, That wo pledge both financial
; and moral support to thc Left Wing propa
ganda, working to the end that the national
organization conforma with the policies of
this programme."
Thc leaders of the Lnwrence strike are
said to bo about to make New Vork, with
Its Socialistic Easl Sido, the centre of thoir
efforts lo break up, if possible, or at least
to limit tha usefulneas of tho Fcderotlon of
Labor, hitherto so admirably kept patriotic
by Mr. Gompers.
It is plain that the time is past when any
intelligent pcrson who does not wish the
world to relapse into barbarism can safely
play fast and loose with the incendiary
ideas which are being diaseminated from
their hotbed, Russia.
CHRISTINE LADD-FRANKLIN.
Columbia University, Apnl 20, L919.
Home Is Where There's Liquor
(From The St. Lonia Ticpublic)
Teople who are anxiously atudying tho
outlook for employment are counting or, a
large emigration to Europe to prevenl un
employment in this country. The proo
many persons of European origin are
home as" soon as they can get there ia abun
dant. The steamship companies are bc
sleged by people deslring to go, They wish
(n see Now Europe aud becomo n part or ii,
They wish lo vir.it their homes, and find
their friends, many of whom have dropped
oul. of f-.ij-.ht and knowlcdge In tl ??? l
of war.
There In another eh
of rn, Incongidorsble bo<j .- of pei ple
country which lo im llnln ? tl m to -.-;.. now
homei , and thal in tha u nt <
tion.
llow extei n .
CannOt even he ,...,.? ..I, |] ,
'????' 'I'"''" '"?" n ,| | .,,,,!,. |? ,llM
country who havo bei nceiiBtomed to their
daily nllowance of wine, beei oj
Many of them are Immigrants, and ?.
'. wil' I"' immigran! i in -,.,.,,
count ty when Ih,,, ci
That rhcrmomeler
lo the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Again thi? morning Darling phowa
how aenrtoon can tell volume, ?1 a glnnce.
Onoof hobest things yet done o? tl
ioct of the peace conference, its best point
--the repreaentation of our own Presidenl
with a thermometer, watching carefully the
work o. he others and al. the while fearful
eat the bawth" will bo so hol ? will Bcald
the bruto for whom M ,, being prepared.
Now -lork, April IH, 1910. ( . q. (,
I lard Boilod
?'""?> "ic Ualt.,,. i,.,,,,???,
fho Eaator egg comoa high, but we must
have lt.
Spare and Spoil
(From The
The a special
'
to inquire into the q n
tion of offendei
?
n that
z "
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of
'
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Oi ?? of lhe n
?
<?! th' ?
'
and t Im ,on
?
U hipplnu ?
with r bo i:,,'.-...hy adopt.
socond ind if thia wei
?
cIVeet as a deterrent.
. : be moi ? i ?
ul gangs, an,l the a
I
tary fo
8, so thal boya wko
had hr. n bii chi i. if again bro .?
a court, should bo sent lo an indu trial
school or training ship. 1: waa onlj by tb?
removal from bad companionahip and oB?
vironmenl thal ln many caaes any pernit*
nent improvcment could bo expected.
Eloquenl Arguments
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Every V neck ia an ad for tha Virtatf
Loan.