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I.tO The Wallace Miner 1 Entered at the Postofflce In Wallace, Idaho, as second class Mall Matter. Published Every Thursday by WALLACE PRINTING COMPANY Elks Temple Building 6 0 6 Bank Street Wallace, Idaho Editor J. DUNN Subscription price, per annum... ,|I.W Foreign, Canada and all countries in Postal Union, per annum,.... Thursday, May 15, 1919. WILL THIRTY-NINE SENATORS STAND BY AGREEMENT? Soon after the first draft of the league of nations covenant was made public, and while President Wilson was in Washington fur the purpose of In fluencing senators to support It, thirty nine republican senators signed a statement declaring that the covenant in its present form should not be ac cepted; that it was the first and Im perative duty of the conference to iiiuko peace with Germany, and that after that was accomplished the mat ter, of forming a league of nations could be taken up and given the seri ous and deliberate consideration which it merited. Since that statement was signed the league covenant has been modified in some respects, but in the opinion of those best qualified to an alyze its meaning and applica tion, it is not essentially dif ferent from the original draft, and certainly no more desirable The from the American standpoint, document is so interwoven into the peace treaty that it is doubtful If one can be acted upon independ ent of the other, and the question is what are the thir ty-nine republicans going to do, since they have not only declared theli opposition to the covenant, but also that the peace treaty should be dispos ed of before taking up the league? The Joining of the peace treaty and of course the league of nations was the work of the president for the pur pose of forcing the senate to accept both, or if they reject the combined in struments, to make political capital out of the situation by attempting to hold the republicans responsible fot further delay in ratifying peace with Germany. We cannot believe that these senators will submit to tills measure of coercion. ^ The senate has been wholly ignored both in the matter of representation in the peace conference and in consultation regarding the terms of the treaty, to say nothing of the league of nations which was foist ed upon the conference by President Wilson, albeit the constitution confers no power on the president to negotiate treaties without the consent of the senate. So far as the treaty itself is con cerned, taken alone there (s no doubt that It would be quickly ratified by the senate. But it is evidently the be lief of the president that it cannot be acted upon independent of the league of nations covenant. it is possible that the senate may find a way to seg regate the two and approve the treaty of peace, leaving the league of nations for future consideration. In any event, since the power to declare war is vest ed in congress, it follows that congress also has the power to declare peace. Hut whatever may be the power of the those thlrty have it within their power to save the nation from becom ing a party to the league of nations as now proposed, and slncp they have un qualifiedly expressed their disapproval of it, the people expect them to record their votes against it. It is a matter si grave in its consequences as ap plied to our country that no consider ation of political expediency should he entertained for a moment. senate or of congress, nine i i j THE - i In a series of cartoons in the Chicago 1 Tribune the famous artist, John T. j MoCutoheon. shows how the selfish j human instincts are dominating the 1 peace conference without regard to the high ideals of democracy professed while tile great battle was being ! fouglit. First is the idealist orator J surrounded by the acclaiming multi- i tilde, giving expression to such senti ments as "we are fighting that justice may reign; that greed and oppression may be overthrown; that peace may „ , , .. , prevail upon the earth, and that peo pies may determine their own destin les." The adjoining picture shows the END OF THE WAR FINDS SAME OLD WORLD. peace conference around the table where self-interest and expediency crowd out the principle of self-deter ml nation. Again he picture# war being scourged and driven from the field by the sword of Justice, symbolic of the people lighting to a victory (which they hope will put an end to the war. Beside this picture is the farmer in the guise of the peace conference planting the seeds of .future wars Danzig, Flume. Shantung and Saar valley, while War, leaning upon the rail fence, views the process with com i j i at placency. Last he pictures Prussian autocracy holding the helpless forms of Alsace Lorraine in one hand and Shantung in the other, while advancing upon autocrat with fixed bayonet are allied forces of democracy determined overthrow Prussian autocracy and the Against this Is the to rule of divine right, the prostrate form of Autocracy, while above him the peace conference hands the struggling form of Shantung to Japan, the only great existing auto cracy, where the ruler reigns by divine right. THE AMERICAN LEGION STARTS OFF RIGHT. A large representation of soldiers of the world war met In St. Louis last organization week and effected which will be known as the American an An organization which will Legion. eventually include millions in its mem bershlp, men who have rendered loyal service to their country In war and who are embued with a patriotic ardor that will muke Itself felt in the sup port of the government in peace, is bound to wield a tremendous Influence in shaping the destiny of our country, They are men drawn together through ties of comradship experienced dur Ing their country's peril, and now that the victory is won through their heroic devotion and sacrifice, it is natural and right that they should combine as a of social pleasure and to pro means mote the welfare of members and their dependents. The meeting In St. Louis made it clear that the first aim of the organdzatlon is to preserve our . free of government by and liberal form combatting anarchistic propaganda in its various forms, and to urge upon the enactment of laws that who congress will free the country of those would undermine Us institutions while The attitude toward the seditious element found claiming its protection, ot the American Legion lawless and expression in the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: there is an element , . who mis free • IWpereas, living among us . take liberty for license, speech for anarchy, and who by their actions and radical papers would revolutionize this government and make this land of freedom a land of free speches and , be it resolved That this convention petition that all members of rad love; congress ical organizations, such as the I. W. W., Bolsehvlki and kindred organizations, be deported that a stop be put to the printing of their literature, and that any found guilty of distributing one their literature be guilty of a criminal offense. That Is real Americanism, the kind which these soldiers fought and for which they will continue to stand for in civil life. WHEN WHERE WAS WILLARD THE WAR WAS ON? The entenprsing sportsmen of Poca tello wtio offered to put lip $160,000 as an inducement to get the Willard Dempsey fight staged near that city may have reason to congratulate them selves that their offer was not accept It is now recalled that Willard, if he was not an outright slacker, is without anything to his credit in help ing to win the war, unless it is a large Investment of his easily earned surplus in Liberty bonds, and in that ed. event his motive might be subject to If the impression gets question. abroad and firmly fixed that Willard evaded his patriotic duty during tile war, and that he was in effect if not in fact a slacker, the promoter of this great fistic contest for world champ ionshlp. Tex Rickard, may find that the patriotic sentiment of the country will rebel to an extent that may bring failure to his enterprise. The spectacle of handing over a great fortune to Willard whether he wins or loses the fight, while American soldiers are per forming services for their country which he lias managed to escape, and while every day ships are returning with men who have borne the brunt of battle while he has refused to even , , ,, , . I lend his services to the Red Cross at home, will not be pleasing to the mil- j lions of patriotic citizens who have rr.ade every sacrifice to win the war,! q n a particularly It will bo resented by .j, e soldiers themselves who are now confronted with beginning anew the life they left in response to call of country. The Stars and Stripes, the paper that voices the sentiment of the soldiers in France, refers to the fate of Leg Darcy, the Australian prize fighter, who left his country to escape from military service, and who died recently in Memphis because the brand of "slacker" broke his heart. Applying the lesson to Willard, Stars and Stripes says: "Think of It! The man who re fused to spar a few rounds for the benefit of the Red Cross during war time is to get a fortune for one bout. The present heavy weight champion never di/ any thing toward helping Am«r .ca win the war, as far as we car, a e, and has never done anything to tlevate boxing since he entered the ring. I-es Darcy, an Australian, died in grief because he was not nermltted to box In a neutral com try, but the present heavy-weight champ ion—American horn—who has al reHdy waxed rich from the ring, is going to be permitted to emerge from his dugout for another clean-up." TERSE REPLY TO A DEMOCRATIC Complaint. Newspaper sometimes very misleading with respect to their names are political attitude or affiliation, but this charge will not hold against the National Republican, published Washington, D. C. That is all that its name Implies, and then Its mission is to expound the principles and pollteies of the republican party which necessarily Involves denuncia tion of the principles and policies of the oposltion, whether it be democracy, socialism, bolshevism, or Just plain anarchy. The enemy gets no aid and comfort from the National Republican, Recently a democrat in the middle west, who is evidently trying to find a at some. reason for the faith that is In him, complained to the editor that the Na tional Republican is "one-sided." To this charge the editor promptly plead guilty in a leading editorial which ex plained why the paper is one-sided, and from which the following extract is taken which indicates t'he editor's sound line of reasoning: ■ "The National Republican is only on one side. And the man or .the publication believing itself to be on the right side, can fight on that one side without compunction. This paper does not accept the doctrine that for every two words said for the republican party in a republican paper, one should be said for the democratic party as a does not order his troops to fire one volley into their supporting forces for every one delivered against the enemy. Lincoln never presented 'both sides' of the slav ery question; Clay and Blaine never spent much time explaining the merits of free trade; McKinley did not give up a certain amount of every speech in the campaign of 1906 admitting the good In the i sixteen-to-one theory. No sane preacher of the gospel thinks he has to throw In a few compliments to Satan in every argument he makes against him. Imagine Col onel Roosevelt spending any of his time in the campaigns of 1900 and 1908 throwing bouquets at Colonel Bryan! How often does Colonel Rryan flatter the republican party? means of showing that one is not 'biased.' The successful general j S IMS A ND THE CRITICS OF GENERAL PERSHING. w m probnhR' be found that whatever failures are to be charged against the work of General Pershing were due to the disadvantage under which he worked through the incompetency and lack of proper support from the secre tary of war, and to the lack of train e<i and experienced officers upon whom the execution of his plans depended, n u t when we consider, now that the war Is over, the vastness of the task to AVjlien the final story is written it which General Pershing was assigned end the difficulties under which ha operated, we believe that the final ver diet of the American people will coin clde with the conclusion expressed by Admiral Sims in a recent speech In behalf of the Victory loan. Admiral Sims' position in the navy during the war corresponded to that of General Pershing In the army, and when be speaks of the work of the general he knows what he is talking about, and the American people know that Ad nirnl Sims does not indulge in un merited and meaningless praise. Here Is what he says of Pershing: Now Just a word about John Pershing. He has had 2,000,000 mpn °' er there. No one of those .men has been able to see one one , , , ,, thousandth part of the operations. The y run acro „ 8 u great disagreeable things. many They may have been charged five cent* too much In a canteen, or they may have run across a Britisher or an Italian or a Frenchman that they had a row with. They come back with all sort* of small criticisms. For the Lord's sake, don't pay any attention to that and don't pay any attention to the people in country that are yapping at John Pershing's heels. No military commander since the world began has had to do the sturit he has had to do. should have done that without any mistakes he would be the greatest military commander the world has He will tell you mistakes. this If he ever heard of. himself he has made So have I. but I am not going to tell you about them. THE CA8E OF FIUME. National Republican. No principle sufficient to Justify serious delay in the peace procedure is involved in the dispute over the question of whether Italy or the Jugo slav republic Is to posses Flume, a city of some 30,000 inhabitants on the east shore of the Adriatic. The desire to control Hume no more exemplifies the land grabbing spirit of the Italians than of the Jugo-Slavs, The moral right to sovereignty over Flume more clearly belongs to Italy than to the Jugo-Slav nation, comprising Austrian enemy territory liberated by the Ital ian armies. Fiume is a city of an cient Iberia, once a part of Italy, and naturaly as much a -part of Italy as the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine are of France; a majority of the pres ent-day population of the city is Ital ian. Itly broke away from her alliance with the central powers, and cast in her lot with the allies at a crucial mo ment in the war, in order to redeem her own lost provinces. It is evident that if Italy had remained with the central powers, opening southern France to the irruption of German and Austrian armies, the war would never have reached the point where this country would have intervened to save the day; Germany would to day bestride the world like a Colossus, and would be issu suing orders on both sides of the Atlantic. Italy has made greater sac rifices than any other of the belliger ent powers. Along with France she has expended in the war nine-tenths of her capital. She has suffered in loss of life little less, In proportion, than France. France and England entered into a treaty with Italy, early in 1917, accord ing to her certain territorial acquisi tions, in case of allied success. This treaty is no more discreditable to Italy than to our associates, France and England. This treaty does not bind this country, but it Is not surprising that since England has been given practically everything agreed upon In that treaty, and France has like wise secured every concession promis ed, that Italy should feel slighted in having her right to an Italian city questioned, as against the alleged right of a new nation carved from Austrian territory and populated by former Austrian subjects. It is evident that this delicate Issue with Italy has been handled in a bungling manner. Italy was overrun long ago with American press agents, who so successfully advertised Mr. Wilson that candles were burned .be fore his picture in the Italian trenches last fall. He made a triumphal tour of Italy, appealing to the crowds in the streets, and winning an ovation which the presidential press agents interpret ed to mean that he had but to speak the word and any government in Italy which might oppose his will would fall. President Wilson has done much talking about appealing over the heads of governments to the masses of the people. The Italian incident is a suf ficient commentary upon the wisdom of that publicly proclaimed policy. Mr. Wilson's public statement concerning the issues involved in the Fiume con troversy, on the eve of the departure of the Italian representatives from the peace conference, was calculated to make the situation more, rather than less, difficult. It is evident that the Italian people sustain their representa tives at the peace conference with sub stantial unanimity, out of this conflict with the hostility ofji people who were intensely friendly to everything American before the episode oocurred. It has been demon strated that we cannot safely under take the settlement of European ques tions, whose roots are centuries old. Ttie Italian trouble exemplifies clear ly the situations certain to arise in connection with American participa tion in a league of nations dominated by Fluropean powers. In other cases of international dispute, as In this, we would be compelled to take a hand In settling questions which do not im mediately concern us, and would in time reap the harvest of 111 will thus sown. We have come NEUTRAL NEWT. Harvey's Weekly. Newton D. Baker, the American secretary of war, enjoyed the curious experience of being lost in tl\e neutral zone In Germany yesterday.—Associat ed Press Dispatch. Doubtless he enjoyed it, but it wasn't "curious" experience; not for him. He has ben lost in a neutral zone most of the time since the war begun. A Kansas editor refers to an Indian as a copper-faced typs. The average man who tries heroic measures gets a misfit. The Return. (W. W. Whitlock In New York Times) Tou who have lingered in the pleasant walks Of changeless days from rise to set of sun. And gathered round the fire for merry talks And harmless laughter when the day was done; You who have followed life's accus tomed ways, Nor watched the flash of .battle light the sky, When thund'ring thousands charged, with eyes ablaze, And there was but one choice; to kill or dii What can you know of Joy so keen 'tls pain, The Joy that comes with being home again! long beneath the The nights were starry dome, And there was time, while Mars throned high above, For thoughts of one dear spot across the foam. Touched with the splendor of our early love. Out of the past fond pictures rose to view, Of happy gath'rings round merry board, While memory strove each meeting to renew, Each tone of love, each gesture to record. "0 God! to be with them once more!" —Twas vain, The ardent wish to be at home again. the New England's hill of For some, m friendly green Rose like a beacon to the inner sight; For some, plains, with sheen Of rlp'nlng grain, transformed the distant night. The broad savannahs and the craggy peak Each called some heart among that silent throng, Each seemed endowed powers to speak— To waft across the deep a siren song. 'Twas but a dream, a figment of the brain— Rut ah! the dream's come true, we're home again! the long, low western with magic America Would be a Sorry Litigant in Wilson's World Court- Letter to Borah a That the stand taken by Senator, Borah in opposition to the entrance'her of the United States into a league nations is receiving approval from! real Americans in all parts of the country is indicated not only by com ment from the press, but through per sonal letters from people in all walks of life from every state, and also from the doughboys who are still over there and who see in the league of nations a scheme that will keep them and thousands of others in foreign service in making good the guaranties con tained in the league covenant. Here is a letter from a leading attorney of the state of New York, Arthur R. Conway, of Albany, whose high com mendation will be read with special pride and interest by the people of Idaho: Borah's Sound Americanism. Albany, N. Y„ April 28, 1919. Hon. William E. Borah, United States Senator, Washington, D. C. Sir: Honor to and blessings upon a statesman, wiser than his fellows, un shaken by hostile criticism and un fair assaults upon his motives, who, speaking the faith of his country welling from a pure American heart, foresees perils lurking in an unchart ed sea over which experimentalists are seeking to propel our ship of state. As a loving mother senses danger to her children, so a true pa triot has the faculty of discerning pit falls for his country in designs pleas ing upon the surface. You fight the idea of a league of nations with such a full knowledge of the subject, argumentative force and earnestness, that only fools can not, and those who stuff their ears against the voice of reason, logic and sound Americanism will not, be convinced. Unfortunately, many of your col leagues, for reasons of their own, failed to oppose the idea, and'con tented themselves with attacking the form rather than the principle. They have been out-maneuvered, and are now In the plight that even though they step Into the breach and take a bolder stand than In the first instance they will be subject to impugnments ns to their motives and instability of purpose. You are still In a position to continue the struggle with unabat ed energy and resolution. You may be worsted, but defeat can not take from you the distinction and glory re flected upon a statesman who labors, ably and manfully, for the welfare of his country. A reading of the revamped propos ed constitution confirms all your ar guments. It is worse than the first draft. There is no power in or out of that constitution that will prevent trading of votes when occasion arises for such schemes; and negotiations of that kind would be considered as legitimate methods of diplomacy by foreign diplomats. Britain, owing to large number of votes in the as oflsembly, would be courted for such votes by one or both nations that | might be presenting their cases be fore that tribunal, guilelessly, would be a sorry litigant in such a court. The main additions to the proposed covenant seem to be by way of ''jokers" inserted In many provisions. For Instance, a member may withdraw after giving two years notice of Intention to do so, provided its obligations up to the time of withdrawal (not the time of filing no tice of intention) are satisfied, might be necessary to assume obliga tions and duties within the two years, or there might be present obligations, the performance of which would take such a length of time that the provi sion as to withdrawal would be value less and meaningless. As to the Mon roe doctrine, If there are any "re gional understandings" like that doc trine, they should have been specified with equal definiteness, would even take supervision of the execution of agreements relating to traffic in women; whatever that may mean. A number of matters are In America, acting It The league corporated In the covenant which do not belong In such a document. The main objections, of course, you arc more familiar with than I am. When I read statements to the effect that there could be no league without the United States, I think that without the lamb the shears would be of no use. I can not forbear testing my recol lection In regard to the reservation in The Hague convention, with which you are well acquainted, and which reads; "Nothing contained In. this conven tion shall be so construed as to re quire the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, Interfering with, or entangling Itself In the political questions or policy or Internal admin istration of any foreign state; shall anything contained In the said convention be construed to imply relinquishment by the United States of America of Its traditional attitude toward purely American questions." Please accept the appreciation and thanks of an American citizen. nor a Respectfully, ARTHUR R. CONWAY. PEACE BIRD IS PREPARED. Washington Post. W|hy cant gentle peace come other wise than as a painted vampire with a tomahawk, a stiletto, a time bomb, a vial of poison, a roll of secret treaties, an armful of masks, a bottle of Invis ible Ink, a roll of counterfeit money and a hypodermic syringe?