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MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1919.
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION
IMMINENT
The report comes from Washington
that the Republican congress will
make an exhaustive investigation of
the Democratic conduct of the war,
and particularly as to the huge war
time expenditures, which are esti
mated by General March as being for
all departments, $21,294,000,000, of
which amount the war department is
said to have spent in round numbers,
$14,000,000,000, or about two thirds
of the entire sum.
While our system of political parties
is not without faults, one thing fortu
nate about it is the fact that the al
ternation of government control from
one pary to another provides an auto
matic means of checking up official
acts which, while of course subpect to
abuse, is of real value to the country.
Thus today the Republicans are keen
in their desire (for political purposes,
perhaps, but still to the advantage of
the public) to discover and disclose
any and all shortcomings of the Demo
crats who have recently been exer
cising full governmental power; to
morrow, or the tomorrow after tomor
row, the Democrats, or perhaps some
new party will be in power and just as
keen to reveal the mistakes or other
faults of the Republican regime.
This sort of house-cleaning by op
posing political parties answers fairly
well as far as it goes, but the trouble
is that it does not go far enough. These
checking-up periods are to far apart;
then too they are too apt to stop when
purely political motives are attained
and before the work is fully com
pleted.
II llitjii lino means ui uuctnm6
the official acts of public servants is
so inadequate and unsatisfactory, one
may well enquire whether there is,any
other available means of accomplish
ing this desirable purpose. Of course
the different governmental depart
mentsand bureaus have investigation
corps which serve to keep the offi
cials fairly closely in touch with mat
ters of interest, but the reports of
these investigators are not available
for public inspection, and even con
gress is often refused access to them
on the ground, that to furnish them
would “be contrary to the public in
terest.” The most effective civilian
agency for this purpose is the press.
Through cooperative measures, as well
as by the individual initiative of public
spirited publishers, it is already doing
a tremendously important work in this
direction, and it is upon this means
that the public may rely for the rem
edy in this matter.
The press of this country, and of the
whole world, is rapidly becoming more
and more an effective secret service
of the people, ready and willing, at all
tims, and regardless of the trouble
and expense involved, to keep the
public advised on all subjects about
which it desires to know the facts.
LEAGUE WILL BE AN ISSUE IN
1920
Regardless of the outcome in the
United States senate with reference to
action on the covenant of the proposed
league of nations, it now seems cer
tain that the matter will constitute
one of the main issues of the 1920
Presidential campaign. This will prob
ably be true regardless of whether the
covenant is approved without amend
ment or reservation; or is approved
with amendments or reservations as a
part of the treaty; or is absolutely
separated from the treaty and radi
cally amended or entirely rejected.
For the covenant to be accepted as it
is, or with but slight amendments,
would be regarded, in political circles
at least, as a decided victory for Presi
dent Wilson and might cause many to
urge him to run for a third term;
while, on the other hand, the defeat
of the covenant would cause great
pressure to be brought to bear upon
him to run again and thus try the
league Issue out in a popular election
As regards the Republican party, ai
present all elements seem to be stand
Ing firmly together on the plan of re
fusing to approve the covenant with
out matrlal amendments, and, unless
there is some break in this sold Re
publican anti-covenant front, the
chances of an early disposition of the
league matter in the senate are by nc
means encouraging. If by any chance
there should be a serious break or
this question there are signs that s
new third party would be formed
made up of both Democrats and Re
publicans, and basing its plea for sup
port on unqualified Americanism as
distinguished from Internationalism
If there should be any such break, il
is probable that the remnant of the
Republican Party favoring the league
of nations would nominate Mr. Tail
bocause of his strong stand in favoi
of the covenant; that the pro-covenant
element of hte Democratic party will
nominate Mr. Wilson; and that the
new third party would nominate
Lodge, or Borah, or one of the num
erous other strenuous opponents of the
league of nations plan. In such at
event it would be very difficult te
make a safe prediction as to the result
GERMAN REASONING
The German counter-proposal to the
terms of peace which have come ovei
almost in their entirety through unoffi
cial reports, reveal several inconsist
encies in spite of superficial plausi
bility. The counter-proposals are em
phatic in demanding a peace based or
President Wilson’s fourteen points;
these are, in effect, the counter-pro
posals say a “contractual” obligatior
to Germany to which the allies art
bound to adhere. The treaty of peace
the Germans say, violates a legal con
tract; it perpetuates imperialism, anc
repudiates, especially as regards the
German colonies, the principles of self
determination which form an Integra
part of the fourteen points. The so
called repudiation of Number 5 of the
points comes in for special condem
nation.
“It would be difficult to see,” reads
an interesting paragraph in th<
counter-proposals, “what different con
ditions could have been imposed upoi
an imperialistic government. The sol
emn assurances of France, Great Bri
tain and President Wilson, that the
peace would be a peace of right, am
not of violence, have not been kept
especially regarding territorial ques
tions.”
The argument is specious. German;
repudiates her former governors, the
autocrats who, she says, forced the
bloody deeds of the war upon her
Why not soften the terms of the
treaty as she requests? There are
several objections to such a course
In the first place the German people
did not repudiate their governors unti
defeat and satrvation stared them in
the face. They were perfectly willing
to go on fighting as long as, before
the entrance of America, there was
the slightest chance of victory. What
assurance has the civilized world,
which has suffered so much at Ger
many’s hands, that a Germany rein
stated in power, will not revive kaiser
ism, imperialism, and hunger for
world-domination.
After 1870 the people of France re
pudiated the feeble and vainglorious
emperor who had allowed his country
to be driven to destruction. The people
of France declared a republic, but Ger
many did not mitigate by one jot or
tittle her terrible demands on de
feated France. She insisted that the
republic, under M. Thiers and his suc
cessors, pay for the weakneses of Na
poleon III. The allies make their de
mands in a spirit different from Bis
marck’s in 1870. It is not desire for
revenge that animates them, but desire
for the future peace of the world.
If Germany has truly renounced tim
! perialism why is she so anxious dor
the return of her colonies, where jier
i misgovernment has been notorious!?
Another point made by the counW
' proposals is' that the allies have; no
1 right to judge and to punish Germany
at the same time. Perhaps Germany
■ wants a neutral body to try the case
' against her. There is no difficulty
about thi:s this has been a war alrajpst
unique in history, a war in which Unfre
i were no real neutrals. There were
i only those who favored Germany and
those who favored the allies. In every
great war in history the victors have
both judged and punished the con
quered. It is hard to see why Ger
many feels that this universal pre
cedent should be broken in her case.
It Is clear that she does not feel her
crimes to have been so flagrant after
all.
Nevertheless there are many signs
of change of heart In the counter
proposals. Germany yields to the stip
ulations concerning the reduction of
her army and navy. She makes a prom
ise to pay an indemnity of $5,000,-000,
000 in gold by the year 1928 and to
make annual payments from 1927
onwards to a total not exceeding $25,
000,000,000 for damages inflicted by
the allied biockade during the war.
This demand is rather curious in view
Df the fact that the allied was a nec
essary war-measure.
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Following the Klotz failure to sad
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debts upon the peace conference,
which would have left the United
States to carry the allies’ financial bur
den, the American financial experts,
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