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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1919
JOHNSON AND THE TREATY
Big problems in statecraft generally
operate to bring out great qualities
oi statesmanship and to eliminate the
weaklings. The Civil war brought
political death to many a budding
statesman who was unequal to the
f t
tasks to be confronted, and developed
one of the biggest men in the history
of the country, or of the world. To
a lesser degree the Spanish-American
war acted in a similar manner. Rus
sell A. Alger, a man who had been a
strong contender for the presidency,
was relegated to oblivion from which
he never reappeared; and Roosevelt
emerged from that struggle as the
personification of virile Americanism.
In the early stages of the great
world war William J. Bryan was
tested in the crucible of world politics
and found to be woefully lacking in
statesmanship. Stone, Lafollette and
others, who had occupied prominent
places in the councils of the nation,
were discredited. The opinion of
the world as to the administration
leaders is as yet uncrystallized; there
is much of partisan thought in deal
ing with the work of the men who
directed the successful war made by
Americans.
In the present controversy over
the peace treaty and League of Na
tions covenant reputations will be
made and lost—the chaff of the poli
tician will be sifted from the wheat
of the statesman. Some absurd state
ments are being made, and some
which are more than absurd, as wit
ness the declaration made by Senator
Hy Johnson on Saturday last, to the
effect that “the power of making war
should be taken from the rulers and
vested in the people, with power to
decide by referendum vote, women
having an equal vote with men.”
Experience never teaches a certain 1
class of men anything, and Johnson j
seems to belong to this class. Fancy,!
with the experience of this country |
at the outset of the entry of the Unit-1
ed States into the great war, with the
agents of treason and pro-Germanism
at large in the land, stirring up the j
passions of the unthinking, having to
wait while the sentiment of the coun
try was ascertained by ballot before
a declaration of war was made! Ger
many, with her announced intention
of sinking neutral and enemy ships
alike in an arbitrary “war zone” in
the meantime visiting death and
destruction on American sailors and
American commerce. To make such
an assertion after the lesson of the
late war is to acknowledge himself in
the same category with the man
Bryan, whose heart failed him when
the crucial test came.
The constitution of the United
States provides that war shall be
levied by congress. That body is as
nearly representative of the whole
people as it is possible under any
mode of government for a legislative
body to be. If the congress is a
“ruler” it is a ruler by consent of the
people.
If the opponents of the League of
Nations can find no better arguments
than those of the blatant Johnson,
they would better acknowledge impo
tence at once and resign themselves
to the knowledge that the real states
men of the world have found a better
and saner method of preventing war
than dreams of political shysters.
Johnson has failed to meet the
test.
United States Commissioner C. E.
Weber of Wrangell has tendered his
resignation. The appointment of a
successor rests with Judge R. J. Jen
nings. No interest whatever is being
manifested as to who will be ap
pointed to fill the vacancy, says the
Sentinel. “The town of Wrangell,”
It says, “would be just as well off
\
without a United States commissioner
or a United States deputy marshal as
long as juries can not agree on the
conviction of self-confessed crimi
nals.”
BURNING MONEY
Life is gay and blithe and sunny
since the peace dove hit the breeze;
every one is burning money just as
though it grew on trees. I insist on
thrift and saving, but there’s none
to heed my words; johnnies say that
I am raving, and throw money to the
birds. Men are drawing princely
wages, and their breasts are filled
with mirth, and they jeer foreboding
sages who predict a day of dearth;
but that day will come as surely as
tomorrow’s sun will rise; things will
then be going poorly with the giddy
spendthrift guys. Things won’t boom
along forever as they’re booming now,
my friends; and the man who’s truly
clever saves as ably as he spends. It
is patent to the knowing, in expen
sive times like these, that the ko
pecks won’t be growing always on
the shrubs and trees. There will
come a day of trouble, when this
boom is left behind, and the kopeck
and the ruble will be mighty hard to
4ft
find; happy then the lads whose
wages have been safely placed in
brine, who obeyed the seers and
sages, when the saving graft was fine.
And how sick will be the mortals who
like spendthrifts now behave, who
repel with jeers and chortles when we
call on them to save!—Walt Mason.
The above, one of Walt Mason’s
famous prose poems, although copy
righted, is printed through special
permission given by Mr. Mason to
the United States War Loan Organiza
tion. Buy War Savings Stamps.
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LONDON, Aug. 20 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—In the opinion
of the man in the street, the out
standing figures of parliament are
Sir Robert Horne, labor minister, and
Lord Robert Cecil, who sits on one
of the green leather benches in the
house as an ordinary member.
Sir Robert Horne, whose character
may best be described by the nick
name his friends have given him,
“Hail Smiling Horne,” gave up a law
practice worth $40,000 a year at the
t
Scottish bar to become a member of
the government at $10,000. He won
the confidence of labor in numberless
conferences, and recently has been
responsible for the firm handling of
the labor situation when the apostles
of “direct action” gained the upper
hand among organized workmen.
Lord Robert Cecil is described by
his friends as an “old member in a
new coat,” and since his return from
the Paris peace conference has been
adding almost daily to his reputation.
They call him the “mystery man” of
parliament. Once looked upon as
the type of Tory aristocrat in politics,
he now seems ready to outdo the
democrats in democracy. Among his
followers is a large band of enthu
siastic young Unionists, and the labor
men hail him as one after their own
heart. Everybody is asking What
party will he lead? Which way will he
turn?
Two other men are pointed out as
having added much to their reputa
tion—Sir Donald Maclean and J. R.
Clynes. Sir Donald led the lone little
band of Independent Liberals through
the trying times of the sessions. At
times he showed such qualities of
leadership that some of the corres
pondents are of the opinion that he
has given full hope to a party which
no longer desires the return of Mr.
Asquith to its leadership.
Mr. Clynes made a reputation as
food controller before entering the
house, and since that time has been
looked upon by the labor party as
their most reliable leader.
GERMAN NOVELIST
IMPOVERISHED BY WAR
GENEVA, Aug. 20 (by mail).—The
well-known Swiss novelist, J. C. Heer,
of Zurich, one of the most popular
Swiss writers of German language
novels, advertises in Swiss papers
that he iS virtually ruined. He asks
Swiss newspapers for employment in
writing political and literary articles
or any editorial work.
On account of important business
I shall be compelled to be absent from
Cordova for about twenty days. I
shall sail on the Watson on the 28th
of September and return to Cordova
about October 15.
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