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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1921)
rgi? '-& yji- fJ AUGUST,-1921 The Commoner tiona during his three years service us Secretary of State. The World War broke before similar treaties were negdtiated with Germany and 'Austria. Lord Grey recently said that if such a time provision had been in the treaties between European powers In the summer of 1914, the war "would not have been fought. And finally, as if summing up, it denounces wars of conquest and spoliation. Simply, directly expressed it declares that a war waged for ter ritorial aggrandizement fs an inter national crime, that the aggressor is a criminal, and that the nations of the earth in concert covenant to en join the crime and to punish the criminal. On this article has been concentrated the wrath of all the op ponents of the league. They strange ly forget the pledge the allied nations made in the armistice terms to do this definite thing. They stupidly assert that an . attempt to prevent wars of conquest will not make for peace. They disingenuously argue friend, of entangling alliances. En tangling alliances are secret agree ments between two or more nations of themselves, by themselves, and for themselves and against the other nations and maybe against all the other nations. If to make common cause with others having a common danger is an entangling alliance, then when wo entered the war with our allies to save the white man's civili zation we heeded not- the warnine Of Washington, but entered into on entangling alliance! If it was not an entangling alliance to make war, it Is not an entangling alliance to end war. If the objections be sbund, they are far-reaching, and there should, therefore; be no co-operation, no co-ordination, no concert whatso ever to insure the peace of the world. Avaunt the damping thought! A.way with the friends of war and the ene mies of peace! If the existing league, to which fifty nations have sub scribed, confers , too much power, amend it; If it confers too little now- that under it the league can inter-l?r' am!nd J' " ! unworkable, fere with the internal affairs of a state. Larceny, robbery, burglary, and murder are catalogued as crimes m. the penal code of every nation. They should be catalogued as such in the international penal code of, the Civilized states. The tasfc. of commencing the Great Peace, structure is on thiri generation for the work will not -wait. The task Of building, completing it, is on the next generation I mean the young , men and youn women now just coming on the stage. The world for the next' fifty years, is in their keeping , under 'God's guid ance, It will "be" What they make it. If they knew what their fathers and . .! ml . JL M ' " m H momers now Know war, , tney, woum nee xn mew qpmomeu mignt and decree that aggressive war shall be no more, I ,say "aggressive" 'bo-, cause every self-respecting, patriotic man and woman, would fight to death in defense of-hgme and country. But I say again and again, that mankind has the power, by organized will and organized effort, to prevent, absolute ly prevent, any offending nation from waging a war of aggression. v The noble aim of the covenant of the league' is world peace. That the means invoked are effective instru mentalities of peace are unchallenged and unchallengeable. They can be employed only by the nations in co ordination and co-operation, in con cert and In coh tract. But the enemies of the league" here say it shall n6t live; that it shall not bo. It has been reserved for us, the American peo ple, toflle the first great protest, to souifd the first discordant mote. They say that the .covenant of the league impairs the Sovereignty of the member nations and creates a super state. In the sense that It restricts the otherwise unrestrained freedom , of action of the najfcions that join, exactly as does any treaty, the Im pairment of sovereignty to that ex tent is. admitted." If the granting of some power to a common organ ization. that is tlio property of allj the nations involves a corresponding surrender of powet by the members creating -the organization and there- by establishes a' superstate, then the friends: of. the ) league admit the chargev But how' else can any' so ciety. of nations, worth the dame, be. created n'd maintained? But clear thinking people everywhere do not want a fiupeYs'tattf, but wanif h ieagueyot nations as an association of sovereign powers. ccP-btferatinjc volun tarily ahd iri the exercise' of theft-. sovereignty to achieve interriatidn'al harmony '-and uei'iiiahetit; peaces' . . gain the leaeue's onnonenta Quoth to'ashfngton and. warn against Wj tWJig? V- V9V,.heen,and the .boys .subject towar 13 B!i, Would You Advise Me to fake Nuxated Irou? I Am Weak NERVOUS, nd "ALL PLAYBlloUT'' after my day' work, but times afo "haVapdiibnoSr scarce ana I do not want to-spnd a cent that Iwnot absolutely necessary I, amend it, but do not destroy the al most-realized dream of all the peo ples of ail the earth. The nation3 of the world are today under the neces sity of chooBing one of two alterna tives the old way or the new, com petition or co-operation,- the Instru mentalities of war - or the. ' instrumentalities''-of peace, blessings or curses which?. Which? Let us, therefore, be not deceived. "Let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." We are strong, but 'not all-powerful. We are at peace, but our peace is not se cure. The nations need us, but we, too, need the other nations of the world. The world is groping" In the darkness, but moving toward thoJ dawn. The duty is on us and the power is with us to lift the nations and, the races outof the darkness and through the dawn and into the light of a new day of peace on earth and good will toward men., God grant that we may see the duty and seize the power, but whether America helps or not, war must end or the' end of all is in sight. That chemical laboratories have recently developed poisonous gases for use as .weapons ofx war deadly beyond anything mankind has ever known 'is the grimmest reality of modern life. It is not only prob able, but almost certain, that .these new agencies of destruction will be capable of destroying millions of people within the period of a day or an hour. Urgingsthat they be for bidden by solemn agreement between civilized nations w'ill go for naught. It' is the business of war to destroy human life. The World War dem onstrated the fact that, once loose the passions and the fears of war, the most effective instruments of death will bev employed " John Haynes Holmes sums it up in this startling way: "We must get rid of ' this 'abomination of desola tion' as the price of racial survival! One Or the other must go. The world IB no longer large enougu or mrgug enough to hojd both war., and map. To get a program of some, kind, to put it through amT try it out, this is the only thing that is worth to day a moment's consideration. " We solve this question now qr the end is iri sight." The soldier's way to stop war is to make such powerful armies that no other dares to attack. The lawyers way to stap -war is to write laws which will compel all the nations, to settle disputes by arbitra tion or by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. Th statesman's way, the new way, to stop war js to have the women and Irr"hnrd times" ft, i more dJflJcult to make Mbtf3Y and "dET AHEAD" tharif vtA1 gm?iUJte?t yoUt hojroforc, requJro MbltE PHYSIOALr AND MBNTAI VIGOR, STRENGTH, and endurance in "harir tlmse" to help you overcome the numerous.dimcu.UiGs, obstacle!) And stumbling block you are bound to meetr i ... . ... . 5?? JL&,nff Nuxaled.Tron, what would YOU SAY a man should do If ho had?' WEAK LEGS or.no legs but had to get bin fbod by running after It would you advlBe him to get a pair of grood strong: lcgsJf .fcould do so? The case Is n-H exactly parallel but If, YOU REQUIRE JWORKUODILY AND MENTAL VIGORS to'get'ahcad In "hard times" then Isn't 'itffcoocjconomy to purchase anything you can which helps-make you stronger?"- " . ')''' Many a man Is struggling, trying: endurance you need to get ahead and hard to got ahead, but Just as ho got a start something: always seems to 'go wrong that setff him back, wlulo an other man with apparently lss jvbil Ity seems to get along famotivly With comparatively little effort .j TIM GREAT DIFFERENCE In men may bo 'and HKo the Iron In spinach, lentils duo solely to the difference In their 'and apples. You can eat it If you wish. overcome obstacles, by all means try' NUXATED IRON. NUJtATED IRON often increases the? Jjodliy and mental vigor of weak, tlredr Y bodily and mental Vlcror and the AMOUNT of organic IRON IN THEJtR BLOOD. - There . are 3O.OOttOOO.OOO,OO0 RED BLOOD CORPUSCLES in your- blood and each- one must have Iron. Without IRON YOUR BLOOD LOSES ITS POW ER TO CHANGE FOOD INTO LIVING CELLS AND TISSUE and ubthing you eat does you the proper amount of good you do not get the full strength out of it. Indoor life, overeating, household drudgery, gripping, galling worry and nervous strain are sapping tho Iron and thereby the very life, frgjn tho blood of thousands of men and worhen. We do not advise what to do in In dividual cases as'this is tho province of tho physician but wo do say that if you lack B.ufllcient iron in, your blood to give you tho strength, energy and It tf li-not blacken or Injure the, teeth nor disturb tho stomach It is entirely. Which pcdplc usually take and which is made merely by the action of strpng acids on.flnmll pieces of iron. In addition to organic Iron. Nuxated. Iron also 'contains a product which k represents the 'principal- chemical eon-'' stjtuont-nf 'ACTIVE LJVING FORCEV for feedlrte tjie nerves. It rimy, therc-1 fore, be said to bo both a BLOOD- anjU a NERVE FOOD. Over 4.000 000 pep plo are using NUXATED IRON anniml-" JjBeWarebf substitutes, LopkjTtTr .tho W6m NUXATED" on every package rind the letters N. I. on every tablet. Your money will bo refunded by tho manufacturers if you do not obtain perfectly satisfactory results. At all druggists. . v 1 ' Tt t"i '' !lft .1 I ,.' " X1' -rr lr' .'' y U 1 ' j ,. V t -v Douglas, Ubear ex Douglas 'Ait., L a v J i ' wyers ,(, William Jennings Bryan Of Counsel in International Matters Jm. ' WASHINGTON; D. C. '-. . J . .;-.: ':,!: 1 . Ui 1 V! n i ' t - r-y 9, -tsu ', t i i i; , T7. wars, have desolated the fair places of the earth The most potent force we know, yet forgetful of iti duty and unmindful . of its power, the Christianchurch, Btood idly by and. permitted to be needlessly inaugu rated the ratfst fiercely prosecuted and. the most .deetructlvO war- in the annals of history. Uhoutffectiv.eifcnow .how. to die! -' '4i - iV IXWWl duty vote on the' issue' of war or nnno o niphiitn. a rererenaum.- The Christian's way to stop war Is to teach the minds and hearts of men that war is 'the crime of high treason against the state of man and the laws of God. e. The Soldier's way makes for war, no for 3?eace. . The lawyer' way provides for no policemen to enforce the jaws agafn. war. The Christian's way ,is the, host way, may be,- the pnly-way, - f' ,, In this holy crvusado against ar, what, ' then, of the . church ? w Till noV it has.be(?a weighed in the balances ana , ?ouna wanting. Here all the day idle?" Charge hot binge nrsc we angejs sang ox: peacey this great sin of omission to the re MmkmiioumePtmnimGiww feL Butrfii! Llk MAOIC! ilkrf KS t&$l'IaK tapooBuI of s:Jamk ' PfantHfe" in suit flower tv fUM jfiew Mf. warvatoM MlMiimM T wMiwwMH, KemtriuLbHi l or J ltTB Of B7 D9O0 I1C VOah orsfo&ey back, lteeroe i eentmtlsrffCM.nmaa lontr.tlm lkid sight new bttonr&ntorvt. , ft ; . ' , protect, it saw Christian Europe and Christian America swept by the flam'-. Jng.w.ard of war, its citadels of strength, devastated, its sanctuaries, destroyed and the peopled faith 'in, its regenerating efficacy shaken tojts foundation stones. "Whv Rtftnri ,vp -! - r r ff T " vornout, nervous people In two weeks !ihie. Iva -like tho Iroh In your blood llgion of Christ. He taught us to pray for a clean conscience and an tfprjght heart. We must follow in " Hi&M'Xootsteps if we would find the path of peace. , . - J - ' Oh! -blessed spirit of the Prince of eaceome back ,to earth and teach s" anow how to live, that- wcr may ' it& Kit M Si ill ' ! tl W, rt'Tt i 8 V : 1. - f " x&n afttoMaia j aagw tgifa JVTufa. uatt. ttS i 'Ji., .... 1 ' t