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Seite 6-TSgliche Omaha Tribüne-Dienstag, den 10. Juni 191?. : THE TREATrS MORAL FAfLURE, By Felix Adler (The Nation. It is with a feeling arnounting" rule over unwilltng populations lrnost. to dismay that many was to be no lönger tolerated. tIousaads of persons in this and But in A?ia, in the Adriatic, and other countries have .read the in Central Europe, thiz principle , . . .f 1. . t i i j . .:.u..- COnSULUilOn oi ine i-ctiguc ui i Nations, and the terms of the treaty to be imposed upon the vanquished enemy. ' The worid is fairly sickened with the horrorsL of the war throuffh which it has just passed, and men everywhere desire im peratively a settlement which shall prevent, as far as human foresight -can avaü, the recur rence of such horrors. But the decisions of the Paris Con ference insure instead the renew al of wars, and of wars even more desperate than the one just ended. The dissensions among the dominant Powers at the very - outset augur ill for future con cord even among themselves. The discontent of certain of the smaller nations with. the terms which they are required to accept is palpable, while into the hearts of the vanquished there is now being introduced a burning sense of hamiliation and wrong, which must eventually break out into new struggles, unless repressed for decades'to come by the continuous applica tion of superior outside military force. ; The demoeracies of England and America are asked to für nish thiz outside force. Ought they to do so? Democracy hates slavery. It entered the war to put an end to the rule of might. Should it lend itself to bind down with economic chains a whole people, and to re-establish might ' on a scale more stupendous than has ever previously been : at tempted or even contemplated? It is sometimes said that we must be satisfied with the begin nings of a League of. Nations, and trust to future development to improve it. But if it begins with the seeds of mischief in its very constitution, future develop ment can only serve to ripen the evil seeds into full-blown frui tion. It is said that half a loaf is better than no bread, and that compromises are unavoidable. But no bread is better than a f raction of a loaf if that f raction contains poison; and compromise, while indispensable as to the means by which policies and principles are eff ectuated, -. is wholly inadmissible in respeebto the principles. themselves.' To give way in first-rate matters of principle is not to compromise but to capitulate. We have studied with'anxious scrutiny the decisions of the Paris Conference, over-desirous if possible to be satisfied with them, prepared to find imper- fecüons and mistakes, it only we might discover .the promised foundations of a new and better , I order for mankind. üut we txno instead the worst features of the old order reproduced: the bal- ance-of-power policy, the bald h inA rlfrhta es rnti- O . UVU V VA., .jj. I quest, while new provisions have been wntten into the covenantjtnemseives that greatly enhance its perü. For it is practically a covenant between five Powers. To five Powers supremaey over the world and all its people. is for the time being aecorded, and they re serve, by themselves, by their majonty in the council, the right to determine when - and under what -conditions, however oner ous. the nations now exeluded ' shall be admitted. The five Powers, or their executives, and the agents of their executives, are thus invested with an author ity the like of which no prince has ever exercised, and the pos sible abuse of which no imagina tion can measure. . The war wäs fought for dem ocracy as against world domina tion, and literal world dorhination by a minority of Governments, not even a' minority of peoples is now to be the otitcome. ' The war was waged in the in terests of justice, and among the fiv Pnwer who are thus prac tically made the custodians of universal justioe on this planet, dispntes have arisen at the out set which reveal that the con rentlan nt iustice. entertained hy teveral among them fall, to in- clude the nghts of the weak, ana is restricted in meaning to an -nual Division between ' the t,mr? Thf war . nrositeerin? of indi- vidals is rizhtly censured, but war-profiteering nations are mr-r tl-.o'e intrusted in the new Le?Me w ith the supreme con- troh . The right of self-determination wai amnerefd as x cardina priccipa! rf the v.f order to be iias uccn oci asiuc wuuuui a qualm. Feeble: nations were to be orotected a?ainst the stronc. But when a robber had entered China, had possessed himself of Kiaochow and the wealth of Shantung, and then a neighbor had exoelled the robber. tue neighbor does ' not hesitate V) claim the best of what the rob ber had wrongfully appropriated. And yet, with the ancient names of right and truth upon their lips, ihe makers of these astonishine arguments ask that they, be rati- hed by the free peoples. It was annöunced that the wrong of 1870 must be redressed. A limb had been torn from the bodv of France, a popuktion had been treated like chattels. "With- out Consulting their wishes.'they had been taken out ot one poa tical connection and annexed to another, and this on the Militarist plea of Strategie security, of need ful Provision to prevent the de- feated nation from regaining its own. Fear dictated the wrong committed at that time. and force was employed as the Instrument of fear. But now; in the German districts along the Polish frontier, in the valley ot the baar, and elsewhere, the same lamentable mistake is committed once'more. Fezir dictates the mutilations and the annexations, and force is de pended on the force of the demoeracies of England and America to make secure the barriers that fear is building. And finallv. when we consider the punishment of the vanquished enemy, we perceive with a sinü in? of ihe heart the same default in application of the principles annöunced, the same morai in sufficiencv on the side of the Vic tors. We must be just, it was said, to those to whom we did not wish to be just. But is it just to punish the innocent with the guilty? Is it just to ascribe the cnmes of the berman rulers, and of those who consciousl v consented to those crimes, to at least half, nay, more than halt, the German people the women and children, for instance, who had no more voice in deciding what was done, and no more re-' sponsibilify for what was done, than we had? And yet it is pre cisely upon the innocent, upon the children especially, that the füll brunt will fall of the punitive peace which, under the threat of starvation, the German Govern ment is commanded to sign. It is they who will have to toil with enfeebled strength, and economic resources diminished, for a penod no one can foresee how long, to meet the huge indemnities im- posed upon them.. It is they who Ml l . L.J S - aL ä 1- J wm ve crusneu unucr mc wdu. m It was said in the beginnmg that we must,distinguish between the masters of German y and the oeonle. and to the peoole the ap i I peal was made to disembarrass of their masters They have done so. But has this fact been allowed to make a du- , erence in our treatment of them? Has not everv arfifice of Propa ganda been used to spread dis- j trust oi the change tnat nas taxen place, in order thereby to justify the harshest measures which the chauvinistic group among their conquerors might dictate? We were reminded in the be ginning that there are two Ger- manies Germanv, a path-hnder in science and philosophy, a Germany dear to.the lovers of music and the arts, the Uermany cf Dürer and Beethoven, oi Goethe and Kant; and the other Militarist Germany and that the one was to be destroyed in order that the other might reap- pear and onng lortn again iruit for the elevation of mankind. But has this distinction been re- membered? r,ermanv. the American Secre- tarv of the Navv exultantlv said not long ago, iä impotent for all time to come. Ihe oerman people, the English Premier said, is convuisen jixe a oroKcn- backed creature, crushed in a savasre Conflict. And vet a people of sixty millions is still a mem- ber of the body ot humanity; and when one of the members 01 the body decays the rest mu?t sutter with it, dotn spirituany and materially. And when' a people is rendered impotent, and made to bite the dust in agony. the nobler guts with which il " endowed perish ,within it. It ceases then to produce anything in science and the arts which the human family can rejoice in; h Is to longer an asset and become? a canker. I this a result which the demoeracies of England and America, which thoughtful men anywhere, desire or can regard with satisfaction r ' . In vjew of all these considera tions, therefore, I urge upon the Senate of the United States, that whatever other Iteration,' in the covenant of the League may be deerned wise, the following deep cutting change should neeeive im- rnediate and supreme considera tion ; namely that its constitution be so amended as to put the people themselves instead of the Prime Ministers and Executives in control of the League, the Censuring the President. From Th The maln Charge against Presi dent Wilson appears to be that he coneeived ' high Ideals but failed to realize them all at once. He set forth democracy in such glowing terms that he inspired a new hope in the oppressed in r.ll lands ; yet at the Paris Peace Conference he failed to embody all these aspirations in the treaty. Ruf hv what Code of morals is a man.to be condemned utterly' because in contending against other men for an ideal he is forced to content himself for the time being with sbmething less than the whole. Where or when has a political or social ideal been attained at a single stroke? Is not all progress a matter of growth? Have not all ideals been attained step by step? It was the taunt of the 'Bol sheviki at the beginning of the revolution that America was not free because this or that restne l.ion remained.' And those Ameri ens who bemoan our lapse from democracy, and commiserate us on' the loss of the liberties be queathed us by the Fathers sorget that few of the privileges now enjoyed by a large part of the people were recognized at the time of the framing of the Con stitution. ' Men who signed the Declara tion of . Independence owned chattel slaves; property was a necessary qualificatic-n for vot ing, and woman suft'rage would ha-e been considered prepos terous. Yet the man who penned the Declaration, as well as those who signed it, took the first step toward their realization, and lest so future generations the duty of completing the work. President Wihon went to Paris inspired with the highes: ideals of any modern political leader. He met from other countries men less devoted to those ideals. Xecessity . compelled an agree ment. He did not get all that he sought, nor all that he should haie gotten. "-But that is not to say that his Mission was a'fail- From The The varous pians for Amen-' canizatlbn that have come before üs seem to fall into three cate gories." Some of them are ob vious devices to influence the foreign vote toward one or an other political organization. Others are devices, equally.ob vidus, to facilitate the exploita tion of foreign labor. Others, again, which it is a pleasure to believe are wholly disinterested, serious, and well-intended, seem to be devices for indoctrinating the foreigner with the superiority of our language, habits, cultural institutions, and practices over his own; devices, in short, for making him, whether for better ?r worse, as much as possible like ourselves. With the first two classes e shall not now con--ern ourselves beyond remarking .heir essential dishonesty; but we may perhaps profitably discuss .he nationalistic philosophy upon vvhich the. third dass is based. That it is the bounden duty of ihe foreigner to sorget his own vays as speedily .as possible. and to kam ours to forego his own language and cultural specialties and make the best'fist'he can at surs, is a pleasing össnmption on our part, and in some respects itistisied; for like every civiliza üon on earth, ' ours has spme points of notable superiority over others. Still, most of these the foreigner knows of before he arrives; they are what attracts him here. As to the rest, and as to the notion that he should ge- erally conforro to our hahit, and vays merely because they are ours and to the complete dis- couragement or exclusion of his own, , the Situation should be looked at somewhat more from the standpoint of- the foreigner than most of the Americanization xlans that we have examined delegates to become a true Inter national parliament, with due representation for the worktng classes of all countries. , . Further, I urge that if for the, time being Germany and Russla are exeluded from the executive council, yet the delegates of their parliament shall be immcdiately invited to membership in the in ternational parliamenf, and that to this parliament be remitted the task of so revising the treaties as to bring them into better ac cord with those principles of gen uine justice which alone can guarantee an end u ring peace. e Public. ure, or that his work shbuld be condemned. Sober. reflection will convlnce open-minded men that the Presi dent not only secured much at the Conference, but that he pro yided a means for obtaining all clse that was there withlield. Yhat would have become of the new nations.' stretching all the way from the Baltic to , the Adriatic, but for his champion ship? Granted that the terms imposed upon Germany are too severe, and that the disposal of the Saar Valley is wrong, and will have to be corrected, the means of correction have been provided in the Covenant of ,the League of Xations. ... Every act must be weighed against the alternative choice. Would M.r. Wilson's critics have ference.-and leave the men whc exacted so much to take it all? Has he not shown the greater wisdom in maintaining friendly relatiohs, and securing the adop tion of machinery that must necessarily continue his purpose as the world broadns its ideals? It should not be forgottAi that a .demoeratie government never can rise far above its twn people. And just as the men who signed the declaration that "all men are created equal" were obliged to bow for the time being to those who maintained chattel slavery, so President Wilson, who de clared for self-determination, ha been compelled to accept modi fications at the hands of other Governments whose , co-operation was necessary. He stood as the representative of the United States; yet the voters gave him an adverse Congress, and the Senate bluntly declared it would not approve his" acts. Why then lay the blame for such failure as there has been upon him? Should he not rather be congratulated for what he has aecomplished in spite not only of foreign opponents, but of the Opposition of his own country men ? IZÄTIO Nation. appear to do. Aster all, is the superiority of our civilization is at all -points such as we assurne, would not the foreigner be apt, in time, to discover it for'.him self; and is the ptocess of as similation really expedited by our inflexible attitude toward him? The very small amount of Imag ination necessary to put oneself in his place will answer these questions at once; and then one is on th way toward a sound policy of Americanization. i , The American people can do nothing, we are convinced to Americanize foreign ers. There is no machinery that is com- petent ; perhaps our sublime faith in the omnipotence of machinery, especially the machinery of or ganization, is one of the very points at which the foreigner shies off from our attempts. It is not a case for machinery-, not a case for doing, but a casg for being. e can be something that will Americanize immigränts 'and as- similate them rapidly and natur ally, of their own motion; and that something is very different from the figure we have hitherto appeared before them. It would seem that the remarkable fact of the present exodus of foreign ers would canse our people to look twice at the ground of their asstimptions about their own civilization. These foreigners have had the benesit of enormotis ly high wages. They have saved their money; and now that the war is over, they are going back to Europe in shoals. and. aecord ing to their Statement, going to stay. Now, if our civilization possessed in?rinsic powers of at traction commensurate with the opportunity, it, offered these people to jjet work and lay up money. it is unlikely that so raany would be Ieavinj: it. For the present generation of us. perhaps, it docs.possess pose powers; our demands upon it are fews what it has is largely the work of onr own hands or our fathers', and we are laudably proud and qontented. But look- ing. at the Situation trom tnc standpoint of the foreign er, tve find that for, him it possesses hardly any .powcr of attraction at all. We maV then, stand our ground stolidlv and iav, so much the worse for the foreigner. Rescnt- ment is natural; but if trapslated into action, it docs the America of the next generation a great disservice. That America will be a better place than this, its lile will be larger; we want to have it so, our children will make it so. Then let us not deny them the powerful-1 help of the tor eigner, though we ourselves have been too preoccupied or too un intelligent to recognize its value and accept' it for use in fashion iug the America that now is. Let our children weigh the criti cism of the foreigner without prejudice, realizing that It is apt to be more objective than our ownv or ' even than theirs, and turn, upon him and demand his cultural contribution ' toward remedving the defects he alleges. The foreigner ' says ' that our Civilisation does nothing for the Claims of the intellect, of beauty, of the poetn'. of like, of the social instinct. When we complain of his ingratitude toward our efTorr to make hirrr lik ourselves, he quotes Burke to the effect that "there should be in every coun- 4.tv a Standard of manners that a vell-formed mind would be dis posed to relish. For usto love our country, our country ought to be lovely" and teils us quite plain ly that our country, despite its Eocben bei der Oniaha Tribüne" eingetroffen! Die 1919 Zlusgabe des Buches: Wic lgM' ikh Bürger der Vereinigten Äaütcn? Falls Sie Bürger der' Ber. Ttanten werden wollen, müssen Tie unbc dingt mit den Pflichten und Rechten eines Amerikaners vertraut sein. -Täp Nki?nin rrmart't.'dan Sie wichtige ?vraakn. dig sich, auf das Wahlrecht. Verfassung der Wer. Staaten, Rechte des Bürgers. Einwände. rungsgesetze. (scrichtöirielt ufm. begehen, genau ocannvorten tonnen, ze Sie Ihr Bürgerrecht erhalten. - ' Wir raten Jlincn, daß Sie sich das in Teutsch und Englisch erschie. uene Buch von Chas. Kallmcycr . ..... wie werde ich Bürger der Ver. Staaten? sofort kaufen. . , , Bei der Tribüne nur Zu diesem preise kann das Buch in unserer Office und durch alle Träger und Agenten bezogen werden. Postbestcllungen sind 10 Cents für Porto und Verpacken hinzuzufügen. 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MsWI XVZSeSsX ZZrajzJ5?Z2rf:2-. 4st lum. qm. muti t , ruu CÄP" FR 7NGE SHAPS HüIR HET5I ,iftR9yu Wft ., ii.ihi im. m uwji' -t- ii m n - y-'PT 'V many potnts of superiority, is not lovely; that our civilization, with all, its power and ""wealth is, not . interesting, f that 1 it lacks amenity, is not amiable. Our children, then, as the iron. force of prejudice inevitably loosens, will say, Very well, help us make it so. Give us yonr contribution toward a larger life in exchange for what you have got from us in the things wherein we excel. This is Americanization, prac ticable and salutary; but it will not be done by committees or Programmes, but by the grace of a new spirit. ', Then the new generation will look back at us who prided our selves on being good business men. and marvel how we could be so unbusinesslike as t have these rieh potential resources of civilization under our band and never tap them. It is ebneciv able, ' they will say, that New York could have harbored , more Italians than Kome and yet they were encouraged to leave no more of a characteristic mark on the general culture of the city? How 15 it possible that great settlements of Slavs and Celts. quick-witted, sentimental people, naturally weil-mannered, hved so Ion? in our Middle States with out being laid mercilessly under contribution against the dismal and illiberal ideals of social life prevailing there? Then they will read. perhaps, of our inept pro posals to Americanize these people by machinery proposals as of. tliose who would do all the teaching and none of the learn ine. all the civinc and none of the taking. all the preaching and none of the practicing and be thankful for the knowledge that Americanization is possible only aecording to the manner of spirit that Americans themselves are of. )5?das 'Stiick TRIBUNE Omaha, Nebraska Aatalog " ii: 1,1 WXO TKtfTH Wl Vtrftk tHVWt MtlrtlU ftiU fA , HM AMI TMl UllMUt Uf MJUJir Ot VkmiM, wn&Trnj&MTt tMtuMor im. mm m tvrry MOLTV.!T- HUI fT iJAÄAJfTWB Ot ICWrT f,VU OttuUt AX TT'tfAV0j t ftuHt J?Wt Brauer- ' : Gchciülllisse" , ! f. i ' 21 culhiilll XOc man vier, Liköre i 4veine zu Yause mach? Vcbtx !')0 fT.Mrl't, fron clnrrn ftfoOrr ?renmrlfttr jnfaiiimcncifitfill. . ViO letrtil . i iiitnnrn. tic ,Hntni!i (omifn tu irnrnh f tu 4 Dr, ig ilote fli'imifi ircrln-tt. firc Pttirt. 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