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t THE CHURCH AND THE LEAGUE.
One of the interesting aspects of the discus
sion of the League of Nations arises from the
fact that it is being extensively considered bv
.'the church. , ThaJ honest difference of opinion
may exist as to its probable working out is
evinced by the lack of agreernent among the
ministers as to its desirability. On the general
theme there is no division; all agree that t6 do
away with war will be to bring a great boon to
humanity. Yet ministers are far from being
unanimous as to how this is to be accomplished.
Able and experienced doctors of divinity, whose
training and experience enables them to speak
with ' something of authority, give their views
contrary to the stand of the president. They
do not believe that the proffered covenant will
promote and maintain international peace. Dr.
Cortland Myers, pastor of Tremont Temple,
Boston, says:
1 The peace treaty and League of Nations
documents were atheistic and do not deserve
anything but failure. The name of God was
not in them, and no prayer was ever offered
at the sessions at Versailles. The pages of
history all declare this as fatal. God will
not be forgotten or ignored with impunity or
without penalty, as already foreseen, and
these agreements are not worth the paper
they are written upon. This proves the Scrip
i tures and all God's relations to men. There
. , can be no peace for this world without the
recognition of the Prince of Peace, who is
still in the throne, and Divine judgment rests
upon Godless nations.
A distinguished Southern Baptist, and a
democrat, Rev. Joseph Judson Taylor, has this
to say of the league:
The Bible is against the league, i Some par
tisan politicians and preachers with partisan
bias have had a good deal to say about the
Christianity of the league. No one of them,
whether politician ot preacher, has quoted a
single passage from the league covenant in
proof of what he has said. Voters, have you
thought of that? The reason is plain. There
is no such passage in either document. The
thing cannot be done.
Another Southern Baptist. Rev. John J.
Wicker, pastor of the Lehigh Street Baptist
church, Richmond, holds that the league is fore
: doomed to failure because "at the peace table
God was refused a seat, and in the text of the
covenant He was denied recognition."
Bishop Thomas Benjamin Neely of Phila
delphia admonishes his Methodist brethren that
the league is "a fighting mechanism, deliberately
put together to fight, yet professing to be a
peace making arrangement"
Other eminent and able churchmen and mor
alists have voiced their disapproval of the pact,
aiming always at the weak spot touched by
Elihu Root, when he called the president's attention-to
the fact that the league made no
provision for the establishment and growth of
international law, that its settlements would be
. those of expediency and not of right, and jus
tice. America has always stood and must al
ways stand for righteousness. Less than this is
to deny our own government, which rests on
God's eternal principles, and under which has
grown up a mighty nation which humbly
acknowledges God, and stands erect before all
' the world because of the justice of its cause.
And the League of Nations covenant will not
tand the full test of those principles.
Underground -in China.
A cable dispatch telling of the death under
ground of 400 Chinese miners calls the attention
of the world to the industrial growth of the far
' eastern republic. Progress, of course, is not
measured by the number of men killed in coal
mining, but this tragic occurrence, with grief
stricken families gathering around the mine,
serves to give the mind's eye a picture of the
'new China, teeming with modern business ex
ploitation. The "Danish state railways recently ordered
10,000 tons of coal from China. This, with the
announcement of the forthcoming delivery of
100,000 tons of Chinese coal at Marseilles, marks
a fresh epoch in the history of the coal industry
of the world. Not only is China supplying its
own fuel needs, but it is now entering the ex
port business. Its output is steadily growing,
in contrast with the decline of production in all
other countries since 1913, ,
A conservative estimate of the amount of
Q coal underlying China is placed at almost 1.000
billion tons, as compared with about 2(XHillion
tons for the whole of Europe. Accordingto one
calculation, , jChina's total reserve supply has
been set as high af 1,500.000 millions tons, or
nearly enough to supply the world demand for
coal for a thousand years.
The British mine strike, shutting off supplies
to foreign customers, will open new markets to
the Orient. Whatever the present condition, it
is reassuring to the world to know that we have
plenty of coal in the ground for a long time
to come.
Food and Efficiency.
In other days the serving of food was a
worship, and eating was surrounded with many
religious rites. In "most . modern homes the
preparation of three meals a day is a drudgery,
and some feminists are urging the abolition of
the kitchen and the establishment of common
dining rooms for whole neighborhoods. And yet
the family table holds its place as an educational
center inculcating the virtues of self-control.
rerard for others, good manners and pleasing
conversation.
The crowds who are attending the Pure Food
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show in Omaha this week demonstrate an actual
interest in the problem of food. Ease of prepara
tion, lightening the labor of the kitchen, is a
development ranking in importance with the
other elements of purity and economy. Knowl
edge and skill in the purchase and preparation
of food bring good results to both pocket and
health, and this is one purpose that a food show
serves. v
Through the practice of conservation, to
gether with the pressure of the high cost of
living, it has been brought home that it is not
the food actually eaten that costs so much, but
it is that wasted by poor cooking, by excessive
quantity, or by purchasing out of season. Half
the cost of life is the cost of food, and any op
portunity to learn to cut the size of these bills,
and at the same time maintain human efficiency,
is well worth seizing.
,v In the Case of the Theater t
One of the signs of the hour, as detected by
the New York Times, is deflation at the theater.
"A death blow," says the Times, "has been
struck to the monstrosity of charging $3.50 for
tickets to dramatic productions a practice
which, curiously enough, was begun by a pro
duction of Shakespeare. If the rule pi sanity
prevails, there will be an abatement also in
the price of tickets for musical comedy." But
this is hot all that is in sight. To quote from
the Times again, "where there is a reasonable cer
tainty that mediocrity will flourish side by side
with - experience, the tendency is toward
mediocrity." And in the manifestations of this
tendency may be discerned what ails the theater.
People went to the movies, not because thev
preferred the shadows passing across the screen
to the more solid and enduring pleasure of hear
injar the spoken word accompanied bv the ani
mated gesture; of seeing the thing in life rather
than in a mere similitude of life. But the man
agers, led astray by the promise of greater profit
to be reaped from presentation of mediocrity,
followed its light so far afield that at last they
found themselves traveling alone. Moreover,
...k'.vau Ji uuuuiilg up auu lUllklUUlllg tuc giun-
ous galaxy of real American actors, they have
suostitutea the manager, and we have been
"sold" the name of the producer, rather1 than
that of the performer or even the olav. One
man among all modern American managers at
tained the distinction sought by so many, that
of having his name stand as a guaranty for the
quality of his play and its players. He did this
Dy the simple process of giving only what had
merit," of never allowing his name to be asso
ciated with the mediocre or unworthy. Charles
Frohman, however, left no successor.
It is not going to be the easiest thing to win
the public back to the sooken drama ht !,.
the stage is restored to something approaching
conawons mat prevailed a dozen or fifteen years
ago, before the "star" craze had completely over
shadowed all other elements of the theater, peo
ple will find their way back to orchestra and bal
cony seats. The drama has a great function in
connection with our social life, but it fiat tiPrn
swerved far from that through injudicious man
agement. But, as the Times says further:
The mere killing of time in the theater has
become too expensive. Henceforth the bur
den of proof will be shifted; an "attraction"
will have to attract, an "amusement" will have
to amuse. . ,
In Search of a Taxless Land.
The age of adventure has been revived by
the project of forty wealthy Englishmen who
have bought a schooner and will sail to the
South seas in search of a tax dodgers' paradise.
At the head of this novel expedition is Rhodes
Disher, a fellow of the Royal Geographic so
ciety. In a vessel fitted with all the luxury of
a London club, he and his companions propose
to find an island unvisited by tax collectors and
start a new community of their-own.
fiown below the equator are many islands
capable of development. Incidents have been
reported of shipwrecked sailors making them
selves so snugly at home on these coral isles
that rescuing parties coming months afterward
were indignantly repulsed. Where bountiful na
ture provides food and shelter and makes small
demand for clothing little remains for man to
do. Suspicion of the benefits of such easy en
vironment are called up, however,' by the show
ing that the natives of this region, having no
need for struggle, have never progressed toward
civilization.
These British clubmen, with . no children,
will have no necessity for taxation to support
schools. They will not require good roads, po
lice protection, fire engines, governors, kings,
presidents, pure food inspectors or even dog
catchers; Living in primitive fashion, they will
be without most of the advantages of modern
life. That this renunciation of what we think of
as progress has struck a popular chord is indi
cated by the thousands of applications from
men everywhere to accompany the expedition.
The British government is said to frown on the
plan, but Will have plenty of official representa
tives at the pier to see them off. These will bl
in the person of income tax collectors making
sure that none of the fleeing pilgrims is going
without a final tribute to the support of the na
tion he is fleeing. I
Youth's Precious Hours.
The uses of leisure are not to be denied, and
yet with most of us there is a margin of time
spent in doing nothing that, rightly applied,
might serve to put us forward in the world.
To invest our time wisely is as much a part of
thrift as the saving of money. The most
precious hours, strangely enough, are not those
toward the evening of life, but those of youth
and early manhood. It is then that we are
building our future and laying up the store of
knowledge and habits of industry that are to
last a full lifetime. The boy who loafs falls.
into an environment far different from the one
who applies himself, and thus also is hampering
his prospects.
A writer on thrift calls attention to this sub
ject in the following way:
The boy who spends two hours each eve
ning lounging idly on the street corner wastes
in a year 730 precious hours or more'than 80
working days a year which, if applied to Study,
would familiarize him with the rudiments of
almost any of the familiar sciences. If, in
addition to wasting an hour or two leach eve
ning in just loafing, he spends a dime for a
smoke, which is usually the case, the amount
that is more than wasted would pay for one
or more of the leading periodicals each month,
or would purchase the nucleus of a good stu
dent's library.
Play is necessary, but there" are forms of
recreation higher than mere idleness, games that
add to the health, and mental enjoyment not
found in vacuity. ,t
"Selling regardless of cost" does not sig
nify the tame thing now that it did 'six months
A Line O'Type or Two
Hew to the Lin, 1st the eulps fall where they aur.
TO A MORNING-GLORY.
Bright morning flower, so wakeful still at eve
There near the old elm's, foot, and by the wind
Caressed at whiles as it were loth to leave
Alone to twilight tears your gentle mind!
All day your cheek beside the guardian tree
Mas nestled close, and through his empty arms
The sun has marked you, glowing, blithe, and
tree,
Not asking or suspecting gifts or harms.
Know you It Is October, dear? Your friends
The robins, butterflies, and warblers small
Are nesting while you watch; the young moon
bends
Her frosty bow on yonder chimnied wall.
Tou see and yet you smile, and your calm breath
Is drawn unhurried by the thought of death.
- A, B.
FASHIONS in advertising change, with all
other fashions. A commodity that once was
"best" becomes different," and then "better,"
and so on. One very fuccessful but not yet
common scheme is actual depreciation. Thus,
everybody hastened to have a sight of an
actress from abroad who was advertised as the
plainest woman on the stage. , Another example
is the London String Quartette which recently
"scored heavily" (as the music journals say) in
New York. English people visiting here damned
it with inaudible praise, one Lunnoner remark
ing, "You will hear four separate acts." One
went to hear, therefore, chiefly out of curiosity,
but with the first measure one sat up: here
was the real thing.
DESPERATE REMEDIES.
Sir: We ' don't know how to get rid of
cousjns, but we know how to keep. help. Dur
ing a recent siege of diphtheria we arranged,
with the aid of the attending physicians, to quar
antine the laundress, who happened to be in the
house. She proved to be a fine cook.
M. E. B.
IN fpite of "own your home" campaigns,
family life in America tends more and more to
the centrifugal. Frezzample, think of the thou
sands of "Family Entrances" that have been
boarded up since July of last year I
Peaches and Raptures. ,
(From the Mills County, la.. Tribune.) '
The Tribune office desk was gladdened
- Saturdayby a beautiful example ot what
our soil and climate can do in the fruit line.1
"W. M. Glassburn brought In a peach limb '
burdened with the luscious fruit that is so
much prized. As we look upon it what
thoughts arise. No painter's brush could
more than imitate that red-cheeked fruit.
No palate was ever better tickled by any
fruit. How marvelous and varied is nature.
' From the same soil, same sunshine, same
moisture is evolved the mammoth corn, the
useful potato, the succulent strawberry, and
the delicious peach and apple. Then con
sider their colors, shapes, and sizes.. None
can surpass the peaches that smiled tn the
sun from the. tree from which the sample
Of Mr. Glassburn's gift came.
ACCORDING to Mr. Tarkington of the Misr
souri Pacific, that eight-cent meal which W. S.
got .in Wichita isn't so remarkable. In a Gales
burg restaurant, relates Mr. T., thirty-five cents
obtained a large plain steak, two fried eggs,
sliced tomatoes, piece of pie, and cup of coffee.
PRICES KEEP TUMBLING.
Sir: Nemo started for the ticket office to
get me a coupla berths, but confusion brought
him back. "If I can't get lowers," he asked,
"should I get one higher and one lower or two
hlghers?" "Get me half a dozen drawing rooms,"
said I, handing him $1,200 In bills. He did, and
S2.85 in change. W. L. N.
"THE more miles you ride on a Goodrich
Silvertown Cord Tire, the greater your wonder
grows that so many more miles of service are
still left." Adv. , '
Pull up an easy chair, Watson. This is
going to give us some trouble.
By Gaddt ;'
y (From Lousville, Ky., Journal.)
Any one found In or about my chicken
houses will be found there the next morn
ing. Harry Gadd, R. D. 12.
LAST week Mr, Godowsky played one of his
latest works, thirty consecutive pieces in triple
timel ,'Mondool" you exclaim. But there may
be an idea back bf it. Perhaps he is beginning
a crusade against 24 jazz.
THE DEATH OF ROMANCE.
(Arnold Bennett, "Our Women.")
. Even today there are women, mothers of
families, who cannot leave the house and take
a taxi without previously asking for the money
for the mad adventure, because they are never
allowed the uncontrolled use of any money at
all. These women are survivals from the grand
romantic past, the past of which too many of
us regret the disappearance. And if In their
youth they had set about tbo business of acquir
ing economic freedom, their guardians would
have treated them as if they had set about to
become dancers In a sailpr"' cafe. Romance, as
is well known, has died, i Notions like economic
freedom have killed it Could' an age in which
maidens soil themselves by worldly contacts for
more money and economic freedom be other
than unromantic? Impossible! The great com
plaint of the aged woman against the young is
that the young are so "painfully" unromantile
and matter-of-fact. The brazen creatures
actually face facts; they actually hate to be de
pendent idlers and ninnies that is to say, to
be In economic slavery. And so they more
than men, it seems have committed the mur
der of romance.
"CARL SANDBURG, one of the rare and
rares-t poets of the mid-west . . ."Lecture
announcement.
Red blood stuff, do you mean?
' CORRESPONDENCE FROM JAPAN.
Tokyo, Sept. 8. We have been infested with
a persistent lady who has d one all the shrines
from Nikko to Nagasaki in four weeks or leaps
and is now going back to Niles or Carbondale
to write a book on the Shinto religion. Running
to earth every source of information she finally
maneuvered a meeting with a prominent Japa
nese Emeritus who has so many degrees as a
Fahrenheit thermometer. "Do tell me. Doc
tor," she breathed, "do the devotees of Shintoism
enjoy full religious gratification in their strange
faith?" "Well, madam," he exhaled. "I do not
y?t feel qualified to answer that I have studied
the subject only twenty-seven years." SIB.
WHILE we do not doubt our correspondent's
word, candor forces us to say that the Japanese
emeritus was pulling a bit of old stuff.
THE STORM SEA.
The great gray clouds blow up out of the sunset,
The white foam pours down the long waves,
The strong gulls slide and sail along the winds,
The fog catches here in the rough beach grass
And slips away to dim the distant hills.
BERTHA TEN EYCK JAMES.
POSTED on the bulletin board: "With the
exception st those who have work that is be
hind the office will close at one o'clock tomor
row." ANOTHER USE FOR THEM..
Sir: Ever since we put Saturday Evening
Posts under the mattress to level up the sag
ging bedsprlngs they have been great nights to
sleep. E. M. R.
"GIVE ME A TICKET TO PITTSBURGH."
Sir: A "carry your lunch" circular gives
the startling information that "Pittsburgh
restaurants have had to cut their prices 50 to
1,000 per cent on various items." The town
must be packed with week-end gadders.
VERCINGETORIX.
"SALESMAN High grade talking machine.
210 S. Wabash." Adv.
Yes, Most of 'em. B. L. T.
You Never Can TelL
Political observers are wondering whether
husbands and wives will vote" alike in the com
ing election. Well, the old saying is "co
Incidences" will happen in the best regulated
families. Kansas City Star.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A EVANS
QuMtioat concerning hyfUna, imita
tion and pravantien of dltaaM, sub
ilttod to Dr. Evani hy raadera of The
Baa, will ho antwtrcd personally, aub.
fact to proper limitation, where a
tamped, addreaaed envelopa is en
closed. Dr. Evani will not make
diagnosis or prescribe for Individual
diseaaea. Addreas letters in care of
The Baa.
Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Irani.
Other Side of a Reform.
The "carry your lunch" slogan may help to
reduce the high cost of living, but how would
"you like to be a housewife with seven lunches to
put up every morning? Shoe and Leather Re
porter. - .
HI .III! I - I I
Contented Cleveland.
Cleveland is altogether satisfied. The city
plugged along for 42 years without winning
even a league championship. And then came
the double glory. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
BEWARE PAINLESS TUMORS
We seem to be making some head
way against cancer because the gen
eral publio is better Informed. More
people know better what symptoms
should cause one to suspect cancer,
to find out what the trouble Is and
have it attended to.
I think another reason is the bet
ter knowledge bf the limitations of
plasters as cures. We have no more
"cures" than our fathers had. We
do not even know what causes can
cer. We are almost as Ignorant
about It as we used to be. That Is, we,
the doctors. The people have learned
almost as much as the doctors know,
and that is the cause of the gain.
A study of 519 'ases cared for In
the Massachusetts general hospital
hospital, made by Drs. Simmons and
Daland, showed that the average age
of the group was 52.9 years. The
cases ranged In age from 14 to 8S
years.
Accepting the statements of pa
tients, the average length of time
from the date when the cancer first
was observed to the patient's entry
into the hospital was a little over
12 months.
It is agreed that that period must
De greatly shortened if we are to
make much headway In getting such
patients well. On an average it was
five and four-tenths months before
these patients saw the doctors after
they noticed the growth. After the
doctor had taken his time to watch
the tumor and make his diagnosis he
told the patient what the trouble was
and advised operation in most cases.
It only took three weeks on the av
erage for the patient to accept the
advice and undergo operation.
There is a lot for the public to
learn from the explanations of delay
given by the patients. The patients
with cancer of the breast said they
did not see the doctor earlier because
the tumor "did not pain.' In can
cer of the breast there Is no pain
until the growth is advanced.
A painless chronic ulcer of the
tongue is almost Invariably cancer.
, In spite of this 25 per cent of this
group saia it was pain mat. ursi
made them suspect cancer.
A large proportion of them sus
pected cancer first when they had
a hemorrhage. "Every woman who
flows subsequent to the change of
life should suspect cancer and have
an examination without delay.
. Hemorrhage from the stomach is
not an early sign of cancer. It Is
not safe to wait for hemorrhage as
a sign of cancer of the rectum.
Whenever a person who has been
constipated changes to regular bowel
habits, or a oerson . with regular
bowel habits develops loose bowels
without explanation, cancer should
be suspected. Most cases of cancer
of the lower bowel are treated for
hemorrhoids 'for months before, can
cer Is suspected.
Shake Up "Torpid Liver."
X. T. writes: "1. What treatment,
fs good for a bad or torpid liver?
How should It bo treated or what
medicine taken to keep the liver In
good condition?
"2. In what diseases should calo
mel be taken ? How many grains at
a time and how often?
"3. What should be done for a
bad, salty, bitter taste in mouth and
tongue on awakening in the morn
ing?" REPLY. '
1. Tou are constipated. Eat bran
bread, bran as a cereal, vegetables
and fruit. Drink two or three times
as much water as you now do. Be
gin drinking it one-half hour before
breakfast. Set aside some time each
day for exercise. Horseback riding
is good exercise for what you call
torpid liver. Eat less.
2. Taking calomel for a torpid
liver is about the last word in fool
ishness. Calomel is a mineral purge
and is Just as good. Just as bad as the
other mineral pjjrges. The inevita
ble after effect ' of every purge is
constipation. Therefore, the surest
way to keep up what you call torpid
liver is to take calomel. Calomel
has the same effect on the liver, no
more, no less, as other purges.
3. This is a result of constipation.
What to do Is answered in No. 1.
Wilsonism's Bitter Fruits
That's a Little Strong.
;. B. S. writes: "Will any bad re
sults come from eating two or three
pods of hot green pepper every
day?" .
REPLY.
It Is not good Judgment to eat
much condiments. Two or three pods
of hot green peppers is a pretty stiff
dose of condiments.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
Mrs. Arthur Meighen wife of the
new premier of Canada, was a school
feather before her marriage.
A new wheeled table for serving
meals in hotel rooms keeps the food
warm as long as desired in an oven
beneath the top which is heated by
a hot brick.
Italy claims to rank next lo the
United States in the production of
motion pictures, Its 82 companies
turning out about 64,000,000 meters
of films annually.
This year's strawberry crop
around Georgetown, Del., was small
and, consequently, people around
there have had a chance to buy 10
tons of sugar at 22 cents a pound
from one of the preserving plants
that decided to sell what it couldn't
use.
The first shipment of wood oil in
bulk, that la, In ship's tanks,
amounting to 958 tons, left Hankow
for the United States in May. Prepa
rations are being made for further
direct shipments of this commodity,
reports Consul General P. S. Heintz
leman, adding that it is believed that
this method will revolutionize busi
ness In this line.
Those who have studied the sub
ject say that one-half gallon of gas
oline per car Is-, wasted daily In
Canada through carelessness, .the
overuse of cars and needless mile
age, which means 200,000 gallons
wasted in the country, or 73.000,000
rallons per year. If all motor-cars
were operated every day.
THE COMING SILENCE.
Hark how the crlrketa
Are chanting unbidden
The paeslng of aummerl
Hy olouda overridden
The Uv archea eadly
A landscape forsaken
Of color ana glamour
Few fxulU hang unshaken.
Just hear how the crlckete
Persist In their strumming! '
ThfT drown In the garden
The stray hoe'a deep humming.
Thny shrill through the night air
A chorus uneeaalng,
And win from the alienee
A vigor Increasing.
An onslaught of rainstorms
May hush their thin votcea;
When sun-warmth returns
Fach cricket rejoices.
And chants to the passing
Of year'a-noon, bright summer
Chants bravely ot summer
To hearten ua morula.
, Oh. hear thee wee cricket!
Their monorona lingers
When Hahlt haa deafened
Our ears with her fingers.
But who la complaining
A day Is fast coming
So Icebound, so silent.
We'll Ions' for their strumming!
,-MAR'H U JCGLINOTON la Ua Maw
Tork Tlmee.
(From the Boston Transcript.)
The Haitian scandal Is surely the
traditional "last stray." Even with
out it the Wilson reoord In foreign
affairs has been the most humiliat
ing in all our history, dotted with
the graves of our unavenged dead on
land and sea. The mere mention of
the names of Columbus, Tampioo,
Vera Crus and Carrlaal, of Villa and
of Carranza; ot Lenlne and Trotzky.
and our soldiers who died in Russia
without knowing why they were
sent there or for whose cause they
fought, is enough to make all Amer
icans, "whe never fight," blush with
shame and bitter humiliation. -nd
now to these awful chapters must
be added the Haitian chaptei- a
scandal which the mendacious mal
administrator of the Navy depart
ment is now trying to whitewash by
appointing his own Investigators to
Investigate his own record after he
has been "caught with the goods"
and "smoked ut." It must be probed
to the bone. It will be. But the
congress must apply the probe. Mr.
Daniels has been tried and found
wanting. After the fourth of next
March he will be chiefly remem
bered In the navy for his contribu
tion to Its slang ot a new synonym
for a cunning falsehood. For on
every man-of-war and at every shore
station today, officers and men know
that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a
falsehood with such cunning as to
stand a good chance of not being
caught. J
Meantime all that can be done
must be done to rid the nation of the
bitter fruits of Wilsonism in Latin
America. Our Carrlbbean troubles
have been the subject of protest for
many weeks In the Latin-American
press. Our neighbors to the south
knew before the American people
were permitted to know some of the
things that have been going on in
Haiti and San Domingo. But long
before the Haitian scandal devel
oped, Mr. Wilson's Latin-American
policy of high-sounding phrases and
meddlesome praotices had been pro
claimed and was alienating America's
friends among the Latin-American
republics.
In Guatemala, for example, for
seven years his administration main
tained what was perhaps the most
odious tyranny that any Latin-American
country has known in the last
three-quarters of a century. Medi
eval cruelties marked the reign of
Estrada Cabrera. The liberal ele
ments sought in vain for relief. But
for years every attempt at revolution
was thwarted and the shadow of the
Wilson administration was thrown
over the effort of courageous Guata
malans to overthrow their dictator
by the only possible means, which
was armed revolution. A few months
ago conditions finally became Intol
erable. The revolutionary forces
succeeded in mobilizing, while Mr.
Wilson's minister, acting under in
structions from Washington, was
seeking to effect a compromise
which would have left Cabrera in
power. Happily that tyrant Is now
a prisoner and sooner or later will
be called to strict account for his
cruelties and, let us hope, will be
made to pay the penalty In full.
Guatemala has achieved at last a
liberal government, not because of,
but in spite of the meddlesome pol
icy of the Wilson administration. All
Latin America knows what Guate
mala has suffered and the responsi
bility that lies at the door of the Wil
son administration for her suffering.
Costa Rica received different treat
ment A bloodless revolution there
was unblessed by Mr. Wilson. The
government which it set up main
tained itself for two years, despite
the disapproving frown of the Wilson
administration, and sided with
America and the allies against Ger
many. Ultimately, however. Its In
ability to obtain recognition from
Washington resulted in its downfall.
When the declaration that the
Wilson administration would not rec
ognize Latin -American governments
that came to power through revolu
tions was first made, those govern
ments that were fearing revolution
hailed it with satisfaction. The pol
icy had hardly ben enunciated be
fore Its enunciator promptly repudi
ated It in practice. In the early
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months of 1914 a military coup
d'etat in Peru deposed 1'reBtdent
IUlllnghurst and sent htm Into exile.
One of his cabinet ministers was
killed. Bllllngnurst was the nearest
approach to a popularly elected pres
ident Peru ever had. He represented
the proletarian element in its revolt
against patrician rule. He was seek
ing a arrangement with Chile for
the settlement of the vexatious Tac-na-Arica
controversy.. He was anti
foreign, and the great American com
pany which had '.nrge sums Invested
In mining enterprises complained bit
terly of his hostility. Whether Pres
ident Wilson knew this or not. the
fact remains tha before a report
could reach the Department of State
from the American legation in Peru,
orders were issued from the White
House to recognize'the military gov
ernment and this was done. - Peru
has had another revolution since
then and the new revolutionary gov
ernment has also been recognized in
the person of President Legula.
These experiences and the frclts
of his military dictatorship in Haiti
and Santo Domingo have subjected
Mr. Wilson's administration to se
vere criticism throughout Latin
America. In Santo Domingo several
well known writers, including a poet
of note, were imprisoned for oppos
ing the Wilson dictatorship. Under
the strict interpretation of the mili
tary rule prevailing they were liable
to be shot. From Buenos Aires and
other South American cities respect
ful remonstrances were cabled to
well known Amtrtran authors, and
pleas, possibly a little Ironic, against
their being shot. As concession. If
you please, to Latin-American pro
tests, the Wilson administration
Issued statements to the effect that
it was not at all certain that the In
tention was to execute those Domini
on n writers, and that President Wil
son had freed them from the penal
ties imposed upon them. But the
question Latin Americans are asking
today is: When and where did Prs
Ident Wilson get his right to estab
lish his military llctatorshlp in the
Caribbean?
Let Latin Americans possess their
am.ia in notienno for a few months
longer. They can be assured that
after the 4th Of next March the
meddlesome policy which the VVI'son
administration ha pursued toward
our neighbors to the south will be
repudiated by President Harding.
Not only that, but the,Hardlng ad
ministration, with the assistance of
a competent secretary of state and
trained and experienced diploma
tists, will at once set about the work
of undoing the damage that has been
done our relations with the other
American republics. The autocracy
In foreign affairs which Mr. Wilson
has set up will be ended. Constitu
tional govemmentewlll be restored.
The Golden Rule and the Monroe
doctrine will once more become the
fundamentals of American foreign
policy. Wrongs done in the Carib
bean will be righted. Pa.i-AmerlcBn
friendships will be fostered and cher
ished under Mr. Harding', presi
dency.
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