Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 15, 1919, Page 6

s THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER LEAGUE FULFILS AMERICAN IDEAL Herbert Hoover Says Democra- cies Replaced Autocracies at Our Bidding. FOOD ADMINISTRATION CHIEF. Urges Ratification on Ground That Peace Treaty Will Collapse Without League of Nations, Herbert Hoover is so deeply con- cerned over the opposition to the League of Nations in the United States that he has let himself be in- terviewed at length on the League sit- uation. In a talk with the New York Times correspondent in Paris, the Food Administration Chief asserts that having caused the League idea to pre- vail America cannot abandon it. We cannot withdraw, he says, and leave Europe to chaos. “To abandon the League Covenant now means that the treaty itself will collapse.” Mr. Hoover's wide acquaintance with conditiens both here and abroad, Ris reputation as an administrator, a man’ of great affairs who deals with fa€éts, not theories, make his state- ment one of the most important con- tributions to the recent League discus. sions. “There are one or two points in con- nection with the present treaty,” said Mr. Hoover, “that need careful consid- eration by the American public. We need te digest the fact that we have for a century and a half been advo- cating democracy not only as a remedy for the internal ills of all so- ciety, but also as the only real safe- guard against war. We have believed and proclaimed, in season and out, | that a world in which there was a free expression and enforcement of } the will of the majority was the real basis of governmeht, was essential for | the advancement of civilization, and that we have proved its enormous hu- man benefits in our country. N American Ideas Have Prevailed. “We went int6é the war to destroy autocracy as a menace to our own and all other democracies. If we had not come inte the war every inch of Euro- pean soil today would be under auto- cratic government. We have imposed our will on the world. Out of this victory has come the destruction of the four great autocracies in Ger- many, Russia, Turkey and Austria and the little autocracy in Greece. New democracies have sprung into being in Poland, Finland, Letvia, Lithuania, Esthonia, Czechoslovakia, Greater Serbia, Greece, Siberia, and even Ger- many and Austria have established democratic governments. Beyond these a host of small republics, such as Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and others, have sprung up, and again as a result of this great world movement the constitutions of Spain, Rumania, and even England, have made a final ascent to complete franchise and de- mocracy, although they still maintain a symbol of royalty. “We have been the living spring for this last century and half from which these ideas have sprung, and we have triumphed. The world today, except for a comparatively few reactionary and communistic autocracies, is dem- ecratic, and we did it. “A man who takes a wife and blesses the world with several infants cannot go away and leave them on the claim that there was no legal mar- riage. “These infant democracies all have political, social and economic prob- lems involving their neighbors that are fraught with the most intense friction. There are no natural bound- aries in Europe. Races are net com- pact; they blend at every border. They need railway communication and sea outlets through their neighbors’ terri- tory. “Many of these states must for the sext few years struggle almost for bare bones to maintain their very existence. Every one of them is go- ing to do its best; to protect its own interests, even to the prejudice of fits meighbers, Governments Lack Experlence. “We 1o America should realize that = Sch ool EEEEEEE——— . e ve Page democracy, as a stable form of govern- ment as we know it, is possible only with highly educated populations and a large force of men whe are capable of government. Few of the men who compose these governments have had any actual experience at governing and their populations are woefully il- literate. “They will require a generation of actual national life in peace to de- velop free education and skill in gov- ernment, “Unless these countries have a guid- ing hand and referee in their quarrels, a court of appeals for their wrongs, this Europe will go back to chaos. If there is such an institution, rep- resenting the public opinion of the world, and able to eXert its authority, they will grow into stability. We can- i not turn back now. { “There is another point which also needs emphasis. World treaties hith- erto have always been based on the theory of a balance of power. Styong- er races have been set up to douiinate the weaker, partly with a view to maintaining stability and to a greater degree with a view to maintaining oc- cupations and positions for the re- | actionaries of the world. “The balance of power is born of armies and navies, aristocracies, autocracies, and reactionaries general- ly, who can find employment and domination in these institutiops, and treaties founded on this basis have established stability after each great war for a shorter or longer time, but never more than a generation. “America came forward with a new idea, and we insisted upon its injec- tion into this peace conference. We claimed that it was possibie to set up such a piece qf machinery with such authority that the balance of power could be abandoned as a relic of the middle ages. \We compelled an entire construction of this treaty and every word acd line in it to bend to this idea. “Outside of the league of Nations the treaty itself hus many deficiencies. It represents compromises between many, men and between many selfish interests, and these very compromises and deficiencles are multiplied by the many new nations that have entered upon its signature, and the very safety of the treaty itself lies in a court of appeal for the remedy of wrongs In, the treaty. Benefits of the League. “One thing is certain. There is no B — Lightning Wrecks House, but Family Is Unhurt Hazleton. Pa—During a se- vere storm lightning played an odd prank at the home of Leon- ard Ferrari of West Hazleton. A holt entered the house, vipped off most of the plastering, smashed nearly all of the win- dows and brought out soot in such quantities from the chim- ¢ ney that it aimost smothered the : family, but Ferrari, his wife and ¢ six children escaped without a H seratch. - Their bodies were cov- ¢ ered with debris as lhev were awakened in bed. e - = RECIPROCITY! __How many of your friends have given you photographs of them- selves and none of you in return" Why not discharge these > obligations received TODAY Portraits are our specialty, the kind that breathe your own personality —the kind your friends will appreciate and val- ue and you will be proud to HAKKERUP Photographic Studio BEMIDJI, MINN. PAGE SEVEN SOW TORE BABY TO PIECES Older Children Rescued Infant From Animal Too Late to Save HUFFMAN & OLEARY FURNITURE AND TO READERS Many ads appear in the iz Its Life. clzss]i]fied column of the Pioneer [ —— which are signed similar to [¥ KlN Pretty Rock. N. D.—Aroused by the this: “J. 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As the covenant stands today there is a place at which redress can be found and through which the good-will of the world can be enforced. The very machinery by w‘hlch the treaty 1s to be executed, and scores of points yet to be solved, which have been referred to the League of Nations as a methed of securing more mature judgment in a less heated atmosphere, justifies the creation of the League. “To abandon the covenant now means that the treaty itself will col- lapse. “It would take the exposure of but a few documents -at my hand to prove that I had been the most reluctant of Americans to become involved in this situation in Europe. But having gone in with our eyes open and with a de- termination to free ourselves and the rest of the world from the dangers that surrounded us, we cannot now pull back from the job. It is no use to hold a great revival and then go away leaving a church for continued services half done. “We have succeeded in a most ex- traordinary degree in imposing upon Europe the complete conviction that we are absolutely disinterested. The consequence is that there is scarcely a man, woman or child who can read in Europe that does not look to the United States as the ultimate source from which they must receive assur- ances and guardianship in the liberties which they have now secured after so many generations of struggle. “This is not a problem of protecting the big nations, for the few that re- main can well look after themselves. ‘What we have done is to set up a score of little democracies, and if the American people could visualize their handiwork they would insist with the same determination that they did im 1917 that our goveroment proceed® ——— i | I