Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — LONDON TIMES EDITORIAL ON VISIT OF PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

LONDON TIMES EDITORIAL ON VISIT OF PRESIDENT

London, December 25. “The arrival of President Wilson will be one of the greatest events in our own .and in American history,” says the Times in an article of welcome to England of the American executive. “He will come,” the Times adds, “at a critical period in our /history. We have won the war, thanks, in no small measure, to American assistance. We have now to win peace, and pqace will not be won for this country or the world unless it is based on the warm, active friendship of the two great Eng-lish-speaking nations. •

“History never repeats itself, leastwise in the same form; but our .statesmen, American' and British, now have the power to remake the destinier of the Englishnspeaking peoples; to remold them as they might have been molded if the two nations had paited not in anger, but in amity and good-fel-lowship. "There are many bonds of fellowship, but next to common language is the joint possession of our common law. We are attempting to turn aspirations and international jurisprudence into genuine operative international Law and to endow it with sanctions like those of municipal laws. Without the active good-fellowship of England and America it simply can not be done.

"We alone speak the common idiom of law; we only have it in us to translate political Ideals into the form of international legislation, and only our frien® ship can give this legislation and sanction necessary to give it validity. “A league of nations is the ideal of the English-speaking peoples and it is a libel, • traceable ultimately to the enemy, that we in England have less enthueiaam for

this ideal than they in America. “If president Wilson has a great popular following in Europe, it is because he expressed this ideal of future international relations with the greatest clearness and force. It is an ideal nowhere held more strongly than here —an ideal ‘ to which no nation can contribute more practically than our Own. “A league of nations, however, will seem to be policemen on both land and sea. The British navy always has worked in behalf of Ideals like those of a league of nations. Let us not throw away a tried and trusty weapon until we are sure that we havie another as good. That is the English' conception and we believe that when ideas have been exchanged it will be found to be President Wilson's also. , “In coming to us he is wakening harmonies rich and deep enough to resolve into themselves all minor discords.”