"SCRAPS OF PAPER."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 291, 7 December 1914, Page 6

"SCRAPS OF PAPER."

The "New York World," commenting editorially on' the light manner in which "scraps ,q|i. jpaper" ■ aro treated "'by Germany, says<:— ; "J !,iit. 'scrap of paper' was the treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium. ' The whole history of human liberty is written on just such scraps of paper. ':, Tho Magna Chart! was a 'scrap of paper.' /;,, ■ . ■ The Bill of Rights was a 'scrap of paper,' The Declaration of Independence was 0. 'scrap of paper.' The Constitution of the United States is a 'scrap of paper.' For a,hundred years a 'scrap of paper' has maintained an unbroken peace between the United States and the British possessions of Canada along an unfortified frontier of 3000 miles. The 'Hay-Pa uncefote Treaty was a 'scrap of paper,' and one of the most; brilliant moral' victories "won by President Wilson is the Act of Congress, which '.voluntarily repealed a violation of [the terms of that 'scrap of paper.' Ticspect of tjhesu 'scraps of paper' measure a nation's honor, no less than its freedom.

Democracy itself is only a 'scrap of rnper,' but it looses forces that no autocrat can stay. Tho German army is |fche most wonderful military machine ever constructed by the' hand and brain of man, but in tho final reckoning of history a 'scrap of paper' will prove more powerful than all the Kaiser's legions."