Evening journal., 1914-09-22
Peace Talk and fhe Objects
Peace Should Accomplish
cFrom the New York Trbuno)
Trom The New York Tribuno)

Germany should also be made to
ray for her brutal disregard Of in
ternational treaties. She backed
I Austria-Hungarv in violating the
Treaty of Berlin by annexing Bosnia
ana Herzegovina. Europe could not
compel a reckoning then. but she
ought to compel il now. Worse than
that. the Kaiser repudiated Prussia's
pledge to maintain the neutrality OF
Belgium. and broke faith with all the
other nations which had joined with
/ Prussia in guaranteeing Belgum's
territorial integrity and indepen-
! dence. That ruthless defiance OF
II eaty rights and International law,
followed by a barbarous warfare on
the people of Belgium, must be
atoned for If the world is TO get for
ward on the path of fairness and
honor in International dealings. The
invasion OF Belgium was as great
crime as the devastation of the Pala-
tinate by Louis XIV also ordered
"for military reasons" The righteous
Judgment of the civilized world will
therefore not be satisfied unless Ger
many pays in full for her outrageous
treatment of Belgium.
The military situation is probably
now as favorable to Germany as It
ever will be. and. according to Am
. hassador Bernstorf the Kaiser is
: rot disposed TO yield a square inch
r OF German territory, either European
OF colonial But a settlement on
| that basis would settle nothing. and
b. the Allies will be justified in fighting
8 on until Germany realizes that she
must make substantial compensation
Il. cT rancnd Tho
Y more the war goes against her the
larger the cessions will have 10 be.
2 II seems pretty certain that II the
= Allies win. Alsace and Lorraine will
be returned TO France. Great
o Britain will probably take the Ger
L man colonies. secure the neutraliza-
n ton of the Kiel Canal, possibly com
= pelling the recession of Schleswig-
a Holstein to Denmark, and limit the
a size of the German navy. Russia
e. will add Posen to Poland and might
l. annex part of East Prussia
d Austria Hungary, which precipi-
tated the war by her foolhardy attack
r. on Servia. will also suffer. But tho
1t Dual Monarchy is used to territorial
D. losses and will not greatly mint
m them. Bukovina and Galicia vii
10 probably 20 TO Russia. Bosnia ant
20 Herzegovina to Servia and Montene
N gro, and if Italy gets into the war IL
Id time she may receive Trentino ant
ne Trieste, Dalmatia and part of Al
Of bania. II the war lasts long Rus
10 sia's natural desire for free acces
as to the Mediterranean will also hav
r to be satisfied.
in The surest guarantee O. peace an
he of the cessation of Prussian mill
tie tsrism that could be given would b
to a shifting of power within the Ger
ti- man Empire from Prussia to tn
cy Southern German States. Prussi
ng east of Brandenburg is a dead weigh
on on the economic and political dev'
an lopment of the rest of the empir
of Were political institutions in Prussi
- TO be modernized Germany might /
ne cured of militarism, Just as Franc
of was cured of II after Napoleon II
dc fell and the Republic was estal
ICE lished. Defeat would be q blessin
M i'm disguise to the German people
,b- they should be stimulated by it
les cast aside the half-mediaeval polit
ar cal system under which they no
to live, and to make their governmel
nd not the plaything of king
of kaiser's divine right" but the u
re- strument OF peaceful democratic pr
gress.