Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-17
FACTORS THAT NAY HURRY THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE

mains alive this vain glorious mtarsm may be accepted
hyperboe of the first magnitude Even if the Kaiser
inclined to push the sacrifice Of great this
treme the chances his half dozen imperial would
take Father hand before he extipated whole royal
family.
Indeed before this point of German annihilaton
reached the chances the spirit of democracy would be-
ascendant in the Fatherland and Emperor William
would be firmly and less gently invited abdcate
his throne giving the German people chance the gov
ernment just the people of France their
affairs after the elimination of the third Napoleon
peror in the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870.
In all human probability however, other factors
the military absoutism of the Kaiser lack of
will dictate the conclusion of peace, while Germany still
mains great nation German public sentiment will sooner
or later respond the idea that ra human being
though ruling by alleged divine will, should not be allowed
to plunge people into endless well needless and cruel
war involving sacrifices of life that already have staggered
humanity and of industry and trade and
from which Germany hope decades
if victorious the field of battle
But assuming the German people themselves will
weary of frutes boodshed carnage of war there are
still other factors which strongly peace
The people of Italy becoming camorous support
OF the Triple Entente against their late allies of the Triple
Alliance and they moved the rapid in this direction
by their desire to regain the provinces which Austria took
from Italy at the conclusion of the which Germany help
ed the former to foment in 1866.
If Italy openly aids England, France and Russia
Belgium against Germany and Austria she will have still
stronger claim upon her former provinces than she has al
The government of Austria knows all these things and
this consideration in addition to those already emphasized in
these columns, including German neglect Austrian inter-
ests and the terrible defeats already suffered by the Austrian
armies in three directions the danger of the dsntegraon
OF the Austrian and Hugaran empire owing internal dis
sensons and the terrible material prevalent every
Where must combine with still other factors Austria
to drop out Of the With Austria eliminated Germany
would face the rest of continental Europe alone with
the uncertain support of that broken reed Turkey he sick
of Europe"
Assuming that considerations of state and of "world
politics. and dissensons serve to hasten peace
nature has fixed certain material limitations upon the actv
ties of beyond which he go 1t is written an
cannot live by bread alone but he
or stop trying to fight.
Owing to the density population Great Britain could
not Ve were her outside supply Of food this
sideaton applies in smaller degree the continental powers
IN case OF war like that taking millions of from
the producing class and making them rones to be
Ted by women old boys and other exempt
military service France and England have the
while the vast wheat fields Russia beyond the reach of
outside nations give them unreasonable advantage over ad
versaries
German and Austrian the other hand has
been wiped from the and the allied fleets will
that little food from outside reaches Germany via the
Baltic sea or Austria through the Adriac sea. Germany
may draw upon the supplies of Denmark of the Scand-
navan peninsula for time, but the thigh living
must soon become important peace factor in the Father
land
AT the outset of the war; DUPONT the powder king
serted that with all the powder mills in the world constantly
at work. rapid fire and heavy guns using
pro]ectles would exhaust the supply of explosives in six
months so that this influence alone might an important
factor of peace.
On the other hand learned in our great Civil War
that the necessities of conflict intensely stimulate invention
and while yankee ingenuity" may be somewhat lacking
abroad, If the European struggle continues way may
discovered to meet the need Of quantities powder
or short notice Indeed the readers of the Press noted
recently the complaint that departments secret
formula for the rapid manufacture of powder of tremendous
possibilities of energy had been betrayed certain European
powers
The worlds nancers also have it in their power to cut
short the European We commented yesterday on the
refusal of the Germans to subscribe largely the Kaisers
loan of $25O000O00 If the bankers were to
decline to advance further funds for either Germany Great
Britain and the struggle stop for ack of
steam"
Behind all these factors is the tremendous power of pub
lie sentiment We have already how anxious are all the
European countries appear right in the sight of
Americans. Sooner later the American people will be-