The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-23

fOr It's informative NdiuSj tHS CULTURAL VI TIC
Times is here reproduced. =.Ea<@E@ ~
"a correspondent who has just returned from
a visit to Germany and Austria, tells us" says
the Times, that an amazing statement finds Gre
dence in Berlin Men in high places he assures
u.s. have repeatedly declared that members OF
the British government have had conversations
in regard to peace with certain persons in Lon
DON They haye it is even said, made approaches
on this subject, and this statement he adds, is not
only made, but is believed as fact in high quar-
tiers in Germany To all who know this country
and the pres, temper Of its people, the story is
| TOD tgrotesuue for serious refutaton. Nobody
with this knowledge would believe for a moment
that any member of the government, or any Eng
lishman in a responsible position of any sort,
would take part in listen to conversations OF
the kind But if delusion so gross is really har-
bored in high quarters in Germany, It cannot
be too promptly and too completely dispeed.
I'VE do not hesitate to assure Germans who may
| be ignorant enough to entertain it that, were so
grave derelictOn Of elementary duty conceiva-
/ BILE amongst us, the righteous anger of an indig
nant people would sweep for ever from place and
| power all who committed it, or countenanced it,
or who sought for whatever reasons, to hush it
up or to shield those guilty of it All rumors
of the sort are absolutely unfounded. The people
| IF this country and Of this Empire are more de-
tertnined now than they when Germany
irst crossed the Belgian frontier to make peace
| which does not permanently and securely guar
| antee the ends for which they went to war. The
| Prime Minister, as we have often recalled, de-
| scribed those ends in famous passage of his
| iuildhall speech eleven months ago. His words
| effect the determination OF the people as faith
| :ully today as they did when they were uttered:
| We shall never sheathe the sword until Bel
GUM has recovered all, and more than all, that
she has sacrificed until, France is adequately
cured against the menace Of aggression, until the
rights of the smaller natiOnalities of Europe
placed upon unassailabe foundation. and
until the military dOmiL alton of Prussia is
wholly and finally destroyed
Those are the jects for which fighting.
We shall go fighting until they are attained.
THE sooner friends and foes are freed from
the least pretext for honest misunderstanding
upon this subject the better. The progress of
the here only deepens the conviction with
which we reluctantly began 1.-THE conviction, as
an American professor well expressed it, that this
is "a life and DEATH grapple between two great
antagonistic political principles The avowed
contempt OF Germany for her written and sworn
word, the denominations she has perpetrated in
Belgium, in France, and in Poland, the killing of
our wounded, the Entertainment of our prisoners,
the bombardment of Our watering places, the Yep
peln raids, the use of poison gas, and, above all,
the whole system of German maritime warfare,
from the sinking of harmless fishing boats to the
torpedoing of the Lusitana-these memories have
sunk deep into the hearts of our race. They
have created a horror of Germany, of German
thought and of German methods, stronger than
the passion we felt against Napoleon 1t is that
passion which has given us armies Germany never
expected to see, and which will continue to fill
them and to swell them, by whatever means are
needed until victory is Week by week the
numbers grow of those who have persisted in the
fight; week by week the manned and the mutt
lated are sent home to And those who have
lost husbands, sons, and brothers, that Europe
may be freed from German domination,
solved that they shall not have died in vain We
are fighting not for ourselves only, but for our
past and for our future; for all that England has
done in, and for, the world, and for-all that she
hopes to do Come what may, wrote some of
our leading statesmen last November, there must
be weakening, wavering, no patched-up
truce that would expose children to a revival
of the German menace There has been no weak
enlng and there will be none, The feeling that
we must conquer at all costs will grow more in
tense the longer the war lasts and the greater
the sacrifices which 1t imposes upon us. We will
not listen to suggestions or nsinuatiOns in favor
of patched-up truce through whatsoever chan
mel thSy may be made The Americans taught us
in their Civil War how meddlesome attempts to
give advice should be met in cases where all for
elRn COunSe eNClteS ulStruSt ana must be rejected
with hrmness. No Power and statesman has
had the folly to make such attempts in the present
case for they know that by SO doing they would
only subject themselves to humiliatng rebuff !;
but efforts being renewed in other ways to
spread the utterly false and utterly foolish i'm
preston that England is ready and anxious to
make peace. Professor Holland tells us of a fresh
project of the kind. The device is as transparent
as the Schff scheme and half "a dozen others that