Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-11
THE COST OF A
SEPARATE PEACE
Car Cannot Afford to Break Faith
With Allies - Germany's Plight
Worse Than Russia's-An Exam
ination of Facts and Figures.
Rr FRANK n. sIMoNDs

| that RUSSIA can now OBTAIN pedSe HV'
Germany. TO obtain this peace she mus
sacrifice certain territories, all hope Of
exit to warm water by the Dardanelles, sh
must abandon her age long claim TO Balka
influence She must confess defeat create
than that Of Manchurla She must abandoi
corelIgionlsts to the Mohammedan and tn
Roman Catholic Powers. She must confess
herself bankrupt IN honor as in prestige.
Now II Russia is in fact bankrupt in ma
terial and military resources, IL her army Il
destroyed If the German attack has sue
ceeded in Poland in accomplishing what II
failed TO compass in France year ago-ii
the Grand Dukes armies are destroyed, OF
about to be destroyed-t is conceivable that
Russia might yield; but on no other set OF
facts can such a conclusion be expected
The Threat of Revolution
| Russian surrender now would infallibly
| shake the Romanoff dynasty to the ground.
The religious and the political questions are
clearly Joined in the present crisis If the
ruling aristocracy in Russia should make
peace now II would stand helpless and hope
less before the anger and the passions of the
millions Of Savs. Russian internal revolu-
tion would be almost inevitable,
But for the rulers, apart from the problems
OF internal strife, there is still to be faced
those having an international bearing. Peace
now would make Russia mere creature Of
German diplomacy and German ambition,
The war broke out because Russia refused
to retire before Austrian menaces because
she declined to surrender serva to the
Hapsburgs. Before II was n French or
British war II was Russian war. France
is fighting because she was Russia's ally.
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if France had remained neutral no question
Of Belgian or British participation would
have been raised
Comparatively Russia Is lighting for big
ger stakes than any nation save Germany.
If Germany is beaten Russian supremacy on
the Continent will be assured. She has now
the assurance OF her Allies that, if they can
capture Constantinople, and they are doing
their best, it will go to the Car But il
Russia betrays them now, is it conceivable
that Great Britain will ever again join Rus
sia on the question of the Straits?
Allies Stand by Russia
In point Of fact there is nothing yet to
show that there is any Russian reason for
peace A great deal Of foolish talk and pur-
poseful talk has been heard of late about the
fashion in which England and France have
"desertcd" Russia This is merest moon
shine. Whatever Russia's allies may have
failed to do-they have expended not less
than 100000 in killed. wounded and captured
in a war which is first of all Russia's war
Whatever disappointment there may be in
Petrograd the main fact is not mistaken
The Romanoffs are not more eager to bow |
to the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs
now than they were In July, 1914. If Rus
sa is utterly crushed then she has no
choice. But when Napoleon was in Moscow
Russia received offers which would have
enabled the Russian Czar to divide the world
with the French Emperor, and they were
rejected
1t Is Germany and not Russia that must
have peace. 1t is Germany and not Russia
hat faces destruction If the work of another
year of carnage continues Bernhard him
elf wrote long before the present war that
Germany would be beaten in the great con-
lict he foresaw unless she was able to dis
pose Of one foe before the other came on
he field.
Patiently, Enthusiastically Germany is bleed
ng to death She struck France and France
,arrled the blow. The western campaign
ost not less than 100000 casualties to the
Germans and an equal number to the
Anglo French Belgian armies Her eastern
ampaigns have cost 100000 more Ger
nany-so far as man power Is concerned
5 more than half done, and not one of her
oes has yet been crushed. unless Russia
) now at the point OF yielding
Only Peace Can Save Germany
Peace alone can save Germany-peace
18th one of her enemies peace with Russia.
NEritI
russia and Italy will defeat Germany as
he North defeated the South for precisely
ne same reasons. But at the end of the first
ear of the Civil War the showing of the
outh was far more impressive than is that
the Germans now. What Americans
hould never mistake is the fact that the
'ritish French, Russian and Italian mill
lry leaders know this. The peoples Of
lese countries may have doubts and fears.
ne military chiefs know the mortality sta
stiles.
Germany cannot be defeated until upward
100000 Germans have been removed
'om the battle line, by death, capture or
stability 1t will mean a casualty list as
rye or larger for the Allies to accomplish
his. But their work Is half done. Ger
amy has spent 100000 men and has not
on decision. A similar loss with a similar
'iIure will not mean defeat. it win mean
lin.
The first crisis in the war was in the
ays when the Germans approached Paris.
was met by the tripartite agreement. If
ussia follows the French example now. the
'cond crisis viii have ended in a new Ger
an disaster. which viii not for long be
'neealed from the German people them
lives. II Russia yields, we shall then have
e problem as to whether German losses a
.rryipg Russian Poland have left her