The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-09-16
HOW CAN PEACE TERMS
BE FIxED7

BE FIXED?
The increasing talk OF possible
peace in Europe is good to read. 1t
may lead to truce for the winter,
but the terms on which real peace
can be secured seem impossible to
reach at present. There will be
such demands on the part OF Great
Britain and Russia on the one hand
and Germany on the other that we
cannot see how real lasting peace
can be reached or how the situation
which really caused the war can be
changed.
The only thing that will have any
real influence will be the money ques'
ton. The lives and suffering of the
men in the ranks will not count. How
long can the powers maintain their
credit and at the same time keep up
their ornaments and feed their SOL
diers. will be the controlling factor.
In this we anticipate that Russia Will
be more obstinate than either OF the
other belligerents. Her soldiers can
live on coarser food than any others
and then she has ample harvests.
Her idea like that of Great Britain
will be to break the power of Ger
plany.
And Germany will meet this with
just as stubborn demands.
However, truce will be welcome,
for the longer it may be continued
the less anxious will any of the pow
ers be to renew the struggle.
1t would seem that reconvening
Of The Hague congress would be the
only way to handle the matter. That
congress might formulate code
which all the powers could subscribe
TO, and by the terms of the code set.
tie questions which cannot be settled
by direct negotiation.
Some very broad and very subtitle
craftsmanship will be needed in the
immediate near future.
That The Hague tribunal affords
the best means to make and secure
a lasting peace Is the more probable
when We reflect that while the hates
engendered by the war are most vim
dictive and fierce, still the knowledge
that some millions Of brave men have
been killed and manned during the
past year, that half the homes OF
Europe and the British isles have
been made desolate through unspeak.
able sorrow and loss and that all
Europe is on the verge OF bankrupt
cy because of IL, will, despite the
anger and hate, have their effect and
cause men to be anxious that any
repetition of the horrors inflicted
shall be made impossible, The fact,
that the mighty losses have establish.
ed nothing, and make them the more
ready to confess that after all mind
rules and that among civilized ma.
tons there is a better way OF ad'
justing differences than by the abit-
rament Of the sword.
Hence our belief Is that a new code
can be drafted that would be accept
ed.
A code that would limit the size
Of standing armies to a certain small
proportion Of the whole people of a
country.
A code that would in like manner
limit the navy of any country to the
actual necessities of such nation fol
the protection Of its coasts and com
merce.
A code that would array the world
against any power that should sprint
war before offering its differences
with 1t and any other power for ar
bitration; that such nation shall no
only be pursued with war, but by tn,
boycott OF all the world powers.
A code completed on lines market
out above would make going to wa
impossible, and the big bruisers @
Europe would come nearer to sui
scribing to it now than ever before
--Goodwin's Weekly.