The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-09
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America wants peace to come in
Europe. No new offers of mediation
haze been made, but the sentiment
OF the whole people Isl 1t is enough d.
Carnage has continued too long. BY
now the whole world has had time
TO weigh the causes of war and a
peace convention would not be with.
out evidence to weigh and on which
to base awards 1t seems that econ
omic exhaustion Is the only agency
shed, for the contending forces are
so enormous that the decisive victory
seems now as far off as 1t was at the
beginning As victory is won here,
defeat is melted out there. Day by
day the advantages are fairly distrib-
uted. 1t has become not so much,
How long can the armies hold out?
But, more than that the question Is:
How long can the women and chill
left at home stand the awful drain
on their bodies and their very souls?
1t is they who are the real sufferers;
and daily their suffering grows and
daily are the resources of their lands
being drained to the dregs With
them We must suffer and We have
no power to give aid.
But quite aside from our anguish
as we see the struggle prolonged as
We read of the flower of Europe's
manhood being slaughtered and fair
cities laid waste, we are being hurt.
Our trade over seas is all but gone,
save in munitions of war and food
for the starving, of which we are Civ
ing more to them in merciful charity
than We are selling. At home our
commerce between the states and our
big and little business is demoraliz-
ed. Hard times have come upon us
In a year when we had every reas-
on to be happy in the sure prospect
OF prosperity. Countless American
homes are cheerless because fathers
and sons are denied employment.
Men who few months ago were well
fed stand in the bread line today and
for shelter seek dives and miserable
places provided by the charitable as
best they may. Men usually upright
have been driven to crime because
they have been made desperate. Wo-
men by thousands command our pity
because facing starvation, they have
forgot their better selves.
And as we may suffer, tenfold and
more are the sufferings of the real
victims of the war in the lands It
has laid waste. On the battlefields
the sturdy soldiers fare far better
for kings and emperors know their
armies must be well clothed and we'll
fed II their crowns are to endure.
Hardship, cold, the striking of death
among them are nothing compared
with the mourning, the hunger, the
pain endured by those left home
deemed unfit to share in the glories
Of the battlefield.
We want peace. And with II we
want no mere truce. Not again in
five or ten or fifty years do we want
to see the war lust break out anew. |
We want to see no nation crushed no
kings or emperors exiled, no domains |
to the highest bidder in the |
peace par!ey. We want no triumph !
for revengeful Jury. Merely do we
want peace, that each nation may
work out its destinies that profiting !
by the struggle they will In their /
might arise and make an end of the I
things that brought on war. We want
10 see right triumph over might.
Idealists? Yes. we are idealists, and |
We have not given up hope that our
deals may become real, that civiliz.
alton will not be the hollow mockery
L Is today. We hope for peace treat
les that may be enduring covenants
and not be regarded in the chancel.
cries as mere scraps OF paper. These
are our ideals and our hope Is still
bright, Dessert News.