Evening journal., 1915-12-11
SATURDAY DEC. II. 1915
EuROPEAN PEACE TALK.


SHORTLY after the European war began, Germany
~ made monumentally mendacious effort to unload
upon Great Britain. France and Russia the moral
sponsibility for the starting Of that
It failed it based upon arrant falsehood
that papable to all neutrals.
The Imperial Chancellor Of Germany now is making
equally mendacous effort to unload upon Great
Britain france. Russia Italy, Japan servia and Mon
the moral responsibility for further contnu-
Of the AS a step in that direction he
that Germany is willing to end the but that the
peace proposals from Great Britain and her
allies and that Germany, and they dictate the
terms peace In those assertions he supported by
the Premier Of Hungary We may look confidently
for similar declarations from Bulgaria and Turkey
Those things part OF the game No thoughtful per-
viii be deceived by them. They are diplomatic
-rand-stand plays that will be taken at their real
value.
Germany, through the agency OF Austro- Hungary,
forced the with great object in view That
fasten Prussian miarism and It's blood-and
Iron policy upon the civilized world her plans had
stopped at a Germanized European continent they
would have been bad enough When however. they
contemplated Germanzed world 1t was high time TO-
all the nations that we're not in sympathy with such
policy sit up and notice and for those nearest
to the German menace to into the field to combat It
and its armed and active pretensions to world domi-
nation. They did t.
paredness, has been fought sandstll in the NORTH
the and the west; Her ally Austria is being held
and battered in the south In the southeast the drive
of the Germans the Austrans and the Bulgarians Is
still in progress, but II is moving rapidly and surely
toward its point OF rest The Turks are being held
hard and fast the Gallipoli Peninsula. They are
meeting with in the neghborhood Of Bag
lad and Turkish expeditionary force is moving
against heavyforthed Aden at the mouth OF the Red
Sea. II there be anything in white skin and red blood
hose expeditions, sooner later, Will meet their
Waterloo
Those German, Austrian and Turkish warships that
have not been destroyed are bottled up excepting
steadily diminishing number OF submarines. Their
merchant ships have disappeared from the seas Ger
many has been stripped OF her colonies. Turkey has
oeen stripped Of Egypt Her influence in Africa has
been destroyed While It is true that the Teuons hold
Belgium and substantial parts Of northern and east
srn France; Of western Russia and Of servia and
Montenegro. their hold upon them is precarious and
ultimately must be loosened That is because, while
Eermany Austria Bulgaria and Turkey have fred their
strongest bolts, the members of the Quadrupe Entente
just begun fight and are agreed that there shall
be that does not carry with il the permanent.
dissipation Of the world-menace OF German bood-and-
IRON domination
They feel. and there are millions OF neutrals who
share that feeling, that it would be crime agains.
civilization to abandon a fight for word-freedom OF
thougnt and ellon uhul the OBJECT sought mas beer
attained and reasonable is given never
again will the Prussan militarist dare to make {
spring at the throat of civilization.
Peace upon German terms is unthnkable II woul,
set a premium upon Prussian militarism incendarsm
vandalism barbarism and demonism Il would b.
worse for the world than a continuance OF the war
The shame Of having started the war belongs to th
Germans.
The glory OF fighting It to a successful conclusion
will belong to the Quadrupe Entente.
Il may be a long and hard task; but the funda
mental interests OF civilization demand that II be ac
complished. matter what the cost may be-