The Washington herald., 1915-12-11
Terms of Peace.

Heary watterson. the LsuisvilIe Csurier.Jssrnal
And now the pcace-word comes direst from the
camp of the Hohenzollcrn-from the Bloody Lips
iof the Prussian Militariat-the devil quoting
Scripture. the while in condemnation of war.
AT present." says Won Hindenburg. "the en-
ems won't make peace. They not weakened
enough. We must therefore keep it up further"
/ The rat, Aesops fable tells u.s. having possessed
himself for the of the cheese, made philo-
sophie discourse upon the virtues and the graces OF
life, including his magnanimity. Equally COM
placent is the field marshal. He was never lover
of strife. He would emulate Cincinnatus and ere
turn to the plough" But, the Having been
thrust upon Germany" she cannot sheath her
sword" notwithstanding the fact that every Ger
man would rejoice if end were put to the terri
bic blood-letting."
We may read between the lines that there has
arrived at the front pressure from the rear. For
the first time the German people must be eonsid-
cred. In truth, small heed was paid to them at
the outset. They had been prepared" by half a
century of "kultur." Kruppsm sat in the saddle.
Militarism rode at will All that was wanted were
a pretext, and the signal. The murders at Sara
jcvo furnished the one, the War Lord of Berlin
gave the other. To catch England unready, if not
unawares; to swoop across Belgium and on to
Paris; possessed of France, to turn upon Russia.
Twas to the kaiser-inind easy falling off =
| log.
| Now as ever here or elsewherc-"The best-laid
schemes o mice and men gang aft agley."
There stood Belgiun-ttle David with his
sling,M
Who SO believed it possible? And. the French!!
The Lord had not deserted France, and the
French people-may heaven continue to bless
France and the French people!!
A little late and little lame. rich old lubbery
John Bull ambled up. but got there" the battles
OF the Marine were fought. Slowly the eneircling
lines widened-the over-conhdent hordes drew
back-and Paris was saved.
There and then the cause of the Hohenzollern
and the Hapsburg-to hell with them!!l-was
lost. 1t lost and they knew it. 1t was lost
and they proclaimed it lost by the last-ditch CAM
Paigns of murder which followed on land and sea.
Terror might piece out the shortage of 'kultur'-
the deficiencies OF kruppism might perchanee be
made good by frightfulness. Fatal mistake!!
God never meant that such cause should win.
In all the world it never has. In all the world it
never will.
Now the winter of the peoples diseon-
tent-natures signal for the undoing of Hapsburg
and the Acknowledgement the bold Won Hindcn-
burg, that erst cried havoc and let slip the dogs
OF war, to put up poor mouth and talk OF peace;
to talk of peace like a very drab; regardless Of
Serbia lying dead at his feet; regardless of Bel
giuni slain in her sanctuarics; yet bctraying the
spirit of his dream OF blood and conquest when he
said "lf the French Alsacc-L Lorraine let them
come and get it Please God. they will, nor the
end until they
Hapsburg tho other day-ts long way from
Berlin TO Nienna-was not without significance!
But what of America? Fifty the President gave
the cue. .and spoke the word. Let rally about
and stand by tht terms of his noble utterancc
The loyal, the true American hates no land and
people, but he loves only his own and loving his
own. he says to the rest. the United States would
stand friendly and just in this combat Of nations,
demanding that each shall respect the law OF ma
tions; expecting each to obey the laws of God but
requiring of all the homage due alike to dig
nifty and prowcss; due alike to our rights and our
standing; our rights on land and sea; our marine
commercial industrial and territorial rights
We may take nothing for granted, however; we
must prepare to defend our rights If Germany
wins our turn will come; nothing is than that
In that event the Kaiser would snap his finger in
our face and exclaim, "A fig for your Monroe
doctrine!!!"
We have no quarrel-coud have no quarreEl
with France. Our quarrel with England is but
skin deep. Putting the blatherng Englishman and
the spread-eagle American aside, John and Jona-
ground. Touching the issues of this war, John is
wholly right-he is indeed fighting the battle OF
Liberty-and Jonathan asks only that he have a
care and not monkey too freely with the buzz
saw of Yankee sensibtes But, apart from our
obvious interest in European balance, with the |
and the Hapsburg-not the German
people-we have score to settle which will down
at mans bidding; the organized movement to |
involve us in civil war by pro-Teutonc propa- |
ganda which was the less an invasion than it
was contemplate and absurd; the murders in the |
criminal activities directed from Berlin at once i
against our neutrality and industries and the |
impudent suppou given these first by the Hapse
burg through Dumba, then by the Hohenzollern
through Bernstorf, Boyd and Won Papen yet
lingering on the forbidden threshold.
Except for these, public opinion in the United
States might be divided. 1t is substantially united
AS matters stand the American who sides with
the Hohenyoern and the Hapsburg-to hell with
theni-is, disloyal to America. Whoever he is,
wherever he be found, he is traitor to his coun-
try; the man Ford, whether he is sclf-exploiting
advertiser, or poor wretch made insane BY The
onrush of gold; the Bryan, whether he be
the crazy visionary he has always seemed, or
sleek hunbug out for gate money and the Nobel
Prize-in short the man behind the alleged peace
societies, whether crank or an emissary
Won Hindenburg sounds the first official note
Of despair. The Prussian staff begins to realize
that there is a people, if not God. The popular
shoe is pinching at home. There is German win
ter ahead-yea, there is Russian winter ahead
Peace were boon indeed Nor will the govern
nent of the United States stand idly BY and see
the slaughter go on if there be some feuton power
definitely to treat with the basis of the only
settlement which the world can permit or tolerate
the dismemberment of the German Empire and the
relegation of the four kingdoms embracing II back
% their original sovereignties; the recession of
to France and the return of the
money wrung from France in 1870; complete in
iemnty to Belgium; and, finally, universal dis
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