Arizona republican., 1916-10-24


 failed. because you cannot have peace without good will and because in Ger many there was a will to war and not the will for peace But lately the crown prince deplored the loss of life caused by this War. Yes, it was be- cause we knew what the sufferngs of war must be and how terrible | war in Europe would 1e that we tried | to avoid it in 1914. That was the time | to be penetrated with a sense of what | war meant. IL was because we knew | what it meant that we tried to avoid | war. and because we have this eX- | perience of what war does mean | we are determined that the war shall | not end until we can be sure at any | rate that the generations and the na- tions in the future shall not be sub jected to such a terrible trial again. "We were asked by Germany to re- main neutral on certain conditions. l We were asked to condone violations of the neutrality of Belgium and give Germany free hand tO take what ever French colonies she liked That was the plan-not only to isolate us but to discredit US.
 T ask any neutral what would have been the future of this country if the British government had accepted such an offe~. There would be no moral, 
 incurred the contempt of the whole world. Happily. tactics so gross did not succeed.
 T take it on the word of the prime minister that we shall fight until we have established the supremacy and right of free development under equal conditions, each in accordance with it's genius. of all states, great and small as family of civilized man kind
 In this struggle we have put all our resources. our wealth our ma terial our labor. and now we have had time to equip and train a large army. We have put all the best life blood of ! the nation. shedding it side by side l with our allies. stimulated by the en- i ergy they are showing In defense of 1 their country and shedding it because we know our cause is theirs and that 1 for the future we shall stand and fall 1 together. without separation of one from the other. feeling that unity is ! essential not merely to victory but to our future life and success.
 "Germany Is trying to separate one l from the other in order to realize her am. Not a week passes that does not ! confirm our resolution to go with our allies and. after the war. l trust. the memory of the suffering We have uu- | ] ioint courage which is carrying us 'hrou@h. will be a perpetual bond Of alliance and sympathy between our 1 governments and our peoples" Passing 10 the position of the neu- tral countries Niscount Grey said iu ] answer to a question as 10 what they could do:
 T believe the best work neutrals car do for the moment is to try 10 prevent
 f,, ! If the nations had been united In sucf agreement and prompt resolution tc insist in 1914 that the dispute must bt eferIed to a conference of the Hague hat the Belgian treaty must be ob- served. there would have been no war
 Nations fighting for their existence with daily increasing prospects oi seeing victory grought nearer stil Knowing that if they stop short oi victory they stop short of everything for which they are struggling cannot re expected tu spend much time think ing about what might happen aftel victory. is secured But the neutral, can do it. I observe that not onlS President Wilson. but MT Hughes 1' supporting a league started. not witt the object of interfering with the bel ligarcnts in this war but which vii do It's part in making peace secure 1T the future.
 "It is work of neutral countries to which we should all look witt favor and hope Only. we must beal are able to do something effective b! binding themselves with the common object of preserving peace. they mus 1 he preparel to undertake not mor' than they are a ole to uphold by force and to see. when the time of crisi cores. that 1t Is upheld by force.
 The question we must ask them is will you play up when the tim' romesa It is not merely the sigi manual of presidents and sovereign that is really tn make that wortl while: it mus. have behind it parlia ments and national sentiments.
 "Supposing the conditions of 191 occur again and there is such leagu in existence Everything will depen' upon whether national sentiment be hind it is so permeated by the lesson of this war as to compel each nation as a matter of vital interest, to keeI peace other than by force"
 The foreign secretary insisted upo the necessity after the war of arriv ing at some agreement with respect t the laws of war, arguing that the mer indiscriminate employment of all tn resources Ol StlentP IS the bfOSptC which threatens civilization and tn existence of the race itself He char acterized the employment of poison GUS gas and other horrors by Ger manv," as having let loose on tn world more terrible anarchy than an individual anarchist" and referre especially to the organized attempt to exterminate the Christians Turkey, since Turkey became vasss of Germany" Such horrors, he de clared. were only possible with Ger manys toleration. Perhaps, he sai' some day a neutral nation whic knows the full story will publish 1t { the world.
 He contended that this matter keeping the horrors of war withi bounds was question in which tll whole human race is interested, an as all nations should recognize the
 responsibility by preventing outbreak of war, so, that they should insure, event of it's outbreak, that 1t should l
 conducted by rules at least as huma
 as those of our ancestors observe
 which Germany today had disregardt
 and thrown to the winds.
 Of the necessity "of freeing Il
 world from the oppression of Prussia
 militarism," he said.
 "We know that if mankind has ar
 birthright it is that < of peace al
 liberty, and 1t is for that we are figh
 ing. When we are asked how long u