The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-10-07
LLOYD-GE0RGE AND HOLLWEG
EACH DECLARE THERE rs NO
PEACE UNTIL VICTORY Is WON

With the two greatest statesmen of
Great Britain and Germany each declar-
ing that they will push the war until vic
tory is won, it would seem that peace is
a remote possibility
In the first statement given to Ameri-
can newspapers by the Right Honorable
David Lloyd-George, British secretary of
state for war, since he succeeded Lord
Kitchener, he said on September 28th:
Britain has only begun to fight; the
British Empire has invested thousands of
It's best lives to purchase future immunity
Tor civilizations; this investment is too
great to be thrown away"
For two years the British soldier had
a bad time-no one knows so well as he
what bad time it was He was sadly
inferior in equipment On the average
he was inferior in training. He saw the
allied cause beaten all about the ring.
but he didn't appeal to either the spe-
tators or referee to stop the fight on
the ground that it was brutal, nor did
ne ask to have the rules changed He
took his punishment. Even when beaten
like a dog, he was a game dog. When
forced to take refuge in trench. when
too badly used up to carry the fight to
the enemy, he hung on without whining.
fought off every attack, bided his time,
endured without Wincing, worked with
out tagging
And all this time, what was the win
ming German doing? Was he worrying
over the terrible slaughter? No. He was
talking of annexing Belgium and Poland
as result of his victory and while he was
remaking the map Of Europe without the
slightest regard for the wishes of it's peo-
pie, the British people were preparing to
pay the price we knew must be paid for
the time to get the army ready
1t is one thing to look back on the
pounding the British soldier took the
first two years of the war, but differ
ent thing to look forward, as he did, and
know the beating couldn' be avoided dur
ing these months when it seemed the finish
Of the British army might come quickly
Germany elected to make it finish
fight with England. The British soldier
was ridiculed, held in contempt Now we
intend to see that Germany has her way
The fight must be to the finish = to a
knockout. F"
In a speech delivered by Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg on the assembling Of
the Reichstag in Berlin, September 29th,
he said:
To-day, after two years Of fighting,
struggling, suffering and dying, we know
more than ever before that there is only
one watchword, namely, persevere and
win. We will win. Last winter there
was pusillanimous anxiety as to whether
our foodstuffs would suffice. They have
sufficed. This years harvest makes us
much more secure than was the case last
year *
81 bow my head, before the heroism
with which women and men without dis
tinctiOn Of rank or class bear their sacri-
fees, united in an ardent love for the
fatherland Still more sublime and still
greater is the defiance of death with which
our sons and brothers in the field with
stand the violent assaults Of the enemy
who, superior in numbers, are fighting
with the utmost bravery. World history
human history-has never before seen
the like. s. s.
Concluding his speech the chancellor ex-
claimed: Germany will not be per-
mitted to think of peace while her house
is burning. She must first extinguish the
fire."