Arizona republican., 1917-12-05

full price for peace and pay it un- grudgingly We know what that price will be. It will be full, impartial jus tice-justice done at every point and to every nation the final settlement must effect, our enemies as well as our friends.
 The Voices of Humanity
 You catch, with me the voices of humanity that are in the air. They grow daily more audible, more ar ticulate, more persuasive, and they come from the hearts of men every where. They insist that the war shall not end in indicative action of any kind; that no nation or people shall be robbed or punished because the ir- responsible rulers of a single country 1 have themselves done deep and abom- inable wrongs. It is this thought that 1 has been expressed in the formula, No annexation, no contributions, no puni- tive indemnities,' just because this crude formula expresses the instinctive ! judgment as to right of plain men l everywhere it has been made diligent use of by the masters of German in- l trigue to lead the people of Russia astray-and the people of every other country their agents could reach, ir order that a premature peace might l be brought about before autocracy has been taught it's final and convincing lesson and the people of the world put in control of their own destinies.
 But the fact that a wrong use has been made of a just idea is no reason why a right use should not be made of it It ought to be brought under the pat ronage of it's real friends. Let it be said again that autocracy must first bt shown the utter futility of its claims to power or leadership in the modern world. It is impossible to apply any standard of justice so long as sucl forces are unchecked and undefeatet 1 as the present masters of GermanI command. Not until that has beeI done can right be set up as arbiter anC peace maker among the nations. Bu when that has been done-as God will ingly, it assuredly will be-we shall a last be free to do an unprecedented thing and this is the time to avoW ou purpose to do it. We shall be free tt base peace on generosity and justice to the exclusion of all selfish claims tt advantage even on the part of the vic tors.
 No Premature Peace
 Let there be no misunderstanding Oul pitoCAl elllU lllllHtdiclLt AdSh lS U win the war and nothing shall turn u aside from it until it is accomplished Every power and resource we possess whether of men, of money or of ma terials, is being devoted and will con tinue to be devoted to that purpos until it is achieved. Those who desir to bring peace about before that pur pose is achieved. I counsel to carr their advice elsewhere. We will no entertain it. We shall regard the wa as won only when the German peopl say to us, through properly accredite representatives that they are ready t agree to a settlement based upon jus tice and the reparation of the wrong their rulers have done. They hay done a wrong to Belgium which mus be repaired. They have established
 power over other lands and people than their own-over the great empir of Austria Hungary, over hitherto ire Balkan states, over Turkey and withi Asia-which must be relinquished.
 Germany's success by skill, by in 2 dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise we did not grudge or oppose, but ad mired rather. She had built up fo l, herself a real empire of trade and in fluence. secured by the peace of tn ; world. We were content to abide tn rivalry of manufacture, science an