Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
Another Peace Campaign
(From The New York Tribune)

Her only other purpose was to divide
those who we're fighting her. There
was no real desire for peace on the
part of her rulers: no intention what
ever OF making peace on any basis
which did not leave Germany a huge
profit as a result of the war.
Whatever proposition for peace
Germany makes today will be made
by the same people. II will have tho
same underlying purpose and It will
be fraud and a sham. There is just
one peace possible, and that is a peace
which follows the defeat OF the Ger
man armies now in the field When
they have been defeated. then it will
be demonstrated to the German peO-
pie that the conquest of the world is
impossible. and that the doctrines
which they have accepted through
their rulers are altogether false and
lead only to disaster.
The German people are hungry, but
they are not hungry enough to over
throw those who have brought them
misery They are dissatisfied. but
they are not yet dissatisfied enough to
repudiate either their leaders or the
principles which made Germany a
predatory state-the principles on
which Prussia was erected.
There will be no peace in the world
as long as the German people hold
the doctrine that the necessities OF
the German state are above humanity
and that there is no moral law where
German appetite is concerned
Let us face the fact once for all
that we must smash the German sys-
tenn or the German system will smash
all that we care for or believe in.
Let us recognize that until the Ger
man armies have been defeated in the
held all talk about peace is a sham.
unless the Germans are willing to &C
cept a peace founded on conditions
which cOncede their own defeat. The
end OF this war is in sight, but il is
not at hand. The principles for which
Europe fought and for which we are
now TO fight have been only partially
indicated They have not been re.
established II this war is to have anv
harvest of gain to mankind measur-
ably commensurate with its harvest
of sorrow and suffering and destruc-
ton. it will be only through a com
plete German defeat.
When Germany begins to talk peace
again every German agency and EVERY
pacifst agency in the United States
will dance in tune We shall have
more OF the folly, the treachery. the
deceit which always accompany a
German manOeuvre We shall have
every sort OF effort 10 detach the
United States from the anti.German
group of nations. We shall have every
effort made to detach Russia, to de-
tach France, 10 detach Italy.
German proposals for peace will be
honest only when they contain that
confession OF defeat which comedies
TO the people of the rest of Europe
and the rest OF the world the right 10
live their own lives without regard TO
German ambition or German purpose
German proposals for peace will be
honest only when they admit on their
face the complete failure of the Ger.
man ambition 10 dominate the world
and to shepherd the inferior peo-
pies under the iron rule OF the Prus.
sian drillmaster
No American should be deceived by
any proposal OF peace that comes
from a Germany still engaged in the
work of murder, rapine and ruin in
Northern France and upon the high
seas. II is a hopeful sign when Ger.
many talks peace: but IL is only a
hopeful sign for those who are fight.
ing her. and they will interpret II as
promise OF victory and an incentive
to fight harder