TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-09-11
FORCES FOR AND
AGAINST PEACE!
The Most Powerful and Effective
Peace Worker in This Country
is w. II. Hearst.

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is owned and controlled by Mr.. Bris-
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The world wants PEACE. 1t is
more important than victory, more
important than increased territory
for one nation, humiliation for an
other.
The world, it is true, wants THE
RIGHT KIND or PEACE. We do
not want a truce and then another
war or a dozen vars.
But any intelligent man knows
that peace now would be certain
peace for a century, and probably for
all time.
Let the German find peace, and no
Hohenzouern will be able to lead
them to war again while one Ger
man Of today is left alive.
Let the English nation find peace,
and commercial greed and jealousy
viii find itself subordinate to human
life and happiness.
II a man is bleeding to death, he
wants one thing-to stop the flow Of
blood, When the world is bleeding
to death, as it is, IT WANTS
PEACE.
Peace must come from the heart
and will Of the peoples, from the
mothers and fathers whose sons are
dying on the battlefelds and whose
young children lack food.
Peace will not come from rulers in
their palaces, each scheming for
glory and for the right to say, Il
WON.
Americans want peace before the
river Of American blood begins flow
ing on European soil, if they can
have it ~honorably.
And they CAN have it ~honorably.
For it is in their power to decide
what kind Of peace would be just
and get that peace.
The fight that w. r. Hearst is
making for peace in his newspapers
is a noble effort; it commands The
nations attention and deserves the
peoples gratitude.
Fathers and mothers should realize
the nature Of the forces that oppose
peace advocates.
We cannot expect sincere peace
advocacy from the man or the cor
poration to whom war means a
million dollars profit a day. Sach
a man and such a corporation are
loudest in their cry that only some
particular kind Of peace is accept
able. They are most enthusiastic in
the statement that Germany must be
crushed out Of shape, humbled in the
dust, made to beg on her knees, ac-
cept any kind Of peace.
This newspaper wishes that the
Kaiser might be thus humbled and
debased, for we hold him primarily
responsible for this wan. He, driven
by his half-idiot, half-militarist heir,
could not resist the temptation to use
the knife he had been sharpening
for forty years.
Peace with the Hohenzollerns hui
inflated and eliminated? Yes, if.
you can get it NOW.
But suppose such a peace must
cost a million or two million more
lives, including the lives Of half a
million American boys. Is that a
reasonable price to pay for the hui
initiation Of one Hohenzollern fami-
ly?
Let the rulers ask the fathers and
mothers what THEY think.
Government here and in Europe
wants Hohenzollernism dead.
The mother here and in Europe
wants her son alive.
Are we to have a peace that will
save millions Of mothers from broken
hearts and millions Of young men
from death or deformity?
Or are we to continue reading the
lists Of killed and wounded for one
two or five or ten years while
Government insists upon just the
peace that it demands, with exactly
defined humiliation for the German
family?
Nothing could be more infamous
than to call unpatriotic the MAJ who
sincerely works to end the war.
Editors safe in their Offices, far
from anything more dangerous than
q printing press; politicians safe in
their jobs, controlled by ammunition
makers, and steel corporations fgur-
ing their future millions Of profit de-
Hearst because he makes
himself leader Of the peace move
ment, because he emphasizes the inn
portance Of saving millions Of lives
and billions Of dollars. The people
will thank him.
This newspaper wishes that the al
lies efforts might FROM WITHOUT
put down Hohenzollemism and hui