The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-09-08

tacks. The French likewise At Chem
In des Dame on the Aisne front are
holding firmly in the face Of furious
waves Of attacking Gemans.
Last State Paper and Some Comment
Editorial comment by newspapers
throughout the United States heartily
approve the reply Of President Will
son to the pope's peace note. Vir-
tually all editorials SO far published
on the subject unite in the opinion
that there can be no peace nogotia-
tions with the Prussian autOcracy.
Following are extracts from news
paper comment:
The Chicago Evening Post = "Can
peace be based upon a restitution Of
autocracy's power or upon any word
Of honor 1t could pledge in treaty of
settlement and accommodations" To
this keen question President Wilson,
speaking for the United States and
Its allies, answers NO" 1t is the
only possible answer. In its elabora-
tion 1t Ia splendidly given, with 4
direct and incisive power that cuts
clear to the heart of the guilty aud
brutal autocracy on the throne Of the
German empire. President WILSON
has uttered the verdict Of the world'G
free -natioas In words that will livey
and to which the enslaved people Of
Germany must give heed. He has in
dicted their ruthless master" un-
sparingly before the court Of civiliza-
tion, and 1t Is now the choice of the
kaiser's subjects to executed Sentence
themselves or to leave that task to
the confeders ton OF democracies
through force Of arms.
The Chicago Journal = President
Wilson has rejected the papal peace
proposals In message which de-
serves q place among the great state
papers Of America, little II any lower
than that accorded to his speech be-
fore congress OH April 2. 1t is not
merely q courteous and conclusive
reply to the pope's we'll meant ap-
peal. 1t comprises also compact
and convincing restatement of the
objects and origins of the war, test
by which all future peace plans may
be measured, and a clarion call to the
German people to break away from
their blood stained tyrants and make
themselves worthy of the fellowship
of free nations.
New York Heraid-President Will
son rejects the peace proposal Of the
pope, and In language that will ring
around the world gives his reasons.
There can be no truce with Prus-
sianism, no temporizing with evil.
Peace cannot be based upon any such
flimsy structure az. the world of the
present German government.
New York Times = To the pape's
proposal that the allies meet Ger
many In q friendly and mutually
trustful negotiation the president
answers that there is no one to ne
gotiate with. On one side there are
men whose words can be taken, on
the other are men whose words can
not be. The negotiation would result
in scraps Of paper. When that gov
ernment Germany went morally
bankrupt, 1t left vacancy on the
other side Of the peace conference
table. There Is no one there; there is
no one whose word we can take. The
German people can fill that vacant
place II they will; but until they give
us q negotiator whose word is as good
as ours We cannot exchange pledges
over that table. We are done with
trickery and broken oaths.
New York Herold - The anti-war
party has always demanded that the
Hohenxollerns must go. The presi-
dent now intimates that the extreme
aims which are often attributed to
him are In fact remote from his
mind. To Mr.. Wilson's view all
issues at stake can be quickly settled
- soon As there exists . certainty
that democratic Germany has been
born. Events in Germany appear to
indicate that there are influences at
work that may bring peace nesrer
than any one now believes.