Arizona republican., 1917-01-17

than the sight of desoating tyrannies and triumphant hypocricies."
 Says the Observer:
 Never we entertain any proposition which with the suggestion that from the moral point of view the of Britain and Germany. of the allies and the central league, much of much in this war"
 Substantially the Observer believes that MT Wilson has destroyed his usefulness as an instrumentality for peace when the time comes make peace
 In the same issue of the Observer is an article by Lord Charnwood on Abraham Lincoln and Media tion; 1S61-1s1S; An Historical Parallel; Firmness in the Right"
 British friends of the south then proposed media tion. But there nothing mediate. There could be middle ground s the question of Secession and hardly any the slightly less vital question of slavery. Lord Charnwood draws this parallel
 In spite of many superficial differences. and diff ference by superficial in the character of the fighting, the history of the American Civil War presents again and again with parallels to battle for life. There is felt kinship in the (not obscurely related to the whole of human freedom and of Christian principles of conduct) for which the Unonsts of America in 1861 and the allies in 1914 took up arms We like them, know that the contest involves plain question: yes mo- on which compromise is defeat and national death. The plex preceding the outbreak of have theess made it easy for people at little distance confuse or ignore the issue. Lastly there is
  this have often turned as the great American president who kept his peoples mind steadily fixed the question, Yes No Today many hundreds of ask ourselves what would have been his att- tude proposal for negotiations and in consequence offer of mediation.
 The underlying issue the Civil War vast. To Americans of the north they included. first of all question of national existence; to have let the seeding south go would have merely loss to the Union of and population but the extinction of the principle which held the remain ing tate thor ,hat,a right wrong had be too; this matter tangled that weak in the north hoped somehow to evade the issue. while ignorant or cold in England argued somehow did not arise; but all Americans understand arose and Englishmen, without always understanding this arc aware that 1t did. The whole which for short may be called democracy, also: if in this crucial experiment 1t had proved that popular government could not govern and that union of sufficiently free stable union a great hope would have gone from the world Deeply this felt by the best men of the north by Abraham Lincoln most deeply of all and in England unhappily there enough and bad enough wish that that hope should go. But these great and In sense. vague issues knit up in the single immediate question whether ,he seeding states to be treated to seceds The larger issues might in themselves matters on which men might negotiate and the ordinary wisdom of give and take: but they hung upon the question: Was the Confederacy independent or was it not?and that it is quite plain negotiation could come in
 In view of the developments that have followed the presidents peace peace is likely to be again disturbing factor in American markets until one side or the other shows unmistakable signs of ex 4. haustion. In that event there will be no leak but an oupouring of the truth visible to all and to be par ticipated in by all