El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-30

~ OUR holiness, deeply appreciate your media
uOn for peace, but We have no confidence that
faithless Wilhelm, the party of the second part
the proposed contract viii keep any agreement he signs
Therefore make agreement with him. for he
VIII not consider II binding II the German people VIII
throw overheard the kaiser and his clan We shall be very
glad to make peace and make It final and lasting peace
Thus might be paraphrased the reply Of president Viii
for the United States Of America TO the peace proposals
sent all belIigereuts by pope Benedict
Of the greatest messages president Wilson has
ever written short but highly incsive note climax to
The series Of state papers which he has written since the
began IN 1914 It fits in exactly with the best thought
Of the world It expresses in terms beyond praise the
sentiment Of all but small group Of people in every coun
try save Germany and the TeutOuic allies.
It expresses the sentiment Of all those people not
blinded by the passions Of IN which they caught
the side not blinded by the mlschevous doc
t-ines Of pacif5sm.
Though expresses the thought of most people IN the
world presidents daring outlining fundamental
condition for making peace the elimination of the Hohen-
zellern dynasty startling Most have thought
ourselves perhaps have said to friends: The kaiser
tricky old rascal He ought to be overhTOwn If the
German people would cut loose from Wilhelm peace could
be restored Immediately That thought so prev
slent IN the world outside Of Germany and the central
empires that foreign correspondents and the great
gathering agencies have watched with closest concern for
any little strike Of working men, for any heated speech
the rechstag, for any not Of and working men,
the possible beginning Of that revolution which would
vuse Germany hu the emperor from his throne him
and his family obscury and freeing the German peo-
pie from their shacles restore peace to the world.
But however much people may have been of the opinion
that the German dynasty ought TO be robbed Of power for
tentatively heretofore and not laid down fatty form
diplomatic and official, a preliminary condition for
making peace.
See what the president says:
The object of this to deliver the free peo-
pies of the world from the and the actual
power of vast military establishment controlled bv
irresponsible government which, having secretly
planned to dominate the world proceeded to carry out
the plan without regard either to the sacred obga
tons OF treaty the long established practices and
long cherished principles Of international action and
honor which chose its time for the war. delivered
It's blow fercely and suddenly; stopped barrier
either OF law mercy; swept whole continent within
the tide OF bOod-n0t the blood OF soldiers only but
the blood Of innocent and children also and OF
The helpless p0Or-aud stands baked but not de-
feated the enemy Of fOurffths OF the world our
business to see that the history of the world
longer left to its handling Can peace be based upon
restitution OF It's power upon any word Of honor
could pledge treaty of settlement and acconmoda-
tions We cannot take the word of the present rulers
Of Germany guarantee of anything that to en-
dure unless explicitly supported by such evidence Of
the VIII and purpose Of the German people themselves
the other peoples Of the world would justified in
accepting We must await new evidence Of the
purposes Of the great peoples Of the central empires
God grant 1t may be given soon"
The foregoing lines constitute "a most bitter indct-
ment or the criminal German government ~ declaration
that 1t is impossible to make peace with the persons who
administer and control that government and ~ plain