The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-31
THE REPLY TO THE POPE.

said to have definitely failed to &C
complish anything in the way OF
bringing an earlier peace than viii
be determined by an ultimate military
decision, because President Wilson's
re-definition OF the now familiar and
obvious principles for which America
and her allies are fighting sets Out
without eqdivocation that there viii
be no peace dealings at all with the
present government of Germany, says
the Macon Telegraph Thus does
America line herself up officially and
with fine emphasis as fighting tol
precisely the same thing the other
demOcracies are III the effort to beat
down the kaiser's armies and so de
stroy that thing we know as Prussian
militarism which as long as it lives
and rules Germany must provoke an
unremitting warfare on Germany
Just so long as the German people
follow these leaders and this crimi-
venture, just so long will the armies
OF the western democraCies carry on
their terrible warfare against that
empire and all its works
The president makes it very plain
to the supreme pontilf that this is no
time nor any place for peacemakeTS
who don't think right" about the is
sues of this war, who would negotiate
a peace to be discussed with the pres
ent German government, and that
there is no use asking America to
even think OF peace with the HOhen-
zollern and the Prussian junker run
ming Germany Peace VIII have to
be arranged with the German people
through representatives OF the Ger
man people. and even then we must
wait until the German people have
quit serving their present masters,
who probably do still pretty thorough
ly represent them. Neither France
nor Briton has ever stated this great
est issue of the war more cmphatical-
ly than has the president i'll his re
lection of what lie calls the well
meant efforts of the pope.
He goes further. however. than any
Of the entente utteranccs have YET
gone in that he clings TO that logi-
cal consistency so characteristic of
all his compositions tor public con
sumption and definite OF national
American sentiment in his complete
concurrence with the pontif that
there must be no economic war after
The military war is over We know
that the English and Frence have
gone pretty thoroughly into that
phase OF 1t and that they are plan
ming on something OF the sort,
something though that may net work
out sufficiently we'll to justify it with
out Americas cooperation America,
as President Wilson sees it. will not
be a party to any economic war after
the military war is over, for Amcri-
ca Will fight out this military war I'M
til the very end Of the war is won
and there will then be no quarrel
with the German nation. because the
German nation that can get a peace
out Of America will be the German
people so changed and soc FASTENED
that we will have no quarrel with it,
can have 10 quarrel with it unless
We prove false to the very issues Oh
which we have entered the war.
We suspect the president wrote III
mat clause more Tor the benefit of
sentiment and policies forming in the
entente democracies, where they hate
the Germans much more than we do.
looking toward bitter and unrelent-
ing trade boycott of all Germans and
German products when peace comes.
If we make the right sort of peace
so one can only deduce from the pres
ident's letter to the pope-we will
nave achieved our ends, our quarrel
Will be over and our efforts will be
directed toward helping TO rebuild a
penltent, reformed and shattered Ger
many as well as to help her present
enemies. We cannot otherwise be
cause we cannot and will not make
a peace with any other sort of Ger
many
That S pretty high ground i'll way,
and from another angle it is thorough
~ practical and obvious ground on
which to stand. Ii we fight Germany
hard enough to teach her to be good
and force her to get rid of the Hohen-
zollern dynasty and all that dynasty
means, then we may well admit Ger
many TO sort OF probationary con
sort with US, hoping her ways will be
permanently mended. The German
people. rishtabout faced and started
off rightly, we would help devotion
rather than to hinder and further
punish.
The president might have made if
clearer, though, that before this hisb