New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-09
IMPARTIAL ADVICE TO THE WORLD
ss the Allies Best Hope-Beter Pocket Their Pride and Swallow
sauekraut and Peace Without Victory While They Can

tbs Entente Allies have conducted IT, The
armed land forces on each side are about equal.
The overwhelming of an army by bringing
against il superior force. IN masses does
not hold good in this war lew machine
ouns well placed can annihilate an entire
army The best successes attained IN trench
warfare are where the forces, on each side, are
conserved. But this conservation of forces
allows each side TO prolong the war. one
side cannot gain the victory over the other
side without first exhausting that other size
OF its men, guns and ammunition. But such
a victory would exhaust the victor as much
as the conquered. II would be sacrifice that
would spell defeat as much for the victor as
for the defeated.
Can any one believe, after such an array Of
facts, that the Entente Allies can ever crush
The Teutonic allies without crushing them
selves at the same time? Can any one be-
ieve. after considering all the facts, that
any kind OF peace. except peace without
victory" can subserve the good OF either
the Entente Allies or the Teutonlc allies
Can any one believe, after considering all the
facts, that the deferring of such peace
without victory" is going to work to the ad-
vantage of either belligerent side? VIII the
peoples Of the various fighting nations allow
themselves 10 NC sdCIiAScu oh NhS p'NN"
stained affairs erected by the pride. hate, am
billions, prejudiccs and Responsibilities OF
their several kings?
peace without victory" can be effected be-
tween the Entente Allies and the Teutonic
allies if the people of the various fighting
nations can once be made to see the futilty
of carrying on the war further; and the cold
facts, as enumerated in this letter, should
tbap Of thic Tho only thing N
the way of "peace without victory" is the
stubbornness and the desire to sacrifice all
rather than to acknowledge defeat of the
rulers of the various belligerent nations.
Pressure should be brought upon them By
their own people. The people of the United
States should instruct Congress and their
President, in the name of humanity, to use
every means short of actual hostilites to
bring about such a peace without victory
There must be disposition both to give and
take or both sides. The states Of Europe
must be placed in statu quo as they existed
before the war. All bones of contention
should be settled once and for all time II
it is desired to drive the Turk out of Eu-
rope, where he never belonged, he must be
given an equivalent in territory elsewhere for
the land he has surrendered. The same ap-
plies to Alsace and Lorraine and to the ter
ritories forming the bone of contention be-
tween Italy and Austria. But there cannot
be indemnity or reparation on either side;
for this would be an impossbility. None OF
the nations could meet such an indemnity, as
it would be the death knell of such nation. A
settlement, then, must be based upon rea-
sonable terms and not upon unreasonable
terms, provided security is made against an
other such war as the present for all time in
the future. The past can be forgotten. The
peoples of none of the bellgerent nations
hate each other. 1t is merely the rulers of
these various nations who hate one another
All the facts point to the result that il the
present fight is fought to finish it will
either result in draw or a stalemate, as at
present, or it will see the Teutonic allies
victorious. I admit that this is hard outlook
to stomach. No one would wish less to be
obliged to learn the German language eat
sauerkraut, beer soup and blood pudding or
have German Kultur stuffed into his unwill-
ing mental stomach than myself but it seems
to me that it would be better to do this than
to sacrifice ones life, ones property and
ones children on the battlefield, especially
as all this could be avoided by pocketing a
little false pride and agreeing to Mr.. Will
sons peace without victory" Immediately.
F. L. SCHMIDT, Jr.
New York, Jan. 90, 1917.