The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-27
CANNOT CONCEDE
PEACE TILL Won
Declared William H. Taft, President of
League to Enforce Peace, in Ad-
dress in Montreal.

| Montreal, Sept. 27.-"Those who favor
permanent world peace must oppose with
might and main the proposals for peace
at this juncture in the war whether made
in Socialistic councils, in pro-German
conferences, or by Pope Benedict de-
elared William H. Taft, president of the
League to Enforce Peace, in an address
he delivered here last night before the
general conference of Unitarian and 9th
er Christian churches.
"America and her allies cannot concede
peace until they conquer it," he said.
when they do so il will be permanent.
Otherwise they fail"
Peace now" continued Mr. Taft, even
though it be made on the basis of the
restoration of the status quo, without
ndemnities and without invasions,
would be failure to achieve the great
purpose for which the allies have made
heart -rending sacrifices. Armaments
would continue for the next war and this
war would have been fought in vain
The millions of lives lost and the hun
dreds of billions worth of the product
of mems labor would be wasted He who
proposes peace now, therefore, either does
not see the stake for which the allies are
fighting, or wishes the German military
autocracy still to control the destinies of
all of us as TO peace or war.
THE allies are fighting for a principle,
the maintenance of which affects the fu-
ture of civilization If they do not
achieve it, they have sacrificed the flower
of their youth and mortgaged their flu
ture for century, and all for nothing.
THE vortex of death and destruction
for the peoples of the world, which the
breaking out of the war portended,
reused these peace lovers and promoters
to devise plan for avoiding war after
this should end, )" said Mr. Taft, lie then
described the organization and purpose of
the League to Enforce Peace in the Unit
ed States and of the League of Nations
Society in England, and added:
Whatever the detailed stipulations of
such league, however, it's operation and
success must depend upon the obligations
Of treaty stipulations. Unless their |
binding effect is recognized by the ma
lions as sacred principle the stipula.
lions of the league will be writ in wa
ter The revelations and disclosures of |
This war satisfy the members Of the |
eague that as long as the present mill I
AIRY caste controls the German military /
Ind foreign policy, the league is imprac-
.icable, and would not be worth the
parchment upon which its obligations
you'd be recorded.
Intrigue, dishonor, cruelty, have
characterized the entire military policy
# Germany, And now her emperor, her
present military caste and her wonderful
tut blinded people have the blood of the
Millions who have suffered in this world 4
catastrophe on their hands 1t is not
hat the nature of the German people
is cruel-that il not the case.
But the minds of the German people
ave been poisoned with this false phil
sophy.
president Wilson" the speaker con 4
inued, Says the allies are fighting to (
make the world safe for democracy ,
'ome misconception has been created on
his head. The allies are not struggling
o force particular form of government j
n Germany. If the German people con-
inue to wish an emperor, it is not the
urpose of the allies to require them to
ave a republic Their purpose ID to end
he military policy and foreign policy of /
Germany that looks to the maintenance /,