Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27


/ and social stir OF these times must ulti-
! matcly go far to unity mankind under the
I hnEshlp OF God--so do l cling also to the
/ persuasion that there are intellectual forces
! among the rational elements IN the helliger-
[ ent centers, among the other neutrals and
! I'm America, that will cooperate in enabling
| ine United states TO play the role OF the
/ unimpaSs,oned third party, which becomes
more ana more necessary 10 generally
satisfactory ending Of the war
An "TTnjmpassioned SettIement"
ne 'u'a mat 'he SeIu'h'e,'t ol 'u,s war
must ne W.at one might eau 'I, nn un'i,l3aS-
s@neu Sgl,..I,t"', o. II EoT WIZ, t Sete',
treaty settIemcnt--a settlement, that IS.
paSed unoh some conception OF wiz -
rG' anu ,,rgSS,,nE, t%u.,'' S',t,t u.o a. ',, of
t..'llNn Su't'9H "I I"!.u's It G.,i',l ~ I
oc'.,E',JLl' ~ u.oN1 us M'I r,.e ,.a,iot,,
or s ",. erI'5, Io,,,l,,,,s W. Tnd
i,' m ~, , ,,,,st 1fraront circles
~ Tt,,',,.S @ % - @ '' I,t,,. it ,, mo cor
man adventure. under the Hohcnaollern ira
ditiou TO dominate the world 1t was to
he the last of the conqucsts II has failed.
without calling upon the reserve strength
Of America. the civilized world has de-
fcatcd il: and the war continues now
partlv upou the issue whether that adven-
trra eroU ever. be repeated or whether II
sr,II he made forever impossible and partly
berause Germany has no organ but It's
IIl,,,,a,51rery, crfra pIzotion through which IL
ca, ,Gn,ft its failure and deyelop its latent
rSJi,ngs F,,, a r,e,, understanding on lines
~, -, .,1ara+ta,
w. is inovit9bIs tbot a settlement made
f Gov fsrerca ~ helirarenta alone will
~ t,rt-gi-bto5 b,rsb limited nv r,areIv
i,,,idnrt,I yscessjiIes ana obsessed nv the
fdoa ~ bogtiIitias and rivalrles continuing
nereDniaIIv
II viii be trading of advantages for
n,ent altogether different in effect as well
az I'm spirit from a world settlement made
Drimariiy TO establish a new phase in the
history Of mankind
Where VICTORY would ran
Let me take three instances of the I'M
posslbflity Of victory on either side giving
a s0lution satisfactory to the conscience
and intelligence of reasonable men.
The drst-on which 1 will not expatiate.
for every one knows of its peculiar diff
cuIty-is Poland.
-, a. .,,, - tb.so casa.
SOW now IN any 2 ot ,i'eS ts,,,,,,, ,5I,'
Gan lle 80 , 5,,,ptasa.rI,rtI,,
,r,I..,,,+s ,,ro6,1ca ar7, stabia nj
lll9 DJrte ,I y ,,eoiaI so1,,tj0no WI. an
seI'eI a,,y -, ,a - ,irai ~
me ngu'i1 az me1r' iii -
lat - a., -, ,,,r, s'7, 80 ~ II
"aIl'S' ~ 49, ~ ~ g., ,itl,,. M ,,,-,ar, ,,
"otIu ueI'"Iu91 10 80, ,,ly
or Hermahy' nor tIio aScsi',.",lSy OF treat HIeat
hrltulll, nor a. ~ I 49,, rny s'a.e ~
or psop'S oI e7I ~. ~ ~ .Pb'"s VI ~
WoIlu' mo pan 81 '.I'i's - %otuu ~
shipping GohlIo' az lii,po5 l ''nI as me iosIal
Union WhuI lls"t anu ie"Son anu Ihe
welfare OF coHihs se,'ei a.lons usInaHu IN
Poland ls uHlmeu anu autonomous Foland'
with CFacoW' hahzlg ana foSeh Drought
into the same iollsh- h-7pe@hll5 Flhs-Iehce
with Warsaw.
In every country at present at war the
desire OF the majority OF people is for a
noncontentious solution that viii neither
crystalline uluIiPh il nor propluate an
and ethnologio and geographic common