The Washington herald., 1917-07-29
Congratulations, Post!

There is another Washington
awake to the fact that this
natfsn is being fed upon an insidious
brand o. pro-German dope through q
certain kind OF press. We believe Il
our duty to give wider publicity to tbs
following editorial reproduced from
the Washington Post of Saturday
July Is, 1917. under the title Of Wal
Aims and Peace Terms"
Every parliament in allied coun-
tries has been resounding the de-
mands OF excited statesmen, clam
oring for a statement OF our war
aims and our peace terms" 1t
seems to be the conviction OF each
speaker that IL his government
would only frame a proper formula,
the enemy would promptly become
a friend and peace would follow.
So far as the United States is
concerned, there is no necessity
for any restatement of war aims
or peace terms. Any man in the
United States who Is ignorant of
the reason why the United States
Is at war should be ashamed of
himself. He might not be con-
spicuous in Russia, but he is Of
fensively prominent here. What he
needs is not more language, but an
other headpiece.
There is no necessity for any
OF the allies to restate their war
aims or peace terms. Words are
superfiuous. The best utterance
on the subject of war and peace
is that which issues from the black
Threats of the allies guns on land
and sea.
The most stubborn and savage
German can understand a bullet.
His mental reaction to an S-inch
shell amidships is acute. The argu-
ment conveyed by q well-played
bomb carries FEASIBILITY to his
mind. He responds with alacrity
also to suggestions OF peace at
the point of a bayonet welded by
a demon in kits or khaki.
Many a German, strangling in the
tomb of a stricken submarine. has
employed his last moment OF in
telligence in the thought that peace
Is best. after all.
The shells that scatter the splin-
tiers OF the German throne over a
cratered wilderness will make the
war aims and peace terms OF the
allies perfectly understood and ac-
ceptable.
So long as William II lives and
can order Germans into willing
graves. he will not understand the
allies war aims or peace terms.
No language can be framed which
will mean the same thing to the
intellect OF the allies and the dis
torted intellect OF Germany.
Reason and counsel are not in
Interchangeable between the allies
and Germany now. Reason, true
reason. rests in the nitroglyCerin
and T. n. T. Logic, persuasion and
concord are not found in lam
guage. but in the armored bowels
Of brute force as It tramples its
way through skulls.
The German crown prince plainly
told the allies what kind of Ian
guage to use in dealing with Ger
many when he described the sub
marines as the last argument of
kings. Brute force, That Is the
language which Germany under
stands.
Americans waste time when they
talk Of peace. There Is no peace.
It is a pity that the United States
Senate must listen to peace talk
for a single moment. Time IL
precious now: it means Conscrva-
ton of American life if quickly
utilized. Let Congress cOnfine its
remarks to the one word Aye"
on bills apprOprlatIng billions for
the national defense.
The brute force latent in the
United States is sufficient to ham,
mer peace into Germany. Let us
not discuss anything but the de-
velopment of this brute force and
its prompt service