Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-15
WHAT NEWSPAPERS
HAVE TO SAY ABOUT
POPE'S PEACE Offer
General Opinion Is That Sug.
gestiOn Is Ill Timed and Of
German Origin

Los Angeles Times; "When peace
comes it is likely to come
from the vatican. No other
power is left in the wohld whose neu-
trality is sufficiently untainted by pre-
judice to claim this privilege. ' y
The world is not ready for peace. Not
quite yet. But the voice Of the pope
has an agreeable sound"
Los Angeles Examiner: "The pope IS
proposal of peace will effectively clear
the international atmosphere. 1t will
! compel the governments to let the peo-
pies know what their war aims are.,'
Chicago Herald: "The papal appeal
to all belligerents to compose their diff
ferences on certain bases roughly out
lined gives Germany again the oppor
tunity toabe concrete, which it has here
tofore so resolutely rejected"
st. Poul (Minn.) Pioneer rPess: cit
would be premature to analyze the mea-
gre terms of the vatican S proposal even
to say that en- their face they present
fair OF unfair grounds. Every entente
nation, every people engaged in the war
against Prussian militarism will wait
for further developments before com
mitting itself in any respect"
Will Not Make Headway
st. Louis Times: "We are frankly
of the opinion that the pope will not
make much Roadway at this time"
st. Louis Republic: "It is improbable
that the pope's peace proposals will be
found acceptable to either side.''
Oakland Call -Tribune cit is Ameri-
cas- view as we'll as that of all her al
| lies, that the war can only end and
permanent peace be secured by a deci-
sive victory for the allied arms. At
present German victory, or German
peace with the return to the status
quo ante, is impossible to contemplate.
Pope Benedict IS proposals are pretty
nearly, if not quite, equivalent to a
German peace"
Denver Rocky Mountain News: GIN
ringing speech recently delivered by
Premier loyd-George in Scotland, the
following sentence appeared which met
an immediate response in this country
and in France: When they (the kaiser
and his council) shall have learned to
think and say restoration, then peace by
negotiations will be morally possible ;
If the vatican in its note gave the same
Interpretation to restoration as did
Mr.. George, and as has been done here,
there is peace within measurable dis
tance of possibility"
"It ALI Depends
Des Moines Register: "The reception
of the pope's letter will turn largely
ON the way he has Pnnctuated and cap
italized disarmament and popular gov
ernment.'
Seattle Star: ''The people of the
world want peace, but they do not want
peace above safety.
''The suggestion of His Holiness,
Pope Benedict, prompted by the best of
motives, cannot be bluntly disregard
ed. On the other hand it cannot be
accepted if, seeking the status quo ante,
it fails thus to remove the cause of the
present war tragedy"
Tacoma Times: "There is one answer
and only one answer that Germany can
comprehend. We must make that ans
wer. 1t is an overwhelming air navy,
ships and more ships; efficient anti-sub
marine devices; highly drilled and per-
fectly equipped armies; money; brains,
and heavy artillery. Then we can talk
peace, real peace; peace that will lead
to the end Of war;"