The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-21
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work OF UNDOING AMERICAN
AMERICA"

New York Times: 1t Is not because
the Stockholm conference may bring
about peace that loyal Engllshmen OPP
pose It, 1t is not because the Ameri'
can "pacifists" may bring about peace
that they are regarded with dislike by
loyal Americans. The issue which the
Socialists in these lands and Russia
have brought before the loyal citizens
of them is not an issue between peace
and war 1t Is an issue between victory
won by us and victory won by Ger
many Many Of the mlscalled 'paci-
fists" who are making this issue know
its real nature very well. Some do
not know it, and are doing what they
can with good intentions to drag the
democratic nations over the precipice
and into the abyss. The intentions Of
one kind matter as little to loyal citizens
Of the endangered nations as the in
tentions Of the other. 1t is the result
that counts, and for practical purposes
they are all public enemies alike.
Samuel Gompers describes the activi-
ties of that particular pack which styles
itself the peoples council as follows:
Money evidently is plentiful, and the
work Of undoing America proceeds mer-
rily. American labor must denounce
any such movement and any such for
eign propaganda. ! suggest that the
methods Of the organization are en-
tirely German in character and that un-
doubtedly the kaiser is greatly cheered
1. L., % o.
council activities" This is a description
which fits those who, pretending TO
favor peace and calling themselves
"pacifists," are really laboring for the
triumph of militarism and know ii. But
those who are laboring for the triumph
Of militarism and do not know it, but
think they are working for peace, are
engaged just as much as their more
sophisticated colleagues in "the work OF
undoing America" In England and in
France they are doing the same work
and Of this campaign of theirs Premier
Ribot said, in words that apply to Amer
lea as well:
when the war is over, if Germany /.
not disarmed really if the threat which
weighs so cruelty on humanity has not
disappeared, their league, which has
been formed, will not be dissolved.
Behind this campaign-I said it in the
house, and | say it here in the senate
there is Germany. It is she that fur
nishes all these distributions Of tracts
and fly-leaves. It is she that sends Ou
all the false news which daily we pc
ruse, all these equivocal formulas o
peace without indemnity and withOu
annexation hoping they may be adopte,
in some international gathering | hop
none among US will ever be deceived b.
such manoeuvres. II is a question o
life and death. II this country shoul,
ever yield to such an illusion, if toda,
she should permit herself to consent [
peace from wearines. and fatigue, sh
would no longer be worthy to be Franc
she would not be worthy Of all tn
heroic dead who have shed their bloc
for her.
: Peace without annexations or linden
, mites" means peace in which the worl
would have no guarantees against al
other attack. II would be a viciou
peace, having in it not the germ bu
the bursting bud Of another and NOR
terrible war, to be declared the momer
Germany was ready. But even III
. vicious peace Germany does not offe
, She lets her Socialists preach 1t 10 s.
I cialists in other countries. herself read
TO disavow and laugh at II the momer
the agitation has done its work. ThS
. is the purpose of the Stockholm cOnfe
: ence. There the German Socialists wi
. preach "a peace without annexations {
= indemnities," so that the cOnferees froi
$ other lands will go home under the in
l preston that the German Socialists wi
, do their part to bring about such
Y peace. and will labor to thwart an
r weaken the efforts Of their own COVER
{ ments against Germany; and when Il
4 poison has worked, the German COVER
e ment will hurl its strength again
= those weakened governments, not for
c peace without anneNations or inder
$ mites. but for that peace which is /
i dicated in Chancellor Michaelis's signi
n cant words. we all know what v
e want" This is why the British COVER
, ment does not want British delegates
Il Stockholm.