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NO ONE TO MAKE PEACE TREATY WITH

Conceding the popes suggestions OF peace were well
intended and honestly made cannot be denied that
they are timed and calculated to compcate situation
that was rapidly clearing that is the rearrangng OF at
fairs in Russia If the pope had wished to injure the
allies he could not have selected opporune time
But recently the question Of peace the one that set
Russians by the ears and came destroying their
newly acquired freedom
The suggestion of peace coming from the pope is
tain to less renewed disturbances in that
country where there is already plenty OF trouble Al
third party interfering in quarrel in an effort to make
peace no matter how pure his motives, is always a
source of danger During the civil war England made
suggestion to the North to peace and was promptly
and not too graciously told the North capable of
attending to it's affairs and for it to keep out. 1t is
so the present The pope has used poor judgment
in undertaking to make peace between the warning coun
tries for the simple none of them has yet ex-
pressed any desire for peace True Germany has SAID
she wanted peace and made offer to make such if it'll
made the way she would dictate She wants peace
much ardenty than she did at the time the Of
fer made but she still wants it such terms as she
prescribes Austria is in the boat with her in this DESIRE
but neither have made any offers oi peace that can Tor
moment be considered. When peace is made it will not
have the made in Germany brand on it, nor will it bel
one-sided peace all in favor of the central allies The
allies have spent hundred billion dollars and have
sacrificed million in seeking to peace that
will be lasting and they know, does every thinkngI
person. that lasting peace can be assured so long as
Prussians exists and autocracie ean to menace the
world at all times
There can be no peace until this autocratc power isl
destroyed forever and such peace will not be consented
to by the autocrats.
All the Pl1ssian leaders are fighting for now is to re-
tain power they could again try for world control Ii
that assured them any old terms of peace would DO
So long they remain in power what hope is there of
any peace? What treaty be made with rulers who
openly declare treaty only "a scrap of paper? What
treaty be made that would bind autocrats who deb-
eratey violated the neutrality of friendly nation with
no more excuse than that it military necessity?
Would not this of military necessity bel
sufficient to cause such rulers to violate any other treaty
no matter how soennly made? Would the pope have
the allied nations who have sacrificed much IN the bat
ties for the freedom of the world ignore the lesson Ger
many has taught them to her perfidy throw away all
they have accomplished and again rely the promise OF
one of these foresworn rulers?
The allies want peace does America, and so does
the rest Of the world but and all want peace that
is such and not merely "a scrap of paper that can be
torn up again whenever party to 1T feels like DONG
So 1t is up to Prussia to make the first move toward
peace and when she shows she warts it badly enough o
place herself position where she cannot again plunge
the world into she have it. and not before This
may not happen for year two but it will happen be-
fore the allies and this country consider peace
Prussia and her allies must for it, not dictate it. and
must take such steps to make that peace lasting one
That will be when the German people take it in their own
hands to their government The world will deal
with the German people and meet them on terms of
equality but it will not take back to its friendship the
unspeakabe monsters who have brought on this war,