Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-31
Peace, Peace, When There
Is No Peacep'
tBy Robert Adger Bowen,
Of The Vigiiantes.


DO you want to aid and give COM
fort to and abet Germany! Then cry
for peace. The Hillquits and ali the
other Quits are doing so, and Ger
many looks on with hope
Do you fancy il is a dove that the
Kaiser sends out from his storm-toss-
ed ark to bring him an olive hranch2
II is the German eagle, and no less
peaceful emissary was ever loosened
over a world drenched in blood that
opportunity might be gained to shed
more blood, to despoil more lands, 70
justify the arrogant claim OF Ger
many TO a place in a blood-red sun.
BE sure that when you shout for
peace today you are invoking war! A
war as far more costly and sanguin-
ary than that under which the world
reels today as this war is more terri
BILE than any war dreamed of before
even in the peace-loving soul OF the
Hohenzollern. Before. but not now,
for now the Hohenzollern dream is OF
this other war. The present one be-
comes something of a nightmare, and
he would shake it off-but not to
dream of peace!
That Yankee shrewdness should so
be made the tool and dupe of Teutonic
thickness! But is it Yankee shrewd-
ness at that? There is another name
for that quality which plays into the
hand OF the enemy whether con-
sciously or not, whether it be in the
Senate. or in the hastings, or in the
home In the processes of the Melt
ing Pot scum always floats, sometimes
for generations And it is an old ruse
Of the devil to quote Scripture for his
purpose, and when he is sick to pro-
fess himself q saint
But for those misguided ones who
are sincere in crying peace. Have
they ever paused to think what II
means? Do they realize that peace
now means German victory, and
that peace for Germany means pre-
paration for war? Have they ever
heard of Nietsche's maxim: "Ye
shall love peace as the means to new
wars, and the short peace more than
the long? 10 they, perchance, know
the German Hymn to the Sword?--
Il have slaughtered the old and the
sorrowful: have struck off the
breasts of women; and / have run
through the bodies Of children who
gazed up al me with the eyes of a
wounded lion" Have they read of the
unspeakable atrocities in France and
Belgium and Poland with which Ger
maay has made good this creed? And
do they still say that we are not our
brothers keeper-that it will be time
enough for us to strike when Germany
has done all these things to US?
They forget that we have struck,
and struck heavily. That we are sol
emily pledged to our allies whose
aims, be it repeated, are our aims,
whose cause is our cause, whose vic
tories alone have stood thus far be-
tween us and Germany's more thor
ough visitation of her implacable
wrath upon us. Voices raised in pro-
test against the full prosecution of
this most righteous war arc voices
raised in behalf of the enemy. Once
entered upon, there can be no drawing
back in a just cause until that cause is
vindicated Mandates of whatever
kind delivered to our government that
the war must cease are mandates of
treason. They are the mandates of
those who refuse to stand squarely
behind the country in this hour of its
dire peril They are the mandates of
those whom Germany delighteth to
honor