The Prescott daily news., 1917-08-23

Tho worlds greatest murderer ot S Sirnocent women and children, the worlds greatest ravisher of nations \ ad of individuals, the worlds vilest avnorent of autocracy and barbarism horirs to see it's inevitable doom be- fore the righteous wrath and God civen power of an awakened civiliza- tion and through every available channel now seeks an unholy peace neace which, if granted, would be civilization's willingness to condone tba blackest crimes that ever stained +ba history of mankind. If our coun- fry should listen to this plea, would we not rightly call down upon our selves the just wrath of an offended 1 God who would spew us out of His ! mouth because, being neither hot nor cold. we were lukewarm in the great lest crisis of human history?
 Richard H. Edmonds, I Editor Manufacturers Record.
 The Catholic church believes in punshment for sin. It upholds virtue and denounces sin in whatever guise Eit may be found. But the Pope seems |to have concluded that no punishment could possibly be devised sufficiently severe to match Germany's sins, and that, therefore, they might as we'll be Overlooked, and the vilest, blackest, |unrepentant sinners known in the |Sorlds history, the murderers of babies, the outragers of women, be welcomed around a peace table where gentlemen are to sit.
 Does the Pope have so little esteem for virtue and so little hatred of sin in its viest forms that, in the interest pf Austria and Germany, he could ask Catholic Belgium to forget the out raged women and the dead and dying babies which have followed as an un- broken trail wherever the polluted army of Germany has marched? Well did Belgium'S heroic Cardinal Mercier say he thought the Pope had been in- correctly quoted when he first heard me report of his message, for he could not believe that the Pope had taken kuch position.
 We are sorry to think that ore who, lke the Pope, should stand unswerv- angly for honor and justice among na- Ions as among individuals, could sug- geSt that rapists are on a par with men Of honor, that murderers of chil- 'en should be the peace companions
 the noblest men on earth. Better peath a thousand times with honor nat compact with hell merely for Fne sake of peace.
 |. IS not conceivable that the Son of 'Ou' Whose bitter denunciation of Fnlted sepulchers filled with rotten eSS voiced His feeling against unre- sH'aht sin, would countenance an mort to bring about peace based on ' rght of the rapists to continue .Sr helllsh work, of the murderers u"OieS to keep on murdering them,
 ,ie rather of Lies to keep on lying. a yet that IS what the Pope in ef- ". proposes. We believe that his ,V" Will go down in history as one
 'N greatest mistakes ever made by Vpe' and that it will to some extent ,'Aeh the fiber of some of his peonle uO can but feel that his peace pro- '"' 'S an effort to overlook immoral anu rotttnness, and that therefore. % SInS are not as black as the t.m ,r "aS supposed. We are sure that a.ai eIigeAt' consecrated Catholics must ns ''".ent so great a mistake on VI p'it or their church leader.
 aDs tL gsl'eVe that the Pope lost, per reD D ,ne greatest opportunity ever Eorld,. " any religious leader in the pns' a history. If, regardless of the Lustr; e'''"' ues which bind him to roola; Ila and Germany, he had boldly rin, ''''eo his denunciation of tbe
 n9. O' those countries and demand hd ' m"t,a sney should do full penance hould bs h reparation before the world EouId be os called to consider peace, he hurcb "'e placed the banner of his umsn sn c. on the highest ramparts off of (orld,a s"'e stood out as one of inc ghteop.ssrea daring leaders of prema ,eSS' But he missed this