Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
TAFT OPPOSES
MAKING PEACE
At THIS TIME
PRESIDENT OF LEAGUE TO EN-.
FORCE PEACE SAYS THAT THIS
WAR MUST BE FOUGHT TO THE
BITTER END.


MONTREAL, Sept 27-"Those who
flyor permanent world peace must sup
pose with might and main the propos-
ais for peace at the suncture in the war
whether made in socialistic councils, in
.pro-German conferences, or by Pope
Benedict" declared William H. Taft,
president of the League to Enforce
Peace, in an address he delivered last
IDight BEFORE the General Conference Of
Unitarian and Other hCristian
Churches.
America and her allies cannot con-
cede peace until they conquer it, he
said. when they do so it will be per-
manent Otherwise they fail"
Peace ncw. continued NJ Taft,
even though it be made on the basis
If restoration of the status quo, with
oEt indemnities and without invasions.
would be failure to achieve the great
purpose for which the allies have made
heart-rending sacrifices. Armaments
would continue for the next war, and
this war would have been fought in
vain The millions of lives lost and
the hundreds of billions of worth Of
the product of mems labor would be
wasted. He who proposes peace now,
therefore, either does not see the
stake for which the Allies are fighting
or wishes the German military autoc-
racy still to control the destinies Of
all Of us as to peace or war.
"The allies are fighting for a prin-
ciple, the maintenance of which affects
the future Of civilization. If they do
not achieve it, they have sacrificed
the flower of their youth and mortgag'-
ed their future for a century, and all
for nothing.
THE vortex of death and destruc-
ton for the people of the world, which
the breaking out of the war portended,
reused these peace lovers and pro-
imoters to devise plan for avoiding
war after this should end" said Mr.
Taft. He then described the organi-
zation and purpose of the League to
enforce Peace in the United States and
of the League of Nations society in
England and added
Whatever the detailed stipulations
of such a league, however, its opera
ton and success must depend upon the
obligations of treaty stipulations. I'm
less their binding effect is recognized
by the nations as a sacred principle,
the stipulations of the league will be
writ in water The revelations an
disclosures of this war satisfy the
members of the league that as long as
the present military caste controls the
German military and foreign policy,
the league will be impracticable, and
would not be worth the parchmen on
which its obligations would be re-
corded
Intrigue, dishonor, cruelty have
characterized the entire military policy
Germany. And now her emperor,
ner present military caste and her
wonderful, but blinded, people have
the blood of the millions who have suf-
fered in this world catastrophe on
their hands. 1t is not that the nature
of the German people generally is
cruel-that is not the case. But the
minds of the German people have been
poisoned with this false philosophy.
president wilson" the speaker con-
tinued, says the allies are fighting to
make the world safe for democracy.
Some misconception has been created
on this head. The allies are not strug-
Cling to force particular form of gov
ernment on Germany. II the German
people continue to wish an emperor,
il is not the purpose of the allies to
require them to have republic. Their
purpose is to end the military policy
and foreign policy Of Germany that
looks to the maintenance of a military
and naval machine with its hair-trig-
ger preparation for use against her
neighbors.
Men who see clearly the kind of
peace which we must have in order to
be real and lasting peace can have
no sympathy, therefore, with q patch
coup peace, ole made at a council ia
bic, the result OF diplomatic chaffering
and bargaining. Men who look for
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