The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-05

Of covenant for the life of the world
we shall be willing and glad to pay
the full price for peace, and pay 1t
ungrudging!y.
I'VE know what that price will be
It will be full, impartial iustice-just.
ice done at every point and to every
n?tion that the final settlement must
effect, our enemies as we'll as our
friends
No Nation to Be Robbed.
You catch, with me, the voices OF
humanity that are in the air. They
late. more persuasive, and they come
from the hearts of men everywh ere
T@ev insist that the war shall not end
IN viudictive action of any kind: that
no nation or people shall be robbed
or punished because the iTraspOnsib' e
rulers of single country have them
selves done deep md obominab!e
wrong. 1t is this thoueht that has
been expressed in tie formula, Nc
anneyaticns, DO cOntrihu: ;Ons. no puni
tive indemnities.' Just because his
crude formula expresses instructive
JUDGMENT as to the rigNtS If plain
men everywhere it has been m"de
'"~ent use Of by the m"s+e"s of Ger
+~igue to lead the pc Of
Russia as,ray-and the people Of
every other country their agents
could reach, in order that a prema-
ture peace might be brought about
before autocracy has been taught its
inal and convincing lesson and the
people of the world put. in control OF
their own destinies.
But the fact that a wrong use mas
been made Of a Just idea is no reason
why a right use should not be made
of it. 1t ought 10 be brought IN 'er
the patronage of its real friends.
Let it be said again that auto
cracy must first be shown the utter
futility of its Claims to power or
leadership in the modern world It IS
impossible to apply any standard OF
justice so long as such forces are
unchecked and indicated as the pres
ent masters of Germany commend.
Not until that has been done can right
among the nations. But when that
has been done-as. God willing, it as
Suredly will be-we shall at last be
free to do an unprecedented thing, ard
this is the time to avow our purpose
to do it. We shall be free to base
peace on generosity and justice, to
the eyclueion of all selfish claims to
advantage even on the part Of the
yictors.
War Must Be Won
Let there be no misunderstanding
Our present and immediate task is
to win the war and nothing slTl turn
us aside from /. until it is acc 7lplish-
Cd. Every power End resot-ca we
possess, whether Of men. Of nj 1ey or
of materials is being devoted I'd will
continue to he devoted to that pur-
pose until it Is achieved Those who
desire to bring peace about before
that purpose is achieved. I counsel
TO carry their advices elsewhere We
will not entertain it. We shall regard
the war as won only when the Ger
man people say to us. through proper
1y accredited representative that
thev are ready to agree to a settle
inert based upon justice and the repa
ration Of the wrongs their rulers have
done. They have done a wrong to
Belgium which must be repaired They
have established a power over other
lands and peoples than their own
over the great empise of Austri alum
gary. over hitherto free Balkan states,
over Turkey and within Asia-which
must be relinquished.
"Ge-many's success by skill by in
dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise
we did not grudge or oppose, hut ad-
mired, rather. Size had built MP for
herself a real empire of trade and
influence. secured by the peace of
the world We were content to ABIDE
the rivalries of manufacture, science
and commerce that were involved for
us in her success and stand or fall
as we had or did not have the brains
and initiative to surpass her. But
at the moment when she had consp; GU
ously won her triumphs of pence she
threw them away, to establish in their
stead what the world will no longer
permit to be established-milit and
political domination by arms, by which
to GUST where she could not excel the
rivals she most feared and hated. TIE
peace we make must remedy that
wrong 1t must deliver the once fair
lands and happy peoples of Belgium
and northern France from the Prus-
sian conquest and the Prussian men
ace, but it must also deliver the peo-
pies of Austria-Hungary. the peoples
of the Balkans and the peoples of
Turkey, alike in Europe and Asia, from
the impudent and alien dominion of
the Prussian military and commercial
autocracy.
1--WE owe it, however, to ourselves
to say that we do not wish in any
way to impair or to rearrange the
Austro-Hungarian empire. 1t is no
affair of ours what they do with their
own life, either industrialiy or po-
We do not purpose or de-
sire to dictate to them in any way.
We only desire to see that their az
fairs are left in their own hands. in
all matters, great or small. We shall
hope to secure for the people Of the
Balkan peninsula and for the people
of the Turkish empire the right and
opportunity to make their own lives
safe, their own fortunes secure against
or injustice and from tho
dictation of foreign courts or parties.
and our attitude and purpose with
regard to Germany herself are Of
like kind. We intend no wrong
against the German empire, no inter
ference with her internal aff9irs. We
should deem either the one or the
other absolutely unjnsti6 bic. ahso-
lutely contrary to the principles we
have professed to live by and to hold
sacred throughout our life as ma
ton.
THE people of Germany are being
told by the men whom they now per