The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1917-08-30
REJECTS PEACE
PROPOSAL OF THE POPE
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the world from the menace and the
actual power of vast military estab-
lishment controlled by an irresponsible
government, which, having secretly
planned to dominate the world, pro-
ceeded to carry the plan out without
regard either to the sacrifice obliga-
tions of treaty or the long established
practices and long cherished principles
Of international action and honor, but
chose its own time for the war and
delivered its blow fiercely and sudden
| ly; stopped at no barrier either of law
or Of mercy; swept whole continent
within the tide of blood-not the blood
of soldiers only--but the blood of
innocent women and children, also, and
Of the helpless poor; and now stands
baked but not defeated, the enemy
of four-fifths of the world. This pow
er is not the German people. 1t is
no business of ours how that great peo-
pie came under its control or SUBMIT
ed with temporary zest to the domi-
nation of its purpose, but it is our
business to see to it that the history of
the rest of the world is no longer left
to its handling.
ITO deal with such power by way
of peace upon the plan proposed by
His Holiness the pope would, so far
as we can see, involve a recuperation
of it sstrength and renewal of its
policy; would make it necessary to
create a permanent hostile combina-
ton Of nations against the German
people who are its instruments; and
would result in abandoning the new
born Russia to the intrigue, the mani
fold subtle interference, and the GER
tain counter revolution which would
be attempted by all the malign in
fluences to which the German govern
ment has of late accusomed the world.
Can peace be based upon a restitution
Of its power or upon any word of hon
or it could pledge in a treaty of set
tlement and accommodation
Responsible statesmen must now
Everywhere see, if they never saw be-
fore, that no peace can rest secretly
upon political or economic restrictions
meant to benefit some nations and
cripple or embarrass others upon vim
dictive action of any sort or any kind
of revenge or deliberate injury. The
American people have suffered intol-
cradle wrongs at the hands of the i'm
perial German government, but they
desire to reprisal upon the German
people, who have themselves suffered
all things in this war, which they did
not choose. They believe that peace
should rest upon the rights Of peoples
not the rights of governments-the
rights of peoples great or small, weak
or powerful-their equal right to free.
dom and security and self-governmen,
and to a participation upon fair terms
in the economic opportunities of the
world-the German people, of course
included, if they will accept equality
and not seek domination.
"The test, therefore, of every plar
of peace is this: Is it based upon the
faith of all the peoples involved oil
merely upon the world of an ambitious
and intriguing government on the one
hand and a group of free peoples or
the other? This is test which goe:
to the root of the matter; and it is the
test which must be applied.
"The purposes of the United State:
in this war are known to the whole
world-to every people to whom the
truth has been permitted to come
They do not need to be stated again
We seek no material advantage of any
kind. We believe that the intolerable