Evening journal., 1917-07-20


tbe end will be in consonance with
our ideals and our hopes. we have still
10 face the facts. which are grim ana
hard.
Not only is the United States at
mo- ,,-itb Germany but the United
states must continue to send us
troons TO France. to mobilize its NIL
lions n organize its social ana IN
dustrial life on the basis OF war De-
cause whatever promise there may
now be in German conditions, thaI
nromise might easily be aoohsneu
once n wore perceived in Berlin thal
America had slackened her effort OF
diminished her industry.
The very best example OF this was was
supplied in the Russian case. Auo
Russian Revolutionists adopted Ger
tain policies and certain tormulas
which they recognized abolished any
necessity for war between the rus
sian and the German peoples. nav
ing done this, the Russian soldlers
went home and the Russian repre-
sentatives sought to negotiate Win
Germany at Stockholm What nap
pened was unmlstakable. Conhdenl
that Russia was paralyzed by the
Revolution that PARTY in Germany
which hoped to realize both great
conquests and tremendous inde5nhl-
ties plucked up its courage and re-
gained its control of public opinion
Democracy in Russia reinvigorateu
autocracy In the German Empire.
Perceiving all this, the Russians
have returned to the trenches ana
to the attack. We shall have SINH
lar experience If now we permit our
selves to be deceived by reports com
ing from Berlin and representing
that there has been complete
change I'm the German purpose and
that the German tiger has become
German lamb. Such changes within
Germany as have come so far are
unmistakably the result of the pres
sure of events, but there is not yet
any reason TO believe that the changes
are of a sufficiently sweeplne
character to warrant a relaxation OF
the pressure from without
Had Germany experienced a revo-
luton like Russia's; had an old re
gime with all its servants, all It's
ideals and all its purposes been un-
mlstakably wiped out; had there
been a clear and definite expression
of purpose and desire in Berlin as
there was In Petrograd-then no one
Of the Allied nations could refuse to
hearken TO German proposals for
peace by negotiation when these pro
posals we're made by the men who
had abolished the old and spoken for
the new.
Nothing Of this sort has happened
yet in Germany. No proposal Of peace
has vet been made by Germany
which would suggest that there has
been a fundamental change in pur-
nose within the German Empire
Such shifts and and such changes as
we have seen are so confusing that
on the same day we have them inter-
| preted as a victory for the liberal
element and for junkerdom More
than this, each hour evidences ac-
cumulate that a liberal agitation has
ended in a junker coup detat.
u is of utmost Importance that we
should keep our minds clear of pre-
judlce No bitterness, no honest in
dignatlon excited by the past, should
prevent us from recognizing and vel
coming a real change in Germany
We shall do IN to the cause we serve
the reactionaries in Germany by re-
fusing to recognize a democratic
spirit when It comes. But after three
years of suffering, Of sacrifice, OF
! horror, the world cannot afford now
to be mistaken in the matter Of Ger
many. All the men who have died on
all the fields of battle from one end
| of this planet to the other would
] IA L. aNI al.
come at last while the old order sur
wives in Germany. The voices oi
those millions who died do not cry
out for vengeance but they do speal
for the completion Of the work which
they began.
We shall be false to the dead o.
this war II we make peace with thos'
who were their foes and are in fac
ours. It will be time enough to thinl
of peace when Germany appears be
fore the world proposing a peac'
founded upon justice-a peace foun
ded upon the recognition of the RICH
of men of all races to follow thei
own ideals and live their own lives
Il will be time to consider peac
when Germany not merely renounce
the right to subiugate the Belgian
TO dominate the Slav. to destroy tn
Serb, but also renounces the right Il
do within what was her empire be
fore 1914 what she has sought to d.
without Peace without annexation
and without indemnity is not itself
mere empty formula. It was not al
empty formula when it' was adoptel
by Russia, which had ptrged itsel
by resolution. The world could be
lieve that Kerensky and those VIII
stood with Kerensky came with clea
hands and in good faith to the. pro
posal of peace. because the spirl
which they sought 10 carry outside q
Russian frontiers they had given n
innate expression to within the Rus
sian boundaries.
There are a thousand question
now standing which can be settle
around the green table. There ar
certain questions which never can b
settled by negotiation and must b
settled by battle. No nation now hgbi
ing Germany can make peace unit
Germany has renounced not alon
her conquests but the spirit and m
doctrine which were expressed
, those conquests and permitted her
: attack the peace of the world Tn
questions CT Alsace Lorraine. Of IN
Italian Irredenta, Of Macedonia. ,
o. Poland are not questions Of terr
5 torial significance primarily. Tn,
3 Is why there can be no world settl,
ment which does not carry with
the righting of ancient wrongs q
4.