The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-09-06

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] underlying purpose Of German polio
ever since In Mr.. Wilson's wise an
! opposite phrase, the world today face
a Germany bafled but not defeated
J still dedicated TO the practice and tn
methods Of barbarism and still dc
voted 10 the doctrines which hav
turned Western Europe into a field o
carnage and brought destruction TO
generation Of youth and TO the monu
ments Of centuries.
/ Today this German system is a
bay. Today those who sought TO con
quer by unrestricted violence, by un
fettered ruthlessness, stand in tn,
shadow Of defeat, fatal TO theil
prestige, which can be avoided only il
premature peace interrupts the SLOW
but certain processes Of justice anc
the steady march Of right.
Ii is the enduring merit of Mr.. vii.
sons letter tothe Pope that it has set
forth simply, clearly and unhesitat-
ingly the purpose Of Western civiliza-
ton to have done now and decisively
with that German system still domin-
ant at home and still diabolical
abroad. Certain journals are wont to
tell us that we must hasten to make
peace now lest bitterness and hatred
be stimulated, because, after all, we
shall have TO continue in this world
TO live with the German people. But
this is strange misleading of the
facts. II is because we shall have to
continue to live with the German
people that we must now fight on until
the German people are willing to
recognize basis on which there can
DE /. resumption of peaceful inter-
course.
For forty years those who controll-
ed German destinies planned to de-
stroy the lives Of the nations about
them. They plotted again the secur-
ity, the integrity, the liberty Of Bel
fun, of France, of England and of
the United States. At once moment
they sought to arm themselves as no
nation ever armed for struggle in the
field and to disarm their enemies by
treacherous methods, by vicious in
trigue, by every course that was at
once dishonorable and deadly. Once
the war came Germany burst upon the
world like man-eating tiger, sparing
neither sex nor condition. That which |
the Germans had plotted and planned
in secret they practised in public on
The highways Of the land and sea-
Louvain and Lusitania were lasting
in action of the meaning
If the German idea. They were the
Ultimate demonstration of the char
icter of the men dominating Germany
md of what ideals and ideas they had
upon the German people.
Mr.. Wilson has done superlatively
we'll in framing the indictment by
Western civilization of the German
government and German leadership.
lie has stated the unmistakable and
fact that as long as that
and those ideas control in
Germany mankind must answer all
ierman suggestions across the trench
inc, and not around the green table.
Ne shall not go back to scraps of
,aper" while those who control Ger
many are the men who in August,
914, wrote in blood and iron German
epudiation of every honorable en-
and of all international
aith.
We have come to great moment in
world war. We are at last seeing
aylight after three years of utter
arkness. We know now that the
,erman onrush has been halted. We
now now that German armies will !
OF enter Paris or London. We know
ow that German governors and Ger
nan functionaries will not in other
ands repeat their crimes in Brussels
nd in Bucharest. The present Ger .
nan attack has been repulsed. The I
resent German bid for world power
as been baffled. What remains to be ]
one is plain. The great duty has l
cen performed by those who died at {
he Marine and before Verdun. That
hitch is left to us who have survived
simply to complete the task and to I
lake certain that there shall be no
apetition Of that tragedy which has {
evasted the world and will leave its I
lark Of sadness and suffering for c
injury to come. S
President Wilson has spoken for all !
Yestcrn civilization. His voice and O
Is word insure that there shall be no C
FACE without victory over the German I
ea and over those who, dominating h
ermany, have wellnigh destroyed the
ord. We shall 90 forward now to '