The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-04

Otherwise they VIII disentangle
themselves as best they can from their
present dilemma, will gather fresh
strength and resources. will rearm-
and this time and specifically against
England-and will make another
pounce.
That is not prophecy. 1t is the
plainest of all differences to be drawn
from Prussian history and the PrEs-
sian character; and those who from
whatever intentions encourage a make
shift settlement are not only conniving
at one of the most nefarious crimes in
human history, but are condemning
Europe a generation or so hence to a
repetition of the same horrors as she
is experiencing now Certainly, so far
as we in England are concerned, we
intend to take no risks, and least of
all the risk of smoothing the-way for
Germany's reemergence as a sea pow
er capable of disputing with us that
maritime ascendency on which our
very CAlSlClSt dSpSAANSs
We may be guilty of many follies,
but hardly of that But there is fur
Their reason why Great Britain and all
the allies can not afford to commit
national suicide by accepting a Ger
man made peace. 1t is that they are
convinced of their ability to win and
will m
envy.
Germany is a beleaguered garrison.
She can not escape from the net that
encompasses her, and the allies are
showing month by month that they
can draw that net still closer With
their far greater resources in men and
material they have no doubt whatever
of the outcome of it all, if only politi-
cal judgment and civilian firmness OF
purpose keep pace with and support
moral and military achievements,
Moreover, except France, none OF
the allies has not reached the maxi
mum of its power. Great Britain will
not reach hers till next summer; Rus
STA may not reach hers till the spring
of 1918; Italy has still vast and I'M
used reserves. Is it in the nature of
things that, having toiled laboriously
and with unstinted sacrifice to equal
ize the chances and to overcome the
immense superiority in all points OF
military preparedness with which
Germany began the war, they Should
now hold their hand and hesitate to
strike her down when the pinch OF
exhaustion makes her cry for peace?
Not to make a clean job of the bust
ness is, in the opinion of the average
man in all the allied countries to be-
tray the dead, the living and the un-
born, and to SOW the sure seed oil
future wars. Therefore, | do not see
how the German overtures can lead
to anything and the coincidence that
they have been followed by an appeal
to all the belligerents from the pen Of
President Wilson may even in some
ways operate to stifle whatever pros
!
ipect of fruitfulness there was in them
! For there are sentences in the presi-
dents note that every single citizen II
the allied nations can only read viii
pain and establishment. When Mr.
Wilson talks as though the objects o
the war were a complete mystification
as though all the belligerents were
pursuing the same ends and Wer'
equally DESTROYS of protecting tn
rights and privileges of small states
an Englshman or Frenchman cal
but rub his eyes in amazement.
Personally, confess at once my to
tai inability to rise to such heights o
Olympian detachment; and | an
afraid my equally obtuse fellow coun
trymen. who have not yet cleared thei
minds of the old prejudice that Their
lis a difference between right an
wrong and between words and deeds
are likely to suffer from the same in
capacity. The answer of the allie
both to the German suggestions an
to the presidents appeal must be tn
answer Lincoln returned, in 1868.