TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-08-10
Our Governments Opportunity.
IT IS IN A POSITION AND HAS The POWER TO
BRING PEACE TO The WORLD.
(From The New York American.)

We think tnat our
ment now has the power and
the opportunity to bring peace
to the world.
The German Chancellor has
spoken as the representative
Of the Teutonic allies.
The English Premier has just
spoken as the representative OF
the British, French and Italian
allies.
Both DR. Michaelis and Lloyd
George necessarily had to say
many things for home con-
sumption. Each of them had
in view, while speaking, a
parliamentary majority none
too large and a parliamentary
minority altogether too formid-
able for perfect ministerial con'
fort.
If we disregard the heroics
and the rhetorical flourishes,
the speeches Of the two Prime
Ministers simmer down to
this:
DIR. MichaeIis practically says
TO the Entente Governments
that Germany has endured
three years Of warfare; that
the Central Empires have not
had the worst of it, and they
are both willing and able to
continue the fight as long as
the allies desire. He also prac-
tically says that if the allies
feel that they have had enough
Of war, Germany and Austria
feel the same way, and plainly
intimates that the Central EN-
pires are more than willing to
sit in conference with repres-
entatives Of the allied Govern
ments and the United States in
an effort to negotiate terms Of
peace.
The British Premier's reply
is practically a declaration that
Great Britain is able and will
ing to continue to fight as long
as Germany desires. To this
declaration Lloyd George adds
the warning that if the war is
prolonged long enough the as
sistance OF America will en-
able the allies finally to con-
quer the Central Empires.
Each Premier, as in duty
bound, insists that the result oil
the military and naval opera
tons, SO far, has been in favor
OF the alliance which he re-
presents, and each insists that
the Others blockade has been
a sorry failure and that his
own people have not only
enough to eat but are also
somewhat overprovided.
This kind Of schoolboy talk
seems TO be inseparable from
the speeches which the differ.
ent statesmen make to one an
other and to the world at ir'
regular intervals. 1t is, per
haps, excusable, but it has nc
weight with thinking men.
The statements of DR.. Michae.
lis and of Lloyd George arr
each right in part and eacl
wrong in part.
The general result Of thre'
years warfare has not been t
crush Germany or to give any
, great hope that Germany car
speedily be defeated and dis
membered, as the allies at on
time proposed.
She now holds possession OF
and cultivates and reaps tn
harvests of, and operates thu
factories and the mines and tn
oil fields Of, and exploits tn
labor of, territories that almos
equal in extent her own empire
Her armies were larger il
1915 than in 1914, in 1916 thai
in 1915, and they are to-da,
larger and more formidabl
I than they were at this time
I year ago.
! During the three years 0
J war the German armies hav
lost in killed and captured an
in discharged wounded prac
r tically 10000 men, and dur
: ing the same time there hav
arrived at military age an
been called to the colors 2,4OO.
600 youth.
! The annual crop of recruit
arriving at military age in Ger
, many is slightly in excess c
/ 10000, and in the nature c
\ the case this crop will not BIZ
gin to show any diminutio
until fifteen years from nov
In lesser numbers this is tru
also of Austria-H Hungary and {
Bulgaria and Of Turkey.
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