Evening journal., 1917-08-25
GERMANY WANTS PEACE ONLY IN ORDER THAT IN
TIRE FUTURE SHE MAY WAGE WAR
MORE EFFECTIVELY

ID EvARE the Greeks bearing gifts, was saying In
- the ancient world Beware OF the Germans bearing
olive branches well be proyerb in our own Time
II under Teutonlo auspices and inspiration various
peacektes being nown U Is because the kaisers OF
Germany and Austria know that the longer the war
lasts the less chance they have Of winning IT,
A peace made now would be a German peace. It would
be peace made when German troop held parts Of Bel
eium, Serbia, Russia, France and Rumania It would
give them the whip hand in asserting that the murder
GUS submarine not De curbed by any new inierna
iiona law To would give them tho opportunity 40 de-
mand back their lost colonies and 20 talk with air OF
magnanlmty of not evactng indemntes from the rest
Of the world
But it would also have them unpunished for their
shocking crimes and unvhippcd Of Justice They would
Doe the position OF breaking AN The laws OF God and
man and doing t with mpunlty.
Mor6 than that they would peace made now
so that In the future they might make war more enec-
lively and with better chances Of winning matter
how great tho coalition OF FREQ peoples against them
Germany ndugos in no dream OF universal peace. She
ndulgos 10 dream Of lasiins peace or even OF a
peace So endure for long period. Tho kind Of peace
she thinks about peace that viii allow her breathing
time.
t has been said again and again by German apoogsts
that the prussan military writer's were not representa-
tive or Germany 10 has been said time and again that
their nery pronuncomontoes about world-mlsht and
word-conquest were opinions OF the individuals
who wrote thom without responsive echo in Germany
But that is merely another Prussan lic.
Prince Bernhard Buelow rewriting his book on
Germany after the war started, pens This significant
monocug and sinister paragraph
gwen II we had not been threatened with war during
he last decades wo must realize that there Is such
thing as permanent peace and must remember Moltkes
words: Permanent peace Is a dream and not even a
beautiful one But Is an essential element OF Gods
scheme Of the world"
Consider the import Of this. Here Is former chan
ceror OF the German empire saunch defender OF Prus-
sian mllarism endorsing the sentiment that peace Is
not even beautiful and that Is pleasing to God.
War as the Germans wage It means innocent people
assassnaed at night the free ocean highways means
non-combatant Bcglans deportcd into slavery means lit
tie children murdered by bombs dropped from airplanes
upon quiet English sohoolhouses means soldiers stran
sled by all kinds OF hdcous poisonous gases.
And at this late day at the very time when German
agents all over Tho world shouting peace one OF the
most prominent Germans in the world finds 1t in his
heart 10 cry up war as a glorious thing, necessary
thing and TO decry peace idle dream.
he smoke a truer word than he knew. War is glorious
thing waged as II Is by the free peoples OF the world &
free themselves from the prusson menace Peace IS in
deed an idle dream long the Hohenzollerns an'
their plant and supple servants Of the Won Buelow trib
rule tho desnies OF the German people.
It is part OF our Job 20 make peace something mor
than an idle dream. It is part Of our task 20 make
peace an enduring and permanent and solid thing-no
dream but reality respondent i'm s meaning for
world finally freed from the menace Of the whoesa
murder that Is