Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-15

peace. peace has been the talk OF her
Foreign Office for now 4 year and more:
not peace upon her own initiative. but
upon tho initiative OF tho nations over
which She now deems herself to hold
the advantage. A little Of the talk
has been public, but the most of it
has been private. Through all sorts
of channels 1t has como TO mo, and In
all sorts OF Guiscs. but never with the
terms disclosed which the German gov
ernmont would DO willing to accent.
That government has other valuable
pawns in its hands besides those I
have mentioned. 1t still holds Il valua-
BILE part Of France. though with slowly
relaxing grasp. and practically the
whole of Belgium. It's armies press
close upon Russia and ovcrrun Poland
at their will. II cannot go further; it
dare not go back. 1t wishes to close
its bargain before 1t is too late and it
has little left to offer for the poun,.
OF flesh it will demand
THEIR POWER WILL FALL.
LIKE IIOSSE OF CARDS
The military masters under whom
Germany is bleeding see very ci.arl,
to what point fate has brought them.
II they fall back or are forced back
an inch, their power both abroad and
at home will fall to pieces like house
of cards. 1t is their power at homo
they are thinking about now more
than their power abroad. 1t is that
power which is trembling under their
very feet: and deep fear has entered
their hearts. They have but one
chance to perpctuate their military
power or even their controlling politi-
cal influence. If they can secure peace
now with the immense advantages still
in their hands which they have up TO
this point apparently gained they will
have justified themselves before IN,
German people. II they fail
their people will thrust them aside: a
government accountable to the people
themselves Will be set up in Ger,nan,
as 1t has been in England. in tho
United States, in France. and in All
the great countries of the modern time
except Germany. II they succeed
they are safe and Germany and the
world are undone; If they fail. Ger
many is saved and tho world will be
at peace. II they succeed. Amertc;,
Will fall within the menace We ana
all the rest OF the world must remain
armed. AS they will remain, and must
make ready for the next step in their
unite for peace and Germany may be
OF the union.
HESITATE AT NOTHING
TO EFFECT PURPOSE
do you not now understand the new
intrigue. tho intrigue for peace. and
why the masters OF Germany do not
hesitate to use any agency that prom
Uses to effect their purpose. the deceit
OF the nations? Their present particu-
lar aim is to deceive all those who
throughout the world stand for the
rights Of peoples and the Selt-rovern-
mcnt of nations: for they see what inn
mense strength the forces OF justice
and of liberalism are gathering out OF
this war. They are employing liberals
in their enterprise. They are using
mon. in Germany and without, as their
spokesman whom they have hitherto
despiscd and oppressed using them for
their own struction-Socialists. the
leaders OF labor. the thinkers they havc
hitherto sought to silence. Let them
once succeed and these men. now their
tools. will he ground to powder beneath
tho weight OF tho great military en-
3ire they will have set up: the revolu-
tionists in Russia will be cut off from
all Succor or cooperation in Western
Europe and counter-revolution, fos-
tered and supported by Germany. will
crush them; Germany herself will lose
her chance OF freedom; and all Europe
will arm for the next, the final strug-
Ele.
The sinister intrigue is being no less
actively conducted in this country than
in Russia. and in every country in Eu-
rope to which the agents and dupes OF
tho imperial German government can
set access That government has many
spokesman here, in places high and
low They have learned discretion
They keep within the law. It is opinion
they utter now. not sedition. They
proclaim the liberal purposes OF their
declare this Il foreign war
which can touch America with no dan
ger to either her lands or her institu-