Arizona republican., 1917-01-17
Peace is Clearly Distant

leak" og the presidents peace note 10 the powers, in spite of the secrecy which attended its transmission and the rather ostentatious and un- necessary statement Washington after publicity given to it in Europe, that the president had not taken his closest advisers into his confidence gardng the of the note or the fact that the note was to be transmitted. But is certain that there was crash in the stock market the next day and wAs attributed the prospect of peace which had been made to appear brighter by the action of the president
 Undoubtedly if there had been Teak" the crash would {have occurred. and whether there leak or not neither the character of the note fact that note had been created any surprise when the note made public. The president had done oPly what thoughtful felt he would do. and the thoughtful men were aware that 1t would go about far toward restoring peace it has The manipuators of stock market needed Teak" for their purposes A rumor falsehood serves their purposes sufficiently.
 Only certain or a reasonable prospect of peace would appear to the average intelligent a for disturbance of the market. and could have in any possible action of the presi dent the slightest contribution prospect peace
 On the contrary the action by him has suited in making clearer that the beigerents not any time within the early future peace That might have been easily foreseen. with the natural effect that the market would have been strengthened rather than broken
 To what degree this has been made clear we learn from the London Weekly Observer. which devotes an entire page to MT. Wilson's peace note Says the Observer:
 To the joy of Berlin and the amazement of the allies memorable mistake has been made the White House That mistake jeopardises all the ben efieent possibilities of the role which still be reserved for the American president stage. It is the chief purpose of this article consider the may be remedied In weighing respect and understanding against the heavy of honest censure and repudiaton that is demanded we shall endeavor even to hold the scales with even hand There may be either of good bad in this situation than appears or the surface but the first thing is to consider the strange and almost applicable wrong which MT. Wilson does to the tra- ditions of his country the truth of his- tory, and the conscience of mankind when he seems to place Germany and the allies the moral level by suggesting that their motives and 1ects are the same. There has been nothing like this since Lincoln had to grapple with the that slavery could be proved by Scripture and common sense to be as moral it's opposite. Father Abra- t ham wished in reply that all who defended slavery might feel it. But Mir Wilson will never defend the violation of neutrality Then how he evade fixing the guilt?
 Further commenting on the the Observer re- marks:
 Successful intervention is which requires consummate address The first business of an in- tending mediator is to make a good atmosphere to create confidence in his skill and understanding To say the right thing is much in these cases; avoid the wrong thing is much The presidents peace prelude strikes dscords which jar the allies from head to foot Mir Wilson writes words which are more astonishing the more they studied He takes the liberty of calling attention
 to the fact that the objects which the states
 men of the belligerents both sides have
 in mind in this war are virtually the same as
 stated in general terms to their own people
 and 10 the world. Each side desires to make
 the rights and privileges of weak peoples and
 small states as secure against aggression or
 denial in the future the rights and priv
 ileges of the great and powerful states now
 war"
 We are certain that the president did realize now these words would be construed. They seem to present Germany with a gratuftous certificate of moral equality. They take the Hun out of oi,aran- tine and provide him with clean bill of health They seem by inference to condone the rape Belgium to accept 1t as an act of self defense put victim and wolators on the same footing It is view. assert again which the conscience of mankind will repudiate as long as the world endures Otherwise:
 By what names shall Right and Wrong be known? What new and courtly phrases must we feign For Falsehood. Murder and all monstrous crimes?
 On that point MT Wilson, whatever he may have meant has not only had the misfortune to say wrong thing, but out of d thousand possible wrong things he says that which is precisely the most offensive to the allies that could have conceived To the passage have quoted MT. Wilson adds an- other strange remark
 "The objects for which 1t nhe
 war) is being waged have never been defin-
 itely stated"
 It was the assumption by the president that the belligerents were either equally blind or equally bameworthy that has given the allies 50 great of- fense; his failure to distinguish between right and wrong, his mania for peace at any price, regardless of right or wrong Quoting from James Martineau in Studies in Christianity" have "The rever- ance for human life is carried immoral idolatry when is held more sacred than justice right and when the spectacle of blood becomes horrible