Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-22
mo UNHOLY PEACE
TO MOCK CIVILIZATION
Baltimore Paper Sends Telegram To
The President

Hon W WOODROW MnsOus
President of the United States,
Washington, ID. c.:
The worlds greatest murderer OF
innocent women and children, the
worlds greatest ravisher of nations
and OF individuals. the worlds vilest
exponent of autocracy and barbarism
begins TO see its inevitable doom be-
fore the righteous wrath and God
given power OF an awakened civiliza-
ton. and through every available
channel now seeks an unholy peace
peace which, if granted, would be
civilizations willingness To condone
the blacklist crimes that ever stained
the history OF mankinds- II our coun-
try should listen to this plea would
we not rightly call down upon our
selves the just wrath of an offended
God who would spew us out of HIS
mouth because, being neither hot nor
cold. we were lukewarm in the great
! est crisis of human history?
RICHARD H EDMONDS,
Editor Manufacturers Record"
The Manufacturers Record says
| further:
THE Catholic Church believes in
punishment for sin. 1t upholds virtue
and denounces sin in whatever guise
| il may be found. But the Pope seems
| TO have concluded that no punishment
| could possibly be devised sufficiently
| severe to match Germans sins, and
that. therefore, they might as well be
overlooked, and the vilest, blacklist,
| unrepentant sinners known in the
worlds history, the murderers of ba-
bies. the outragers of women be well
coined around a peace table where
| gentlemen are TO sit.
| Does the Pope have so little es-
| TEEN for virtue and so little hatred of
| sin in its vilest forms that, in the in
| terest of Austria and German, he
| the outraged women and the dead and
| dying babies which have followed as
| an unbroken trail wherever the pol
/ luted army of Germany has marched?
| Well did Belgium's heroic Cardinal
| Mercier say he thought the Pope had
been incorrectly quoted when he first
| heard the report of his message for
he could not believe that the Pope had
/ taken such a position.
J I'VE are sorry to think that one
| who, like the Pope, should stand I'M
| swervingly for honor and justice
among nations as among individuals
| could suggest that rapists are on a
par with men of honor, that murder
| ers of children should be the peace
| companions of the noblest men on
earth. Better death a thousand times
| with honor than a compact with hell
| merely for the sake of peace.
| "It is not conceivable that the Son
/ of God, whose bitter denunciation OF
| whited sepulchers filled with rotten
ness voiced His feeling against unre-
| pentant sin, would countenance an eff
fort TO bring about peace based on the
| right of the rapists to continue their
| hellish work, of the murderer of ba-
bies to keep on numbering them, OF
1.-THE Father of Lies to keep on lying
| and yet that is what the Pope in effect
proposes. We believe that his action
will go down in history as one of the
1 greatest mistakes ever made by a
/ Pope. and that it will to some extent
| weaken the fiber of some of his peo-
| pie. who can but feel that his peace
| proposal is an effort to overlook i'm
morality and rottenness, and that
therefore these sins are not as black
as the world had supposed. We are
sure that intelligent, consecrated
Catholics must deeply lament so great
| a mistake on the part of their church
leader
I'VE believe that the Pope lost. per-
haps. the greatest opportunity ever
| given to any religious leader in the
worlds history. If, regardless of the
sentimental ties which bind him to
Austria and Germany, he had boldly
proclaimed his denunciation of the
crimes of those countries, and de-
manded that they should do full PEN
ance and make reparation before the
world should be called TO consider
| peace, he would have placed the ban
ner of his church on the highest RAM
parts of human civilization. He would
for all ages have stood out-as one the
worlds great, daring leaders of
righteousness. But he missed this SUI
preme opportunity"