South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-16

SNOON. JUNE rs, 1917
peoples including those who are trying to keel
out That has been the condition here IN America "
maintained strict neutrality ~p to the very poin
where neutrality ceased to be virtue and where it ha
been proven that fight order that neutralt
might retain virtuous standard
But no less important light that the presiden
throws upon imperial Germanys later maneuvers: he
toward peace her efforts respcnsi
bites The German autocracy realizes that il mus
win this fan II is asking peace while night
ing to the last ditch to save the German nation
or people or any other people but 10 saw
the auocracy itself Il is coming to feel the impress
Of the United States entering the war. such
purpose means autocr1cys ruin; hence either peace
Or victory anything TO retain itself is its latest aim
You nay have read IL before but will stand repeat
ng. where the president said:
The military masters under whom Germany
is bleeding very clearly TO what point fate
has brought them. II they fall back or are
forced back inch. their power both abroad
and at home will fall to pieces like house Of
cards their power al home they are
thinking about more than their power
abroad 1t is that power which is trembling
under their very feet; and deep fear has enter
ed their hearts. They have but chance TO
perpetuate their military power or even their
controlling political influence II they can Sc
peace with the immense advantage
still in their hands which they have up this
point apparently gained, they will have justified
themselves before the German people; they
will have gained by force what they promised
to gain by it, immense expansion of Ger
man power an immense enlargement Of GER
man industrial and commercial opportunities
Their prestige will be secure and with their
prestige their political power. If they fail
their people will thrust them aside; a govern
ment accountable to the people themselves
he up Germany
England. in the United states in France and
all the great countries of the
except Germany. II they succeed they are
safe and Germany the world are undone;
if they fail Germany is saved and the world
will be at peace. If they succeed, America will
fall within the menace. We and all the rest Of
the world must remain armed. as they will re-
main, and must make ready for the next step
i'm their aggression; if they fail the word may
unite for peace and Germany may be of the
union"
We are lighting the German peoples battle then a
well as our own, that with allies. 1t is not
war between peoples but against the German
military masters under whose thumb the German
people are being crushed while they are bndly fight
ing to keep their masters from being crushed. Tn
president has left little he said. He tn
whole ground Germany realizes that the Unite
States has entered the war, and her military masters
the autocracy-are steeling themselves save them
selves the downfall which that entrance prophe
sizes. They hghting for peace. now, almost har
as they have made and making war believing n
doubt their ultimate defeat, and anticipating tina
they more from unenforced than an en-
forced peace.
But the United States and the entente allies. car
accept no peace include the elimnatio
Of exactly those things which the German autocracy
trying hard save.