The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-31

busines of ours how that great peopIe
came under it's control or submitted
with temporary zest to the domination
OF it's purposes; but it is our business
to see to it that the history of the rest
of the world is no longer left to its
handling.
Time to Recuperate
'To deal with such a power by way
OF peace upon the plan proposed Dy
his Holiness the Pope would, so far as
we can see, involve a recuperatin OF
its strength and a renewal of its pol
icy; would make it necessary to create
a permanent hostile combination OF
nations against the German people,
result in abandoning the new born
Russia to the intrigue, the manifold
subtle interference and the certain
counter revolution which would be al
tempted by all the malign influences
to which the German Government has
of late accustomed the world. Can
peace be based upon a restitution of
it's power or upon any word of honor
it could pledge in a treaty of settle
ment and accommodation"
lntolerable Wrongs
Irresponsible statement must now
everywhere see, if they never saw be-
fore, that no peace can rest securely
upon political or economic restrictions
meant. to benefit some nations and
cripple or embarrass others, upon vim
dictlge action or any action of any
sort, or any kind of revenge or de-
liberate injury. The American people
have suffered intolerable wrongs at
the hands of the Imperial German
Government, but they desire no re-
prisal upon the German people, who
have themselves suffered all things in
this war, whish they did not choose.
They beiieTe that peace should rest
upon the rights Of peoples. not the
rights of governments-the rights OF
peoples great or small, weak or pow
erful, their @oual right to freedom
and security and self-goverament, and
to a participation upon fair terms In
the economic. opportunities Of the
woEld1the German people, Of course
included IF they will accept equality
and not seek domination. !,
Test Of Peace Plans
.tThe test, therefore, OF every plan
OF peace is this: Is it based 'apon the
faith of all the peoples involved~er1
merely upon the word of an ambitious
and intriguing government, OF the
one hand, and of group Of Tree
peoples on the other? This is a test
which goes to the root'of the matter;
and it is the test which must be ,apt
piled.
"The purpose Of the Unsed States
III this war. are known to the whole
world--.to every people to whom the
truth Gas been permitted to come.
They do not neea to be state1agasn
We seek not paaterfa advangtage q
any kind we believe thai the in:
tolerabfs wrongs done in this war by
the furious and brutal power of the
Imperial German Government ough:
TO be repsissa, but hot at the expense!
of the sovereignty of any people,
rather vindfeation Of tbe sovereign
ty both OF those that are weak and
of those that are strong, Punitive.
damages, the dsamembered of en-
pires, Che establishment of selfish a6es
exclusive eeonsmic league we. 3eem,
inexpedient and in. the end worse thani
futile, no proper basis for a peaca,
of any kind, least of all for an. en-
during peace: that must be based
upon justice ana fairness and the conn.,
mon rights OF mankind. I
Let the feepre Speak I
1--WE cannot taks the ,words of. thA
present rulers of GeYmanysas a guar
antee Of anything that is to endurss
unless explicitly supported by sasa'
conclusive EVIDENCE of the will and
purpose of the tstqPan people thens
selves as the otheF peoples OF the.
world would be justified in accepSag.4
without such guarantees,streatiSs Of
settlement, agreements for disarma-
ment, covenants to.set ap arbitrat1oIs
in the place of force, territorial ,afS
justments, reconstruction of small ne