Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-17
HIND PEACE TERMS
GODS, NOT WODEN'S'
Qh,i Sharp Williams Dis.
kt1sses s'Generous, Demo-
Z cratic, Permanent Peace

w "a peace that Is a peece must be
1enerous, democratic and permanent
4etIsred John Sharp Williams, United
Mates Senator from Missouri. addressing
Z 'the coEyention of the League To En-
fore Peace, at the Academy of Music
t5day.
Senator william Spoke on. The
4 Only Peace Worth Having" He said
a pert:
'1n the present war a real peace is TO
3 be found in a world treaty, promul-
rated by us, constituting the concert of
& Europe and America, and accepted by
Il 5erunany and her rassal states-three
s 81 whom, by the way. Turks, Bulgars
and Magyars-are Mongols in origin
s and not Aryans.
X Is lie that Germany is fighting
the world
The unspeakable Turks, the brutal
BuIgar and the Hapsburg medieval
autocracy and the proud Hungarian
aristocracy are on her side, as are
more -or less hiddenly. the autocratic
and aristocratio forces everywhere on
( the earth.
IA peace which is a peace" must be.
frst. Just end generous 3rd, demo-
cratie 4th, permanent or promising
+ per1nanency
II must remove. first. present occa-
sions Of war End, the world temptation
\ which invited war: 3rd. all future re-
Z course to new and barbarouS war eX-
Z pedients
But a. peace that is a peace must he
logical You cannot apply one rule to
our allied races and another to our
enerny races
For Homogeneous Unity
The Germans in the Tyrol and in
8 Austria have right to be Germans and
70 belong to the German Empire. Ger
e many will then be stronger by addition
& Of Homogeneous Germans and by sub
traction of alien and unfriendly sub
jects, although her dream of world
domination and of industrial, military.
naval and kultur supremacy will have
been dissipated. This addition Of the
Germans to Germany will at one and
the same time render the just peace OF
which have spoken, generous and
even magnanimous peace.
Thus must we minimize the danger
Of recurrence of wars. But that is not
all; a real peace treaty must also pro-
vide against war atrocities, If alas now
and then, some wars should come any
how.
How are the temptations Of war to
Z be removed? To remove them disarma-
= ment and arbitration must come.
No Army TO Exceed 100000
The treaty of peace. II Il real treaty,
4 should contain n provision that no coun-
+ try shall support an army OF more than,
say, 450, 900 men trained for war. Even
Belgium, Holland, Switzerland. Servia'
80 Ia n nd
the most part does keep that many men
rnobiIized. The greatest nations-Brit-
ain. France, Germany, Japan, the
United States--need no more unless
5fhev mean to be offensive-premediate
offense-- are seeking advantage before
hand by the anticipated quick use OF
force.
All that would follow is that none -ot
A them could by surprise murder sleep
ing world. as Germany and Austria
hoped to do and came so near doing.
But is a treaty sufficient? No There
must be behind it what the lawyers 81
"a &inappropriately call sanction "-reail,
penalty-ultimately force : in a word
"a league of nations to enforce botf
the settlements or to break agreed prom
fses must know that IL will put 'tsel
beyond the place of the law
Must Arrest Outlaw Nation
In word an outlaw nation, like ar
outlaw individual. shall be arrested anc
penalized This shall be the case If II
4 dare GO to war without first offering &c
4 leave points in controversy to fair and
y IMPARTIAL arbtramen1, or II. being Al
war. 1t shall perpetrate prohibited atroc.
tiles.
That time will come virtually only
when Germany and Austria vacatt
s France and Belgium and SerVia, wheI
y Germany retires behind the Rhine ant
when the German Reichstag-the Kaiser
& BY himself is not sufficient because W.
+ cannot believe him and his very breatl
Is poisoned<gas while his thoughts arr
insane obsessions--when the Reichstai
hEf solemn resolution asks what term
we,tpropose
81 are Gods terms. Not Woden's, no
x Thor's. nor. Frey's. but our God's-th
4 God Of Right which in the long run
Might--the God of Justice and love, VIII
being mo respecter of persons Is ais
the God of human equality and fra
fernity and freedom.
We will talk of 1t no more then eve
now except academcally until some
body Representing the German and Aus
" trisn peoples not alone the insan
Kaiser of the one nor the vassal kaise
Of the other-shall indicate their At
ceptance OF what they know we sha
& propose.
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