The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-08
Only Successful End Is an
Unconditional Surrender
by Germany
WE MUST MOBILIZE
EVERY RESOURCE
Former Justice Charles E. Hughes SAYS
Loan Sales Show the Nations In
flexible Resolve-Must Not Think of
Particular Limit


NEW YORK, May S-The war will
come TO a successful end only if Ger
many shall be completely conquered
and shall be compelled to surrender I'M
conditionally.
SO declared MajorGen. J. Franklin
Bell in an address delivered at the
opening of the Officers House under the
auspices of the New York war camp
community service.
at is deplorable but true he said,
." that not only our young army officers
but our people at large have failed to
be impressed with che fact that we are
not fighting for France or for England
or Italy or Serbia, or any of our other
allies, past and present, but that we are
literally and absolutely fighting for our
selves There is not the slightest doubt
on earth that if Germany were permit,
ted to militarize the whole of Russia
and middle Europe, Turkey, Bulgaria
and such other allies as she will be able
to make in the future the time would
soon come when no power and no com
bination of powers on earth could stand
up against her might.
"a thoughtful man who reads the
history and the literature of Germany
cannot help but realize that Germany 3
dream or ambition is to dominate the
earth. There is no question but that
Germany is responsible for this war, at
least the German emperor. Other peo-
pie may have wanted it, but he could
have prevented it, and he failed to do
SO Intentionally. He had the best op-
portunity in the world at least to post
pone it if not to prevent it entirely
He failed to take advantage of it. He
wanted the war. He wanted the war
because he is the ruler of a predatory
nation, nation which fully expected
to profit by the war, and which had
been preparing for 40 years to profit by
! the war.
cit is a nation which would stop al
nothing, and If this war is not fought
! by the allies to a successful conclusion
the United States may have some time
to undertake the struggle alone for the
protection and the safeguarding of oul
own freedom, our own liberty and on
own privilege to live under a form OF
government which was established yer,
largely by this people because they pre-
ferred that type of government
"The only Successful conclusion from
our viewpoint to this war is that Ger
many shall be completely conquered
and shall be compelled TO surrender un
eonditionallv. She has had a sever
years war, a 10 years war, 80 years
war. Sac has never in her history sur
rendered unconditionally She has al
WAYS held on. and on more than one oc
casion fought against the whole of Eu
rope in coalition against her, an
fought long enough to compel her en-
emies to make compromise peace
Nothing on the face of the earth bu
! unconditional surrender will convinc
the German of today that he is not onl
unable but unfit to dominate the eartf
he has got to be conquered, he has GO
to be brought to his knees as a sup
plant for mercy. Otherwise, he vii
claim that ne has been successful, an
there is no telling what the result ma,
be. -
Former Justice Charles f. Hughe
was equally firm in his conviction tina
the government would have TO mobiliz
ITS every resource to bring about s.
complete victory that Germany woul,
surrender Internationally.
Just now our attention is directe,
to the use of every means to provide a
quickly as possible an adequate fore
to make victory surc,' he said. "W
are not counting the number of men, W
want all the men that are needed w
are not thinking of a particular limi
on the amount of money. We propose E
supply all the money that is required
One cannot but be impressed with tn
present state of feeling throughout tn