The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1918-10-17
An Editorial.
BY c. S. YORK.


swerabe by one another But the editor of The
Herald has asked to write editorial on this SUBJ
ject. shall try but if into these answers write my
feelings have some doubt if the article is published
for the things may say might enfame the paper and
will not stand for censoring when pouring red-hot
shots into the ranks of the enemy either verbal or lead
en-.
AS say, one mans opinion to when the
Will end and peace come is good another mans.
SHALL therefore, not concern myself by attempting
nix dates when the white-wnged dove shall spread
its pinions over the war-blackened world. The day,
and the hour and the when this happy event,
vouty prayed for shall come u.s. at present of secon-
Diary importance-it may in ten days. ten weeks
or it may not come in ten years. don't know. Nei-
ther does anyone else. But do know be the
time long or short, the struggle now going on must
be waged to the bitter end The allied powers have
decided upon that. President Wilson has spoken so
have the rulers of England, France and Italy. The
decision is right and the approval of the entire
liberty-loving world.
No doubt the Hun his finish written in letters of
blood upon the dome of his ignolinious fate There
isn't hali the Kick in him that he had time ago
Ills feet are getting cold The ceaseess thunder of
line OF cannon six hundred miles long will let him
rest day nor night. The Central Powers now con-
vnced they cannot win the What they want to
Go to call it off, and if possible retain some of the
loot that has fallen into their hands So to speak
they want to their face from being beaten into an
unrecognizable pulp. The Kaiser and his three
satety-pn want to escape from just retribution
They want to substitute diplomacy for cannon. They
want to quit, but only for while, as all the world
knows, while their main purpose is the hope to win at
another time, maybe long years hence, when the dove
of peace has forgotten the story of the past They
made yaSty ckaCa Of
peoples; made countless hearts culver and bleed
such unspeakaDle terror pain, that they believe
long night of forgetfuness and abhorrence for war
would settle down upon the world, while they left in
their strength, might at distant day. strike again,
like thief in the night and find the other nations
prepared as they We're when Germany sent her egons
OF armed soldiers out to murder liberty four ago.
We are all OF us, prone o think of past
cent history, something horrible that they can never
happen in the enlightened age in which we live But
shall that time again? Shall that hell-born
danger impend? Never! When this war is over
all wars shall cease. For out of this great darkness,
God has led us far the way; the glory brighter
tomorrow beckons onward, and that peace for
which we strive shall only when Christ again
walks upon the troubled waters, and bids the waves
of war be stilled
is true history record all the great wars of the
world have come to final decision So will this war
The day must come when all the flags will be folded
when all the swords shall be returned to their scab-
bards For the nearnesS of this time we can only
hope and pray. while now we must all of us fight
like wild cats to the bitter end.
This war will end. But the question is: When?
The best answer give is when Germany is COM
petey, finally and forever reduced military scrap
pile, and made helpless to do harm black snake
with its head chopped off
Since the peace talk started lots of folks are
wondering when our boys are coming home. can tell
you, and it won't take but few words In the first
place, not through going over there, yet. We
going to send two million-three million
four million-five mion-maybe ten million, because
going to send every soldier necessary to finish
whipping Old Bill Kaiser to a frazzle. 1t matters not
how many that may be- We've got the men and the