The Washington herald., 1918-10-11
LANSING SAYS
END is NEAR
Peace VIII Come, He As
serts, on Basis of Will
sons Terms.

L.
of State Lansing. in an address here
tonight, declared this period of the
war to be the beginning of the
end" He spoke at a dinner in cele-,
bration of the one hundredth ami
versary Of Auburn Theological Sem
mary.
For four long years the armies
of the allies have heroically with
stood the legions OF the Beast,
he declared. These war-worn vet
Grams, whose unfaltering valor
knows no equal. are today. with
the splendid men of this Republic
by their side, sweeping back the IN
vaders broken in spirit, suilen and
hopeless. It is the beginning OF the
end. The hour OF triumph is draw
ing near. The day of the war-lords
is almost over"
The s.COmIng Era"
The subject. of the secretary's ad-
dress was, The Spirit OF the Com
ing Era"-the ear after the war.
Peace will come, the Secretary said,
on the basis of the Presidents terms.
therefore all should stand rigidly in
support of the principles on which
these bases are founded.
When peace comes, he added. II will
be a just peace which will satisfy the
lust, but not the unjust wishes of all
peoples. But. he declared: when
the time comes to balance the account
and it seems to be drawing near as
the vassals Of Germany seek refuge
from the day Of wrath-the authors Of
the frightful wrongs committed
against mankind should not be for
gotten" A lasting peace. Mr.. Lans-
ing said. could not be one written in
terms Of anger. 1t will not come,
though, he made plain. while the
beast is still at large"
Brotherhood of Man.
You, who are present tonight,
continued the Secretary. believing in
the brotherhood of man, know, as
know, that the American people ought
not. after the war is won. to cherish
pitiless hate for all those who have
served the military dictators Of Cen
tral Europe. We should discriminate
between the ignorant and the intelli-
gent. between the responsible and fr-
responsible. between the master and
the serf. 1t seems to me that it is the
Tlain duty OF all those who can in
fiuence public opinion in this country
to so guide American thought. that
passion will not prevent the putting
into operation of a wise plan for the
readjUstment of the world when
peace is restored.
There is also another influence
which Christian men and women must
combat il this new era is to be an era
Of nobler life and loftier ideals than
that which has ended in the grim
scenes of death and suffering we have
witnessed. For years We, as a peo-
pie, have fallen more and more under
the influence Of materialism- Physical
pleasure and ease became the objects
of chief desire.
Abnormal Development.
THE abnormal development of ma
terialistic ideas in the German mind
was a potent force; possibly the
potent force in arousing the lust
for dominion, which was the under
lying cause Of this conflict of the
nations. 1t is the verdict of his
tory that a cold calculating mate
rialism sows in the life of a people
the seeds of degeneracy rather than
the seeds of progress. Materialism
as the basic idea Of the new order
of things will revive those very i'm
pulses to do evil, which the world
today abhors.
The years to come must be years
Of fraternity and common purpose.
Unreasoning class hatreds and class
tyrannies must come to an end.
Society must be organized on
principles of justice and liberty.
The world must be ruled by the
dominant will to do that which is
right. I see no other complete So
luton to the great problems which
will soon engrOss the thought of
mankind, no other means of de-
stroying forever that soulless ma
teriaIism which plunged the nations
into these years Of agony"