Williston graphic., 1918-07-18

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PEACE BY VICTORY THE ONLY WAY
The Manitoba Free Press: The most significant
feature of President Wilson's address its declara
ton of fight to the finish The President and people
he speaks for have become fully converted to the view
that the Huns have got be beaten thoroughly there
is to be any hope of future of for the world
At the very outset of the war the allied govern
ments made it clear that this which would
have to 60 until it ended in complete victory In
this view they did not carry their people, as unit
with them There minorities in all the allied
countries who challenged the doctrine of the war to the
finish expression of Imperialism 1t was the view
of these people that the had been brought about
by the conflicting interests of greedy ruling classes;
and it held that if by means the democraces
of these countries could get control and meet about
conference table peace by consent could be obtained
that would be permanent.
As was natural under the circumstances this view
very strongly held in the United States The peo-
pie of that country could not bring themselves to be-
ieve that this what said to be by those
who knew it at first hand: conspiracy against the
freedom of the whole world by the most sinister COM
bnation of military despots that the world has ever
Even after the United States was forced into the
by the series of German insults to her honor as
nation there still this expectation that the war,
desperate it had become, would still be settled by
diplomacy.
year ago, following the entrance of the United
States into the war; there much talk OF an ADJUST
ment of the war by agreements that would patch up
the map of Europe that all parties to the dispute
would nominaly get something out of it. Even the
bood-stained ramshackle empire of Austria, hoary
with its centuries of OPPRESSION to be preserved
but the subject races which have been the victims OF
Austrian and Magyar tyranny, were to be given a
measure of autonomy under federal constitution The
punds theorists, Ausrophis, pacsts and defeatlsts
were busy as bees in all the allied countries planning
"peace without victory; while Germany encouraged
the movement, which she knew must operate IN favor
of German peace, by various manoeuvres including
the hvpocritical reichstag resolution Of last July.
The unanswerable logic of events has now convert
ed to the earlier that peace only come through
victory all those who questioned It, except the lr-
reducble minimum Of cranks defeatists nonresisters
and cravens to be found in all countries. The progress
sve development of President Wilson's views to the
conclusion which he declared Thursday has been
mrrored in his successive speeches; there has never
been so frank and candid revelation of the workings
of statesman's mind. Two months ago he said at
Baltimore in effect that he had been driven regret
fully to the conclusion that nothing but the application
of force to the limit would meet the requirements of
the
In his Fourth of July speech he nailed his colors to
the mast Speaking for himself and for the great
ton whose will he embodies he declared for a war ~
the finish "The settlement must be final. There
be no compromise. No halfway decision would be
tolerable. No halfway decision is considerable"
There nothing left of the acclaimed doctrine OF
peace without victory Peace by victory, by the beat
ing of Kasersm and its legons into the dust is the
only conceivable objective. This is the overwhelming
conviction today of the allied peoples. The circle has
been completed; and the view which prevailed at the
opening of the is again predominant; Victor must
be achieved whatever it costs nothing short of this is
tolerable conceivable In this conviction let 60
forward.
GR-A-P-H-1c
OUR TOWN OF TWENTY SIEGES
Opening Dumas at random--t happened to be his
"Forty- five Guardsmen"-the Of Chateau -Thier
ry flashed from the page, says Golfers It
ought to have known all about the town the Marne
long before America made it battle ground! In
Dumas's story the Due dAnjou, favorite brother OF
Marguerite De Valois and heir presumptive of Henri
Ill., had suffered defeat in Flanders, where the people
opened the dkes and drowned his soldiers He dread
ed to return to court and chose rather retire
Of his castles. 1T good distance from Paris about
twenty-eight leagues, and watch from thence
MN. De Guise who are half the years at Soissons."
The duke went to his death, for it was at Chateau
Thierry that he posoned-as happened rather often
in the sixteenth century.
Already the castle was very DID, tradition says it
was built in 720 by Charles Martel to palace
prison Therry w. the young king of the Franks
writer for the Societe Historque Archeoogquc du
have been destroyed by the original Huns in 45l Ger
tainy Chateau Thierry has figured in nearly every i'm
portant struggle in France It repelled the English