The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-04
A KANSAN IN NEW YORK.
CHAPTER XXI.
Win the War for Permanent Peace

At the Philadelphia convention
there were so many notable addresses
that it is pretty difficult to differen-
tiate; but a few lines from the more
prominent ones will probably not be
out of place before this subject is dis
missed.
The many and varied talks of for
mer President Taft were on the whole
the most interesting ard the most eff
fective. This seems to be true even
considering the many big men who
gave of their time and talents to at
tend ana speak before the various
meetings, luncheons and dinners of
the Win the War for Permanent Peace
convention.
"A peace that is a peace must be
generous, democratic and permanent"
declared John Sharp Williams. United
States senator from Missouri, address
ing the convention.
Senator Williams made many telling
shots and hits. He boiled things down
and struck the bull's-eye repeatedly.
For instance, he said, on his subject.
1.-The Only Peace Worth Having"
SIN the present war a real peace is
to be found in a world treaty. promul-
gated by us, constituting the concert
of Europe and America. and accepted
by Germany and her vassal states.
at is lie that Germany is fighting
the world.
"The unspeakable Turks, the brutal
Bulgar and the Hapsburg medieval
autocracy and the proud Hungarian
aristocracy are on her side, as are
more or less hiddenly, the autocratic
and aristocratic forces everywhere on
the earth.
ga peace which is a peace must be.
first, just; second. generous; third,
democratic; fourth, permanent or
promising permanency.
''It must remove, first, present occa-
sions of war; second. the world temp
tation which invited war; third, all fu-
ture recourse to new and barbarous
war --pedients.
But a peace that Is a peace must
be logical. You cannot apply one rule
to our allied races and another to our
enemy races.
1.-The Germans in the Tyrol and in
Austria have 2. right to be Germans
and to belong to the German empire.
Germany will then be stronger by ad-
dition of homogeneous Germans and by
subtraction of alien and unfriendly
subjects. altho 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
magnanimous peace.
Thus must we minimize the danger
of recurrence of wars. But that is not
all; real peace treaty must also pro-
vide against war atrocities, if alas
now and then, some wars should come
anyhow.
How are the temptations of war to
be removed? To remove them dis
armament and arbitration must come.
1.-The treaty of peace, If a real treaty,
should contain a provision that no
country shall support an army of more
than. say, 100000 men trained for war.
Even Belgium, Holland, Switzerland,
Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumania, each can
and for the most part does keep that
many men modified.
1.-The greatest nations-Britain,
France, Germany, Japan, the United
States-need no more unless they
mean to be offensive-premedita
offense-are seeking advantage be-
forehand by the anticipated quick use
Of force.
"All that would follow Is that none
of them could by surprise murder a
sleeping world. as Germany and Aus
tria hoped to do and came so near do
ing.
But Is a treaty sufficient? No
There must be behind 1t what the law
yers so inappropriately call a sane
tion'-really penalty-ultimatel
force; in a word, "a league of nations
to enforce both the settlements or to
break agreed promises must know that
it will put itself beyond the place of
the law
"In a word. an outlaw nation, like an
outlaw individual, shall be arrested and
penalized. This shall be the case If it
leave points in Controversy a'' to fair and Id
war, it shall perpetrate prohibited atro c.
THAT time will come virtually only
when when. Germany snI ny,, and Austria vaeate
Germany retires behind the Rhine and
when the German reichstag-the kaiser
by himself is not sufficient because we
is poisoned gas while his thoughts are
insane obsessions-when the reichstag
by solemn resolution asks what terms
"They know what OUT terms are; They
oS 81 Right r Which but IN the long run
Might-the God of justice and love, who
being no respecter Of persons is also
the God Of human equality and fra
1--WE will talk Of it no more then even
now, except academically. until some
body representing the German. and Aus
trian peoples, not alone the insane
of the other-shall indicate their ac-
ceptance. of what they know we shall
propose"
had heard for years of men who
wore corsets and had Wallets. but until
this trip I had been without personal
experience covering the latter. and am
still lacking in any adjustments cover
ing the waist place embraced by the
former.
This is the way it occurred. and
there were two instances within a cou-
pie of weeks. strange as 1t may seem.
covering a period of over fifty years
when no such supernumerary found
any occupation with me. AS it may
be another fifty years before such a
thing happens again. it possibly will