The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-07
PAPERS SAY BOCHE
MUST SURRENDER
sTimes' and "Tribune" Want
Fight to Finish Made
Plain to Germany. ,
NO BARGAIN, WORLD IDEA
Let FOch Keep on Hammering
Until the Cracking Foe Is
Broken, "Herald' View.

New York newspapers comment this
morning as follows on Germany's latest
peace paneuvre:
The Times:
'It is now nearly four years since the
TimeS put certain questions to the
German people: Will the Germans
blindly insist on having their Waterloo.
their Sedan-their ST. Henela, too? A
million Germans have been sacrificed, a
million German homes are desolate.
Must other millions die and yet other
millions mourn before the people Of
Germany take in the court OF reason
and human liberty their appeal from the
imperial and military caste that PUSHES
them to their ruin Since that day
many more millions have died, and Ger
many Is a land Of anguish. II Is time
to ask again If that people will not
break its chains and be free to join the
peoples OF other nations in the pact Of
peace and civilization.
I'm no other way can they qualify
for that great fellowship. The door
will never be opened by false hearted
proposals for negotiation such as the
Chancellor now makes, belied in this
very moment OF their making by the
arrogant words OF the Kaiser. who in
his proclamation 10 the army and the
navy yesterday announced that he had
decided, In accord with our allies, over
| again TO offer peace to the enemy, but
II will only be an honorable peace for
which we extend our hands. That is
SUFFICIENT proof either that Wilhelm does
! not know what is going on or that the
proposal Of Prince Macmillan Is not
made In good faith.
| president Wilson does know what Is
going on. No man on earth Is better
informed, none better understands the
| German purposes. He can be trusted TO
make an answer to these overtures
which will leave no doubt as to the
determination of Germany's foes to pur-
| sue their victories until she can fight no
| more. until surrender In forced upon
her. and with II security against any
further disturbances OF the peace from
| that quarter. The American people
stand as one man behind the President
| In the resolve that the end OF this war
shall destroy the satanic Potsdam power
and the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg
dynasties. In tho court of peace the
! imperial criminals will stand in the
prisoners dock awaiting a sentence that
will disqualify them for any place in a
league of nations"
The Tribune:
Little as the Germans know OF the
moral values which the rest Of us will
save or perish in the effort. they seem
to know even less about the tempera.
ment OF the American people.
".Vd they now apparently think we
are willing TO embrace peace because II
can be proved that It would be to oul
material advantage to tnd tile war
at Is true that we have laid dowr
certain abstract conditions OF peace, bu
these concern only our allies and our
solves exclusively. and are not open Il
Germany FOR discussion
I 1--WE have laid down one condition o.
war-one only-and that is to use force
force 10 the utmost. force without stin
or limit. until WEI shall have destroyed
forever in this world the indecent, in
tolerable. criminal thing that now hold!
out its dripping hand
Tell your people that. Prince Maxi
milan OF Baden. and II they can under
stand an epoch may begin
Germany Cannot Bargain.
The World:
"Autocracy is whipped and knows 4
is whipped. and that presently It will b,
compelled to acknowledge the fact
!. Knowing these things, autocrac,
will be heard from again and again will
increasing humility, no doubt. before
its guilt and failure admitted-it fna!l!
sues for terms.
when that hour strikes, all pre-
fences will have been stripped away
There will be no hallucination anywher,
in Germany that autocracy is to hav,
the power TO bargain for peace
graciously bestowed by autocracy
There will be no liberation anywhere il
Austria Hungary. the blood guilty in
strument OF mlitarism, for the state
ment appearing in its note now at han,
that it has been fighting only defen
sive war The peace to come, whethe
near or remote, will not be grounded
upon German boasts and insinceritie