The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-07

Cleveland Plain Dealer: There is but one possible termination to the war. The fighters will never pause till Pots- damism is beaten down into the dust, until the Germany that seeks terms is non-Potsdam Germany.
 Baltimore Sun; There can be no safe peace but a dictated peace written With the sword When we reach that objec- tive. we can seriously discuss peace | principles and establish the basis for the
 new order, but until then the word
 'peace" is word of dishonor and dead I ly danger.
 1 Baltimore American: There can be no peace by negotiation with the central
 powers as at present organized This
 suggestion cannot be put too nakedly or bluntly. It is time for shirtsleeve direct ness.
 l Philadelphia Press: The proposition em- 1 anating from Germany, with Prince Max acting as the imperial mouthpiece should not be entertained. Only an ar | mistice based upon unconditional surren- I der should be considered. Peace | at this time would be a negotiated pact
 and would be virtually a victory for Germany.
 I Philadelphia Record: If the central 1 powers are ready to stop fighting, let l them stop and ask the allies for terms
 If they are not yet ready for that, they had better keep still and go on with l their fighting
 l Philadelphia Public Ledger: The last
 outspoken refusal of the President to l bargain or compromise" with men who | are without honor is final and abso- | lute The German peace offensive I will fail as the German military of- | fensive has failed
 l The Toledo Times: Peace, yes, but only that kind of peace dictated by the ai-
 lies-that kind of peace which is dictated
 at the swords point For the preserva-
 ton of poster1ty there must be no weak ening now. ~ I Columbus (Ohio) Disptach: We must
 not allow ourselves to grow soft toward l the enemy. We are at war with the
 most murderous lot of outlaws that has
 ever disgraced the earth
 | New York Herald: The hit dog yelps. From Berlin and Vienna comes simul- taneous peace walls. with the exhausted I Turk chewing feeble me too" . | What Prince Maximilian asks and all
 that he asks is peace by negotiations--l' Prussion peace | What he asks is an armistice it l is the same old trap. There will | be no armstice. There will be no ne l gotiations until Germany prefaces it's plea with unconditional surrender. we have just begun to fight.
 | New York Tribune: We have laid one 1 condition of war-one only-and that is l to use force force to the utmost. force without stint or limit, until we shall have | destroyed forever in this world the in decent, intolerable, criminal thing that now holds out it's dripping hands | Tell your people that, Prince Maximii- | ian of Baden, and If they can undef- | stand, an epoch may begin.
 1 New York World: Press reports give sufficient evidence that the military rulers of the central empires have at | last realized to some extent the Judg- 1 Aent that Is hanging over them :. To save what it can from the wreck what further motive can have inspired it (the imperial German govern ment) and it's Austrian vassal in renew ing so soon and in phrases so little l changed a proposal for a negotiated peacee The answer to this question, we believe, is that autocracy Is whipped and knows it is whipped. Au- 1 tocracy will be heard from again and again with increasing humility % l before it finally sues to terms. Washington Posti War to the limit war until the now humbled German Elm | peror hands over his dishonored sword; war untif Germany, instead of accept ling President Wilson's proposal" ten ders it's unconditional surrender; that. IS the plain duty of the allied nations. When Germany really wants peace she ] will know how to get it-that IS py withdrawing her armies from every foot of allied soil, in the west, in the Bal kans and in Russia.
 1, New York Staats Zeitung Further more he tPrince Maximilian lays em- phass upon the governmental reVoiu- 1 tions in Germany and Prussia that' n | the last few days, have prepared .ue l way for his appointment ana nates that this marks an epoch in na- | tional German life that can never again