Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-01

councils of plain men have become on
all hands more simple and straight
forward and more unified than the
councils of sophisticated men OF al
fairs who still retain the impression
that they are playing Il game of pow
cr and playing for high stakes. That
is why | have said that this is Il peo-
PIES war; not a statesman's.
statesmen must follow the clarified
common thought or be broken.
Burden Upon Statesmen.
~ take that to be the significance OF
the fact that assemblies and associa-
tions OF many kinds made up of plain
workaday people have demanded al
most every time they came together,
and are still demanding. that the lead
crs of their governments declare TO
them plainly what it is, exactly what
it Is. that they were seeking in this
war. and what they think the items of
the final settlement should be. They
are not yet satisfied with what they
have been told. They still seem to fear
that they are getting what they asked
for only in statesmens terms-only in
the terms of territorial arrangements
and division of power, and not in
terms of broad d-visioncd justice and
mercy and peace and the satisfaction
of those deep seated longings of op-
pressed distracted men and women and
enslavcd peoples that seem TO them the
only things worth fighting a war for
that cngulfs the world. Perhaps
statesmen have not always recognized
this changed aspect of the whole
world of policy and action. Perhaps
they have not always spoken in direct
reply to the questions asked because
they did not know how searching
rnose questions Were and what sort Of
answers they demanded.
But /, for one, am glad to attempt
the answer again and again, in the
hope that l may make II clearer and
clearer that my one thought IS 10 sat-
isfy those who struggle in the ranks
and are, perhaps above all others, en-
titled TO n reply whose meanings no
one can have any excuse for misun-
dcrStanding. If he understands the Ian
guage in which 1t is spoken or can get
someone to translate it correctly into
his own.
No "Terms" Wanted.
And believe that the leaders OF
the governments with which we are
associated will speak. as they have
occasion. as plainly as I have tried to
speak. | hope that they will feel free
20 say whether they think that am in
any degree mistaken in my interpre-
tation of the issues involved or in my
purpose with regard to the means by
which satisfactory settlement OF
those issues may be obtained. Unity
of purpose and of council are as i'm
pcrativcly necessary in this war as was
unity of command in the battlefield:
and with perfect unity of purpose and
council will come assurance of COM
plete victory. IL can he nau IN no Oln-
~ way. Peace drives can he effect
lively neutralized and silenced only by
showing that every victory of the ma
tions associated against Germany
brings the nations nearer the sort Of
peace which will bring security and
reinsurance to all peoples and make
the recurrence of another such strug-
gle of pitiless force and bloodshed for
ever impossible and that nothing else
can. Germany is constantly intimat-
ing the. terms she will accept; and
always finds that the world does not
want terms. 1t wishes the final tri-
umph of justice and fair dealing"