Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-03-04

termination of the accused power oil
Germany, which has filled the would
with blood and sorrow.
This is no time to talk of peace
or to think of peace.
Any man in this country, or IN that
of any of the Allies, who utters one
word in behalf Of peace until Gs"-
MANY has been beaten to its knees
is false to the greatest moral issue
which the world have ever faced.
Peace talk is pro-German talk; t
is talk with rampant, blood-stained,
red-handed murderers, and lnterna-
tional and individual rapist, and is
disgrace to any man of moral
character who utters word in is
behalf.
Indeed, no man or woman having
due appreciation of the fearful i'm
morality of Germany can possibly
look with any degree of favor what
soever upon any other peace with
Germany than the peace which lie
law makes with the Individual muir
derer and rapist when forced to pas
the just penalty of his crime.
This is not the time to talk peace.
This is the time to stir the fight
ing spirit of America, and in TINS
way revivify and strengthen the flgtlt-
inc spirit of England, France, Bel
..ium, Italy, Serbia and Roumanla,
who for nearly four years have pour
ed out their blood to save the world
from destruction by barbarism.
Any suggestion of peace on any
other terms than the complete de-
strueton of the military power OF
Germany and the punishment unto
death Of those responsible for Ger
manys actions would be merely the
offering of a premium upon crime,
and such a suggestion would be
disgrace to the moral fiber Of any
man who uttered the thought.
There can be no peace with the
red-handed murderer, no peace with
the rapist except that peace which
the law enforces in all civilized conf
munities against such black crimes,
and there can be no other basis Of
peace with Germany than the en-
forcement of the same laws and to
the same extent.
This has been the position of the
Manufacturers Record from the be-
ginning of this great contest, and
from this there cannot be any dissent
by any right-minded, honest-hearted,
moral-thinking man.
We cannot think of placing pre-
premium upon such crimes without
disgracing our mothers, our wives,
our daughters and all womanhood.
I'VE cannot think of welcoming
hack without contrition and without
punishment the ,coldzblooded murder
er and outrager of women and chill
dren, neither can we think of welcom-
ing back in to world society, except
through punishment and contritlon,
those who internationally and in
dividually have stained the pages Of
history with blood and sorrow, and
as never before in all human ex-
perieEce.
This is no time to talk pesce.
This is the time to talk war, to
talk fight, the time when the nation,
like the individual community, must
determine to suppress the criminal
rather than yield to his crimes.
This is the time when the nation
on Bonded knees may well ask A.
mighty God to strengthen its power
to fight in order that it may do the
work to which He has called us as
clearly as He ever called any man
or any nation to any great task since
the beginning of time.
Our supreme duty is to fight.
The supreme business of this ma
ton is to win the war, and never to
count that it has been won until there
is. a complete, unconditional surren
der by Germany, and until Ger
manys murderers, from the highest
on the throne, have paid the full
penalty of their crimes.