Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-25

means lasting peace or continual and
brutal warfare.
Do not let him listen to any peace
talk or war talk about side Issues.
The solo thing that matters In this
war Is whether Germany comes out OF
1t as Mitteleuropa or not.
Victory or defeat depends on the
peace map of Europe.
Nothing else can decide victory or
defeat
II the German, having failed utterly
In his strategy in the west, can secure
peace that leaves him his Pan-Ger-
man map. no has won his war. No
matter what humiliation be put upon
rim, no matter If he surrender Belgium
and Northern France or even Alsace
Lorraine. IL he pay heavy indemnity
and make reparation for his crimes In
the west so long as he secures Mittel-
europa the German has won his war.
Finally established on that map. Ger
many is strateEically mistress OF the
consolidate her new and vaster
strength. Germany can launch upon
her dream Of world dominion with
enormously increased prospects OF sue
cess
Why Germany Crier for Pence.
So that in all this wild talk and dis
tracted shouting about peace and the
est to keep all attention from that of
which he rarely utters a whisper. And
the peoples and their governments.
misled by the German hullabaloo,
raises cry and countercry.
But there is one thing that the Ger
man breads at the peace table; 1t is thai
firm statement OF democracy which
President Wilson's voice sent across
the seas on the day ne decided that
the German law was the law Of the
brutcs-that day that he gave forth the
democratic resolution that America
being in, would not lay aside the rifle
until the peoples on that Pan-German
map were made free. The rights OF
nationalities to determine their own
lives and government and dcstinies
means the tearing to pieces OF the Pan
German map-the dissipation of the
hideous nightmare of Mitteleuropa.
There can be no lasting peace in the
world until the peoples are free-to
make the peopla free is the only way
to win the war against Germany.
All other victory only means revenge
and the arming against revenge-the
shifting and reshifting OF alliances
| with no other eventual aim but war.
The German must be defeated here
| and now, or peace will have left the
earth. The Germans themselves can
| only be made free by defeat.
Dagger on Heart of Germans.
But the old diplomacies yield their
futile Office with reluctance. The old
| diplomacies died in July. 1914, and lie
buried in unhallowed graves. Pedants
shake solemn heads over the partition
OF Austria" as though Austria or Ger
many were a holy thing. Austria and
| Hungary are subject peoples governed
by sham-they are not even German
Bohemia and Poland, the Serbian peo-
pie. and tire Hungarians and Rou-
! manians have a right to be free. Let
| the Armenians. the Arabs. the Jews, the
Greeks. the Danes be free. even IL they
combine for protection! And at once
you set dagger at the heart of the
German dream of world dominion. and
bring decency again to this troubled
| earth.
Before he casts vote for peace or
war. let every man know what the
war Is. He who casts a vote for peace
out OF ignorance. casts vote for the
most brutal miltarism that has ever
defaced the earth-casts 1t, in all his
sincerity of folly, for tho thing be most
| loathes. II labor delegates know wha,
| the war Is about, not man of them
would cast vote against the Drosecu.
ton OF the war until the peoples were
| freed. and the government would
thereby be tho more nightly ntrength-