The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-10-01

their purpose and have sometimes seem
ed TO shift their ground and their
point OF view, the thought of the mass
"t men, whom statesmen are supposed
to instruct and lead, has grown more
and more unclouded, more and more
certain of what it is they are fight.
ing for. National purposes have faDeh
more and more into the backRrohnd
aud the common purpose of enlightened
mankind has taken their place The
councils of plain men have become on
all hands more simple and straightfor-
ward and more unified than the coun-
cits Of sophisticated men Of affairs.
who still retain the impression that
they are playing a game of power and
playing for high stakes, that is why
l have said that this is n peoples war,
not statesman s. Statesmen must
follow the clarified common thought or
be broken.
81 take that to be the significance
OF the fact that assemblies and asso
Citations Of many kinds made up Of
plain work day people have demanded
almost every time they came together
and are still demanding, that the lead
ers 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 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 ask
for only in statesmen = terms-Onlv in
the terms Of territorial arrangements
and divisions of power, and not in
terms of broad -visiOned Justice and
mercy and peace and the satisfaction
Of those deep seated longings Of op-
pressed and distracted men and women
and enslaved peoples that seems to
them the only things worth fighting a
war for that engulfs the world. Per
hnps statesmen hive not ALWAYS recOp
nized this changed aspect of the whole
"orld of policy and action. Perhaps
they have not always spoken in direct
reply to the questions ask ed, because
they did not know how searching those
questions were and what sort of an
SwerS they demanded.
Unity Is Necessary
But !, FOR one, am glad to attempt
the answer again and again, in the
hope that | may make il clearer and
clearer and my one thought is to satisfy
those whose struggle in the ranks and
are, perhaps above all others, entitled
TO reply whose meaning no one can
have any cXrus" for misunderstanding
if he understands the language in
which, it is spoken or car get someone
to translate il correctly into his own.
And ! believe that the leaders of the
government with which we are asso,
riutrr will speak, az they have occa-
sion, as plainly rs IShave tried to
speak. | hope that they will fully
agree to say whether they think thut
am in any degree mistaken in my
Of the issues involved
'r in my purpose with regard to the
means by which a satisfactory settle
uent of those issued may be obtained
nifty of purpose and counsel are Us
mpcratiVcly necessary in this war as
unity of command in the battle
icId; and with perfect unity of pur-
pose and counsels will come assurance
# complete victory. 1t can be had
II no other way.
t" Peace Drives can be effectively
centralized and alencrd only by show
mg that every victory Of the nations
associated against Germany brings the
nations nearer the. sort Of peace which
will bring security and reinsurance to
all peoples and make the recurrence
If another such struggle of Pitilrss
.orrr and blOushed forever impossible,
and that nothing else can.
- Germany is constantly intimuting
h" 'terms she will accept and al
ways finds that the world does not want
Terms. 1t wishes final trlumphs Of
Justice and fair dealing.'