The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-14
PEACE TERMS RESTATED

PEACE TERMS RESTATED
There is nothing new in Senator
Lodges statement of what he felicitiOus-
w calls the "irreducible minimum" of
peace terms. Neither is there anything
new in the Ten Commandments, or in
the Declaration of Independence. 1t is
often profitable, however, to have old
facts restated; especially when this is
done by indubitable authority, and most
especially when there is danger that
those facts will be forgotten, ignored, or
concealed by some insidious and unscrup-
ulous propaganda Of treason.
That such danger is imminent must be
obvious to every judicious observer.
There is always German peace drive
when things are going badly for German
arms, and as they are now
going worse for German arms than ever
before, we may expect, if indeed we can
not already perceive, the greatest Of all
peace offensives. This is already percep-
tible, both in Germany and in America,
where German agents are active. Com
plants are made that the Allies have not
stated their terms of peace, or the OBJ
jects for which they are wagi-g the war;
and suggestions are made that with our
splendid victories on the western front,
we can afford to seek peace through me-
gotiation on liberal terms. d alsss
Amid such mephistic miasmas the
words of Senator Lodge come like what
Whittier called "the blast from Free
dom's northern hills" True, we repeat,
there is nothing new in them. They are
practically, so far as their statement of
the terms of peace goes, repetition of
the Presidents declaration Of January
last. But those terms need to be kept
fresh in the public mind, and since we
cannot expect the President to be period
ically repeating them, it is grateful pa
triOtic service to have them repeated by
hat man who by virtue Of service rer-
dered, and force of mind and character,
may without invidiousness be accounted
to stand primus inter pares in the SEN
ate Of the United States.
In brief, the conditions of peace, and
the objects for which we are fighting and
Will continue to fight are these:
The restoration Of Belgium, of Alsace
and Lorraine, of Italia Irredenta, of Ser
bia and Rumania, of Poland and of Prus-
sia; the safeguarding Of Greece; the re-
demption of the Czecho-Slovaks and Of
the Jugoslavs, and the deliverance of
Palestine, Syria, Armenia and CONSTANT
nople from the Turkish yoke. PRACTICE
ly all those items were contained in the
Presidents "only possible programme of
the worlds peace" They are the SIRE
ducible minimum" of Senator Lodge.
n Note, now, the triple grounds on which
such terms are demanded The first is
that of Justice; which, of course, would
alone be abundantly sufficient, and
which is an absolute prerequisite to all
others. They are required by simple ele-
mentary justice. and not merely the JUS:
tice of retribution against Germany and
her allies, but the loftier justice of right
to the nations and peoples who have been
oppressed. That is the first impreg-
nable ground, on which we shall fight
until victory is attained
The second is that of Security. We
mean the security Of the nations AGAINST
renewed ravishment and of the peace Of
the world against being once more dis
turbed by Hunnish assault upon civil
ization. That ground is well emphasized
by Senator Lodge when he says that the
three great Slav states must be restored