The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-08-16
Better Our Cause Go Down In De-
feat Than That We Have An
InconClusive Peace

When | hear a man talking of how
this war will be settled know he is
giving aid and comfort to our enemy
in times of war 1t is no time to talk
about terms of peace until we begin to
fight. At present we have but one
duty and that duty is TO fight. | have (
no patience with those people Of any
allied nation who are busying them I
selves in a vain effort to settle the (
terms of peace When the foe is in I
front of us, with all the weapons
known to modern warfare, we have no
time to think of peace Peace will
come when the German military ma
chine is destroyed, and it can not come
before Neither have any use for
the faint hearted or those who say
we can not conquer Germany, that we
can not win. that it may be draw 1t
. would be better that our cause should
! go down in ruin and defeat than that
. we would have an inconclusive peace
in the END. If we lose (which we can
not and will not), but if we lose, our
/ people, crushed and bleeding, will still
: have before them the example of Po-
!: land dismembered, under the con
queror's heel, that still for more than
!. hundred years has kept its national
|. spirit and fought for the freedom that
|. would one day come But if we make
cowardly settlement, if we tempor-
!. ize with evil and with wrong, if we
!. compromise for peace, if we save our
I bodies, we will lose our souls.
I No More Talk of Peace!
! / wish it might go forth from any
!. and every Allied land on earth that
!. there should be no more talks Of
|: peace When the German army is
!. driven back to the fatherland, we may
]. talk peace, but not before
Z Peace? There is no peace in the
{ world today There is no chance for
:: peace This earth is not big enough
{; for peace and Prussian militarism at
{ once Can we talk peace The Unit
+ ed States did not seek this war; it
! came to our shores. We entered this
Z war because the barbarous, ruthless
Z military machine of Germany mur-
+ dered our people on the seas, destroy
{. ed our commerce, and bade great
/. nation of hundred million people
!. keep off the German" ocean.
/. We entered this war to protect our
!. national life, because we no longer
I. could have held up our heads amongst
! the nations of the world had we beer
+ so cowardly as to take orders from
I Berlin. No doubt the great mass OF
4 our American people were already
+ with the Allies From the day Ger.
!. many overran Belgium, all feeling
+ human beings loved Belgium and hat
:. ed Germany. We were with the Allies
i. in sentiment, in hope, in feeling, but
I we entered this war clearly definitely
! when we were attacked and when il
+ was necessary to defend our nationa
= life and our national honor; but today
I we are in; today we have joined will
+ our Allies in great, glorious, ;
: sacred cause; and while we entered t.
Z protect our own national life, we vii
+ not stop until the great wrong tha
7 Germany has done to civilization an,
x to all the world shall be repaired.
4 Talk of terms of peace! We enteret
! this war to protect ourselves agains
I the ruthless power of Germany. Shal
Z we say to the world that when Germ
+ any stops and leaves the ocean free t
+ us, we will stop fighting and leave ou
Z Allies, who have fought with us, t
/ fight out their battles for themselves
/ No. To do that would be to be ur
: faithful to every human feeling tina
Z abides in the breast of man. We are j
I with them, and today we are work
/. ing for their aspirations as well q
4 ours. Are we as Americans to al
I nounce our policy and say that whe
! this cruel submarine warfare is. Ell
Z ded we will stop; shall we say ths
Z France, who has suffered more tha
! any other great nation, shall be d,
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