Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-12

tll the world was on fire, it's at an
 end and that it was the privilege of
 our own people to enter it at it's most critical juncture in such fashion and
 in such force as :o contribute in q
 way of which we arc all deeply proud, to the great result. We know,
 too. that the object of the war is ait tained, the object upon which al free men had set thei. hearts, an attain ed with sweering completeness which even now we do not realize. Arme dimperialism such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany is at an end, it's Illicit ambitions engulfed in black disaster Who will now seek to re- vive it? The arbitrary power of the military caste of Germany which once could secretly and of it's own single choice disturb the peace of the . world is discredited and destroyed. And more than that-much more than that-has been accomplished.
 The great nations which associated
 themselves to destroy it had now de- finitely united in the common pur- post to set up such a peace as will satisfy the longing of the whole world for dsinterested justice, em- bodied in settlements which are bas- ed upon something much better and much more lasting than the selfish competitive interest of powerful states There is no longer conjecture as to the objects the victors have in mind. They have a mind ill the mat
 ter not only, but a heart also. Their avowed and concerted purpose is to
 satisfy and protect the weak as we'll as to accord their just rights to the
 strong.
 "The humane temper and intention
 of the victorious governments has al
 ready been mastered in very prac-
 tical way. Their representative in
 tte supreme war council at Yer sailcs have by unanimous resolution
 assured the peoples of the Central
 Empires that everything will be done to aupply them with food and re- leve the distressing want that is in so many places threatening their very lives; and steps are to be taken inn mediatcly to organize these efforts at relief in the same systematic manner that were organized in the case of Belgium. By the use of the idle ton-
 mage of tho Central Empires, it ought presently to be possible to lift the fear of the utter misery from
 their oppressed populations and set their minds and energies free for the
 great and hazardous tasks of politi-
 cal reconstruction which now face
 them on every hand. Hunger does
 not breed reform, it breeds madness
 and al lthe ugly distempers that make life and order impossible.
 l Speaks of Revolution.
 'For the fall of the ancient gov
 ernmcnts which rested like an inou-
 bus upon the peoples of the Central
 empires has come political change
 not merely, but revolution, and rev. ] olution. which seems as yet to assume
 final ordered form, but to run l from one fluid change to another, un-
 til thoughtful men arc forced to ask i themselves. with what governments, and of what sort, arc We about to
 deal ill making oi the covenants of
 peace? With what authority will they meet us, there is here matter for no small anxiety and misgiving.
 When peace is made. upon whose
 promises and engagements besides
 promises an Arrangements lbesidcs
 our own is it to rest? Let Us be per
 fectly frank with ourselves and ad
 mi. that these questions cannot be
 satisfactorily ordered now or at once. i But the moral is not there is little
 hope of an early answer that will
 suffice. It is only that we must be
 patient and helpful and mindful above
 all of the great hope and confidence
 that lie at the heart of what is talk l ing place. EXcesseS accomplish nOth- ing. Unhappy Russia has furnished
 abundant recent proof of that. Dis
 order immediately defeats itself If
 excess should occur, if disorder
 sober second thought will follow and
 q day of constructive action, if we help and do not hinder
 "The present and all that it holds ] belongs to the nations and the peo- ! pies who preserve their self control
 and the orderly processes of their governments; the future those who prove themselves the true friends of
 mankind. To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning it's
 esteem is to make permanent con- quests. l am confident that the na-
 tions that have learned the discipline
 of freedom and that have settled with self-pOssessiOn to it's ordered ptac- tice are now about to make couqtest