The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-12

NOVEMBER 12, 1918
 were but yesterday the masters of Ger many is at an end, it's illicit ambitions engulfed in black disaster
 Who will now seek to revive it? The arbitrary power of the military caste of Germany which once could. secretly and os it's own single choice, disturb the peace of the world is dscredited and de- stroyed. And more than that-much more than that-has been accomplished. The great nations which associated themselves to destroy 1t have now defi- nitely united in the common purpose to longing of the whole world for disin- terested justice, embodied in settlements which are based upon something much better and much more lasting than the selfish comparative interests of power full states. There is no longer conjec- ture as to the objects the yictors have in IT Sd. They have not only a mind
  avowed and concerted purpose is to sat- isfy and to protect the weak as well as to accord their just rights to the strong.
 "The humane temper and intention of the victorious governments has already been manifested in a very practical way. Their representatives in the supreme war council at Versailles have by unani- nous resolution assured the peoples of the central empires that everything pos sible in the circumstances will be used to supply them with supplies and re- lieve the distressing want that is in so many places threatening their very lives; and steps are to be taken inme- diately to organize these efforts at re- lief in the same systematic manner that they were organized in the case of Bel gium.
 By the use of the idle tonnage of the central empires it ought presently to be possible to life the fear of utter misery from their oppressed populations and set their minds and energies free for the great hazardous tasks of political reconstruction which now face them on every hand. Hunger does not breed re- form; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.
 REVOLUTION HAS RESULTED For with the fall of the ancient gov ernments which rested like an incubus upon the peoples of the central empires has come political changes not merely but revolution; and revolution which seems as yet to assume no final and or derea form but to run from one fluid change to another, until thoughtful men are forced to ask themselves, with what governments and of what sort are we ta vyiff in ma covenants of peace? With what authority l will they meet us and with what assur~ l ances will the authority abide and sus- l tain securely the international arrange. ments into which we are about to enter. I There is here matter for no small anx- i tety or misgiving. When peace is made. upon whose promises and engagements besides our own is it to rest?
 1 Let us be perfectly frank with our- selves and admit that these questions 1 cannot be satisfactorily answered now ! or at once But the moral is not that l there is little hope of an early answer l that will suffice. It is only that we must be patient and helpful and mindful l above all of the great hope and conf1- dence that lie at the heart of what is taking place. EXcesses accomplish noth- l ing. Unhappy Russia has furnished abundant recent proof of that. Disorder | N<ASSA'SO~ should occur, if disorder should for a 1 time raise it's head, a sober second ] thought will follow and a day of con 1 structive action, if we help and do not 1 hinder.
 "The present and all that it holds be- I longs to the nations and the peoples whd preserve their fself-control and the or derly processes of their governments; the | future to those who prove themselves the l fria de Af Y1far n with arms is to make only temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earn 1 ing it's esteem is to make permanent con quest I am confident that the nations
 that have learned the discipline of free
 dom and that have settled with self pos
 session to it's ordered practice are nov
 about to make conquest of the world b1 the sheer power of example and O friendly helpfulness,
 "The peoples who have but just come out from under. the yoke of arbitrar,
 government and who are now conint
 at last into their freedom will never fne
 the treasures of liberty they are in searcf
 for if they look for them in the light O. torch. They will find that every path
 way that is stained with the blood 0
 their own brothers leads to the wilder
 ness not to the seat of their senses
 they are now face to face with theil
 initial test We must hold the ligh
 steady until they find themselves. Ant
 in the meantime if it be possible w
 must establish a peace that will justl, define their place among the nations
 remove all fear of their neighbors ane
 of their former masters, and enabl' l them to live in security and contentmen
 when they have set their own affairs il
 order I. for one, do not doubt thei purpose or their capacity. There ar
 some happy signs that they know ant
 will choose the way of self-control ant 1 peaceful accommodation. If they do WI
 shall put our aid at their disposal il lSevery way that we can If they do not
 we must await with patience and sym
 pathy the awakening and recovery tha
 will assuredly come at last"
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