The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-17
Baron Won Burian on Peace

The discussion of peace terms by Baron Won
Burian the Austro-H Hungarian foreign minister,
brought smile to every American patriot. His
assurance that the Central Powers fever are
ready to enter into peace negotiations with all
our opponents" might have been left unsaid.
Who wants peace by negotiation? Who
wants "to discuss everything? Who cares
whether the Central Powers approve or disap-
prove of the four points in President Wilson's
Fourth of July speech?
The time is far gone when the Allies and the
United States care to enter upon a negotiated
peace. The only peace the Allies will consider
an enduring one is peace brought about by the
victorious assaults of their troops. Neither
Austria nor Germany will dictate that peace.
They must be satisfied with the terms dictated
by the Allies
Time was when the Central Powers might
have sat down around peace table with the
Allies. They spurned and rejected the terms
that would enter into such negotiations.
Now the fathers and mothers of the French,
Italian, British and American soldiers demand
peace by victory. Their sons have suffered and
died on the battlefield, and they will not tolerate
a peace that will permit Germany to retain AL
SAGE, Belgium and large expanse of Russia.
Ever before them are the figure of the Most
High and the boodthirsty Potsdam gang that
brought about this awful war and debased it by
resorting to the most fiendish outrages human
ingenuity could devise to MAIN, butcher and kill
fellow beings.
Does Baron Won Burian believe for one mo-
ment that the blood of the women and children
that his Most High tortured and killed for the ag
grandizement and Qualification of his house has
not called to heaven for vengeance?
Does he believe that American fathers and
mothers want the American government to seek
a negotiated peace that will let the Berlin gang
of murderers, directly responsible for the human
blood that has been shed in the last four years.
again turn loose its efficiently trained butchers
to make the world place of sorrow and misery?
One of the primary purposes of this war is
to deal the scientific militariSm of autocracy
death blow For that reason boys are endur-
ing the havoc wrought by bayonet, bullet and
bomb. The civilized world is dealing with saw
agery, disguised under thin veneer of civiliza-
ton, and there be no lasting peace, no assur-
ed safety on land or sea- above the land or under
the water, until the monsters that menace the
security of decent people are put out of the way
His Most High has shown the most ruthless
disregard for every semblance of honor and
decency. He has sanctioned the outraging of
women, the killing OF Children the sinking of
hospital boats and the Smelling of Red Cross hos
pitals His accredited representatives to this
country while we were still neutral, took base ad-
vantage of our hospitality to dynamite our in
dustries, seduce citizens, incte our nefghbors
to attack us from the rear, pervert moneys COL
lected for Red Cross work to insidious propa-
ganda work. and to create unrest among our
citizens.
Is there American father, who, after read
ing casualty list containing the names of our
boys, does not demand that his Most High be
crushed by force of arms? Can there be an
American who is willing to listen with patience
and composure to the twaddle that Won Burian
uttered?
America wants peace, but an honorable peace
on the field of battle.
Thorns in the Side of His Most HIGH