The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-02

That this plea should find some encourage
surprising. No nation is free of spneless and
brainless citizens who fear fighting an issue out
to a conclusion.
Loyalty to the cause of the Allies demands
that we stand firm against every overture that
would let the Berlin gang of murderers escape
punishment for their deeds They ruthlessy set
aside all the laws of God and men to humate
their enemies, and now when the tide is turning
against these offenders, the Allies would be
guilty of outrageous folly if they accepted Ger
many's promises to be good hereafter.
Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufac-
turers Record, takes the following position, in
which every American must concur:
Germany, the blacklist criminal in the worlds
history, will, through every influence which it
can exert in this and every other country, seek
peace whenever it's military leaders find that they
are doomed. We shall have peace talk from some
weak minded ministers of the Gospel, but, thank
God their number is few. We shall have peace
talk from many papers-some moved by pro-
German influence, some by sickly neurotic senti-
ment against punishment of crime-and WHEREBY
er pro-German deviltry can carry on its work we
may rest assured it will be done, for many men,
the work of the devil.
MANY will seek to create an impression that
Germany must not be punished and that its
people are different from its military leaders,
when every intelligent man who has studied the
situation now knows that the people and the mill
tary leaders are one and the same in the support
of this war.
THE unspeakabe individual crimes which
marked the movement of the German army
through Belgium and France, crimes which
blacken the pages of human history as they were
never blackened in the past; crimes, to recount
which Secretary Lansing recently said would
sicken tiger were not committed individually
by the Kaiser or the military leaders, but by the
people themselves in the armies Of Germany, en-
couraged thereto by the military leaders as part
of Germany's Campaign of Frightfulness. These
people must be made to realize that sin must be
punished and that crime must be atoned for, or
else the blood of the millions of soldiers who have
died will have been shed in vain, and the broken
hearted women, who have suffered as no other
women in all human history, will go unavenged.
THE great danger which faces this country
today is that there will be persistent effort to
bring about premature peace; peace without
punishment, which, if ever made, would be deep
stain on the honor and chivalry of this Nation.
THE Nation which condones international
crime is akin to the criminal, as the individual
who condones crime becomes in effect partic-
pator in the immortality of the criminal
ut behooves every honest-hearted man and
woman in this country to make certain that nei-
Their in the pulpit in the press nor in private
conversation shall there be the lightest word
said in favor of peace until that peace is written
in Berlin after the criminals have paid the full
measure of penalty for their crimes
On to Berlin? should be the unceasing de-
mand of every honest-hearted man and woman,
and he who does not take that view of the situa-
ton is false to all honor and false to all civiliza
ton, it matters not who he may be, or what his
position in life"