Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-23
The Hour Is Big With Destiny.

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DR.. Dwight Hills has just returned from the bat
tie front where for the past few months he has been
making second study of the problems. After a
very descriptive account of the American soldiers
and their recent triumphs, Dr.. Hills deals with the
situation appears to him today and offers some
suggestions as to how Germany should be dealt
with His message is Of most timely character
and one calculated to stir the moral forces of the
nation TO their deepest depths He says:
NO matter what you and I may think one thing
is certain: neither the French army the British
nor the American boys, will for one mbment consent
10 a truce When a soldier, fighting unto death,
looks at blazing villages. and his comrades.
dead or dying, and thinks Of the millions Of graves,
and learns that the murderers loaded with loot,
alarmed lest they have drop their treasures and
run and ask for breathing spell, that they
can re-weapon themselves there will be such out
burst Of indignation and anger in the armies as to
blast as with lightning the forehead of any man, the
leader of any country and drive him outcast
Of the world where Just men and loyal live.
When did murderer, with arms red to the elbows
with fresh blood of the householder slain in noble
defense of his reside and his family enter into the
right have discussion with the officers come to
arrest him? Upon what ground can we suddenly
decide to have a peace parley with who by
their own confession, have broken every interna-
tional treaty sneered at their written obligations as
scraps. of paper? The Hun is cunning trickster
who cannot be trusted.
The Hun would rather lie 80 days time than
tell the for cash Do you realize that the Hun
has prepared for peace with far more cunning and
hypocrisy than he prepared bombs and cannon for
war? We are now passing VIGOROUSLY out of the
military stage of this great war but the diplomatic
stage viii be the critical stage of the conflict The
Germans have many moves prepared the chess
board For ourselves, we deny the right of the crims
inal to sit at the table and debate with judge and
The jury. By the same token, do deny the right
Of every of neutral states like Holland and Den
mark, Spain and Sweden. Men who had no con-
yictions in regard to justice. humanity and liberty
and have added God and the devil together and d-
Tided by two. and named it neutrality have forfeit
ed all right to sit at the greatest conference that will
ever be assembled. The only nations to have right
and can be trusted by civilized peoples are, Great
Britain France, Belgium, Italy, Serbia and the !
United States, with the other allied peoples There
should be discussion with Germany. She is a |
criminal in the dock Her only function is to stand
points Of last January, Germany refused our presi-
dents oyertures. She then entered upon an orgy Of
cruelty and destruction, and lost right to accept
Dir. Wilson's overtures. Moreover, conditions have
SO changed that if Germany conceded every one of
those IA points and withdrew her army from Bel
GUM. France, Italy, Serbia Turkey Armenia.
Ukraine, Poland and Russia it would still remain
rue that by of her financial penetration she
would have US beaten into pulpwood
To-day Germany withdraw her armies. paw
n enormous indemnity and by her financial pene-
ration and contrib carry off 90 per cent of the
ruts Of her victories The hour is big with destiny
Every moment is critical The only safe word is
unconditional surrender and then a long patient
tudy of the situation by the greatest tnteIlects of
he allied countries Peace will be permanent to
Ter that is based upon repentance restitution and
astice. Then Germany should be placed for %
ears under an international committee that will
eek 10 change her spirit and prepare her morally
or the hour when she can be trusted to take her
lace in the league Of free peoples