The Washington herald., 1918-01-08

will must be elevated to domination
of the Prussian empire and that the
divine right OF Mein Herr Wilhelm
must be subordinated to this popular
will II means good night" to Willy
either way one looks at IL. The
Kaiser, who is the persOnification OF
all the things that have digusted US
with the insidious Frussian system,
must go. AS long as he maintains his
place OF domination over the German
people he will maintain the singleness
of purpose with which ne started out
to subdue the world. The individual
and the idea must both go. They can
have no place in peace negotiations.
When Germany is ready to talk busi-
ness We will talk-but We will talk
with a responsible party. The Kaiser
is irresponsible, and would be per
soma non grata at the peace table.
The German people are always well
come at that table. and can them
selves choose the time they want TO
sit down TO it. That is the sum and
substance of a lot Of matter that has
been written about the affair during
the past four months. and il Ger
mans are permitted to read ii they
should not take long to figure out how
they can get in on the peace feast.
1t has been plain from the outset
that the Russian character. while
strongly opposed to fighting for
ideals which it saw half concealed
behind gold going to some of the
leaders. would not find itself COM
placently giving in to German die
tatiOn in the guise of peace. Rus
slams had not to go outside their
own country il they wanted to be
ruled by an autocratic force. That
is what they rebelled against-and
certainly no one would expect
them to give in to Germany to the
extent of allowing Germany to as
sumo a dictatorship which they re-
fused to allow their own former
leaders to assume over them. Rus
sia may be out of the war for some
time. as far as aggressive fighting
in our behalf is concerned. but the
spirit which prompts her to fight
for democracy will not allow Ger
many to impose an autocTacy upon
her, in the guise of any other name.
The ruling Russian may be strong
for chaos but he is no fool. Con-
Sress long ago put this down.
Peace talk abounds at the COM
mencement of the new year-and
yet, singularly enough, the fighting
goes on here and there. There is a
determined feeling among all the
allies which makes them. stronger
for the battle than at the COM
mencement of last year. or the year
before. France is "still going
England is pounding along with the
Cocksuredness that has fooled many
a nation before and which perhaps
has sometimes fooled Britain her.
self, while America Is just reach
ing that point where she is amass-
ing a most imposing array, of men
and resources for what she believes
to be a long conflict.
To say that we would not well
come peace would be a misstate-
ment, for we would welcome ii
with open arms, Congress believes
But to say that we will accept a
makeshift peace would also be to
make a smisstatement. Congress also
believes. America is in the fray to
accomplish just what her leader has
set out. Until that is accomplished
we cannot withdraw from our prep
arations for long and vigorous
conflict.
So for the present while hoping
that eventual good will come from
the exchange of peace views and
from a general discussion of the
subject, let no one relax the in
tensity with which he has been
educated and persuaded and arous-
ed to contribute to our winning OF
the war. There will be time
enough to rejoice over peace when
it comes--we hope the jubilee of it's
arrival will last until the millen-
ium-but there would not be time
enough II We were misled over
these peace voices. to make up for
the loss we might sustain by rea-
son of relaxing our efforts.
THE OBSERVER.
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