The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-25
THE COROLLARY OF "NO PEACE
PARLEY'

What is the corollary of the slogan, emo
covenanted peace with Germany
We cant simply refuse to negotiate
peace with the Central Powers.
The alternative, Of course, is to defeat
them or be defeated If we won't make
peace we must fight and fight it through
to the end. We have chosen and chosen
rightly, and this is no time to quit, or
slackcn effort.
The best answer to German peace propa-
ganda is sinking more U-boats, sending
!. more men to France, speeding up our work
along every line, and a heavy subscription
to the Fourth Liberty loan. Peace must
mean the triumph of right and justice, the
defeat of Germansm, not a truce with it,
not compromise with it.
& Our soldiers in France are gIoriousIy
doing their part toward victory; the Lib
erty loan subscription must show them that
the people at home are doing theirs.
: America, unless we repudiate civilization
and abandon humanity and put premium
!, On savagery and brutality, can make no
covenanted peace, no peace by agreement
or negotiation with Germany. It would be
a covenant with hell, partnership with
infamy.
Il Nor would such a peace secure peace,
except so long as it suited Germany We
can judge the future only by the past, and
to Germany sacred treaties are scraps Of
paper only Germany whole history is a
record of national treachery, national bad
faith, national dishonor, national murder,
and national infamy.
= Article Sc of The Hague convention, to
which Germany soemnly subscribed, is:
Family honor and rights the lives Of
persons and private property, as we'll as
religious convictions and practice, must be
respected Private property can not be
~confscated.
The world knows how Germany has OBJ
served this article. There are millions of
individual witnesses to her fragrant
breaches Of it. Every acre of foreign soil
Germany has occupied bears mute, but I'M
impeachable evidence of it. There is plenty
of German evidence of it, too.
1.-THE goods of different sorts seized in
the enemies territories are in such large
quantities that the difficulty of knowing
where to put them increases day by day.
AL Tie request OIL the RUSSIAN minister OF
war all chambers Of commerce have been
asked to give all possible information with
regard to storehouses, sheds, ETC., which
could be used temporarily to warehouse
the spoil" (From The Frankfurter lei
tung, January, 1879
The German papers have been crowded
with advertisements of sale of property
taken from France and Belgium. Members
of the reichstag have boosted of, others
have censured, the amount of booty brought
to Germany from the occupied territory
and the destruction has been far greater
than the confscation.
Of the old men and children murdered
of the women and girls ravished, of the
noncombatants taken from their homes and
deported to work for their conquerors, of
the merchant ships sunk and passengers
and crews murdered, Of the hospital ships
sunk, the hospitals and unfortifed cities
bombed, Of the mutilatiOn and murder by
crucifxion and otherwise of wounded and
captured soldiers-of all this beastliness
there is plenty Of evidence, evidence that
no one can disbelieve