Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-13
Meaning of the Armistice

quently and can be answered in no better manner than with the words of President Wilson, in his address to congress, Mon day afternoon, after he had completed the reading of the terms of the armistice.
 The president said:
 The war thus comes to an end; tor having accepted these terms of armistice' it will be impossible for the German com mand to renew 1t.
 It is not possible to assess the conse- quences of this great consummation. We know only that this tragical war, whose consuming flames swept from one nation to another until all the world was on fire, IS at an end and that 1t was the privilege of our own people to enter 1t at its most critical iuncture in such fashion and in such force as to contribute in way of which we are all deeply proud, to the great result We know, too, that the object ot the war is attained; the object upon which all free men had set their hearts; and at tained with sweeping completeness which even now we do not realize. Armed inn perialism such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters ot Ger many IS at an end, its illicit ambitions en- gulfed in black disaster.
 Who will now seek to revive 1t {! The arbitrary power of the military caste ot Germany which once could secretly and ot its own choice disturb the peace of the world Is discredited and destroyed. And more than that-much more than that has been accomplished. The great nations which associated themselves to destroy 1t have now definitely united in the common purpose to set up such a peace as will satis- fy the longing of the whole world for dis interested justice, embodied in settlements which are based upon something much better and much more lasting than the self ish competitive interests of powerful states. There Is no longer conjecture as to the ob- iects the victors have in mind. They have a mind in the matter, not only but a heart as well. Their avowed and concerted in- tention is to satisfy and protect the weak as we'll as to accord their just rights to the strong.
 The humane temper and intention ot the victorious governments has already been manifested in very practical way. Their representatives in the supreme war council at Versailles have by unanimous resolution assured the peoples of the cen tral powers that everything that is possible in the circumstances will be done to sup ply them with food and relieve the dis tressing want that IS in so many places threatening their very lives; and steps are to be taken immediately to organize these efforts at relief in the same systematic manner that they were organized in the case of Belgium By the use of the idle tonnage of the. central powers 1t ought presently to be possible to lift the fear of utter misery from their oppressed popula- tions and set their minds and energies tree for the great and hazardous tasks of politi- cal reconstruction which now faces them on every hand. Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that made an ordered life inn possible.
 For with the fall of the ancient govern ments which rested like an incubus upon the peoples of the central empires has come political change not merely, but rev. oIution; and revolution which seems as vet to assume no final and ordered form, but to run from one fluid change to an other until thoughtful men are forced to ask themselves, with what governments and of what sort are we about to deal Tn the making of the covenants of peace With what authority will they meet-us, and with what assurance that their authority will abide and sustain securely the inter national arrangements into which we are