The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-19
KIPLING DEMANDS
PEACE WITH VICTORY
Nothing less, He Asserts, Can Save
The World From slavery Under
The Germans.

London. Feb. 1s-Rudyard Kipling,
spea king at Folkestone Friday on the
wa aims that confront the world and
the true meaning Of German militar-
ism, said:
3 AT the present time all tbs powers
In the world that hsve not bsen >rtbsd
or buf'ied to keep DOT of 1t have oeen
forced to Jcin in enc international do
gartment to make an end ~ German
International thuggery, FOR the reason
that II IL is not ended life on his planet
win become insupportabie for human
beings.
"Nine-'entbs OF the atrocities that
Germany has committed have not been
made public Until the veil Ii lifted
after the war we shall 1ava ~ con-
-eption of the range and SYSTEM of
those atrocities
I $50 long az ths Germans are left
with any excuse for thinking such
things pay can any peace be made
with them7 None, for our hearts, our
reason. every instinct IN us that has
lifted ia above the mere brute, shows
Is that the war must 60 on. Other
wise the earth would become hell
without hope.
THE representatives, Of the allies
meet together from time to time ard
lay down what the war aims of The
allies are. From time TO time our
statesmen repeat that they all agree.
We are lighting for freedom and lib
erty. for the right OF small states to
exist, and FOR nations to decide for
themselves how they are TO be gov
errod. All this we understand and
perfectly believe,
That is the large view OF the SIT
iustton. What ss the PERSONAL
aspect OF the case for you and for
me2 VIC are fsating fo~ our lives,
the lives OF every man, woman and
/ child here and everywhere else. We
are hghtlng that we may not be
! herded into actual slevery, such az
the Germans have established by
force Of arms In large parts OF
/ Europe We sre hghting against
eighteen hours day OF forced labor
under the lash or at tne point OF
bayonet with g dogs death and
! dogs burial a the end OF IT. w"
/ are fighting that men, women and
! children r1Ry not he tortured burned
and mutiiiated IN public, Els has hap4
pened I'm this town (referring 70 air
raid murders) ara hundreds OF
/ others and we will 90 or lghttug
/ TIL the race which has done these
things is IN no position to continue
or repeat it, offensa
/ IT for any reason whate.sr we fall
short Of riciory--and there is no
| halfway house between victory ard
defeat-what happens to US Ia this:
Every relation, every understanding.
every decency upon which civilization
| has been SO anxinu sly built, will go,
/ VIII be washed out, because II win
have been proved unable to endure.
The whole idea OF democracy (Which
at bottom .s what the Hun fights
agninsD will pc dismissed from mems
minds because IL will have been
shown inca pAble Of maintaining it
self. together with every belief and
practice that is based upon II. The
Hun ideal, the Huns root-n lions of
life wiz take their place throughout
the world.
Under that dispensation man will
become once more the natural prey,
body and soul. of his better armed
neighbor Women will he mere instru-
ments for continuing the breed, the
vessel Of mans lust and mans cruelty.
and labor will become a thing to be
knocked on the head II II dares give
trouble and worked TO death If It does
not And from this order of life there
will be no appeal, no possibility OF
any escape.
This Is what the Hun means when
The says that he intends to impose Ger
man kultur, which is the German re-
iligion, upon the world.
This is precisely what the world
has banded itself together to resist II
viii take every ounce in us; 1t Will
Try Us out to the naked soul Our trial
will not be made less by earnest ad-
vice and suggestions that we shoali at
tempt some sort OF compromise, which
means defeat. put forward by Hun
s cents and confederates among rs
They are busy In that direction al
ready but De sure of this: Nothing we
may have to endure now viii weigh
one featherweight, compared With
what we shall most certainly nave to
suffer 4 for any cause We fail of VIC
tory"