The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-25
PROMINENT WRITERS
STRONGLY CONDEMN
PREMATURE PEACE
Educational Propaganda Tor Peace
With Victory Issued Ey National
security League,

security League.
New York. Sert 29--The FIRST
shot In a nation vide educational
drive against the premature peace
suggestion Of the Teutonic pew rTs WHs
fired today by the National Security
league in the form of personal utter.
ances on the subject from some pi
the best known writers of the ceun
try The Security league makes pubs
lie these expressions Of opinion AS
part of a propa ganFs Tor education
Of the people in the necessity fer r
conclusive victory over Germany
which will he continued .uaeHniteN
by means OF material supplied ny the
leading writers or me nlied N'f't -
who are mean ~ - % The leagues fei-
ssntees editorial corrs
Commend President,
The executive committee e the Na~
sionAi Security league preface as
ansi.peace announcement today w.ih
a resolution colarueua.as President
Wilson for his prompt rsleeaeu "f
the Austrian 'fesler
In anticipation ~ ne TeGto1se
rssce effort the security 3eaERif Fa&
started the con platter q the con
r-sNGtaov4s OF tbs subject froEM me
FROM .nsat writers - he country
scre 5ays are ) g sVeerTis from
tsese as~eEty received rF t'z ae*A@
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these Gr.ea rs >.e K rrasp.nr tGss great
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BRAY esx Au lrsF-e 5slIe }se5ef 'F
s#gse &.1azs. a peace thAt wauld ssaNH
TO C-err-A2 empire u the 7@S5flo0 "7
-a1 ~he has Na1 81 severe is5HtsS
N-z cay seeds time ard care ana re
20 "a -assre -eSt---SoT3e tr3.E Sfe row
&eArws< for--fo he stronger ttsH ever.
Y .Ass ner sn3Shes wlth tnt Honen-
sai1=rrs &=& Prussia IA power a33d IL"
sa-assr eyr t,ered Austria Hungary 'o
support her. .t NH 10 because Of "a
breakdown 81 morale ON the part Of
the allied powers. which has tefi
them drift supineE into a negotiated
PEACE AND il Prussia remains IA The
saddle and the southern SiaFs hay"
not been permitted 70 form strong
buffer state we Will not only be pIunE-
ed into another war ten years hence.
but into a hopeless war
"Deadliest Menace"
Marcia MacGrath Americans,
watch your step Here comes the
deadliest menace Of all Americans.
stand firm, Pacihsts, take care
Germany wanted war We chose II
and hy the same token we shall I'm
lsh IT. All Pacifsts are warned 10
keep clear of our road until then.'
Wallace irwin--"No sane doctor
allows a half cured patient To go out
and behave like a well man. because
such a course would send the patient
hack to bed worse than he was in
the beginning The world il NOT
cured az the foul germ OF war. Let
us not eat our peace banquet until
An honest victory by force OF arms
has pureed the war-slHkneSs from our
rxxr
rela pse from which we may never re
cover"
Ground In the Dust.
John 4 acknowledgements with
peace brides is more TO be feared thar
Germany fighting. AdroH, fnSldloNs
and living Teutontc propaganda Put
Russia out of the war. and almost ha'
the same effect III Italy This is Z
greater menace to the future peace
and security OF the world than thu
German armies in France, Germany
il now in process Of being defeated
II we stop before that process is com
piete Germany will in effect come GA
victorious and the allies will hay,
lest all the fruits Of their struggle To-
democracy. he supreme duty upot
the allies and America lS 10 Erounf
Germany IN the dust"
Cosmo Hamilton "A premature
peace will mean on the part OF al
the allies who have remained in th'
security of their homes. a weakening
Of mental, moral and physical STAN
ina which will be an act Of treacher,
rot only TO the men who have mad
on their behalf the supreme Sacriac,
AT the front. but 10 their children anl
their chiidren's children, never TO b.
forgiven"
Needs Humiliation"
Rev DR. Chas. II. Parkhurst-~'W'
must reduce the Huns to such condi
ton OF mind as Will insure their doint
what We insist upon and yielding al
that we demand When a wise ant
just father ehastises his incorrigib biz
boy he continues his discipline unit
the boy gives up, stops resisting an,
quits parleyinE There is nothini
Germany needs SO much, even To-
her own sake, as humiliation"
Walter Camp-'1t Is hardly neces
sary to elaborate upon the fact that +
Germany emerges from this war with
out such conditions as will prevent
building UP again of militarism, al
the blood that has been shed by II,
Allies and by America viii have beer
wasted"
Albert Paysou Terhune~~'If b,
greed or by fatigue or by ignorance
re should be fooled into the granting
OF such a peace. then our brother
would have died in vain. Germany
virtually. would have won the war
The menace TO our children and tt
our chfldren's children would remair
undated There can be but one rea
peace We are on the road to thai
peace. Every allied advance move,
il a day nearer Let us not allow our
selves to be sidetraeked into the slough
Of German made peace. which would
mean a German triumph"
Must Wipe II Out"
Richard Washburn Child-r"Ne are
no. warning against territory. "A red
or green or blue patch on the map
We are warning against a government
system and it's ring crooked, cruel
brutal And ruthless n 1t il no;
wiped out by those who are oppressed
by IT. or are corrupted by ii. and arc
being led 10 destruction by il. then We
must wipe II out We can't wipe IL
out BY making a peace with IT, The
murderer and the pirate are not OK
terminated by peace making
EDGE Is SURE WINNER
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