The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-11
Or. William Benjamin Smith, Tu-
lane University, Louisiana, in
Manufacturer Record.)

That any possible peace agree
ment with Germany would be Ger
man peace and ruinous to the Allies
is not only plain to every eye un-
blinded by humanitarian prejudice,
but is also not only known but
boldly, brutally and arrogantly
avowed everywhere in Germany, as
by DR.. Paul Lensch in the Social
istic Glocke:
For Great Britain the conse-
quence of such peace would be
the greatest defeat in her history
and the beginning of her ruin. For
that very reason the Central Powers
will and can press all the more
persistently for such peace. Ger
many will have won the war il she
does not lose it, whereas England
will have lost the war if she does
not win it.
Then (after the war; the true
iidi iNSSl liliiC VIII nave SOlilS. ~ -
bring about the peace by agree
ment, securing Germany's political
independence, territorial integrity
and freedom of economic develop
ment, then Germany will have
shown herself SO strong that all
these things (the anneXations, etc,
desired by the Pan-Germans) will
be added to her. Our enemies may
have some interest in prolonging
the war, because peace by agree
ment VerStaendigungsfrieden) goes
exactly against their original in
tents, and means for the most OF
them the total collapse of their sta
ton in world-politics. Only i'm
agine what such peace by agree
ment" would signify for France, for
Italy Nothing less for both coun
tries than utter ruin, and for their
leading statesmen very likely the
lamp post. Only for Germany and
her confederates it would be a tri-
umph.
If such was the case, if such was
the avowed mind OF the peace
resolutionists" in the Reichstag,
the sixth of last October, how much
more so today, when the measure
OF Germanys dishonest victories has
been heaped up, shaken down, and
is running over? If Lensch's reasons
were strong then, they are inyincible
now, and ii would be madness to
step deliberately into trap SO open
ly and vauntingly baited and set.
Surely in vain it is the net spread
I'm the sight OF any bird.
In conclusion there is yet one
other consideration OF supreme i'm
portance. 1t is morally OF weightiest
moment that all Germany and all
the world shall learn that Force,
Falsehood and Fraud cannot finally
triumph that the moral element in
man and history cannot be expelled,
not even with pitchfork; that the
outraged human spirit cannot be
subdued by any array however
awful OF Krupp guns U-boats and
Zeppelins and Fokkers and poison
gases and corruption funds ana
armies OF spies; that "frightfulness'
does not pay in the long run, that
the true harvest of horrors is a crop
OF armed and inappeasable hates,
the execration and adherence of
present and future generations, a |
scourge in the hands of unending
time; that the ancient and elemen-
tai virtues are proof against the
blasphemous frothings OF Nietzsche,
the arrogant lunacies of the Kaiser
and his byzantine encourage, as well
as the most powerful subsidies OF
a debauched and diabolized Science.
If the German race is not to be
estranged permanently from the
higher paths OF civilization it must
relearn these rrdimentary facts OF
the moral lie of the universe. Ii
the crassest materialism is not to
debase and defile the innermost SAN
ctuaries OF civilization, if the altars
Of virtue are not to be pulled down
and openly profaned, these facts
must shine forth clear as the sun i'll
he issue of the GREAT war And