The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-08-01
All S GERMANS
?S2z? e.! 4 MOTHER b LOW
TODAY
IN THE NEWS
The Fable of the Paciiist
What italy Has Done

~ IN Great Britain a Paciii>t of
Noble Blood. lie was real
PacitlSi, because hr thought only
of the Price Of the War not Us
Purpose.
This Pacifst, like many others,
was really wclI-mcaning old Gen
tlcman He did not realize that his
Peace Letters gave Aid and Com
fort 90 the Enemy. lie actually
believed he was fulfilling a Mis-
sion.
Meanwhile, 90 hr wrote. with
every month that passes the Toll
which the War is claiming be-
comes heavier and heavier. The
Civilized World is being drained of
liN Resources, Is spending lis En-
crgicS in purely destructive III
forts, each of which involves the
further Diminution of itS Reserves
of Power, and the further Mutla.
tlon of the Machinery of Produc.
ton
The Lord then made touching
References 10 the Casualties. and
viewed with Alarm the loss of Po.
tcutlal Lives because Of the dc.
creased Birth Rate. Always. YOU
See thinking of the Price, aud not
of the Purpose
There Is, continued the Noble
Writer. "a deep seated Desire for
further Explanation a 10 the
Conditions on which we are pre-
pared not to make Peace, but 10
open Discussion which might
lead 10 Peace c.....W We are SUP
posed to have defined our Terms
IN mmlstakablr Language. Has
II really been uumiStakablc
In other words. the venerable
Writer was not able to understand
the clarion Terms ruunciatcd by
our President, or the straight for
ward Statements repeatedly made
10y his own Premier. lIc was still
IN Doubt ~ 10 what his Country
was Fighting for
What be wrote was seized upon
10y the Enemy with JOY. The I'm
cmy sand See, those English
swine themselves do not know M,
cause of this fighting. II they
know, they are Afraid to admit il
To admit that they are try ing to
destroy our Fathcrland. And also.
good Friends, observe the sincere
Desire for Peace that is displayed
hy this Letter, which represents
the Bulk of British Sentiment.
That was the greatest Damage
that this Letter accomplished IT
helped 10 make the German Pco-
pie believe that the Allies were
getting divided aS 10 their War
Aims, that they were tired of
fighting, and that they were not
sure that they were fighting for a
Just Cause.
That was the Effect on lhc Ger.
man people The Allies knew be-,
ter for they knew that the Noble
man was PaciliSt, aud therefore
was not to be taken Seriously.
\ wonderful people arc the Italians
Sever has that been morupupparcut
than nov
But "a few months ago they were
set uIon 10y hurdcs of Germans aud
Nustrians, many times outuumhcrcd
and made the victims Of one of the
most terrible attacks of tho war
~ the DAYS ot tho offensive went
lN the whole world feared that Italy
would give way.
Bu' Italy did not give way.
she filnod her forces against AN
enemy hcdrtcucd hy great initial sue
cess and ON the banks uf the piuNc
stcmmod the tide uf the invaders.
n was n gigantic achievement II
required the whole fighting force and
the whole fighting spirit of italy
Thousands uf men had been taken
prisoners Thousands had been killed
and wounded
great tract OF Italian territory
had been invaded.
often it seemed certain that the
battle wuuld be lost
Vet never once did the Italian uco-
ulr consider the pussihlit, OF sur
render. Hosistancc became more stub
born as the attack progressed. and