The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-10-17

Germany treaty can Hot NC
made because the signature OF
the emperor or his ministers TO a
treaty is worthless. Any bond
agreement or covenant made by
Germany Is without validity.
Germany has repudiated her
treaties and publicly declared that
they mean nothing to her. To
go through the form of conclud-
ing a convention with Germany
would be idle. Germany by her
own acts, by her contempt for
the opinion Of mankind. by her
defiance OF international law. by
her savagery, lust and cruelty has
placed herself outside the pale.
There let her remain.
"The war will end either with
the defeat of Germany or the de-
feat Of the allies and civilization
in the dust. The allies will not
be defeated and civilization will
not be destroyed. The war will
end when Germany, her armies
annihiated or broken, her re-
sources exhausted, tho spirit OF
her people shattered, sues for
peace She viii have to ask for
Teace because she can not longer
carry on the war. She will come
as a suppliant because it Is i'm
possible longer for her to fight.
She will fight to the very last,
the emperor and his fatuous ad-
visers, the junkers and the mill
tarists, the Krupps and the 9TH
err profiteers making huge for
tunes in money that has no value
scraps Of paper merely-will
drive their wretched slaves to the
slaughter, and to the last man
they will be sacrificed while the
kaiser and his DEVILS brood keep
themselves from harm. But the
time will comet is coming fast
now that millions of Americans
are pouring across the Atlantic
and British and French are fight
ing as in all history no men. ever
fought before-when the armies
of Germany will be merely skele-
ton armies, and the men and
women of Germany behind the
lines will be gaunt skeletons,
dying of hunger and disease, in
capable of resistance.
when that time comes what
have we to discuss with Ger
many? What decent man, Eng
lishman or American, Frenchman
or Italian, brown man from In
dia or black man from the Con-
go, can so far forget his self-re-
spect as to sit at the same table
with a German, regard him as an
honorable opponent and proceed
to discuss with him the terms of
peace? We repeat there Is moth
ing to discuss for discussion is
impossible. All that Is necessary
is for the allies to say to Ger
many: Here are the conditions
we impose. This Is the repara-
ton you will make. You can do
as we order or you will suffer
further punishment
when a criminal Is brought
before Judge he does not dis
cuss with him his punishment.
He does justice. A criminal is
only brought to the bar of JUS
tice when flight or resistance no
longer avails him. That will be
the position of Germany. She Is
criminal. She has sought to re-
sist and then to escape by flight.
Captured, she must pay the PEN
atty, but it would be travesty
on justice were she to be permit
ted to argue with her judges, per-
haps to escape by further cum
ming and treachery,
"A conference of the allies Is
necessary, for they are the bench
of justice and they must decide
the sentence to be passed. 1t is
for them to create the new world
ON the ruins of the central EN-
pires, to bring about the new civ
ilization that will follow from the
collapse of a barbarous Germany
and decadent Austria, to take
the necessary measures to pre-
vent the world again being
drenched in blood.
Germany should have no
mercy, but justice we shall do to
her, and it will be justice done
without discussion or debate; it
will be justice as exact and mex
orable as the wrath of God she
has provoked"