Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
U. s.. PRESS SPURNS
ARMISTICE PROPOSAL
Newspapers Unanimous in
Demand for Unconditional
Surrender by Kaiser

cuiICi1uCI ny NdISCi
without crception The ieodino neus-
poDers NJ the United states, Ia their
editorials this morning, declare there
can be only one reply 20 the German
peace proposal refusal TO cnter
Wfo dnD negotiations until Germany
SurreHdcrs
The Neu York Times
II Germany wants peace let her do
| away with her irresponsible braggart
Kaiser and speak by Government of
her own people. 1t Is not from Prince
! Macmillan, answerable only to Imperial
authority. but from n minister respon-
slble to the German people that Ger
many's plea for peace must come. He
does not even describe himself in his
Keichstag speech. az such n minister.
Compliance with the terms the Allies are
agreed in insisting upon as indispens-
able to a lasting peace demands Of
Germany an enforced or voluntary
change OF heart and purpose. There
can he no change SO long as the Hohen-
zollern combining the political and
military ideals OF Genghs Kahn with
the moral principles of Attila. holds
IN thrall seventy million subjects. al
ways ready at his command to butcher
their neighbors and seize upon their
possessions More evils than Pandora's 3
box contained have been let loose upon
the world by Prussia. militarism. lust
OF conquest. brutal disregard OF law and
right. perpetual alarms in time of peace
and barbarous savageries in war, but
Imperialism Is the root of them all. The
world will know no safety while it con-
tinues to exist.
New York Sun
For the Allies 10 agree to stop ham
mering the Germans. pending bar
gaining for terms. until winter came
to the relief of the kaiser's collapsing
military machine would he an act of
madness on the part of the Allies. and
the Allies are not madmen. For the
Huns the only act that the Allies can
trust is unconditional surrender.
Nep York Tribune
II Is true that we have, laid down GER
tain abstract conditions Of peace. but
these concern only our allies and our
selves exclusively and are not open to
Germany for discussion. We have laid
down one condition of war-the only
one-and that is to Use force, force to
the utmost, force without stint or limit"
until we shall have destroyed forever in
this world the indecent, intolerable,
criminal thing that now holds out its
dripping hand.
Ncm York World
Press reports give sufficient evidence
that the military rulers of the Central
Empires have at last realized to some
extent the judgment that is hang ig
over them To save what 1t
can from the wreck what
further motive can have inspired it Uhe
Imperial German Government and rs
Austrian vassal in renewing so soon
and in phrases so little changed a pro.
posal for negotiated peace? The an.
swer to this question. we believe is that
autocracy Is whipped and knows 1t is
whipped
NeW York Herald
The hit dog yeps From Berlin and
Vienna come simultaneous peace walls,
with the exhausted Turk echoirg a fee
BILE me too" What Prince
Macmillan asks and all that he asks
Is peace by negotiation"-a Prussian
peace. What he asks is an
armistice. 1t is the same old
trap. There will be no armis-
tice. There will be no negotiations
until Germany prefaces its plea with
unconditional surrender We have just
begun to fight.
Boston Herald
Let us beware of calling a halt to
listen to empty talk which is intended
to fatter and dupe. The proper course
was taken with Bulgaria. She was re-
fused an armistice and required TO lay
down her arms, retreat to her own ter |
.itory and demoblize her army. Treat |
her partners in the same way. Uncon- |
ditional surrender is the door to real |
peace negotiations"
Chicago Tribune
Now we have the diplomatic Fried |
ensturm. the greatest offensive of the |
war. We hear now that the Presidents |
fourteen points are acceptable to the |
new regime We do not doubt it. Moth
ing could be cheaper than the official