The Washington herald., 1918-08-24

On August "a, 1885, the Car of Russia invited
all the nations to international peace conference
at The Hague to discuss program of permanent
peace founded upon honor and justice to all nations
and guaranteed by general disarmament and arb-
traton.
Most nations pleased with this prospect for
universal and permanent peace; their governments
enthusiastically received the Cars invitation and
named delegates to the conference. Countless mil
lions of people carried high hopes.
Peace forever-war neverl
That was what they saw. But not all One
it this way:
Believe me, peace will never be better safe
guarded than by perfectly organized and pre-
pared German army. God grant that it may
always be possible for US to preserve the worlds
peace with this sharp and well-kept arm"
That what the German Kaiser said in
speech at Onyhausen, two weeks after getting the
Cars peace invitation.
A few weeks later the Kaiser forced his Reich
stag to pass a bill providing huge increase for
the maintenance of the German army
That was his answer to the worlds cry for
peace 20 years ago.
Not to help ARRIVE at a peace program but to
hinder the work OF the conference the Kaiser ap-
pointed delegates to The Hague Among them was
Count Munster, notorious preacher of the gospel
OF the sword
Germany is prepared for war;" he said, "as
other nation is be; she can mobilize
her army in days; neither France nor any
other power do this"
On July 20, 1899, the conference adjourned, after
Count Munster had made speech in which he
dealt the death blow to all hope of arbitration and
disarmament.
Germany went with her preparations for war
while other nations hoped for another and more
successful peace conference. Nothing came of fu-
ture peace meetings and this world war grew out of
e Germany's sharp and well-kcpt arm" Munster was
right Germany well prepared for war. And if
. Germany is not defeated now her sharp and we'll
kept arm will be sharper and better kept than
Twenty years ago the Kaiser we'll knew his
sharp and well-kept arm" was not to preserve the
worlds peace. He knew why it sharpened and
70 well kept. He then knew that he was going to
S it to smash to bits the peace of the world and
Vpt to ride over mountains of dead and rivers
Vd to the throne of world dominion That was
Is representative at The Hague dealt the
n blow to arbitration and disarmament
20 years many things have happened That
has been swept off his throne and into his
From world of peace have into
OF war. For four years the Kaiscr's sharp
eH-kept arm Dattled with the forces he
led at The Hague. And for time he made
iway, not much he dreamed of and boosted
would achieve but enough to arouse apprehen-
h everywhere outside Germany and her allies
Hhen came the turning point Americans by the
hundreds of thousands poured into the Ger
lines have been turned backward They must
go much further.
And then will come another peace conference,
and till then. But at this conference there
. be Count Munster to deal any death blow to
anything. There be no bombastc emperor to
say, Believe me, peace will never be better safe
guarded than by perfectly organized and prepared
German army"
1t won't be for the Kaiser to say what he will or
will not do. He must do what those who have
beaten his perfectly organized and prepared Ger
army" command, that and nothing less 1t will
be we'll for the conference bear in mind that the
worlds peace was not and never will be preserved
by the sharp and well-kept arm of the Hun. That
SHARP and well-kept arm" should never again be
permitted to stand in the way of universal peace.
We will have to amputate it on the field of battle
cover there and then bury it deep at the peace
conference.