The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

nave Scant sympathy Wltn any <HlSf~ ican who at this early hour is talking about being weary of the war when we are hardly in it. It is a shameful way to feel in the light of the knowledge of what France. Belgium. England. Serbia and Italy have gone through.
 Yes, I want peace. I pray for peace. permit Germany to preserve the status quo before sine went on her plundering way. I will have nothing to do with any peace that will let the Kaiser keep his blood-stained loot.
 If there is to be peace 1t must be die tated by the democracies of the world after the autocracies have been thor oughly beaten, for any patched-up agree ment which leaves the Hohenzoliens un- stripped of their power will be illusory.
 Keep it in mind in thinking of peace that Germany for nearly half a century has been steadily uttered by her Prussian rulers into the belief that might is right, that world dominion was her manifest destiny, and that an unquestioning trust in an all-powerfui state was the first duty of the citizen.
 If this be fully understood it will be seen that any peace which is not won by the sword will be but a breathing spell for the dominant militarists at Potsdam to recreate a war machine which will once more roll over the fer tile fields of Europe, batter down cities, and fill the land with the cries of the dead and the dying.
 An undefeated Germany, on the battle fronts, means a dominant Prussia in the heart of Europe. The devil grip of the Beast of Berlin on Belgium, France, and Serbia must be broken by a hand Kaiser before any such thing as a per manent peace can even be thought of by the allies. Peace with honor will not do; it must be peace with a smashing vic- tory.
 Gipsy Smith, safe in England, was for years an apostle of peace but Gipsy not for peace but for victory. There is something terribly convincing to the man at the front that the Hun must be beaten. He has seen and felt the ruth lessness of underlying German "kultur' and has had many cobweb of prejudice against war wiped from his brain,
 Gipsy Smith. preaching love to ones neighbor in quiet revival meeting when wars alarms are stilled, is little kin to the Gipsy Smith who bows down to kiss the forehead of a dying lad who has given his life's blood to stop the German drive straight over the rights of man and in the face of the great Teachers fiat, For all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword"
 Gipsy Smith, having come in contact with the Atitila-like hords which swarm out of Wilhemstrasse,. knows. that the only way to stop their victorious march is not to tie them up in treaties to be torn up at will, as was done by the re- sponsible German government when it did not suit it's purpose to abide by the one made with it's neighbor and friend. gallant little Belgium, but to meet and defeat them in battle and make them swallow the Prussan doctrine of "blood and iron.'
 A lasting peace will only come after the overthrow of the German armies. There is small hope of the German people re- Olympus, to use a figure frequently used, the Kaiser, the twentieth century Caesar, and the Prussian military caste ride the whirlwind and direct the storm of war that is devastating fair continent and disturbing the peace of the world. They hold the German people in the hollow of their hand, and by them they are led like sheep to the slaughter. They who hope for huge uprising in the fatherland against the Hohenzollerns look in vain
 Let us put behind us as suggestion of the evil one any thought of nego- tiated peace with the arch- criminals who planned this war and are still the mas ters of Germany. Perish the thought that America will ever make peace with the sanguinary despot, the arch-fiend who, continually mouthing of God, by his crimes and murders under the guise of war fill sea and land with the walls of helpless women and innocent chill dren. No pledge, no sense of honor no thought of decency restraints the blonde beast of the north from any acts how ever vile, however monstrous, if they strike terror into the hearts of those who are fighting for home and liberty.
 It's time to shut our ears to the yelp of the pacifists. It's the hour for us to search out in our midst the vain, lying treachery Of our boleshviks and hold them up to the everlasting scorn of all decent people It's the day to make every man show his colors Let's make it our business to stamp out disloyalty by turning the disloyal over to the consti- tuted authorities to be interned or put to work. To put up any longer with any foolishness from any one is to be guilty of inexplicable idiocy. Underground Ger manism must te stamped out in Bir- mingham.
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