Evening journal., 1918-11-13
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1918.
THE SUNSHINE OF PEACE.

N FACE has comel In no place. unless It be in Ger
L many Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey is it welcomed
heartily than It is here in Delaware
The world has been upside down. Mankind has been
killing off best lives instead OF conserving them. It
been shooting its wealth away the Of guns
bombs. Its hands have devoted to destruction.
It's wheels Of progress have been stopped Its attitude
toward almost everything in this life has undergone re
mendous changes Even its thoughts have been twisted
and warped All those evils made necessary by the
ambition Of the crazyheaded HohenzoIlen family to rule
the world
Peace finds The world in chaos Before is a be-
ginning with revolution in large small degree, prob
able every Of economic Industrial and social
relations. and solomon himself would fail successfully
to predict where and how far we viii 60
But through the confusion and uncertainty duty
appears clear We must rebuild the house in which
live more wisely and permanently. We must have
house to nc all of family. We must scrub the
blood Off doorstep and sweep the garbage Of hate
from the Of rooms Where the battlesmoke
has blackened the windows doors. and furnishings,
must repant in colors OF beauty. And must dedicate
The house to the bloodly demonstrated principle that
right is might and shall prevail, in peace war.
America pays her share Of the awful price in thousands
precious lives and Yet although
peace nds her undeyasated there very few other
nations among the late belgerents that confronted
today by greater problems
Nations like Germany Belgium. Austria and Serbia
for instance. begin the order with little moth
ing. Common misery produces commonaity in the
human animal well in others. We begin with our
political economic and industrial factions practically
intact. awake and vigorous.
But the great efforts in common have brought
closer together and we viii settle every OF our
problems right if we hold fast the fundamental prin-
cple that all equal equally entitled to consd-
Grafton and opportunity.
Clearly first problem is to redemocratize America
No peace time President should hold the autocratic
power wisely and jushably granted President Wilson
as vital necessity the prosecution Of business
AS all Delawaresns know it test Of democracy TO
seek to draft twelve to fifteen million men.
II was a test Of democracy to empower board to
say how little sugar and how much bran hundred mil
lions OF persons should eat
It was test Of democracy TO draw death around
free press and free speech bound up in relative
TO- this proposition OF characterization are many OF the
other problems Of reconstruction.
Peace is a God-gven blessing granted because we
sacrificed and fought for the right without selfish aim
The Almighty only has enabled to stop the fright
fu destruction and suffering, but he gives us peace as
a glorious opportunity for progress.
Let US rebuild American house with the determi-
nation that its foundation shall be equality. Let try
every sill and jolst with the plumbline Of exact
Justice. Let plane, sandpaper and paint co-part-
ners in patriotism. Let partition for apartments for
ae whole family with private parors for Let
'ut snout all the beautiful flowers OF brotherly love
We possibly can. And that house VIII endure. Il will
uore a. lhe highest example Of human wisdom and
A1a'on' II VIII stand q radiant monument 20 those
ones VINO laid down their lives or their careers in
le cause Of freedom for ALL forever
i'sie Is no person in New Castle Kent or Sussex
'u''s VINO cannot share in this great work OF recon
ueu0n "lnch Is 70 follow the return Of peace.
And. by the same token there are few nersoas 3, -
ate who do not feel that President should ,saa
ack 70 the people at the earliest praetcsbs momsn,
extraordinary and autoeratie powers which Co.
ave to him for during the period