Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-03
THE ONE GREAT PERIL

vVY LILLIAN c. CORNWELL. edi
wv tor of The Bache Review
forecasts a very favorable
market for the next Liberty Loan
He traces this to the bullish tenden
cies in Wall Street due to the grca
allied vicories in France. The onl,
cloud on the horizon, he says. is th'
possibility of an early effort towart
premature peace. He reflects a uni
versaL belief when he argues tha
the American success at Chateau
Thierry was the turning point of tn,
war, and that "the enormous. re
sources of America" will engulf tn,
Hun. But, like many other writers
he warns against the acceptance o
a peace short of complete surrender
Says he:
-, The length of continuance of
the war is the only uncertainty.
should the German command, in
infatuated stupidity, elect to
struggle to the last, the war may
continue another year, or even
longer.
But these sodden pigs in lust for
plunder. and wolves in cruel thirst
for blood and destruction, have,
nevertheless, cowardly sneaking
traits when threatened with shat
tering defeat and will squirm and
whine for peace soon in hopes to
save some plunder, as we'll as
their precious hides, from the
avenging storm of righteous ex-
tinction which is descending upon
them.
The Allies are now better pre-
pared to meet their offers with
scorn and contempt than formerly,
before Germany's doom had be-
come so plainly sealed. Then the
poisonous brood of paciflsts were
able to gain a hearing.
Every pacifist in this country is
either a defective or crook. But
they are scattered everywhere.
They are biding their time to
whisper and plead for pity for
beaten nation. Their societies
ernment.' but individually they
still work. Some of their news
papers have been seized. Others
have been bought by powerful
loyal interests. In these last
thorough housecleaning has not
always been made, and here and
there an insidious pro-German or
England-hater manages to get in
nasty paragraph. Also. there
are still powerful press interests
which are pretending to be loyal,
but waiting only for the sobbing
peace proposition, when they Will
join in the appeal for pity and
forgiveness for a foe prostrated.
A prominent German. an exile in
Switzerland. knows his own coun-
trymen. and says of them in the
New York Times: Having won
half the world by bloody murder.
they are going to win the other
half with tears in their eyes cry
ing for mercy"
The greatest danger to-day is
from peace. 1t is impossible to
reach Berlin with our armies this
winter, and any talk OF peace be-
fore that is treason.
Peace talk now would be merely
playing into the hands of the Kaiser
1t would not only injure the new
Liberty Loan, but it would be a De-
trayal of the trust our soldiers have
placed in us. They have gone to
France and many of them have died
there to make the world safe for
democracy. to blot out forever the
German menace. To stop short of
the total defeat of Germany would
be treason, indeed-treason to oui
country, treason to the brave lads
who have laid down their lives cheer
fully with the thought that by Sc
doing they were adding their mead
to the force that must eventually
and completely crush the Hun.