Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-28

more and more vivid and Unmistaka- b e outline.
 And the forces tla1 fight for them draw into closer and closer array, or kanize their millions into more and more UEcOnquerable might, as they be- tOme more and Wore Glst,Tct 10 the thought and purpose of the peoples engaged. It is the peculiarly of this great war that while statesmen have seemed to cast about for definitions of their purpose and have some times seemed to shift their ground and their point of view, the thought of the mass of men, whom statesmen are sup posed to instruct and lead, has grown more and more unclouded, more and more certain of what it is that they are fighting for. National purposes nave fallen more and more into the background and the common purpose of enlightened mankind has taken their place. The cOunsels of plain men have become on all hands more simple and straightforward and more unified than the counsels of sOphisti- cated men of affairs who still retain the impression that they are playing a game of power and playing for high stakes. That is why l have said that this is the peoples war, not states mems. Statesmen must follow the clarified common thought or be brok- en. take that to be the significance of the fact that assemblies and asso- citations of many kinds made up of pain, workaday people, have demand ed, almost every time they came to- gether and are still demanding, that the leaders of their governments de- clare to them plainly what it is, exact ly what it is, that they are seeking in this war. and what they think the items of the final settlement should be. They are not yet satisfied with what they have been told. They still seem to fear they are getting what they ask for only in statesmen's terms only in the terms of territorial ar engagements and divisions of power, and not in terms of broad visiOned jus tice and mercy and peace and the satisfaction of those deep seated long ings of oppressed and distracted men and women and enslaved peoples that seem to have the only things worth fighting a war for that engulfs the
  always recognized this changed aspect of the whole world of policy and ac Cion. Perhaps they have not always spoken in direct reply to the questions asked because they did not know how searching those questions were and what sort of answers they demanded.
 But I, for one. am glad to attempt the answer again and again, in the hope that I may make it clearer and clearer that my one thought is to sat isfy those who struggle in the ranks and are perhaps above all others en- titled to a reply whose meaning no one can have any excuse for misun derstanding, if he understands the anguage in which it is spoken or can get some to translate it correctly into his own. And I believe that the lead CTS of the governments with which we are associated will speak, as they have occasion, as plainly as l have tried to speak. l hope that they will feel free to say whether they think that l am in any degree mistaken in my interpretation of the issues invOlv- ed or in my purpose with regard to the means by which a satisfactory set clement of these issues may be Ob- tained Unity of purpose and of cOun- sel are as imperatively necessary in this war as was unity of command on the battle field, and with perfect unity of purpose and counsel will come as- surance of complete victory. It can i be had in no other way.
 Peace drives can be effectively neu- tralized and silenced only by showing | that every victory of the nations as ! sociated against Germany brings the { nations nearer the sort of peace which [ will bring security and reinsurance to 1 all peoples and make the recurrence of another struggle of pitiless force | and bloodshed forever impossible, and | that nothing else can. Germany is | intimating the terms" she | will accept, and always finds that the world does not want terms. It wishes the final triumph of justice and fair dealings.