The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-07

half of all the people of one OF
the nObIest races on the face of
the earth. In cruelty and nause-
Rting grOssnesa the German OF
the Hun type lis below the beasts
for no roaring beast of the
jungle, no climbing, crawling or
twisting Things I'm all the brute
world ever Stays for the lust of
Staying, as the German has done
for these last four years. He
Stays and Eexu1ts' i'm 1T as he HIM
self boasts.
SANDER on the BenBt.
Tits Islander on the beast to call
this German brute; it is defaming
the inhabitants of hell to call him a
devil! do not need to say that the
German I am denouncing is not that
man who by the accident of. birth
was born in Germany, or born in
this country of German parents, and
who is now a loyal American citizen.
There are hundreds of thousands of
such in this country, who are as truly
American, and as loyal to the stars
and stripes, as any men that breathe
our air. But all such are scorned by
Germany.
The real question at this time is,
What is to be done with an offer of
an armistice from the shameless
scoundrels who started this war, and
who boast Of their butcheries, and
have had medals cast for those who
excelled in their bloody work.
For a short time this summer my
wife and I had rooms just across the
street from Grants tomb, on the bank
of the Hudson. Near the top of that
monument we could see from our
windows this inscription cut in the
stone, Let us have peace
Fight to Lasting Peace.
General Grant was one Of the
greatest peace men in all the world.
He was such because he fought the
war of the rebellion through to a
point where peace could be secured
that was lasting. There were times
during that war when the skies were
darker for the union army than they
have been at any time for the allies
in this war. There were times when
the cry went up from many quarters
for patched up peace. But General
Grant kept right on, and said: Well
fight it out on this line if it takes
all summer And when Lee, wishing
to get some tactical advantage, sent
a messenger to Grant, asking him to
name his terms of peace, General
Grant answered in just two words,
Unconditional surrender Grant knew
that when there Is an issue between
right and wrong there is only one
way to peace. and that is by the vic
tory of the right or the surrender of
the wrong.
Suppose that instead there had
been an armistice, and then Grant
and Lee and Sherman and StonewaIl
jackson, and Lincoln and Jefferson
Davis had gathered around a table
for negotiations Out of that would
have come a patched up peace, and.
instead of the united and prosperous
country we now have. we should have
a weak and divided country and
Germany would today be ruling the
world with an iron hand!
Surrender Only Peace.
The central powers know perfect
ly well that they can have peace any
time they surrender, Internationally.
and lay down their arms. If the
allies were to accept any other terms
Of peaee they would need to go right
to work to prepare for still bigger
and longer war. This is a very criti-
cal time-the most critical time, in
this whole war-and it behooyes
every man to keep his head. Presi-
dent Wilson'S fourteen conditions of
peace, when boiled down, can be
UP in two words, Uncondi-a
tional surrender Every American
should stand for that, and be
satisfied with nothing less. rants
path to peace is the only safe one.
First, Unconditional surrender then
we are ready to say, Let. us have
peace and that peace will be worth
having.