The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-11-14

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terday the masters of Germany, is at
an end its Illicit ambitions engulfed
in black disaster.
"Who will now seek to revive 1t?
1.-THE arbitrary power of the mill
tary caste of Germany, which once
could secretly and of its own single
choice disturb the peace of the world,
| is discredited and destroyed. And
more than that-much more than that
has been accomplished.
League Of Nations.
'The great nations which associated
| themselves to destroy 1t had now def
nitely united in the common purpose
to set up such peace as will satisfy
the longing of the whole world for dis
interested Justice, embodies in settle
ments which are based upon some
thing much better and much more
lasting than the Selfish competitive in
terests of powerful states. There Is
no longer conjecture as to the objects
the victors have in mind. They have
a mind in the matter, not only, but Il
heart also. Their avowed and con-
certed purpose is to satisfy and pro-
tect the weak as well as to accord their
just rights TO the strong.
To Feed Starving Huns.
THE humane temper and intention
of the victorious governments has al
ready been manifested in very prac-
teal way. Their representatives in
the supreme war council at Versailles
have by unanimous resolution assured
the peoples of the central empires that
everything that is possible in the cir
cumstances will be done TO supply
them with food and relieve the dis
tresSing want that is in so many places
threatening their very lives and steps
are to be taken Immediately to organ
lie these efforts at redief in the same
systematic manner that they were or
ganized in the case of Belgium.
by the use Of idle tonnage of the
central empires it ought presently to
be possible to lift the fear of utter mis-
cry from their oppressed populations
and set their minds and energies free
for the great and hazardous tasks of Do
liticaI reconstruction which now face
them on every hand.
New Peril Of Revolt.
For with the fall of the ancient
governments which rested like an in
cubuS upon the peoples of the central
empires has come political change not
merely, but revolution; and revolu-
ton which seems as yet to assume no
final and ordered form, but To run
from one fluid change to another. I'M
til thoughtful men are forced to ask
themselves, with what governments
and of what sort are we about 10 deal
in the making of the covenants of
peace?
with what authority will they meet
us, and with what assurance that their
authority will abide and sustain Sc
curely the international arrangements
into which we are about to enter?
There is here matter for no small
anxiety and misgiving. When peace is
made, upon whose promises and en-
gagements beside our own is it to
rest?
DAYS we must Ala.
Let us be perfectly frank with our
selves and admit that these questions
cannot be satisfactorily answered now
or at once. But the moral is not that
there is little hope of an early an
swer that will suffice.
at is only that we must be patient
and helpful and mindful above all of
the great hope and confidence that lie
at the heart Of what Is taking place.
'Excesses accomplish nothing I'm
happy Russia has furnished abundant
recent proof of that Disorder imme-
diately defeats itself. II excuses
should occur, If disorder should for q
time raise its head, a sober second
thought will follow and day of con
structive action, if we help and do
not hinder.
"The present and all that ii holds
belongs to the nations and the peoples
who preserve their seH-control and the
orderly processes of their govern
ments; the future to those who prove
themselves the true friends of man
make only IA temporary conquest; to
conquer the world by earning its es-
teen Is to make permanent conquest.
l am confident that the nations that
have learned the discipline of freedom
and that have settled with self-posses-
sion to it's ordered practice are now
about to make conquest of the world
by the sheer power of example and of
friendly helpfulness.
Patience Our Task.
"The peoples who have but just
come out from under the yoke of ar
bitrary government and who are now
coming at last into their freedom will
never find the treasures of liberty they
are in search of if they look for them
by the light of the torch.
"They will find that every pathway
that is stained with the blood of their
own brothers leads to the wilderness,
not to the seat of their hope. They
are row face to face with their initial
tests. We must hold the light steady
until they find themselves.
"And in the meantime, If 1t be pos
sible, we must establish a peace that
will Justly define their place among
the nations, remove all fear of their
neighbors and of their former masters
and enable them TO live in security
and contentment when they have set
their own affairs in order.
81 for one do not doubt their pur-