The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-19

gle All hope Of 3 social uphesval
m Germany viii be gone; we shall
be face to face with the greatest
military power that ever existed in
the whole history of the world.
Do not let US deceive ourselves
with promises Of league Of nations
which viii hold this new German
power in check. A negotiated peace
which leaves Germany not merely
unpublished but greatly rewarded
makes all talk Of q League Of
Nations ridiculous. We have today
the greatest combination of powers
that we are likely TO see under any
conditions. We have AT this mo-
ment a league Of nations against
Germany today, when We have got
her more or less bottled up, when
our own forces are fairly well mobi-
LIKED against her, what hope of sue
cess is there for league of nations
IN the future? Every year after
this negotiated peace viii make Ger
many stronger. In less than q gen
Grafton the horrors of wzr viii be
forgotten and all the benefits re
membered. The military caste viii
be able TO point with pride to its
accomplishments. Future kaisers
and Bisrnarks viii pursue the old
policy of preparedness and aggres-
sion in foreign affairs and state So
ciRlism at home. Greater Germany
vii be SO well organized and govern
ed that disease and poverty viii al
most be banished And millions in
Poland and Lithuanis viii say: this
is slavery, perhaps, but it is highly
civilized and comfortable slavery. In
the meantime England and France
and America will have TO draw TO-
rether and build up huge armies
and navies TO fight the ever-growing
desire in Germany for world DONNA
ton.
This, readers Of the Metropolitan,
is precisely what is going to happen
if we make any compromise with
Germany. Open your eyes and you
can see that Germany is perfectly
willing to make peace because she
holds the trump cards in any peace
negotiations. Her armies are on
the ground that is going TO be dis
eussed. So Germany encourages Us
TO discuss war aims, which is the
same thing as discussing peace. That
these discussions drive wedges be-
tween Germany and Austria is a
childish belief; that any talk Of ours
can rock the Kaiser's throne is equal
ly an absurd notion. The only way
to endAnger the Kaiser's throne is
to defeat his armies and show the
German people that war does not
pay. We do not believe, and we
say this advisedly, that there is any
chance Of social upheaval in Ger
many either now or after the way
unless Germany suffers military de-
feat. And the very worst thing
that our leaders can do for us is to
foster the idea that the revolution
airy elements IN Germany are going
to fight our battles for Us. Such
pleasant hopes soften our fibre and
discourage effort There are no
signs of revolution in Germany to-
day and there viii be none after
the war If Germany energies unbest-
en-. Statesmen and editors who hold
out these false hopes do not know
their Germany. Revolutions do not
happen in Germany simply because
the people are cowed by discipline;
they do not hapen mainly because
the people are extremely cared for
under the German system, much
better than under our own system.
German radicals are not friendly to
many aspects Of the German social
system; but if II wins out against
a whole world in arms they are go
ing TO be losth 10 change II for
what we are pleased TO call greater
freedom for the individual That
must be apparent 10 every reason
able person, We say We are fighting
for democracy. So we are; but we
are also In the war to discover
whether democracy is worth fight