The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-09-04
BY HERMAN BEANTING,
he Distinguished Swedish Statesman,

no Is SSS1I.GS ASAiSti4A AhNA - ANA~S~'
My first mPuis'.. "!'"n asked |" f''e
nv views on How the war Will end,
was 20 reply. with :, FIRM REFUSAL
am IN prophet. Il - just o"cauS"
| am Srcial;S; ;hat [ am dHT"t"d !"
reality Il is n,: my business 7" los"
,nyScif m NOR, or i.SS haHard"nS con-
lectures and Su0nosl;ionS.
But y moment later | reflected. hs
is rhanc" "a rlake better understood
IN circles whrrH ar" Ntt!" Known
tho point OF view Of these Socialists III
neutral countries VII" hay" "ntc;tH"r"u
70 -c-,s.ahl,sh thc W"ckman's S"'lalis-
"Intern,;ional.' as !; was n IVA.
That hopes for III" peace Of the Wceit
were fuutl.!c., indeed m IN" VIII. so
often manifested Of thu organized work
ers meyer 10 permit the crime of trca-
son against humanity involved In me
idea Of war b"tw|.n the loading civiiiz",t
nations.
Alas: Though this "will'- existed cv-
ervwhr-> il, thr labor world n that toS
ever-accursed week Of July. 1914. ;hH
democratic forces in III" central "nr-
nires were much :No weak for their
task.
Tho ron curtain descended and on
closed the central empires. The enor-
nous war machine, So carefully pre-
rared for many years. was set IN mo-
ton.
All possibility ot effective action on
tho part OF tho international against
tho war was broken down. and soon IN"
international itself 100. cemed to be
broken.
Now. clearly. it was from the Social
ist parties Of those countries that mad
remained neutral that there had to come
of nnSSihl0 10 ais
cover :, common ground once more.
After two years OF war it appeared
to us that events sufficiently proved
that Mother OF tho two great opposed
coalitions would have any likely chances
of an absolutely crushing military su-
perinri,Y over the. other.
Tho strength of resistance and the
vitality OF modern nations have proved
themselves much greater than anyone
dared 10 predict before tho war.
Nobody srrs moro clearly than I the
vast Importance Of the military contest
now heinc war"d on The French battle
front Tho liberty ~ tn" world Is IN
solution there. It is n Waterloo doE.
Which has lasted already for three
months. bar must last longer still. l."
heroic Resistance" 81 III" English. French
Belgian and american hat;ali"ns against
all the dnS1orain efforts. nf l.uh"ndorft
70 pinrre tho front which protects IN"
channel rc~tS - tho sol" center Of our
hops for tn future.
Clearly. in ,ha; sense. there must Pc
a military decision.
Evolution Of German Opinion.
II tho resistance Of the allied armies
wcro really broken. ;hN result would y"
a world wh"7" II" fr"f. man could
breathe. If T may b. permitted to Dor
row an oppression of Lord G7eEs.
And vet c"rSde" II" question also
from tho other side.
Arc no, II. Germans imnellca 7"
these d"sporat" attacks hT IN" nope.
hitherto always :ain. nr 4 military viz
tory which shalt n last establish 'h''F
s,,rerioritr in I'll" field"
After thru" and half years Of cruel
suffering. of inralculabl> loss. Tho men
who ar. still dir"c,In:, IN" -."stini"S or
the c.n:r:.l empires came I" their poo
rie and confessed: In SPITE "f our VIC
tories on tho east. our true "nNnI"S
tho peoples or the west. are SIN IN
dntca tod"
Wha, did they add" They said: Nv"
D-ousr ho,.> rro rlor.. hl""d-l.tt'rr. TINS
sorf,r viii witness our "roar rff"nslN''.
L wlll ~ crushing and ircsSiStth'". Il
will be a hard ;.St IF endurance. Sut
:. will ~. ,i,> 1nS:. |, vii ~ ~" ti''7l'
victory which ~h.ll co-up"n<nt" Us.
THO sense 81 certainty 'hui had pro-
vailed during Tho months Of august
and September l1;t had cora" back.
Even H. I:,h,rir. "lasS.,S v"r" not an"
- avoid III. general Infection. Those
who had spoken "F a c"ncIIin;nry p"a""
were ordered 70 keep sii"n:
Then tho Of. ns;r" WAS Gndertak"n
no, indeed mithn'i' success bur stu
withnu, that haal victory $" often
promised.
ono" This att"'rrf hls fat'"d. sh"S"
voices tina, nave l"rlhty demanded peace"
- peace a"c"r;ahlS :" both S''i"S. WiIl
NJ innun,"-:,hl.. and Irresistible.
After having h"'n :Mt"Xica:"d y h
.re "rh"tr"ral successes ~ Rr"St-
I::oySG and Of T:ukar"Si I'll" nnSh2h-
abb rcs:stanrc--s" long as i ~ un-
:.hakahle--"f IN" valiant allie! ARMIES
will bring German minds back Z"
rca.ity.
Ard whn, ;s that reality" I: is ST..
a very long war: = war without issue:
hi, ono in which IN" enormous r.
sources Of America will rom" more and
more Clearly into IN" picture.
So you 500 that III" German m!nd
will 2; las; =" IN 4 position to reflect
fhot. after all military force docs ~"
dn"id" everything in this w""i". An
other sort &C r"ac. must h" sought.
different from III" German peace due
,atet BY th.. greed Of anncNas;" niStS.