The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1918-11-16

terday the masters of Germany is at
an end, its illicit ambitions engulfed
in black disaster. Who will now seek
to revive it? The arbitrary power
of the military caste of Germany
which once could secretly and of its
, own single choice disturb. the peace
of the world is discredited and de-
stroyed. And more than that-much
more than that-has been accom-,
lished.
"The great nations which asso,
ciated themselves to destroy it have
now definitely united in the COM
mon purpose TO set up such a peace
as will satisfy the longing of the
whole world for disinterested JUS
tice, embodied in settlements which
the matter, not only, but a heart
also. Their avowed and concerted
purpose is to satisfy and protect the
weak as we'll as to accord their just
rights to the strong.
"The humane temper and inten-
ton of the victorious governments
has already been manifested in q
very practical way. Their represent
atives in the supreme war council
at Versailles have by unanimous res
olution assured the peoples of the
central empires that everything that
is possible in the circumstances will
be done to supply them with food
AMI relieve the distressing want that
is in so many places threatening
their very lives; and steps are TO be
taken Immediately to organize these
efforts at relief in the same system
latic manner that they were organi-
zed in the case of Belgium. By the
use of the idle tonnage of the CEN
trail empires it ought presently to
be possible to lift the fear of utter
misery from their oppressed popu-
latiOns and set their minds and en-
ergies free for the great and hazar l.
GUS tasks of political reconstruction
which now faces them on every hand.
Hunger does not breed reform; it
breeds madness and all the ugly dis
tempers that make an ordered life
impossible.
For with the fall of the ancient
governments, which rested like an
incubus upon the peoples of The
central empires, has come political
change not merely, but revolution;
and revolution which seems as yet
to assume no final and ordered form,
but to run from one fluid change to
another until thoughtful men are
forced to ask themselves with what
governments and of what sort are
we about to deal in the making of
the covenants of peace? With what
authority will they meet us, and
with what assurance that their au-
thority will abide and sustain Sc
curely the international arrange,
ments into which we are about TO
enter? When peace is made, upon
whose promises and engagements be-
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Let us be perfectly frank with
ourselves and admit that these ques-
tions cannot be satisfactorily an
swered now or at once. But the NOR
lal is not that there is little hope of
IAN early answer that will suffice.
1t is only that we must be patient
land helpful and mindful above all
of the great hope and confidence
that lie at the heart of what is tax
ing place. Excesses accomplish no.
thing, Unhappy Russia has furnish
ed abundant recent proof of that.
| Disorder Immediately defeats itself.
If excesses should occur, if disorder
should for a time raise its head, a
sober second thought will follow and
a day of constructive action, if we
help and do not hinder.
"The present. and all it holds be,
longs TO the people who preserve
their self-control and the orderly
processes of their governments; the
future to those who prove themsel-
YES true friends of mankind. To con-
quer with arms is to make only a
temporary conquest; to conquer the
world by earning its esteem is to