The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-11
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All Are United.

All Are United.
The great nations which associated
themselves to destroy 1t have now defin-
itely united in the common purpose to set
up such peace as will satisfy the long,
justice, embodied in settlements, which
based upon something much better and
much more lasting than the selfish COM
petitive interests of powerful states. There
Is no longer conjecture ms to the objects
the victors have in mind. They have
mind in the matter, not only. but heart
also Their avowed and concerted pur-
pose is to satisfy and protect the weak as
well as to accord their just rights TO the
victors Are Practical.
The humane temper and intention of the
victorious governments has already been
manifested in a very practical way. Their
representatives in the supreme war council
at Versailles have by unanimous resolu-
ton assured the peoples of the central en-
the circumstances will be done to supply
them with food and relieve the distressing
want that is in SO many places threaten n
taken Immediately to organize these eff
forts at relief in the same systematic man
ner that they were organized in the cause
of Belgium. By the use of the idle ton
mage of these central empires 1t ought
presently to be possible to lift the fear of
utter misery from their oppressed popula
lions and set their minds and energies free
for the great and hazardous tasks of
them on every hand. Hunger does not
breed reform. it breeds madness and all
the ugly distempers that make an orderly
life impossible.
Fall of Incubus.
For, with the fal. of the ancient govern
ments which rested like an incubus upon
the peoples of the central empires has come
political change not merely, but revoiu-
ton 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 them
selves with what governments and of
what sort are We about to deal in the
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what authority will they meet us and with
what assurance that they abide and sus
tain securely the international arrange
ments into which we are about to enter?
There Is here matter for no small anxiety
whose promises and engagements besides
our own is it to rest?
Let Us be Frank.
Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves
| and admit that these questions cannot be
satisfactorily answered now or at once.
But the moral is not that there is little
hope for an early answer that will suffice.
II Is only that We must be patient and
helpful and mindful above all of the great
hope and confidence that lie at heart of
what is taking place. Excesses accom-
nished abundant recent proof of that Dis
| order Immediately defeats itself. If ex-
cesses should occur, if disorder should
for time raise its head, a sober second
thought will follow and n day of construc-
| tive action, If We help and do not hinder
| Hold Self Control.
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longs to the nations and the peoples who
preserve their self control and the orderly
| processes of their governments; the future
TO those who prove themselves the true
| friends of mankind. To conquer with
| armies, is to make only n temporary Goa
| quest, to conquer the world by earning its
esteem is to make a permanent conquest
l nm confident that nations that have
| learned the discipline of freedom and that
| have settled with self possession to its
| ordered practice now about to max
| conquest of the world by the sheer power
| OF example and of friendly helpfulness.
Freedom Has Come.
| The peoples who have Just come out from
| under the yoke of an arbitrary 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
| stunned with the blood Of their own broth
| ers leads to the wilderness. not to the seat
| of their hope. They are now face to face
| with the initial test. We must hold the
! light steady until they find themselves.
| And in the meantime If it be possible
| we must establish peace that will justly
! define their place among the nations. re-
| move all fear of their neighbors and OF
! their former masters and enable them to
live in security and contentment when they
| have set their affairs in order. l. for one
| do not doubt their purpose or their ca.
| pacity.
| There are some happy signs that they
| Know and will Goose the way of self control
| and peaceful acOmmoda tons. If they do
! We shall put our aid at their disposal in
| every way that we can. If they do not we
| must await with patience and sympathy
| the awakening and recovery that will as
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