The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-02-07
Germany Cannot Be Given
Chance to Repeat Crime
Against World.
DANGEROUS MOMENT AHEAD
Americans Must Guard Against Day
When Teutons, Beaten, Offer
Peace on Basis OF Status
Quo Ante.
BY J. FRANK DAVIS.

for America In all this war Will be the
moment when Germany, admitting She
cannOt win, offers to make peace on the
basis of the status quo ante--to ~
back 20 where things were before she
set forth 50 blithcly upon her great I'd.
venture.
Already her newspapers talk Of such
"A peace. The ]rcichstag no anneNa'
lions and no lndcmuitics" resolution l.
II ''fcclcr" for It. The wa" lords allow
this talk to be- made, although they
have not officially sanctioned the prop.
%Osltion.
The day will come when they will,
however, and that VIII be a dangerous
day for America.
From what we see quoted from Ger.
man newspapers 1t H. quit" clear that
the people of Germany think they have
only to offer to 20 back To where they
were before the var To gain peace.
When they say mo u~nnrXationS and no
indcmnitics" they mem no a]nncXutions
by Germany and no i%ndcmnitirs 10 he
collected by Germany, because II has
not even entered the head Of one man
IN ten In all Germany that they may be
forced TO make reparation.
Germans Still Deceived.
Also Germany does not understand
that any mere promise on her part not
10 attack her n%cighbOrs will not he
taken. The Germans us Il whole stlll
are deceived into thinking their rulers
did not start the war. They do not qp-
precIate that their promise not to Of.
fend again would be n worthless prom.
ise. They do not know hat their ma.
tlon Is morally bankrupt; that the
word OF Its ovcrlords is no longer OF
the slightest value In the councils OF
civilization.
When they get ready to admit that
they cannot win and to offer to return
TO the status quo they will expect their
enemies TO accept those terms-in et.
feet n peace made in Germany. And
we must be prepared for II considerable
movement In the United States advo.
eating the acceptance OF such an offer.
The hyphcnates and the paclHsts
and the towards and all the other cop.
perheads will be for II. "What more Is
I'M .na' s"ouiu nsh' ior' they
va y why ehou'u we 'aHe sides
-. ,nID I'@'''' o'r' 'er'l'
return Belgium and northern France.
and let the British and the Italians give
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were for such "a plan we should bavo no
more to worry about than We now have
~ 10 l." 'ne hco'l'ies OF l. w.
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,aa. A WIZ III" "Fe NOT with
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H"''r'o"hS nre u sentimental peo-
pn,' We i,Ne 10 'hihK about Furnishing
,'''u'n' pu' we seldom Ike Ia punish
'"'i"' We VIII not repeal our laws
"s"'"St '"ii'aI punishment, but We
'o"'''' ulueT thtin'
The cry that will 90 up from Ell the
','''"h pr~opaghhdists when the Offer
''"'uS puo pence Is made viii be II
wha nro n'u '"oi'n'"S 81 Americans
lonso,nt,r, '" '"ouN" at h'Hr'' hut
Cormam" w. ""H uo "~''r"'t'a by II.
','''""S' III mat N"ur' may h." depend.
VI ui'"h 10 use every tool nj her com.
ii''hd III 'his country To throw up dust,
i" insecure Inc issue to i%nilu"nc" Amer.
inns toward IL peace that shnll leave
.ne Wof'a as much In peril as 1t was
paw" "'su''' IVA
would Be German Victory.
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