The Republican journal., 1919-02-13
Waiting for the Treaty.
By H. II. Windsor, in the February Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine.

as was the breaking out of the war. In
official circles, the end was confidently
counted on for several weeks before it
was accomplished So engaging of every
effort of mind and hand was the prosecu-
ton of the war, there seemed little haste
for thought of what the final settlement
shall include.
No problem which has ever engaged a
congress of nations compares with the
responsibility and magnitude of the work
before the Peace Commission Like all
great bodies it appears to move slowly,
but in due time, like huge ship, it will
cast loose, get under way, and start on
its Voy age. What its destination will
prove to be is of momentous importance
to every human being on this earth, and
to millions yet unborn. Its importance
politically and socially is so far beyond
any thing in the past, that historically it
may almost rank with those great up
heavas of Nature in which our Earth
was born.
| That the men, upon whose shoulders
rests the formation of right and lasting
settlement, realize their responsibility.
may be accepted.
The countercurrents of wind and wave
OF suggestion which reach US, indicate
! the careful approach of the actual nego-
tiations, and give hopeful promise of sane
and safe decision.
The whole affair is so vast, and it's in
terests and dependent interests so many
and far-reaching, the undertaking is
something like the ministratons of relief
and reorganization which Immediately
follow a great flood or CONFEDERATION.
However, as in those disasters, each day
tends to bring order out of choas, al
though at first progress may seem slow
In this effort the best minds of the
world are enlisted for its solution. and. it
seems, with generous harmony of pur-
pose The effort of the Huns to throw
monkey wrenches in the gears has thus
far only bruised their own hands.
10 those of us who demand the per-
sonal punishment in the persons of the
chief offeaders-which should include all
of us-the sheriff seems bit slow in ar
resting the criminals who have already
been indicted in the court of world
opinion.
In the meantime it behooves US to keep
the faith, and, because the gas and LIQUID
tires are no longer being hurled at our
selves and the allies, not forget the spirit
or arrogance and hate which conceived
them. MOI one single repentant word
has come out OF Hundom. On the con-
trary, the spirit of defiance burns as
| brightly as ever. Ever and anon appear
illusions to "the next war" while in an
appeal to the allies, Eisner says:
We do not come to you in sackcloth
/ n a c I0In
men, conscious of having cleared away
the old system. We come with pure
hearts. That is why we remind YOU that
we are 10000, 600 human beings who want
to live, and that it is your duty to forget
and to help US reconstruct the new
| world "
We may be more forgetful as nation
than we should, but with our wounded
and dying reaching our shores by the
shlpload, with thousands more to come
for months, we resent being told it is our
duty 10 iorget'-and it will be noticed
we are not asked to forgive"
! What we need to guard ourselves against
is the danger of relapsing into indiffer-
ence to the crimes and horrors which the
! Huns inflicted on humanity.
Even now the Hun in our midst is rapid
ly resumlng his attitude of arrogance and
insult to our flag, cautiously, but none
the less deliberately. Ships already are
afloat headed this way with cargoeS of
German made goods, stored for years in
neutral " European countries, whose
value runs INTO the millions of dollars in
a single cargo German agents already
mere are taking orders from merchants,
who are either pro- German or whose lust
tor gain absorbS their honor The mo-
ment the gates are open Hun statesmen
Will swarm over here, prepared to sell
goods at price at which no American
workman could produce them and live
merely Tor their own protection, the
American WOTkmen, of all citizens,
should refuse to bay goods made in Ger
many.
Having time and again proven them
selves lntrlguers; deceptive, barbarous,
liars, defllers, why should we open our
gates to such people2 Of course, there
must be some there who are not so black,
put It's dangerous to empty bag Of
snakes in the room because few are
probably harmless. 1t would be a righte-
Gus expression of our adherence of Hun
ism not to admit for residence here, for
the period of at least five years, anv
emigrant from what was Germany or
Austria. 1t would be more convincing of
our opinion of Kultur than the exacting
of any possible indemnity in money
which they would proceed to made out of
us and pay us with our own gold. Nor
must we relax in our attitude toward
those fragrant offenders-those already
lnterned They must be tried and, if
guilty, convicted, and no foolish senti-
ment should plead for them "the war is
over"
The war is not over in this country as
long as one single voice is raised against
our flag, our institutions, and our high
locals of right and wrong. These Offend
ers cannot understand these ideals be-
cause the noise of Kultur has been dinned
into their ears in the cradle, in the
school, in the home, and in the church,
until they simply cannot hear the clang-
ing of the Liberty bells.
We should abolish in this country every
school, private, public, or Sabbath, con-
Quoted in any language but English.
! When the Pilgrim Fathers landed they
thanked God for freedom in the English
tongue. When the minutemen fought for
! liberty, they spoke English. When that
greatest of all human documents, the
Declaration of Independence, was framed,
it was written in English. The ''Star-
Spangled Banner" and the "Batte Hymn
of the Republic" were written in Eng
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