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ON TO BERLIN Again the President has spoken with the voice of America and for the civilized nations of tlie earth Again and for the last time he has told Germany that peace cannot be discussed while a Hohen zollern wears the imperial crown and while the satanic practices of the Hun proceed at sea and in the field fieldWhen When the torpedo the torch and the bayonet are no longer wielded against women and children and when the kaiser and his bloody house are visited with punishment or oblivion then only can the allied generals in the Held be authorized to con ¬ sider an armistice with the beaten unities of the enemy Nor will that armistice surrender one point of military advantage or forego one safe uard in brief as the CourierJournal said two days ago the German troops must stack their arms on the battle line lineIt It means more than unconditional surrender by Germany lt opens the way to much more than military triumph surpassing any ever enjoyed by Caesar or Napoleon For it prepares the greatest liberation of the soul of man that has come since Christ trod the streets of Jerusalem The brutal arrogant Godless power that has turned the simple German people into a race of demons must go down before the quiet phrases of the President as card houses topple when breathed upon Within their own proper boundaries and under just laws the misguided race that made a god of a halfcrazed and bloodthirsty monarch will be enabled to live as all human beings have a right to live And more than that the human beings that people the rest of the earth may walk the paths of peace and progress unmolested and unafraid unafraidThe The anxious Senate or some of its members feared the President hud laid aside the trumpet for the dulcimer To Mr Lodge of Massachusetts the President had reopened a diplomatic discussion that would vitiate the spirit of the war There is nothing of discussion in this great document Germany lias unqualifiedly accepted the stated conditions the President says and closes debate on that score The surprised power tinds itself tightly bound to a program it might desire later to evade or avoid And there is enough of tlia promise of fire and sword and reprisal until sur ¬ render is enforced to please even that implacable colonel from whom Mr Lodge has taken such a faulty cue cueThe The answer of tho President is an ultimatum to a defeated power Its terms are so clear that only two courses lie open to the Germans submission which means present surrender or resistance which means ultimate destruction No discussion is pos ¬ sible The trap which the foolish feared if there ever was a trap snaps its futile jaws together upon nothing and will be heard of no more morelii lii the iueaiitihie the boys land iii France 2500t0 of them a month Tlie drive goes on in Flanders Artois and the Champagne Pershing Huig and Foch smash away now at one point now at an ¬ other Defeat is at bund and peace when it comes will be the dictated peace of absolute sur ¬ render Whether it is now or next year does not matter in the light of the fact that the new world has given to the old in its darkest hour a leader who is botli warrior and priest Louisville Courier Journal
