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Show PdPE BENEDICT AWAITS REPLY OF ENTENTE ALLIES K'J-MK, Sept. 22. The reply of the entente allies to the peace note of Pope Benedict now is being awaited by the Vatican, after which the pope will again address a note to all the belligerents. The pontiff will point out that the questions on which all agree really represent rep-resent the foundation of a new order of things in the world and a new era of peace for humv.iitv. The secondary problems, he will s'ay, certainly can be adjusted easily and .oetter through good will and frienlly discussion tuan by force of arms. Jt is understood that the next papal note virtually will embody the views expressed by Cardinal Uasparri, the papal pa-pal secretary of state to the Associated Press today in commenting upon the situation after the publication of the reply of the central empires to tne pope 's note. "President Wilson's proposal to reduce armaments and impose international interna-tional arbitration by force through a society of nations is a dream," said Cardinal Uasparri. "An international army to enforce tho verdicts of the court of arbitratiou? In which country would it be located without being influenced in-fluenced by local politics and prejudices? preju-dices? The moon is the only place possible. "All the other inconveniences and objections could be avoided by suppressing sup-pressing conscription with the provision thai it could not be re-established without with-out a law approved by the people, which iu normal conditions would be improbable, improb-able, indeed morally impossible. To this some would object that certain governments gov-ernments first would declare war and then present a bill to parliament for the adoption of conscription and the formation of a large standing army, which parliament undoubtedly would pass from patriotic motives. All this would be possible, but it would be difficult, dif-ficult, as such a government first would have to violate a treaty signed in conjunction con-junction with all civilized nations. Then it would not always be possible to induce parliament to vote large military mili-tary appropriations." ''Even Bismarck found this to be true several times, but especially when the party of the center succeeded in .Januarv, SS7, in defeating an increase in the German army of 41,000 men yearly, year-ly, which so angered the Iron chancellor chancel-lor that he dissolved the reichstag. "Under conditions we propose, the nation attempting to violate a treaty with the civilized world would be immediately im-mediately threatened by a general economic, eco-nomic, commercial and financial boycott. boy-cott. Thus, only a mad government would run such a risk. "The suppression of conscription would lead automatically and without any disturbance of public order, to disarmament, dis-armament, namelj', to the end of militarism, mili-tarism, bringing beneficial consequences for international peace and also the restoration of economic' and financial conditions in the countries exhausted by the present war. "The holy see. always has opposed conscription. We always refused to introduce in-troduce it in our own army, when the pope was a temporal sovereign. Besides. Be-sides. England and the United States are the most splendid examples of how great powers can exist without standing stand-ing armies, but even these two coun- trie?, despite their colossal resources, once war was declared, required a long time before being able to form a large army. If all states were in the same condition during the time necessary to prepare weapons, 6uch a long period would elapse as to render it possible for friendly intervention, with a view to avoiding conflict. "Finally, the whole world, in addition addi-tion to the suppression of obligatory military service, should proclaim the principle that no head of a state, cither emperor or king, or the president of a republic, should have the right to declare de-clare war without first consulting the people, preferablv through a referendum referen-dum or at least through the parliament. "Conscription is one of thp hideous burdens of a free people, both as regarding re-garding financial expenses aucl personal liberty, besides being an inevitable war breeder. Thus we saw Australia re-ieetinp re-ieetinp conscription bv referendum, al though the feeling in Australia for the mother country was most loyal. Perhaps Per-haps even England, the United States and Canada would have refused conscription con-scription if the people should be consulted con-sulted through a referendum. The law which introduced it for the duration of the war provided for its suppression immediately after the conclusion of peace. ' ' Cardinal Gasparri concluded: "It is now evident that in the present pres-ent conflagration there is no question of victor-and vanquished; no question of an absolute military success which no group of belligerents seem able to secure over the other, but the question is to find an equitable solution of satisfying sat-isfying the people of both sides with a view to avoiding graver catastrophes of a social and financial character. "The war must end through our mediation me-diation or the good offices of other neutrals. The objection made by President Presi-dent Wilson is easily overcome as the people of the central powers, as well as those of the allies, are ready and willing to give all guarantees for the fulfillment of conditions leading to a just and lasting peace." |