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Show WAR WILL GO ON. The president's answer to Germany's ! peace proffer is one in which a great majority of the people of the United States Trill heartily concur. The ''war lord" must go before the Germans can obtain peace, and Mr. Wilson maies the fact very plain in his reply to Prince Maximilian. Otherwise it would be impossible im-possible for Germany to give the necessary neces-sary guarantees concerning the future. This is what the president has been aiming at ever since we entered the war, and he will bring it about before ; a treaty of peace is signed. The process of evacuation and the conditions of an i armistice will be left to the judgment of the military aefvisers of the United States and the allied governments, but an armistice is not to be even thought of so long as the Germans continue acts of atrocity upon land and sea. This is the answer of the government at Washington, Wash-ington, and it is final. A separate reply re-ply will be made to Austria-Hungary. Xow if the Germans really want peace it will be necessary for them to make their actions conform to their words and proceed along the lines indicated in-dicated by Mr. Wilson. There is no middle course and no room for argument. argu-ment. If, on the other hand, they have been maiirig proposals in order to gain time to extricate their army from its present uncomfortable position, they have found out that wool cannot be pulled over the eyes of the allied governments gov-ernments and that the war will go on until they are whipped into submission. The decision rests with the German peo- ; pie themselves. The American. British and French soldiers in the field wo'uli like to try conclusions with the Hun forces on their own soil, and will be only too glad if they are given an op- ; portunity to avenge their comrades who ; have been treacherously done to df-nth. The president has once more done the right thing at the right moment, and the American people may rest assured that there will be no peace with Germany Ger-many until all the conditions laid down ; are accepted and guarantees given by a responsible government. |