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Show PEACE OR WAR. " When President Wilson turned over '.the correspondence with Germany to the Rallied nations, the exchange of notes Ktrjon the subject -of peace ended so far "as he is individually concerned. If any Vfurther action in the premises is taken, it will be by the allied war council, which is to discuss the terms upon which an armistice may be granted. The president, therefore, wilT make no reply re-ply to the ' latest appeal of Dr. Solf . 'The same treatment should be accorded ii'the latest Austrian plea for peace, rwhich is signed by Count Julius An-drassy, An-drassy, who has been accused of being .a willing tool of the kaiser. This note ;?ays that '"'Austria accepts all the ..views expressed by the president in his :uote of October 19," and that she "is willing and ready, without awaiting the result of other negotiations, to negotiate nego-tiate a peace and an immediate armistice armi-stice on all Austro-Hungarian fronts." It is for the allied war council to say 'whether an armistice shall be granted ttpon the statement made by Count An-.drassy An-.drassy as to the willingness of Austria to accept the views of President Wilson. The British, and Italian premiers are ;in Paris and 'Colonel E. M. House is .there to represent the United States. .I5"bc other countries engaged in war jjtvith Germany arc also represented; but, J0f course, the decision will rest primarily pri-marily with 'the United States, Great Britain. France and Italy. Whether or ?iot the allied war council will state the armistice terms to Germany and Austria Aus-tria and allow them to accept or reject, rt-mains to be seen. We believe the allied al-lied countries will end the war just as soon as it can be ended after Germany li i- been shorn of her power to do evil and after safeguarding the future peace if the world. It is to consider this rave matter that Lloyd George and the ptber statesmen are meetiDg at Versailles, Ver-sailles, and we are content to leave the matter in their hands, fully believing ihat truth, right and justice will prevail. pre-vail. We do not believe there is a single 'father or mother in the United States whose boys are at the battlefront who desires to prolong the conflict a single moment after the objects for, which we entored the war" have been accomplished and wc are quite confident a great majority ma-jority of the business men feel the same waV about it. Whether that time is near at. hand is for the war council to say, and -their decision will be final, and, we also believe, satisfactory. It Tjill be surrender of the central empires, in one form or another, in any event; for the internal affairs of both Germany Ger-many and Austria are in such a chaotic condition that both countries must bow to the inevitable, and that quickly. Signs havn not been wanting for some time , past that there was a possibility that the war might end before the first of the year, and many now regard such an event as a certainty. But as yet no term3 have been offered the losers, and the conflict will go on until such time as the allied statesmen in their wisdom conclude to end it. |