| Show Pan n Loss of f Trade to tore toire Ie ire re in Peace Showdown 4 J j jw I w irs ir's a's as End Is Not in Sight Sight Belligerent rent Nations a aBy yAre Are Considering What u Pledges They laId Bold for Obtaining n Good Goo Term Terms t dri drle 0 on OD tho the western to emphasize the fact he ie wild ot of ofIs war Is that tho general stead t. t of ot being clarified d in in an ever deepen deepen- Today ay back of the mat on expressed by all all' r there is the ques- ques I themselves I ep-d ep Not when or or j but in what man- man Ibe brought about the drive on Paris the situation seemed Lilies and their Kitchener's three years ration valuable for re- re The Russians were I C east the French and ande e pus ing the enemy d e would be forced m 1 nd into his own ter- ter c be Imposed on or at an any man nan side i it seemed clear the worst came an early Ge Germany nany being keeping Antwerp a clear road through the I Turkey t to the east and nd with the Adriatic hl would be an ImI im- im I og g began to roll roIl in found Q nd the the adversaries western front and see- see e eastern Doubts and Increased on both sides sides' optimistic prophecies of proved false on of mind deepened as assed without the great rive rie that was to sweep sweeper ler ler- er with one steady ac- ac ve ement nent and without the J g an any progress on the the great German Russia thickened the elY ey for the allies ames be it the e Ge Germans an them them- th Darkness t the the Who are ear vision of What is lers and statesmen and andales ni ales s are themselves in darkness This Is why p pt the hour Is not so sovi vi the outcome of the nW ll it end but rath- rath inner can It possibly be bel l nd The question is i lasses classes on all sides The I apers guardedly hint at newspaper as a's close g government aS the Tri Tri- dwells on it is a fine show of to see the fight but e everywhere orne manifestation n of ot discouragement It Itis is Is' ise Ise iome the e fog and gloom are he feeling of depres- depres ie ies on both sides of the there there-is is no doUbt it is jj relieving that tbt th t depres depres- leIs lers are permitting an such a a. question asa as a method for terminal terminal- a modus andi year ear has wn Is Isu u hav hafe not their theirY Y In I former da days daj's s 's sI I I when hen sn a few battles n he destruction ot of ari an ri Wd jid the opening o of the l I 3 victories may li be ben I In n jf a country without i cud arid belligerent ng- ng all the Industries IDd Td all th the nations nation's h cause use of th the war forced to make I losses suffered Peo- Peo lr are losing confidence in inal al alue e of military suc suc-r the theory of apparently In the the war when every- every clear was to be a denow de- de denow now liow has become in- in trIn view of the ever d on both sides a war of exhaustion 3 I In every ones one's zago rago but today if one n exhaustion the th prompt Jack ack When will this and how will It I itself Intoe into e estion regarding the thee e w war wr r may be term ter- ter m the war could i Od offices of a die die- can an n Authoritative out- out ORe ope pe might be the pope arping is given to the r pope pope also has certain vi views ws regarding the Q regarding the be ended and h be ble to i th lic review Vita e on on th the first n reign reig-n and the work work acc ac accomplished therein for peace says One speCial feature of th the popes pope's program should be taken into consid- consid It is true that he aims alms at peace h b but f t not at pacifism he RIms aims at ate peace the he e daughter of charity at peace which fia is true Peace And true peace Is the peace of order order- True peace leaCe a. a i has for its scope and rd Its condition condition condi- condi tion and therefore for its practical nm limit h justice Th The P pope P wishes to lead back fack to to the the- recognition of justice those who h have ve violated it All who are willing to read through the discreet discreet dis dis- dis- dis creet but grave words of of the common father observes that they contain no uncertain Pc ln jUdgment on the violation of or Belgian neutrality and on the methods method adopted in warfare o of on s sea a or land Imperial Chancellors Chancellor's Views It will be remembered In this connection connection con con- that that that-in in his autograph letter to to Cardinal Amette archbishop P of f Paris Pope Benedict referring to letters written by Cardinal Gasparri papal secretary tary of f state and addressed to the Belgian minister and the British envoy accredited to the vatic Vatican n stated stated stat- stat ed that the holy sea condemned the violation of Belgian neutrality by Germany Also in an allusion to the British blockade on the sea the vatican Vatican vatican Vati vati- can expressed its condemnation of German methods of ot submarine war war- fare A proof that the leaders on both s sides des are conscious of the obscurity about the manner manner- of ending the war waris is seen in the fact that all parties forecast t it in an altruistic way It is true In May last at a gathering of ot leaders of the German Industrial world and of prominent nt agriculturists and members of the N National Liberal party the German chancellor Dr von on Bethmann Hollweg distributed a document In which as he had been requested to do he set forth some of the concrete a acquisitions that Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- I many would derive from th W wan war the l' l th annexation of territory territory- l in hi i- i the west wet the taking of ports on the channel territorial aggrandizement In Morocco co and other parts of ot the wo world ld and various other nattering flattering Increases of German power But that document was private and destined for Germans only and there is no need to discuss it nor the sincerity of the chancellor In editing it The interesting fact is that every German spokesman until recently proclaimed the end of the war may come when Germany can assure to the te sm smaller ner nations the rights which which are are their due Question of Liberty fo for Jews A sarcastic reply to this was an allusion al- al lusion to the case of Belgium and of the smaller state Luxembourg Then the tha German authorities adopted re recently recently recently re- re a new motive for the ending of the war The fact that they now will insist upon is the guaranteeing guaranteeing guaranteeing guar guar- of the of the liberty of ot the Jew in I all countries It is not clear of course that the liberties of the Jew are a Vital factor in this war A writer in a leading Italian newspaper news- news paper the ot of of Milan Milam In fact goes so 50 O far as to assert ui b of the Jew are better defended i in France Britain and Italy than they i are in Germany and Austria that In Austria one of tho the moat of the political parties partis is openly anti- anti semitic and that in Germany th the of Judaism have for leaders years Yea bee struggling against what what- th y claim is a powerful semitic element ele dc ele element ment in the governing body and indeed indeed in in- de deed d that prominent Jews comp comparing ring the lot of their brethren In Russia andin and andin andin in in inthe the Teutonic empires have expressed expressed ex ex- pressed a more severe evere condemnation in the latter case In n the deep obscurity it in which the leaders leaders' on all an sides f nd themselves they with common a accord ord abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- w hat might seem saem the more selfish claims fo for the the ending eding of ot the war by alleging that their J fa of a purely disinterested kind The French premier ho Vivian Viviani In jn a able his historic speech in pie fhe French chamber of in the latter days of July said France rance will not make pe peace ce while a single foot of ot Belgian territory remains re remains remains re- re mains under German domination a d l then mentioned other conditi 1 fr Lloyd Lloyd-Ge Lloyd George in the the end of August said as long as a German soldier r remains remains re remains re re- mains on of France or Bel gium glum there will be no Briton who who think of peace J for c. c Little Litti States 1 Mr Asquith previously had said would nb Iut put it ii up the the sword until Belgium had regained all she had sacrificed a and d even more ore un until until urU til France was guaranteed against the threat threats of aggression until the little states of Europe were placed In an unassailable position and Until the military domination of t. t Prussia PrusIa was entirely destroyed Sir Sir Edward Edward Carson Car Carr son Walter Long Lorig president of the local local lo lo- cal government board and aIle Lord Selbourne Sel Sel- bo bourne rne the of agriculture r recently have made similar state state- ments a formula or In the a criterion now that those based on n decisive victories and on exhaustion are regarded as Ina inadequate equate recourse Is had to a new one the tle criterion of the pledges This i is the criterion which might in colloquial parla parlance ce be called that of the tile show own With the war to some some extent indecisive indecisive indecisive inde inde- for there is no reason to believe believe be be- be- be lieve either side can can be hopelessly I crushed unless there Is to tobe to bea seven i years' years war var or a veritable Trojan war I many say there must come a a aday day when the belligerents will meet across across a table i ba having g w won n allbut all allbut I but each side having won som something Peace then must be determined basis of wh what t each side has in hand what It has nas taken from irom the ne other otner what It has nas taken from irom the ne other otner These pawns pawns pawns' or pledges will b be laid J on n the table Sh Should uld such euch a solution be impo imposed ed with matters as they ar are today there there- are many who think Germany would have all the advantage of the bargaining bargain- bargain ing as she has important conquests to show both on her eastern and western west west- j em ern fronts But here again conditions j f today are vastly different from wh what t they were in the old time wars Germany Has Land Advantages Then the important criterion is' is the territorial one occupation Qt he enemy's soil or sue sue- victory as made occupation inevitable le ir it sired desired Oc of nearly all Belgium and of the chief coal and metallurgical section sec section sec sec- sec sec-I tion of France and of vast areas on the Russian side cannot be denied its great importance From a territorial point of view there would be set off against it a loss of practically all the German colonies but even this would not be much of an offset against the German holdings in E Europe rope At this point then is to be considered the new feature of the modern war war the fact namely that besides besidE's territorial rl otc I pation actual or potential there is a anew new form of pledge t to be taken consideration Formerly the wealth power and vitality of a nation were in its territory Today trade and and commerce whereby a nation spreads of its activities outside of ot its own territory give to it an Interest and a species of dominion or ideal territory in the lands outside of its OW own territory Germany after alter Great Britain had the greatest holding of ot this form of Possession through which she was richer outside than in her own terri tern tory On the o osite side of the ta- ta foreign trade In the year previous to the start of the war that foreign commerce commence calculated calculated calculated cal cal- on statistics of German and other origin amounted to more mote than in estimating Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's loss there should be subtracted subtract subtract- e ed l from that sum sum about which represented her commerce with Russia France England and Italy and which constitutes a reciprocal also the total of commerce with Austria and neutral states bordering on her frontiers There remains a loss of It is the loss of ot the fruits of ot Germanys Germany's powerful and rapidly increasing vitality of the fun fundamental basis of ot her e economic and financial progress I i Germanys Germany's Loss on the Sea Dr pr the German minister r of finance re recently told the reichstag that Germany Is capable of living shut up within h herself with her own internal inter nal resources Such a statement is ts designed to encourage the public at home and to worry the public in enemy enemy en en enemy emy lands In realty of course no modern nation could find any satis I faction in living shut up within t t- t self sel It would not be lying Iving the life which Germany dreamed for herself It would not be a place in th the sun for for- Germany Add to the above the loss of Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's shipping In twenty years the empire lad had ad built up a marvelous mercantile mer- mer cantile fleet of some 2500 modern steamships which carried the German flag on all aU th the seas and made Germany Germ Ger Ger- m many ny the keen and often victorious victoriou's riyal rival of Great Britain Therefore In the showdown against Germanys Germany's Germanys conquest conquest of European European European Euro Euro- territory there is the loss of her colonies of her foreign commerce and of her shipping and these are not merely negative Items they are positive positive tive conquests by Germanys Germany's enemies On which side is the greater gain And of course every very foot toot of invaded soil that hat is wrested from Germany re reduces re- re duces the value of her pledges and should she be completely expelled she would have as her only pledge a demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- capacity for continuing the war and injuring her adversaries |
