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Show I I Germany, (Must Perfer Peace A well informed lawyer In Boston says: "I cannot get it out of my mind that there Is no other course for Germany than to take advantage of the llrst really big victory over tho French to ask for "a conference lit tho spirit of 'How much moro of a licking do j on want?' "If the French responded, "Wo have had enough,' Germany can then sao her faco by asking Uncle Sam to act as peace mediator.? "Germany has already lost a foreign for-eign trado exceeding $4,000,000,000 per annum. Sho can do nothing nbroad with her wonderful chemistry her dyes, her electrical supplies and her machinery. As a manufacturing nation with her raw materials cut out and her finished products cut off fiom expoit, she la In a very serious situation. situ-ation. Sho could teed her army tor a year if her people could get the fruit of tholr labors through exports, "The German people must shortly realize it they do not at the present time, what they are up against. If sho should conquer the whole hemisphere hemi-sphere from Greenland to Cape Town what could she do except hurt herself her-self and the people upon whom sho depends for trade? "Tho manufacturing the industrial tho commercial structure that Uer-many Uer-many has built up has been her-ver life. It has been worth more to he; Uinn millions of men In arms and It has sustained her vast military equipment. The moro she whips her neighbors tho moro she destroys her- self and raises antagonisms that ruulj ttply Alsace Lorraine a hundredfold. j "I cannot get It out of my head that there is somewhere 'In scientific Germany-a little common sense left in respect to the peace problem which must ultimately faco her and for her pwn futuro, the sooner the lettcr. . "The Idea that nations were created creat-ed for war as ono would think from reading the news of the day Is too ridiculous. Tho arts of peaco and of commerce are the modern weapons for national development. "The only two nations In the world that can carry on a war Indefinitely Indef-initely are Russia, which can feed her armies from her own soil and England, so long as she commands tbo Beas. "Can Germany" triumph over both. Englaqd and Russia? "It is for Gerwsny to find out who ther with Zeppelins or torpedoes or wnrships sho can conquer England. She should bo able to see her situation situa-tion here first, and then mako any vlctorleSiOVor France the excuse for, peace before she Is hopelessly Involved Involv-ed with tho endless hordes ot Russia." Rus-sia." Boston News Bureau. |
