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Show WHAT THE TERMS OF PEACE SHOULD BE A movement should be started In the Cnlted States without delay to make the ending of the war in Europe Eu-rope deoid of the inflicting of unbearable un-bearable hardships on the defeated. At present no one can foretell which side will be victorious and while that uncertainty prevails would be an opportune lime to enlist all levers of fair play in the cause of a generous termination of the struggle strug-gle The terms of peace, if they were made without thought of inflicting a lasting sting and humiliation on the vanquished would do more in bring Ing about the disarmament of all na lions than anything else, because war "ould then cease to be a thing of enduring en-during hatred, bitterness and aggrandizement, ag-grandizement, and the weak would cease to fear the strong. The criminal law at one time sent offenders to the dungeon and the the judge who is possessed of real ability labors to lift the criminal out of the rut, seeking reformation Terms of peace In war should be marked by that same higher concep tion of right and wrong If France and her allies were to de. feat Germany they should serve notice no-tice on the German people that there Is no hatred in their souls; thai there Is no desire to weigh them down with a crushing obligation, that the wrongs of the past would not be multiplied, multi-plied, that the Germans would be given giv-en an opportunity to go on to the beat of their ability to mak this world a better, happier field of labor, and, as neiRhbors. they would be assisted as-sisted In the hope that the future would witness the brotherhood of man without regard to boundarv lines A declaration 50 magnanimous would extinguish In Germany the very last spark of militarism it would mean 100 years of peace and, per haps, peace forever |