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Show PEACE COMMENT MADE BY PRESS Utter Surrender to Terms of Allies Is Unanimous Answer An-swer of Country. Topeka Dally Capital "An armistice armis-tice and peace parley cannot be granted grant-ed at this time." Cleveland Plain Dealer "Germany can have the peace that has come to Bulgaria. She can have utter surren-render." surren-render." Baltimore Sun "There can be no safe peace but a dictated peace writ ten with the sword." Philadelphia Press "Only an armistice armis-tice based upon unconditional surrender surren-der should be considered." Toledo Times "Peace, yes; but only that kind of peace dictated bv tho allies." St Louis Globe-Democrat "It Is useless for iho central powers to talk of peace -when their talons clutch the lands which they have grasped and while they hold the people of tho countries coun-tries they have overrun in enslavement." enslave-ment." Force Is the Answer. Chicago Tribune "Thorp is but one answer to such offers of parley as have be.en made, or are predicted. That answer is our redoubled efforts against the enemy. We can rely upon that answer an-swer from our fighting men, and tvc at home must back them up with a singleness sin-gleness of purpose matching theirs. Let the answer of tho American people peo-ple bo the answer of the victorious army." "Force to the Utmost." Omaha Bee (after quoting from President Wilson's Liberty loan speech) "Unless Mr. Wilson Is ready now to unsay those words, then we must on following his declaration made in Baltimore 'force to the ut- m'ost'. Ho will tell them he will not bo ready to talk peace -while a foot of conquered ground Is occupied, nor until un-til he can talk to a responsible government. gov-ernment. If the American people remain re-main steadfast and sincere In pursuit of the only- peace worth having, the peace of victory for the right, they can show It by tho energy nnd enthusiasm enthu-siasm they put Into subscribing for -" twui ill LIIUCli; lUtm. "Only Another Trick." Sah Francisco Chronicle "On the surface it seemed like the definito beginning be-ginning of tho end, but only on the surface. A little reflection sufficed to show the whole proposition in a highly suspicious light . . . No sooner soon-er were the peace dispatches examined exam-ined in detail, . . . than It became apparent ap-parent that kaiserism was again resorting re-sorting to trick and device." New York Times "If Germany wants peace, let her do away wKh her irresponsible braggart kaiser and speak, by a government of her own people to tho governments of the allied al-lied peoples. It Is not from Prince Maximilian, answerable only to imperial imper-ial authority, but from a minister responsible re-sponsible to the German people that Germany's plea for peace must come." (Salt Lake Tribune "There is nothing noth-ing new in the situation. All the peace moves that may be made by the central cen-tral powers have been discounted in advance by President Wilson, Lloyd George and Clomenceau Germany has wanted it for a long time and will doubtless continue to want it But the kind of peace she wants and the kinds she gets are two different propositions and no amount of propaganda work will help her out of the mire." Idaho Statesman, (Boise.)-r-"The central powers admit -to the world and to their own peoples and armies that they have lost tho war. This action marks the beginning of the end. Having Hav-ing lost the decision at arms,, the Germans Ger-mans would like to save something from the wreck of their hopes by tricky diplomacy. The answer is the prophecy: 'No negotiations. Move out I of all Invaded territories. Surrender without conditions, or continue the losing fight." Fresno (Cal.,) Republican "The i right place from which the Germans I should sue for peace Is from across the Rhine, let them go there or wait until we drive them there. Then If they will send a messenger accredited by the people he will, be listened to." Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer "America and the allies can give Germany Ger-many no time for recuperation, no opportunity op-portunity to revive the shrunken spirits spir-its or repair the shattered forces of her partners In colossal prime. Germany Ger-many can be granted no armistice that may, by bad faith or any chance, bo broken and the conflict renewed. Tho surrender must be unconditional." Tacoma (Wash.,) Ledger "Germany "Ger-many sees the handwriting on the wall, realizes the doom it spells and would save herself from invasion and the Ignominy of 'unconditional surrender.' sur-render.' Beware of peace propaganda from this moral leper." Minneapolis Tribune "If Germany Is now ready to meet the acid test, set forth by President Wilson in his July 1 speech let it raise the only kind of white flag the world would feel like trusting in his hand the flag of unconditional un-conditional surrender." Springfield (Mass.,) Republican "The allies will refuse to be stampeded into negotiations or conversation?" Washington Post "War to the limit, lim-it, war until the now humbled German emperor hands over his dishonored sword, war until Germany, instead of 'accepting President Wilson's proposal' propos-al' tenders Its unconditional surrender; surren-der; that Is the plain duty of the allied nations." i New Orleans Times-Picayune "The allies have stated their war alms frequently fre-quently and with ever-Increasing' clearness they now can be stated in two words: 'Unconditional surrender. surren-der. ' " Nashville (Tonn.,) Tennesseean "So long as Germany thinks she is entitled en-titled to debate terms of peace, there can be nopeace." Memphis (Tonn.,) Commercial Appeal Ap-peal "There can bo no peaco with Germany until her arrogant and lustful lust-ful soul is crushed and regenerated." j Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer "If the German bid for peace proves to be what it ought to be, tho asking) for terms by a defeated and humbled i power we may trust the president to take the proper stops." Bridgeport (Conn.) Telegram "Absolute "Ab-solute and complete surrender with no I German allowed In tho councils, other I Minn a a n nrimlnnl of tViA H?it- rmrrVit . to bo the only terms upon which tho allies will halt fighting." Kansas City Times "The allies have no interest in. this sort of a bargain bar-gain peace. The only peace that will concern them Is a peace" with a Ger- j many that has learned by bitter ex-1 perience that In the modern world I wars of conquest are disastrous and that the way of the transgressor is hard." St. Paul Pioneer-Press "The Hun is accomplishing some part of his purpose pur-pose in his peace offensive. . . It is a hollow lie; but It runs fast and far and gets attention. . . Is not this what tho wily scheming Hun is after? Has he any other purpose than to get us discussing instead of fighting?" Now York press . . . Press reports re-ports give sufficient evidence that the military rulers of the central empires havo at last realized to some extent the judgment that is hanging over them. Autocracy is whipped and knows it is whipped. . . Autocracy Will be heard from again and again with increasing humility . . before . . it finally sues for terms." New York Herald "The hit dog yelps. From Berlin and Vienna comes simultaneous pea.ee wails, with the exhausted Turk echoing a feeble 'Me, too.' It is the same old trap. . . . There will be no armistice. We have just begun to fight." Chicago Herald and Examiner "Those who are fighting in Franco have an eye on Berlin and on nowhere else. They are not anxious for a kaiser-made peace or for any peace -that will not forever settle the question for which they are fighting, namely, the liberty of " free peoples. If we fail we will hear 'from the graves in France: 'Have you permitted us to die in vain?' " New York Tribune " . . . Wo have laid down one condition of war one only and that is to use force, force to the utmost, force without slint or limit, until we shall have destroyed forever in this world the indecent, intolerable, in-tolerable, criminal thing that now holds out its driDDine: hands. "Tell your people that, Prince Maximilian Maxi-milian of Baden." Shreveport Times "The world has learned to beware the Huns bearing false peace offers." Houston Post "There never was such a time to strike with every ounce of striking power. Thero must be no negotiations with the German government until Germany is beaten." Rocky Mountain News, Denver "We cannot answer In words words are vain. It must be by deeds. Tho subscription lists will tell the whole story. Berlin will know from the progress of this loan what to expect a patched-up peace or a dictated peace by the allied nations." Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal "Were Germany a nation whoso word is good, the news would havo caused tho ringing of bells in every town in the United States. Knowing I Germany as they now do, tho peoples of tho world hear the preliminary prelimi-nary proposal with interest, but also with suspicion. Until convinced of the sincerity of the conversion of Germany Ger-many to disarmament and the formation forma-tion of a league of nations to punlBh violators of international law we must, go on with our military preparations prepara-tions without a pause." Los Angeles Times "On its faco the note of the German chancellor is !a plain acceptance of the peace terms of President Wilson. It doubly accepts ac-cepts them, specifying two expressions of the president's ideas. Prince Maximilian's Maxi-milian's speech to the relchstag further fur-ther conforms to the president's ultimatum ulti-matum in its reference to relations with Russia and Belgium. Germany has Dracticallv mirrfimWorJ vann i I not far off." Portland (Ore.) Oregonian "Peace with such men as still rule the central empires, although they have put forward for-ward tearful pleadings for peace, as their spokesmen, would be a compromise compro-mise between law and crime. . . . Germany's shattered military machine should be destroyed beyond possibility I of reconstruction and the source of that poison should be purged." ' San Diego Union "There can be no peace, except upon such terms as tho allies may dictate. Conquering armies do not negotiate they dictate." Bismarck. N. H OcL 6. "We will all be glad to see the end of this war, but rather than let Germany dictate peace, It were better that we sacrifice I our last man and our rock bottom doi-' lar," said former President Theodore J Roosevelt. Jj |