Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — America Must Take Lead in Bringing Permanent Peace at End of World War [ARTICLE]

America Must Take Lead in Bringing Permanent Peace at End of World War

By REPRESENTATIVE DAVID A.

HOLLINGSWORTH of Ohio

Permanent peace in the world, safeguarded by the common interests of mankind and international organizations strong enough to enforce universal justice ou the one hand or resultant world-wide chaos and war s desolation on the other must soon follow the close of the European conflict, now plainly approaching a crisis. • - ; . Exhaustion, starvation, or the superior force of one or the other group of belligerents must soon cause a cessation of the strife. The end draws near, and with it comes the certainty that America will be looked to as leader in the upbuilding processes of civilization, and il should be prepared for tremendous eventualities. Preparation, therefore, for peace is more essential to American interests than excessive army and navy preparations for war. Economic and humanitarian problems in a world of exhausted and wrecked commonwealths must inevitably rise superior to thoughts either of war or commercial rivalries. Isolation is no longer possible with any nation. America, world-renowned for the justness of its conceptions, has outgrown any fear of foreign entanglements. The simplicity and ideals of the Washington era are impossible in the twentieth century; the world must -he recognized as a friendly field of common endeavor for all nations, all creeds and all conditions of mankind. A better day dawns, notwithstanding the horrors and tragedies of the present.