Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1916 — Settlement of Great War on Terms of Justice Alone to Bring Lasting Peace [ARTICLE]

Settlement of Great War on Terms of Justice Alone to Bring Lasting Peace

By MRS. BELVA LOCKWOOD

I am more interested in peace for the world than in anything else — peace, when and how. I hope I will live to see it, I believe I will. I am keenly interested in the great meeting for peace to be held next May by the League to Lnforca^f*eace. I hope to attend that meeting. A similar meeting is to be held by the International Peace league at Ihe Hague, and a third great peace meeting is to be held by the Peace league at Lugano, Switzerland. I want to see these three great _peace meetings assemble the peace advocates from all over the world and unite on some definite, practical program that will mean lasting peace for civilization. This great war, the most terrible in the history of the vorld, has proved what war really is. The terms of settlement must confirm this for all time, viz., that war is a demon let lopse by greed and lust for power. In the civilization of today and the future this monster must not be allowed to settle the affairs of men. I expect to see the nations of the world unite in settlement of this titanic struggle on terms of justice, and from that union a brotherhood of nations will grow that will make future wars impossible. The neutral nations in Europe and the United States seem agreed that the settlement must replace th* map of Europe as it was at the beginning of the war. The status quo of nations must be preserved. French territory must be restored. Belgium must be preserved intact. Poland-long a bone of contention—must have autonomy; m other words, all of the smaller nations must have autonomy. That is justice, and justice must prevail. If this is not done there will be another war just as soon as the nations can prepare for it. Each day I am more firmly convinced that this is the last great war, and that an era of world peace is about to dawn.