Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1918 — Vital Need of Present Hour Is Real Peace That Be Lasting [ARTICLE]

Vital Need of Present Hour Is Real Peace That Be Lasting

By WILLIAM ALMON WOLFF

Every one wants peace. But it must be a real peace. The last hope of a beaten Germany is to get a : peace that not be « real one Clear, straight thinking in America will help to make that impo.Me Th»t, after all, is the vital need to this hour. It isn’t straight. thinking that led some people to see, in Von Bertling’s reply to Wll3ons speechfan agreement in the matter of Belgium. The German chancellor ..id, in effect, that Germany had never meant to keep Belgium, and that the whole matter of Belgium was one to be brought up m the peace conference. . Never! The only question that can even conceivably come up concerning Belgium in the peace conference is that of the exact method by which Germany is to make what little reparation money can make for the crime of rape There can’t be a peace conference, even, until Germany has agreed, convincingly, to evacuate Belgium and repair the wrong she has done there. And that applies as much to northern France and to Serbia as to Belgium. \ ’• ■■