Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1918 — CONQUEST [ARTICLE]

CONQUEST

By HENRI CHAPELLE.

of the Vigilantes. The broad, beloved life es a peace* ful, home-keeping nation, is a product, not an ordinance to be proclaimed. Why, then, do we talk of negotiating peace, when it has been destroyed by violence? The forces that make peace must first be reestablished. One might as well talk of peace to a man struggling in the hands of a murderous highwayman. One might as well talk of a peace settlement with the thief, to a man who has been, robbed. Wherever moral I—ace are involved, the Instinct of mankind demands a clean-cut conquest of evlh Wherever there is a definite attempt to injure another person, the one assailed knows he must win a decided ponquest to be safe. Wherever there is a man who Ilves justly, he is entitled to conquest over those who attacked him. Hight, safety, and justice all demand conquest over wrong, danger and brutality. Let conquest be the word we use in speaking of the disposition at tills war."’ '