Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — WHO MAKES TEAM'S OF PEACE? [ARTICLE]

WHO MAKES TEAM'S OF PEACE?

Does the victor or the vanquished usually propose peace during a war? Take America's wars and you will find that the loser was the one to suggest an end of the fighting. England and not the United States was the power to request peace in the revolution, and America was the winner. Mexico and not the United States was the first to talk peace in that clash seventy years ago, and again America was the winner. The confederacy, whose cause was lost, made peace proposals during the civil war long before Lee surrendered.

Napoleon , tried in vain to make peace with when lie was at Moscow 101 years ago, but 'Czar Alexander, then apparently the under dog, refused, and Napoleon’s retreat followed, with the • annihilation of his own army. It was Napoleon who again sought peace before and after Leipsic, but the allied powers refused, deposed him from his throne and sent him to Elba. The French people cried for peace in 1.870, but Bismarck, the victor, didn’t stop until all his conditions had been met. The war had been ended before Grant said, “Let us have peace!”— Lake County Times.