Life — August 30, 1917 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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ere of the k her im is, and torial Italy Bal- their = dent ould this he- the for ans, able ion her ent hat ere ire ny lis ce cy is e “Drink to me only with thine eyes.” ing in the present military or economic situation of the Allies to encourage the view their terms would be any easier than they were cight months ago, ve except as the changes in Russia hs modified some details of them that concerned her. When Russia put away the Czar she said she would try to get along without Constantinople and some other objects of traditional Russian as- piration. That makes it easier to re- arrange the Southeast, but for France and Belgium the needs of January are the needs of August dey it At the same, everybody wants peace, if it can be had of good quality, and no one seems disposed to slam the door the Pope has opened. He has done his best, and is prepared to go on doing it. It does not look very good, but:may be susceptible of appreciable improvement. What is really needed is transportation to some other planet for all the Germans. They have worn out their welcome on earth. Nobody wants them for neighbors any more, much less for masters. But they cannot get away; neither can they be destroyed. We have got to get along with them, knowing that under their present leaders! they are liars, loot- ers, violators of women, cruel to the weak, abject in their submission to the strong, habitual employers of spies, conspirators against society, liers-in- wait for other people's goods and plot- ters of infamy. Whether they are more or less thrashed, these will be their reputations when the war is over. If they are to be cleaned up they must do it themselves. No one can do it for them. They must repent of their crimes and try to learn to be decent 1f more drubbing will help them o: their way in that direction they ought to have it. If they have had enough now they ought to disclose it. Nobody wants to kill, drown or starve any more of them than is absolutely neces- 339 sary for the safety of the world, Kill- ing them is a dirty job, and too costly, and too hard work. If they want peace, and are ready to pay the price of it, let us hope they will get it soon, for they have ahead of them an enormous work of regeneration and rehabilita- tion, and cannot get at it too soon, Whether they have colonies or not matters nothing. The great thing the war has cost them is not colonies, nor money, nor men, but character. The war has kept them on public exhibi- tion for three years, and they are all but universally abhorred. If they get peace, the first thing they should do is to settle with their masters and teach- ers at home, who have led them on into courses which have won for them so horrible a disrepute. Loyal Americans of German deriva tion will suffer very much from the collapse of German reputation in Eu- rope, but we should sce to it that they. suffer no more than we can help. But the disloyal ones should get the Mick. Sympathy with German suffering is humane, but sympathy with German aims is treason, Wherever it raises its head, hit it! UDGE CROPSEY declines, after full reflection, to accommodate Tammany by running for mayor on an anti-Fusion ticket, and it looks as if the going for Murphy was likely to be hard. Good government in New York makes for the greatest happiness of the most people, and they seem to be disposed to support it. We have had it under Mayor Mitchel, and present prospects are good for its continuance. You might think that nothing would be worse for bad city government than an exhibition, fairly protracted, of what reasonably good city government is like. Such an exhibition we have had, and it seems to have done its work. Hearst may run, but what if he 1 does He would not divide the Fusion vote, but the other. And if Tammany accepted him it would be to invite defeat. comicbooks.com