The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919. PEACE TREATY MUDDLING.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919. PEACE TREATY MUDDLING.

With which its incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimariuo News.”

It is reported that Mr Lloyd George is weakening on the Peace Treaty, in favour ‘of Germany, and this causes introspective inquiry as to how far polilticals may go in losing the war Allied 'armies have won; whether what has ’been achieved in the field during four years of bitter war, with appalling sacrifices of life, is going to be surrendered, frittercd away by politieals, in the halls of Versailles amidst scenes of comfort, and luxury. Time was when the men who fought settled upon conditions of surrender and peace, and it seems that had similar conditions obtained in these times the war would have been ended,,_;and the peoples of all countries involved would have been busy with work of 1-econstru,ctioll. We do not believe there is any truth whatever in the statement that Mr Lloyd George is-Jveakening, but we do be-lic-Ve that the idealism of President Wilson is entirely responsible for deday. In America there are two noticeable parties; one is represented by the preponderating religious element that first set foot on American soil from the old “Mayflower,” the other is the vulture class, characterised by a most outrageous application of law to processes of robbing the people, known as trusts, syndicates, and combines. It is from the first. ‘of -these two parties that Mr; Wilson gets his ideals, which have .become, with him, acazdemlc by being reinforced with much" learning; whilehis uncertain action is the result of delays strived for by the Vultures, lest any opportunity to add to their e_\— ploitation of the world-ideals should be missed. They do not mind how long peace hangs in the balance; they are disciples (Of might ‘is right, and they believe their millions are. the embodiment of might, and sequentially of right. It is not troubling the trusts, syndicates, and combines how much chagrined peoples may show their desperation in strikes, what they lose in tIIC‘S-3 little episodes with labour they are recouping a thousandfold by scheming for continuance of a state of war. That Germany will sign the Allied PO3OO Terms there is not a shadow of doubt, but so long as politicals take the place ‘that generals should hold, so long will the politicals of Germany show as good a front, it not better, than the divided front of the Allies. Generals of German politics and diplomacy were not defeated, as is abundantly evident; and Allied politicals can only win a WBl‘ Of diplomacy by having victorious military generals as reinforcements, while German politicals have nothing buf discredited soldiers to fall back upon. Time is On the side of Gernrany; true, _t-he blockade still being maintained is a l deadly factor against the defeated, but the blockade does not touch that class which refuses to sign the Peace Docu-m<‘-I.lt. As trusts and combines do not hesitate to sacrifice human life in the Worship of their golden image, Germans do not hesitate to let common workpeople die of starvation so long as

there is any chance of securing some degree of return to military power. It will not be surprising if the masses in various Allied countries, in -sheer desperation, combine and insist upon F a" peace that will rob the victors’ of all _ the fruits of their victory. In accordiallcc With usage ‘in all times Peace Terms have been formulated and submitted for signature to the defeated, but wha.t has happened to the man of l modern times‘? Has he grown so humane I that he hesitates to inflict just punishiment upon criminals for crimes comimitted? If so, what becomes of the ;inno'ccnts upon whom the curse of ; crime falls? While life only was goling into the mouth of the Moloch of T war there was no sparing of material :by any belligerent nation; the politicals of the chief of the Allies fought ; for trade, in other words, gold, where- , with to make millionaires. Not so the ‘masses of the people; they fought for their freedom and the freedom of their country from foreign yoke, but trusts, ; and combines will not end war so long l as there are openings for increased exiploita.tion,;_:lnd for winning conditions ‘that will enable them to successfully L pursue their sinister, brutal ways. There is to be no peace, for after the German affair is all settled there will be the war engineered by combines against tho people, and so certain are the worshippers of the golden ‘image of i-ts might, that this war will continue till the people rise and break down and obliterate the whole golden regime. The barr-aele of modern commercialism has been permitted to become so powerful and its suckers so widespread that there are not wanting ‘evidences that its destruction will eonvulse the peeples of -the world for, at least, the next half-century. Trusts, combines, and seekers of world domin-a.tion have produced their antithesis, their natural enemy, in the form of Bolshievisrn and anarchy, and between these two jaws of crime and plunder the peoples of the world are being crushed. To realise. the true situation we need to take a. broad view; to stand off and see .in their true perspective, the operations of these two extremes, and. tiuly we discover a ter-. rifying tumultousness in which the hand of - man ,'overywhdre "is raised against his brother. It has beecwme common practice for one -to ruin and bring to want :his brother, and his brother ’s children by lying, deception, and legalised fraud, and even in our Supreme Courts m'en are told that it’ they -are fools enough to believe they must expect to suffer and lose. Corruption is supreme, and it has now called into existence another corruption as its antidote. Corruption is delaying the signing of a. peace of justice and reparation, while the antidote corruption ‘is busily working for -at peace that is unjust, because it does not provide, for reparation of damage to cproperty,, and the cost of war, to say nothing of the millions of heroic, noble lives,‘ sacrificed. The Big Four are between, the jaws of the pinchers composed of these opposing eorruptions, and their task is rendered almost. super-human. Peace would be signed with lightninglike rapidity if the Big -Four were permitted by the politieals to transfer the peace business to lvfarshal Foch. Brave men wor:-“the war, but brave stay—at-homes iclaimithe right of mak-I ing peace, and hence comes the dc-lay,l and the danger of being compelled tel accept an unsatisfactory -termination to war. While President Wilson is persisting in his idealisin-cunl-eonibine attitude, other Allied peoples are becoming restless, thereby sliittirig :‘l]C alttention of the world from main to subsidiary issues. is possible Hl2ll‘ Marshal Foch may yet be given .-:11preme power in dealing with Germany. but wlzich ever way prevails, Germany] will sign. |