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PEACE MAY RESULT.
President Wilson has sent a note to the belligerent nations,
making inquiry if it is not possible to bring about a cessation
of hostilities. Such a note, coning as it does from the execu
tive head of the greatest and most powerful nation in the world,
is bound to receive respectful consideration, if, indeed, it shall
not be the initial step toward the consummation of peace. The
central powers, composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bul
garian and Turkish, have already signified their willingness
to consider peace terms with the entente allies, and to this end
have recently addressed a note to them through neutral pow
ers, with respect to peace negotiations. The central powers’
note has not been favorably received by the entente allies, and
there is slight hope for peace in this direction. But with the
United States, through its official head, taking the initiatory
steps toward peace, there is every reason to hope that results
may be accomplished.
In view of the central powers’ action in this matter, it may
be taken for granted that those powers are prepared to discuss
peace terms at any time. The trouble lies with the entente al
lies. The allied powers—Grert Britain, Russia, France, Italy,
Japan and Roumania—will not easily be led into discussing
peace terms, because they go on the assumption that they must
eventually crush their enemies and thereby gain the right to
make peace on their own terms. We speak advisedly when we
say they go on this assumption, but the facts as brought out
thus far in this great world war do not warrant such a rosy
view on the part of the entente allies. If conquest of important
territory is a correct guide as to achievements of war, we
should say that the central powers have much the best of the
situation. We say this, not because we favor either one side or
the other, but because the facts justify the assertion. Tt is all
very well for the allied powers to say what they can do and pio
pose to do, but their achievements since the war began do not
measure up to their optimistic prognostications. When dis
cussing peace terms, it is well to (leal with the situation as it is,
not what one side or the other think they can do. It’s what
they have done up to this time that counts.
It may be taken for granted that the allied powers will go
up in the air, so to speak, over President Wilson’s suggestion
for peace at this time. But the allied powers are not the whole
earth, by any manner of means. Here is a matter that concerns
humanity itself. And the time has come when humanity is en
titled to speak and declare itself in no unconcerned terms. It is
upon this broad, humane ground that the president acts at this
time. As the leading neutral nation in the world, it is wrell
that the suggestion for peace come from it, through its author
ized spokesman—the president.
Then, again, if this war continues, the United States will
be dragged into it as sure as that the night succeeds the day.
Both sides have been stepping on our rights and invading our
neutrality, and if the war goes on, one side will overstep the
mark to such an extent that decisive action must be taken. The
people of the United States do not wish to enter this war. One
of the chief reasons for the re-election of President Wilson is
the fact that lie has kept us out of this wholesale carnage. We
have looked on this horrible affair much as a family row in
which we were not concerned. But when a family row extends
so as to take in a whole community, dragging in those who do
not wish to be embroiled, it is time to call a halt.
We believe that a large majority of the people of the Unit
ed States favor the allied powers. We believe that they look
upon the invasion of Belgium on the part of the German army
as a great wrong against that little nation. We believe that
our people, as a whole do not endorse the submarine warfare
employed by the central powers. But these nations are fighting
for their very existence as such, and in war nations, as men,
do things that would not be countenanced in times of peace.
We do not advance this theory as an excuse for the central
powers. We are not pleading their cause. We are trying to see
the situation as it is. ' j
If peace negotiations should be entered into, upon what
basis will a settlement be reached? That is a bigger question
than any mortal man can answer. But it does seem as if some
sort of an adjustment could be made to bring the war to an end.
The Times lias it from reliable sources that the Alaska
Road commission plans considerable road and trail work in the
Cook inlet country next season. Fine ! This paper has had
occasion to take the commission to task for what we considered
its neglect of the Cook inlet country in the past, but if the road
and trail work is initiated next season, as we have reason to
expect that it will be. all will be well, and .the road commission
will find no firmer advocate in its efforts toward the develop
ment of this section. In its strictures on the commission, The
Times was not actuated by personal motives against the per
sonnel. It was what we conceived to be out duty toward this
community and this part of Alaska. With comprehensive road
and trail work in prospect, the hatchet is buried, so far as we
are concerned. The Times seeks to deal in fundamentals, not
with petty personalities, and our criticism directed against the
commission has been on these lines. But with comprehensive
work in prospect, our duty has been fulfilled.
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