Socialist newspaper says this Armageddon has supplied unanswerable proof that "imperialism, with its last word, war - world war - and with its militarist and imperialist methods, has failed, and should compel us not to further the development of these methods, but to find a new solution."
And its "new solution" amounts in effect to the American policy of a League to Enforce Peace!
This, says Vorwaerts, after the cataclysm which has overtaken humanity, will be humanity's will, and where there's a will there's a way. "Any disloyal attempt to break the peace would be revolted against and the offender at once be brought before the international tribunal set up for dealing with such cases."
Certainly it may be hoped that the German paper is right. President Wilson has given his allegiance, in effect, if not in terms to the same general plan, although he would scarcely endorse, at least for the present, the Socialist preliminary of disarmament. The League to Enforce Peace stands for the creation of an international code of morals, given by international agreement the sanctity and force of laws. When the examples of Poland and the Balkans, of Alsace and Lorraine, of Ireland and Cuba at last have taught the world that the sword can settle nothing finally, "ideas of arbitration," as Vorwaerts declares, "will be seen to have real value."
As long as little Henry Ford threw his money in peace junkets, nobody had a right to complain. But when he interferes with recruiting the National Guard, he ceases to be amusing. 