6 JANUARY 1917, Page 22

MR. LINCOLN ON PEACE.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.")

61x,—I want you to know that there is one American at least who blushes with shame at the attitude of our Government in this great world crisis. Although it is too late now, President Wilson should have taken to heart the words of Lincoln in his last Message to Congress : "In stating a single condition of peace, I mean to say that the war will cease on the part of the Government when it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it."--I am,