President Wilson is therefore every bit as firm in his
resolution to follow the one and only way of peace as Lincoln was throughout the Civil War. Lincoln was in the best sense a humanitarian— e, lover of mankind—and so we believe is President Wilson. The same noble motive accounts for the firmness of both. But our Pacificists, who can never restrain their emotions in taco of any kind of appeal for peace, do not seem to care—perhaps they do care, but after all we can judge them only by their acts—to what hideous misery, suffering, and peril they commit the future. To save a few more lives now they would jeopardize millions in years to come. They do this in the name of humanity, but in truth their policy is the most inhumane to which feeling men have ever put their signature or lent their voice. One is inclined to paraphrase kfme. Roland's cri de mar and exclaim : "0 Peace, what cruelty is committed in thy name ! "
