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THE OMINECA MINER, - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3; 1917

The Omineca Miner

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VoL. VI. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1917 No. 23

In his speech at Bristol, Bonar Law said: “The Germans os
tore up treaties which they themselves solemnly . signed, They
strewed fi mines in the open seas. They committed every atrocity on
sea and land against the Hague convention, which they themselves].
had signed. They made war on women and children, They
destroyed neutrals as ruthlessly as they did their enemies. They

are at this moment driving the population of a conquered territory
-into slavery, and, worse even than that, they are making some
subjects of their enemies take up arms against their own country.

“All this has been done and no neutral power has been able to
stop it, no neutral power, indeed, has made any protest against it.
We must then take other means to secure future peace of the world.

“We have rejected the ierman offer to enter into negotiations,
not from lust of conquest or desire for shining victories, We have
rejected not from a spirit of vindictiveness or a desire for revenge,
but because peace now would mean a peace based on victory, It
would be a peace which would leave the military machine unbroken
with a halo of success surrounding it. It would leave control of the
machine in the hands of the same men who, for a generation,
prepared for war, who would make the same Preparation again,
and who would choose their own time to plunge the world into the
horrors which we are now enduring.

“Our aim is the same as President Wilson’s. What he is longing
for we are fighting for.. Our sons and hrothers are risking their
lives for it, and we mean to secure it, = “The hearts of the people of
this country are longing for pence; we are praying for peace, fora

" peace which will bring back to us in safety those who are fighting
our battles, and a peace which will mean that-those who wil! not
come back have not laid down their lives in vain.” | ;

Commenting on the speech, the Daily Chronicle says: .
*‘Mr. Bonar Law has made a Prompt and pertinent reply to
President., Wilson's -address.and has indicated . with great clearness

_ the main differences between the president’ Ss viewpoint and ourown.

“In the practical world we cannot safely shape our plans for
the future without reference to the past and present, and Mr,
Bonar Law is justified in his reminder that for that" past and the
present the United States has a share of the responsibility. We
are bourd to-ask ourselves what sort of value the concurrence of
the United States in international agreements has been to their
maintenance in the past.and the present, and the answer is that

under President -Wilson’s own administration it has proved
valueless,

“We still. think that the president has made a miscalculagion

“under this head. He has acted on the reckoning that if he stood
so far outside the struggle ag never to protest except against direct
infringements of American interests he would be able to intervene
with greater acceptance at the end of the war.

reckoning was an error. which is bound to diminish and not increase
the influence he might exercise over the final settlement, ”

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