Food conservation is provided for. But of course it took
time for a hundred million of peace lovers and non-mili-
tarists to get ready, however apt, however patriotic, how-
ever determined.

"It is 'dogged' that does it." Reject all proposals of
peace as ill advised or seditious, and then time will make for
our certain victory.

While there has been pro-German sentiment in the United
States, and while the paid emissaries of Germany have been
busy trying to create as much opposition to the war as pos-
sible and have found a number of weak dupes and unin-
telligent persons, who don't understand the importance of
the war, to aid them, our Allies should know that the whole
body of the American people will earnestly support the
President and Congress in carrying out the measures which
have been adopted by the United States to win this war.

When the war is won, the United States will wish to be
heard and will have a right to be heard as to the terms of
peace. The United States will insist on a just peace, not
one of material conquest. It is a moral victory the world
should win. I think I do not mistake the current of public
sentiment throughout our entire country in saying that our
people will favor an international agreement by which the
peace brought about through such blood and suffering and
destruction and enormous sacrifice shall be preserved by the
joint power of the world. Whether the terms of the League
to Enforce Peace, as they are, will be taken as a basis for
agreement, or a modified form, something of the kind must
be attempted.

Meantime, let us hope and pray that all the Allies will
reject proposals for settlement and compromise of every
nature; that they will adhere rigidly and religiously to the

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