No doubt the ends of justice demand that the principal brigands who are
responsible for the atrocities of this war should be tried before an
international court If convicted they should be duly punished. But not
by mob-law or violence. Nothing could be less desirable than the
assassination of William Hohenzollern. It would be absurd and horrible
to give a martyr's crown to a criminal. Vengeance belongeth unto God. He
alone is wise and great enough to deal adequately with the case. It is
for us to keep our righteous indignation free from the poison of
personal hatred, and to do no more than is needed to uphold and
vindicate the eternal law.

William Hohenzollern, and his fellow-conspirators who are responsible
for the beginning and the conduct of the dreadful war from which all
the toiling peoples of earth have suffered, must be brought to the bar
of justice and sentenced; otherwise the world will have no defense
against the anarchists who say that government is a vain thing; and the
bloody Bolshevists who proclaim the Empire of the Ignorant,--the
Boob-Rah,--as the future rule of the world, will have free scope.

It is evident that a league of free, democratic states, pledged by
mutual covenant to uphold the settlement of international differences by
reason and justice before the use of violence, offers the only hope of a
durable peace among the nations. It is also the only defense against
that deadly and destructive war of classes with which Bolshevism
threatens the whole world. The spirit of Bolshevism is atheism and
enmity; its method is violence and tyranny; its result would be a reign
of terror under that empty-headed monster, "the dictatorship of the
proletariat." God save us from that! It would be the worst possible
outcome of the war in which we have offered and sacrificed so much, and
in which God has given us the opportunity to make "a covenant of peace."