li i- <'\\ ahmtdanfly evident that tar ;is the Statesmen ;iif concerned impasse lnts been la aclnd as the peace issue. Whatrver hope peace 111■ i>■ may In , it certainly does not lie with the politicians. And that is a tact \vc cannot contemplate too long too seriously. What, th

is, and what it means the countless thousands who are suffering and dying in the trenches France and Flanders? possible that any good can eotno of it, that the ends tor which we are supposed to lighting—such, for example, the abolition of war---can conceivably lie attained when

desire for revenge, after ending), little before —and will ready and eager to try and win back what had taken from her. the plain tart is, and dispute it we we do not know what are lighting for. Mr. Ascpiith, it is said, has told us repeatedly what we are lighting for. lie has t

Then there is the immorality, and especially sex immorality, which war always carries with it. And in a colossal war like the present the dangers ahead in this respect are exceedingly great and may prove to fatal. Not only at the front, in garrisoned towns, and in the towns in c