The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-19
How Ono Frenchman Describes Ger
many Which He Says VIII Fall
Of its Own Weight
Soon.
PEACE TALK DISCUSSED
Deputy says kaIser 10 Starting II Be-
cause Il 10 Now or Never
With tho German
Empire.
tBy William Philip simms. United

|lBy William Philip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Nov. 20. (By mail. Don't
let yourself be fooled into believing
that peace proposed by Germany is
shortly to be concluded. We are not
going to have peace until victory
perches on the allies banner"
This statement was repeated to me
to-day by Ave men, each in his own
words, as strolled through the lobby
!of the Bourbon palace to take an un-
official poll. I did not select my men
beyond trying to get the views Of
deputies whose politics differed from
extreme right to extreme left.
Those who talk peace now" they
all say, ARE talking in the interests of
Germany"
"of course Germany Is talking
peace" one deputy told me. "This is
her one and only time to talk peace.
II she can't get peace now, she Is done
for. Listen to this:'
Unfolding LIntransigeant," an
afternoon paper which he happened
to be carrying in his hand, he read:
Lausanne, Switzerland: The Ham
burger Volks Zeitung says as follows:
1T is certain that everybody wishes
peace, including the Germans. II Ger
many had only England and France to
deal with, she might conclude peace,
by exchanges and compensations,
without fear OF future complications;
but there is Russia to look out for,
Russia which despite her great losses
lis recovering herself in supplying
fashion. Germany should profit by the
present favorable opportunity to begin
peace pourparlers. II she let's this
chance go by 1t will be too late.'
you hear that?'' exclaimed tho
deputy. Germany knows her time
has come to talk peace; that II she
can't get peace now, she is lost. Well,
Monsieur and here the lawmaker
became very emphatic, Trance and
England and their allies are stil1 on
the map, thank God, and they will see
to 1t that Germany does not get peace
now. She will get peace when we
want peace and not before. And we
will accept no peace which is not
based on an allied victory. And, as
NJ. BRAND stated. our peace will mean
the destruction OF German militarism.
"Germany's organization is holding
her up. There is likelike skin
stretched over this powerful skeleton
but there are no vftals inside. She'll
fall Of her own weight IL We give her
time, but we won't give her time. Well
push her when the proper time comes.
Germany knows her hour has struck
She knows that to wait will be fatal
For her 1t Is peace now or never. That
Is why she is using every means in her
power to scatter her peace propagan-
da; she is bamboozine young Washing
ton statesmen into thinking peace is
ripe: unconsciously they are working
in Germany's interest. No sir! When
Germany Is licked, well have peace
and not before
BRAND in Paris told me there would
&c no peace without victory on
Frances side. A. general commanding
an army in the region Of Verdun told
me: There will be no peace until
French soldiers are in Germany; the
army wouldn't stand for any other
kind of peace"
That is the way everybody talks
here, citizens, soldiers, statesmen.