Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-05
WILL MOT TALK PEACE

Wrath Upon England, De-
claring Her Most Re
lentless Foe.
Lcndon. SEPT ct allies cannot
break through the allied lines on tho
Somme. Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Holiwis told the reichstas yesterday,
according to an account Of his speech
cahled To Reuters by way of Anaster-
dam. The German prime minister made
a similar statement in regard to the
eastern front.
The English ana French. it is true"
ne sad, have achieved advantages.
Our first lines have been pressed back
some kilonaetels and we have also to
depIore heavy losses in men and ma
teriai. That was inevitable in an Of
fensive CD such a mighty scale. But
what our enemies hoped to accomplish
namely, break tlirouGh on a grand scaie
ana roll up our positions has not been
attained. The battle of the Sonlme
will cost further sacrifices. Still an
other trench and another village may
be lost, but they will not get through"
In regard to the eastern front, whe,a
the chancellor said, the Russians had
renewed their offensive with heavy at
lacks, he predicted the same result.
Here, too, the battle is proceeding."
ne said, but just as surely shall we
hold our own"
Berlin, (Nia Londonl, Sept. 29.-Ger-
many will persevere until victory ia
hers, the reichstag was told yesterday
by chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg,
according to the full ext of his speech
which was published here today. The
chancellor said that his years har-
vest has made Germany's position
much more secure than was the case
last year.
In his attack upon Great Britain he
! declared that that country was break
ing one international law after another
and was above all Gerlnany's most
egotistical, fiercest and most obstinate
enemy.
"A German Statesman" he said, who
would hesitate to use against this
I enemy every available instrument of
battle that would really shorten this
war should be hanged"
Inc chancellor declared his contempt
for those circulating reports that All
germans means of fighting were not
pelhg employed to the fullest possible
! extent. He added that in order TO dis
appoint the enemy who is on watch
Tor. every breach of our inner d%etermin-
at!on,' he would not give details.
In concluding his speech the chan
cellor exclaimed:
Germany will not be permitted ia
think of peace while her house is burn
Ing. She must first extinguish the
fire"
After the chancellor had concluded
the felchstag adjourned until October 5.
Inc chancellor insisted that from the
beginning the wal had been for Ger
many nothing but defense of our right
TO life and liberty" and said thai there
fore Germany, the first and ONLY one of
all the belligerents, had declared her
readiness for peace negotiations on De-
cemheT 8, 1915, and on several occa-
slons subsequently.
Germany and Peace.
We did our duty, he continued.
Does any one dare ask that today we
make proposals to our enemies, mas
much as M. BRAND, a short time ago,
said that consideration of peace now
would be a humiliation and a disgrace
to the memory of the dead?
"Ihey continue the war because they
nope to attain their utopian aims. Their
luss of conquest persists, il the noun
tains of corpses tower higher every day.
The French prime minister said, in
one of his latest speeches, that France
is fighting for a firm and lasting peace
IN which the freedom of nationalities
will be protected by International
agreements against ali attacks. We.
too, desire this. We wish to protect
Germany forever against every attack.
oul uOeS M. bTlanQ-uD1teQ with our
enemies, even before the war, In an al
lance Of French thirst for revenge,
Russian lust of conquest, and the Brit
ish policy of isolating ~Germanyand dom
mating the whole world, an alliance that
desires to annihilate, attempts to boy-
! colt and shapes it's entire policy not only
for the period of the war, but for the
time after the war-does M. BRAND be-
lieve that this prepares soil from which
could grow international agreements
granting to nations liberty, honor, dig
nifty and peaceful collaboration for the
sake of humanity and progress? Or
does M. BRAND really believe he can
obtain this lofty ideal in time by a war
of humiliation in which the last of the
youth of France is perishing on the
devastated battlefields of Verdun and
the Somme?'
The chancellor then protested against
reports that the German emperor in the
past had used his influence with the
Russian emperor in order to impede
Russia's evolution toward liberty.
This report is untrue as I state pub
lic1y in this place. 1t is the opposite Of
the truth. The arrangement of public
life in Russia, whether autocratic or
constitutional is merely Russia's bust
ness. I abstain. completely from criti-
cism. I represent only German inter-
ests. we desire from other ma
ticns. no matter whether they live in
this OF that form OF state Is that Ger
mar rights and interests SHALL be in
violable."
EneIand's Ambitions.
DR.. Won Bethrnann-Hollweg then dis
cussed the aims Of Great Britain.
What Great Britain wants to make Of
Germany he said, lis shown by the
British without any possibility of
doubt. They var to destroy our ma
tional life The Germany which Eng
land wants to lay at her feet is a coun-
try without military defense, a country
crushed economically, hoycotted by the
entire world and sentenced to lasting
economic oblivion.
When this German competition
shall have been eliminated, when
France has lost all her blood, when all
her allies OF war must toll as England's
slaves in the financial life, when the
1 neutral world Of F,urnna no,rst follow,