The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-13
SECRET HISTORY?

There is a notable article by the editor of Pearsons in the last number of Pearson's Magazine. It is entitled Secret History of Today. It deals with the suppression of the Masses by Solicitor General Lamar of the Posal Department as un- mailablc and accepts it that one of the articles by Max Eastman which tries to prove that Presi- dent Wilson has reversed his policy in the last six months without any justification" is one that was par ticularly offensive and caused the mailing rights to be suspended.
 Tharcupon Harris. with what au- thority We know not, proceeds to show that Eastman is wrong in feet and inference.
 The Pecrscn's Arti,le proceeds:
 "Towards the end Ot 1916 Ger many made definite proposals of peace: the main points were that there should be no indemnitics and no acquisitions, and that wherever possible the principle should obtain that mathematics should decide their allegiance. Ambassador Bernstorft laid these proposals before Prasi- dent Wilson, and was delighted to find that the President welcomed chem as fair bases for negotiations, He did more; he pressed them upon the British Ambassador as reasonable, and advised him to take the mind of his government as to thc.r acceptance. About .he same lime the President nude his famous speech belauding "peace without victory"
 4 few days later the British Am ba4,ador informed President Wilson that in view of h!s strong feeling that the German propOaal1 should b. accepted as a basis fer n2gotia- tica, His Britannic Majesty's gov Y2rnment could not refuse. It was further suggested that an armigtice should pracede the Pe@co Confer ence.
 On Frid2y, January 26, all preli- minar:es were settled, 2s I wro,e on the 9th of February (which ap- peared in Pearsons for ApriD :: "Oae could feel the teating of tGe wings of Peace in the hushed air: Our hearts stood sill hope held us brcathloss''.
 President Wilson and Ambaseado or Bcrnstorff were at no pains to con ceal their satisfac,on; life, normal healthy life would soon be restored in Europe; the dreadful night mcre of war was over.
 Ambassador BernCto"ff cabled the gl2d tidi1gs to his government, and received in reply the curt notifica- ten th@t the U-bo@ts would be looceG to slaughter and that ne muat notify the President of this change of policy h answer President Wilson sent Bcrnstorff his papers. and Berns- torff could only beg tn, President fer time; te bcscught him indeed to do nothing until he had secn the Kaiser. With rare mcgnanimity the President consented. Bernstorf asked for three or four weeks a, the most; the President gave him five, and then told Congress that a state of war existed between Inc United States and Germany. Stil hearing nothing. gave him three weeks more. and only declared Wal in April".
 All that nccd bc said about the foregoing is that if these sllega. tions are true how Is it that they have remained secret SO long?
 They are so totally opposite tc the facts which the public re ceived as such that We can onl! wonder in doubt that there mcy be or may be not grain of trutf in all of the Pearson article.
 As everyone knows the facts they were briefly that German submit. ted rather indefinite peace propo sals to the belligerents. There WE: nothing about conquered territory there was nothing about indemni- ties, there was everything about 6 conference, preferably at the Hague considering peace terms. Moreover