The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-01
Boston Publisher Says Germans
Are Sick of War.
However, He Advises America
To Keep on Preparing.
TEUTONS ARE NOT DEFEATED
But They Realize Man Power Is
Going Rapidly.
Big Bu1iness Interests Demand
End of HOstilities.

| Boston. Mass, Aug Clarence w
Barron, publisher of the Boston News
/ Bureau, declares that from inside in
formation received from confidential
German correspondents he knows Ger
many wants peace; that the overturn
in Russia eliminated the danger of
friction over the most troublesome
questions of the war those which
relate to the Bosphorus, Constanti-
nople, the Balkans. the Bagdad rail-
way and the Persian gulf; that an
other year of war means the destruc-
ton of the man power and the indus
trial position of Germany; that Ger
man militarism has killed itself and
can never be revived, and that the
United States has the final resources
to finance the peace settlement of the
whole world or to fight the battle
thru.
Il consider it highly dangerous t.
discuss peace prospects save in the
most guarded manner" said Mr.. Bar
ron. If there is popular impress
sion that peace is in sight it may
weaken or delay the aims of the
United States in striking the final
blows for peace. Only from a finan-
cial standpoint can the Importance of
the United States be understood. When
Germany was p eparing for war she
levied a 8 per cent tax upon the CAPT.
tai of the empire. 1t took three years
to collect it. In the three years of
war she has expended her national
wealth. If peace were to come to-
morrow Germany would be staggering
under war burden of $25, 1000, 100000.
This is a larger war debt than was
ever contemplated or assumed by any
nation.
United States Deciding Factor.
"The entry of the United States
into the war is most important from
financial standpoint. We have
twice the wealth of Germany and
Austria combined, and We can assume
a war debt passing that of Germany
and not be largely concerned about It
so long as our credit is h'0h, when
means our interest rate low.
THE big men of Germany see to-
day that all that Germany has been
building for a generation in the trade
of the world was not only imperilled
but absolutely lost the moment the
United States entered the war.
1.-THE word 1 get from inside Ger
many today is that the men who are
responsible for the industrial Ger
many and who must be looked to to
rehabilitate the country after the war
are now clamoring for peace and are
declaring that it is better to get peace
now on the same terms they would
have to accept after defeat and save
the lives of men now so necessary IN
the rebuilding of Germany.
THE greatest factor is the loss of
man power Germany's casualties are
approaching five million.
German Arms Indicated.
Fifty million Europeans have been
summoned into the armies of Europe
and ten million have been slain, but
the man power of the British empire
has not yet been injured and the man
power of 00,000.000 in the United
States is untouched. With five million
more casualties for Germany that ma
ton is counted out in the financial
and industrial race of the modern
world.
THE impending peace proposals
are not forced by Germany's weakness
in arms but by the threatened des-
| truction of Germanys man power in
the fourth year of the war and the
loss of her position in marine trans
| portation and manufacturing and her
bankruptcy in finance.
THE United States must not let
, down in its war preparations, either
| in food conservation and preparation.
| taxation or financial programs. The
end is in sight, and the position of the
United States in both war and peace
must be made plain to the people of
the world. This war is the suicide
| again boast of its military glory. Ger
many in 100 years will never again
| sigh for war. France wants no more
war. The British empire and the
United States want only peace of the
world"