The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-16
HOLLWEG DECLINES TO
ANSWER N7ERROCATORS
In Address to Reichstag,
Chancellor Refuses to
Divulge War Aims.
SERVES NO INTEREST
Denies That Any Differences
Exist Between Germany
and Her Allies.
SERVES NO INTEREST
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| either from Herr Scheidcmann or Herr
Roesickc viii force me from my path.
] | shall not allow myself TO be led
astray BY utteranees. with which
Scheidemann, at n time when drum
fire sounds on the Aisne and at Arras,
believed he could spread among the
people the possibility of a revolution.
| The German people will be with me
in condcmning such uttcranccs and
also Rocsickc's attempt to represent me
as being under the influence of the
Social Democrats.
Is In Peoples Hands.
| Il am not in the hands of any party
either the Right or the Left. If l am
! in the hands of anyone, | am in the
hands of my people, all of whose sons,
! fighting for existence of the nation,
, are fully ranged around the kaiser,
whom they trust and who trusts them.
| The kaser's word of August lives UNI
altered. Roesickc has received in the
kaiscr's Easter message the assurance
of the unaltcred existence of the
kaiscr's word.
| Il trust that the reserve which |
must cXcrcisc-it would be unscrupu-
1
will find support from the ma jority of
| the rcichstag and also amongst the
people For q month past unparalleled
: battles have been waging on the west
+, front. The entire people, with all its
| thoughts and sorrow and feelings, is
with its sons up there, who with I'M
eHampled tcnacity and defiance Of
death, resist the deadly attacks OF the
| British and the French.
Even today ! see no readiness for
| peace on the part of England or
| Franco: nothing of the abandonment
of their excessive aims of conquest and
| economic destruction. Where then were
| the governments who last winter OPEN
| ly stood up before the world in order
to terminate this insane slaughter of
| peoples? Were they in London or in
| Paris? The most recent utteranccs
which | have heard from London de-
| clare that the war aims which an
noundcd two years ago, remain UNI
! altered
Gwen Herr Schcidcmann will not
believe that l could meet this declara-
ton with a beau Geste. Does anyone
believe. in view of the state of mind of
our western enemies that they could
be induced to conclude peace by a pro-
gram OF remuneration;
/ 1t comes to this: Shall immediate
| ly give our western enemies an assur-
| ance which will enable them to pro-
| long the war indefinitely without
danger Of losses to themselves? Shall !
] tell these enemies: Come what may,
We shall under all circumstances be
people who rcnouncc; we shall not
touch a hair of your head. But you
who want our lives, YOU can, without
any risks, continue to try our luck,
Refuses to Take Either Course.
shall | nail down the German en-
/ piro in all directions by Il onesidcd
| formula, which only comprises one part
Of the total peace conditions and which
rcnounccs successes won by the blood
of our sons and brothers and leaves all
n other matters in suspense?
no. will not pursue such u policy,
That would be equivalent to surrcn-
d"ring the future OF tn" fathcrland
cor ought !, conversely, to set forth
Il program Of conquest. | decline to do
that. UCri"s from the Right. we arc
not demanding thatD If it has not
been demanded then We are of one
opinion.
Il also decline to set forth a program
of conquest. We did go forth to war
and we stand in battle now against al
\ most the whole world, not in order t.
make CouQu"St5 but exclusively to Sc
cur" our sNiSt"nC" and to establish
II firmly the future of tho nation. A pro
gram Of conquest helps as little as u