The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
sCHEIDEMANN'S PLEA FOR PEACE
 WITHOUT DEATH
Urges Terms Which "Leave Every Nation a Chance
 to Live"

The Hague. Sept. 12-Under the heading. "verstaendige fuer Yer staendigungsfriede''-sensible people for peace by agreement-Phillip Scheidemann, vice president of the German Reichstag, writes in Vor- waefts:
 'sThe ridiculously small Pan-Ger- man army making row again as if hundreds of thousands were behind 1t, is in fact much ado about nothing. If 1t were possible to count the num- ber of those willing to risk their lives for the war purposes of Reventlow and the Lehmann bunch 1t should be done at once, to show how few the minority of rowmakers are.~
 "Reventlow tries to prove that Ger many would become the most uniin- portant empire, in which the people would be in continuous misery if a peace by agreement is concluded. while Reventlow peace would make the empire paradise flowing with milk and honey. It is bootless trou- ble to try to convince Pan-Ger1na ms Of the absurdity of their behavior. IL Is enough for our readers to repeat once more our principle that not na- tion may be violated. Every sensible man knows that this Is impossible without forcing Germany into a new war. Germany would not tolerate be- ing, divided up by annexation. to. live in sort of spongirg house on the or der of other nations and to see her political autonomy jeopardized. After such peace Germany would begin preparation for a new war.
 t4ffs~rha fhfr,e> ruo1r1d dnna bv every other nation forced into the same position. We fought three years with all our force to keep away such a. peace from us. Therefore we in atst on no peace by a knockout, but by an agreement which promises to be durable and makes possible the reconciliation of nations and their BeAoe9ul association. All who live 4oGo onA who have contact with the army and navy know that the Ger man nation decided to spend the las, breath for defense of the home states to give the last drop of blood to pre- vent Germany from being violated; but they also know that the nation if ready to make peace by agreement tc end this horrible wholesale lmurde a peace which leaves every nation 2 chance to live.
 May they, whose conception O, peace changes with war events, nol forget to figure out how long the wal must last to make possible peace after Reventlowss ideals Everybody must feel sure 1t would be necessary at least for Rus ussia, Italy, France anf England to be knocked out, to say nothing of Japan. America and ou1 other enemies. May they not forge that every day costs the imperia treasury nearly 00,006. 900 mark, (about s25, ,000, ,O00). Every day de 1nands SO many human lives and linnb'
 lin peace times great catastrophe the story of which nobody can reaf without being shocked, so that every body fs c6nvinced stEat everythinl should be done to prevent repetition of it. And this catastrophe has hap pened daily for three years
 "One should figure out how man, sacrifces in blood and treasure would cost if it were possible t knock out all the enemies; the hun dreds of thousands of human lives, tn innumerab1e billions that would hay to be thrown in. for a chance to vii the big prize which, whoever shoui win, would be firebonb of tn greatest danger for the whole world
 ''The propaganda of peace by vio 1ence shows a perfect lack of con science It is gambling for the bod and soul of our nation gambling fo the existence of the German Empire.