Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-25
german EDITOR
thinks wilson
KEY TO QUESTION
Maximilion Harden, German
Liberal Editor, Tells Associ-
ated Press That Germany
Is in Earnest in Peace Note.
(Ry Review Leased Wire }

BERLIN, Sept. 24.-In response TO
request for his opinion of the Ger
man reply to the pOpe's peace note.
Macmillan Harden, editor of die
Zuckenft, in a statement to the As
sociated Press today prefaced his re-
marks wit hthe reminder that every
nation and every government is fore
or less tradition-bound, none proDa.
bly, with tighter cords than Germany.
This tradition, he said, heavily :Il-
pedes any effort to break through the
terrifying charged circle with which
wars Affections encompass them.
First Attempt.
"The German reply" said Herr
Hadren, sis the first VISIBLE attempt
to escape from this charged circle
whose final obliteration is in person-
ality charged to an enduring - &c ="
Herr Harden declared that the note
reflects the honest and sincere will of
the majority of the people a5 uncQci-
vocal yexpressed in the reichstag
resolution, adding:
With Peace.
$50 far as lies in our power, We
want to stop the war and prevent the
possibility of new wars by the cultiva-
ton of a new spirit, which will so
completely impregnate international
intercourse with ethical feeling thai
never again shall humanity behold the
day when force will strangle righ.'
Denying that the German people
ever seriously intend to apply open
or covert force to Belgium, he said:
Sees New Epoch.
THE words that were so construed
were intended only to serve the pur-
pose of war tactics, or sad necessity.
Most eagerly do We desire to coop
crate in the work of converting the
misery and disgrace of this war into
the turning point for a new epoch in
which the Hun will rise for the soul
of mankind. This is the spirit and
import of the German answer. Inc
German empire will now be told that
its answer is not sincerely meant and
that it is, in addition, plain indica-
tion of the beginning of exhaustion.
If in this most tragic hour OF all hu-
man experience we are unable to rise
above the unclean vapors of such ma
war first in the presence of mighty
.ninations then we are indeed in the
fate.
Attempts the Possible.
4I am not given to alteration of my
government, yet my conscience COM
mands me to say that the German
government. in the full flush of mill
tarv successes and in the exuberance
of national strength, in this hour has
attempted the possible, and the un-
bending and determined will of the
majority of the German people STANDS
surely for that which the government
and the reichstag majority have prom
ised. I belong to that by no means
small number who. despite misunder-
standing and batting on both Sides
still believe in the lofty ethical SER
fousness of President Wilson. Tomor-
row that seriousness Of purpose can
and must affirm itself.
Would Attempt Armistiee.
"If l were President Wilson and
realized that the gap between the
hostile camps was no longer wide
enough to justify a continuation OF
the carnage. on pretext / would to-
morrow attempt to affect a peace
armistice before the German and
American soldiers meet on the battle
/ field
"The purpose of this brief respite
must be to establish whether, at least.
I the conscience of mankind has been
/ aroused, and whether an understend-
ing is possible which will lead to the
birth of new spirit. bringing us de-
: liverance from the misery that now
runs red with blood.
Woe Unto Him.
"AlI nations are abiding the advent