South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-21

rlookades and provide a safeguard
that the league in the arms OF uu~
opponerts does not develop into an
economic offensive alliance agains;
US.
These aims may be attained
/ within the limits OF your resolution.
as ] interpret IT, CCheers) We can
I not again offer peace We have
/ Loyalty stretched out our hands
/ once IL met no response. but with
the entire nation and with Germany.
\ the army and it's leaders in accord
I With this declaration the govern
ment feels that IL our enemies
| abandon their lust for conquest and
their aims at subjugation and wish
20 enter INTO negotiations We shall
listen honestly and readily for
peace 20 what they have 20 say 10
Us.
Admits Food situation.
The present time is in regard 10
/ food conditions the most severe We
have experienced and in the month
OF July has been the worst. Drought
I ha- delayed and want exists IN mas.y
cases, but I can declare with glad
/ confidence that relief will shortly set
/ IN and the population can then be
supplied more adequately.
/ Nothing can yet be said about
/ the harvest but the fact is already
esta blishet that the harvest OF pota-
toes will 6e better than is believed.
/ straw is indeed short. but the de
/ y elopment Of the kernels is excel
lent. and we shall as in 1915 reckon
upon an average harvest. In wide
re gions of the empire rain has fallef
/ and everywhere IN time enough to
7 bring potatoes
/ We hope for good potato crop.
and IL we utilize the increase from
/ RCumania and other occupied terri
/ tories carefully the shortage Of fod-
| der with which We should otherwise
be confronted will be overcome IL
/ has been proved I'm these three war
years. even in the case of a bad
| harvest as in 1916, that Germany
| can not be starved out at all
Claims Advantage over England.
with rigid appropriation. limited
! rationins and an adequate supply IL
/ gives us ar ineStimable ADVANTAGE
! over England. A painful experience
\ in wide areas has shown that on &C.
count of war conditions relations
/ between the town and country popu-
/ lations become a source of trouble.
Enlightenment here is an absolute
| necessity.
Urban population must appre
ciate the great difficulties under
which agriculture suffers through
war conditions. on the other hand
the county population must be made
10 understand thoroughly how i'm
portant industry in great cities has
been and is. II that is done a
Impeachment will follow and each
will do for others what he can ana
what is his duty
The successful experiment OF
| transferring hundreds Of thousands
OF city children 20 the country may
perhaps build the bridge, but we
must take pains in every way 20 see
that this conflict of views is moder-
ated, alleviated and ended"
questions the chancellor said.
You can not expect me, as 1.
have been in Office only FIVE days. 10
express my views today exhaustive
IL and finally on the pending ques-
tions Of internal policy. II goes
without saying that ! stand upon
the ground of the imperial rescri9t
OF July II, concerning the franchise
in Prussia. 1 consider IL advan-
tageous and necessary that closer
touch should be established between
the great parties and the severn
ment. 1 am ready so far as this is
possible. without impairing the fed-
eral character and constitutional
basis of the empire, 10 do every
thing possible to impart 10 this CO.
operation more life and efficiency.
Il also consider il desirable that
the relations of confidence between
parliament and the government
should be made closer by calling 70
the leading executive positions men
who. in addition TO their conciliatory
characters. possess the confidence Of
the great parties in the popular rep
resentative body.
All this is of course possible only
on the assumption that the other
side recognizes that the constitution
al right of the imperial administra-
ton 10 conduct OUr policy must MT
be narrowed. / am not willing TO
permit the conduct of affairs to be
taken from my hands.
The radical socialists organized
vsrf p rrsa. do
night. but il was dispersed by the
police after reaching the center Of
the city The official version or the
affair. which is the orly one tC reach
Copenhagen, describes the demon
stration as including only few
hundred participants and unimpor-
tant