Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-01

many would enter peace confer
ence with large claims.
During yesterdays sitting Of the
reichstag main committee, DR.. Won
Kuehlmann made a speech in which
he said
'0ur eyes at the present moment
are turned toward the east. Russia
has set the world ablaze. The gang
OF hureaucrats and sycophants, rotten
to the core, overruling the weak and
misguided, though probably well
meaning autocrat, surreptitiously
brought about the mobilization of that
country which was the actual and i'm
mediate cause Of the gigantic catastro-
phe which befell the world.
Praise For Boisheyiki.
Now, however, Russia has swept
aside the culprits, and she is laboring
TO find a true armistice and peace is
open for her internal reconstruction.
The principles hitherto announced to
! the world by the present rulers in Pet
/ rograd appear to be entirely accept
able as a basis for reorganization Of
affairs in the east, reorganization
which, while fully taking into account
the right OF nations to determine their
own destinies, is calculated perma-
nently to safeguard the essential in
terests of the two great neighboring
] nations, Gergnanxsssae Russia !"
I. After referring Ethe Teuton vie
IIory in Italy and to the bitterness
i caused in Germany by Italy's en-
trance into the war, Dr. Won Kuehl-
. mann said: Nevertheless, there be
, some who in this hour of utter col
lapse win not withhold sympathy from
the Italian people"
The effect of Germany's military
successes, the foreign secretary said
/ was noticeable also in England and
, France.
Hands Out 'Dream Stuff"
In Germany" the speaker said. re
! lations between the people and the
! crown have been rendered freer and
more active and therefore stronger
The development has been actually
opposite that OF England and France
where freedom OF thought and free
dom Of speech have been suppressed
partly by violent and brutal meas
ures. In these countries, which had
been democracies. things are tending
: more and more toward absolute die
! tatorship.
: in France, actuated by the dogged
: desire to continue the war which finds
its main stay in President Poincare
i, Clemenceau has been called to power
as the last card in the game
4 in England the development which
has now occurred in France took plac,
i, some time ago. The party for war tC
the end brought Lloyd George to The
i, fore. He was invested with powers
. under which, disregarding the proVi
!, sions so dear to the British cOnsti
tuition, he was made de facto dictator.
The foreign secretary then told hi.
, audience that il England could get hel
. allies around the conference table she
would convince them that Germany
> would come forth with imp0ssibl,
claims, reckoning them as peopk
tired Of war and prepared for far
: reaching sacrifices would not giyt
! their statesmen the support if neces
q sary to refute German demands, o.
this account, it has been said, it would
be necessary for Germany's enemies
/ to continue the fight until Germany
i was forced to make detailed state
e ment of her terms.
"If our adversaries are anxious Il
+ know what our aims are" he con
; tinued, this matter is very simple
: indeed There is a sufficient numbe
Y of ways at their disposal Histor,
n has not furnished a single example o
: any great diplomatic assembly pur
: porting to settle international affair
: ever having been convened withou
previously having informed itself a
to the intentions Of the parties con
cerned."
Germany, said Dr. Won Kuehlmann
5 welcomed the clearing of the situation
as regards the western powers, ''un
q der pressure Of our recent successes.
n He added:
: Those in favor Of war TO the ex
, IRENE have come out into the open
= demanding victory and nothing bu
: victory. How they intend to use thi
i victory is shown by the secret docu
K ment published by the Russian gov
eminent.
.'But today" he continued, III
certain that the pope's message is re
If ceiving no response from the wester
= powers and that France and Englan
i are resolved to rely only on violence
" Therefore. the German people vii
i stand up and be prepared to bea
J. force with force until the dawn c
: the better and more humane under
+ standing which is beginning to appea
It in the eastern sky shall arise in tn
q nations OF the west. which are as We
"a filled with greed for money an