The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-11
PEACE? A NEW RUMBUC MEANT
 TO FOOL GERMAN PEOPLE ONLY

r. Germany is making overtures of caution to make carefully framed overtures. With the wholly theatrical setting of the scene which in the Ho- henzouern empire is now a matter of established custom, the world to its astonishment is informed that the Central Powers, despite their 'vic- tory'' and despite their 'invincibility, !" are not averse to treating eventually with their enemies for peace. And it is accompanied with the simultaneous threat: If now the wicked enemy, who are universally known to have fallen iniquitously upon innocent Germany, do not conclude peace immediately, then they are wholly responsible for the further shedding of blood-and thereupon end the already sufficiently familiar threats with the more bit ter" prosecution of the war. All this in accordance with the well-known guiding principal of German diplo- macy.
 And if thou'lt not my brother be Then I'll crack thy skull for thee." | Now what is the purpose of all this project? Will it have any effect upon the enemy? Surely even the German diplmoacy has so far relied incredibly upon innocence and ignorance of psy- chology of their enemy. But these old feudal lords can not estimate themselves so cheap that we can be- ElieYe them capable of hoping that this farce can produce any impression up | NN1 ha A1Ifac TNhA rncnnncih1A men of Russia, England and France have 50 often and so solemnly declar- ed that there can be no discussion o1 peace so long as German armies have their feet on enemy soil, so long as the ruling classes in Germany are in ac- cord with the government in speaking of the most extensive annexations that even German diplomats mus have discovered the uselessness o1 such a maneuver.
 Did they intend this step to pro duce any impression upon the neu trals? That may scarcely. be. By tht invasion of Belgium, by the reckless drowning of thousands of the wome1 land children of neutral peoples in tn,
 sinking of the Lusitania, GermanJ
 has torn out by the root the sym
 pathy of every thinking neutral; tha
 sympathy cannot be recovered by an.
 such pathetic peace suggestion as this
 And then does anyone in the uppe circles in Germany imagine that tn
 neutrals, especially in Switzerlan' and the Netherlands, are unaware o
 the true economic situation, or rathe
 let US say the economic distress o Germany, that they do not know des pite all it's victories least and west
 that Germany has not the slightes chance of imposing upon the world "German" peace such as is the drear
 of the chimney-pot and cabbage lerd of Prussia?
 What is the object aimed at in thi
 whole thrashing out of peace phrases It is not intended to produce any i'm pression either upon the enemy 0
 upon the neutra1s-no, for the ever
 somanyeth time it is intended to hum 5 bug the German people.
 That this is it's only purpose appear in this fact, that German proposal
 of peace before they were commun
 cated to the neutral Powers, wer , first submitted to the German Arm, to the German Navy-that is to sa.
 to the German people. Then first the
 came to the instigators of the whol 3 project.
 Stop and think The German pee !. pie, the great mass of the Gernha