The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-11
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 EezE war and wish to make ready for
 But the Pan-Germanists, the Pan- Gerlnanists of the strictest observance, the people of the Pan-German Union, who I'm the Alldeutsche Blatter have hailed the war as "the long desired holy hour" demand, in addition to the linking up'' in the East, just about half of France. including the fort zesses of Foul, Verdun, Epinal and Belfert.
 It is quite impossible to go over all the pot-spoutings and plans for the future which flow from the beer tables of Germany to the German newspa- pers and which are spread broadcast with the consent of the censorship and the preas-licensing office. But all these peace projects, even the most modest, such as that suggested by Geheidemann, all agree upon one point, colossal increase of German i power through robbery, and in con- nectien herewith the leadership of Germany over the other powers.
 This is the peace, the rotten peace, to which the Entente powers are in Vtted.
 This peace signifies nothing but an endless period of everlasting wars, a period of renewed competition in arm aments, that will destroy the last rem { nant of the spiritual and moral force of Europe
 Far more than the foes of Germany ! has the German people to dread such l a peace. For the German people it would be the last reactionary stroke, the wretehed autocracy of the Junker and the war maker. For decades to come the German people would have to live sad life shern of freedom I under the rod of the military camari1- las the state. of siege. the dungeon, and the bodily condition of slaves to the chimneypot and cabbage lords of Prussia- And the pulpit of the preach ers the lecture desk of the professor, aEsooaatfens of soldiers, school, press and beer tables will produce the note ln whose key the German people will be sent to new murder by its all-pew- erful War party.
 Is that the peace after the heart i Of khe German people2
 The Allies have no choice. To a peaee proposal of such a government as tHig they can make no other answer thaM to continue fighting.
 Gne thfng Is certain; with the gov erHmeut. with the house of rulers who have dsolared this war and have un- uhanned it, with the man who has eoinod the word "a scrap of paper with Che man who has declared him. 1eK ansyvsrAbls for the violation of I 4rfa.frsn ,r.Mratrnlf& with tha voap u,ho is poaponslble for the slave hunts in Bal9inm and Northern France-with them and with him true peace is i'm roMslblo.
 Whoever still retains sentiment for 1he freedom of peoples and the honor of men, who sees in humanity some thing more than a herd of cattle which Reserves to be mastered by the stick cf the Pruss1an corporal, that man would rather anything, even the crash 0f clviIization itself, to this Prussian. German Empire of the world. A Prus- Etanfzed earth would mean the end o1 all that makes life worth living.
 The Allies must keep on with the war; for they will not submit to the yoke of a brutal junker caste, of, g 1anatical military horde, devoid ot Righteousness and human feeling.
 The war makers will use this fare, of peace to fan the righteous wrath Of the German people against otheI peopless they wish to exploit for theil own purposes of war the war-weari ness of the German people and it. longing for peace. But what shaI happen when the people, always trick ed. see through the purpose of tn,