The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-11

proletariat, with the exception of the officers and gentlemen of the war con- tractors and the war profiteers, the German people starves and famishes. Day by day the necessities of hfe cost more: day by day they become sean tier; privation Is harder to bear day by day. The endurance which the well fed fat-bellies preach at us is day by day more intolerable ''They are all at the end of their strength" in speaking of the soldiers wives; said Deputy Braun in the Landtag at the session of Dec. 6. we must go no further" the reputy continued, eff we do not wish to drive against catas- trophe from which there can be no rescue"
 Up to the present they have inspired hopes of victory and peace in the hearts of the people with always fresh tales of victories won, the colors thick ly laid on. The rapine of Serbia, the capture of Warsaw, the lies about the equalization of Montenegro, the push into Russia, in brief the whole collec- ton of events was laid before the German people as the final steps to immediate peace.
 According to the official press re- ports the wretched battles before Ver- dun were the absolutely final tests of strength which were to bring peace. Again and again always the peo-
 pie. credulous, silly as sheep, grasped
 after new courage and new hope
 and hungered on and starved on. Now
 it seems at the end of its patience
 now it seems to comprehend the true
 value and the, purpose of their tales of victory
 Even the conquering drive into Ru-
 mania, for all the pealing of bells and
 the fluttering of flags, no longer
 brings any hope of victory.
 The German people-which at bot
 tom does not understand why it has tc \ defend the boundary line of Germany
 so far away as down there in the dis
 tant Balkans-knows only too wei
 that success in that remote theatre
 of war can in truth bring a prolong ing of its misery, but can in no sense
 bring decisive victory.
 The weariness of war marches oI
 into infinity-in order to instill pa ltience into the people something nev
 has been invented, and that ia tn, farce of peace, which now, in accord
 anoe with all the rules of dramati
 art, is to be presented to starving wo
 men and children.
 The program of the farce may nov be sketehed with a. light touch. , tAct I, The Central Powers nlak peace proposals based upon and unac
 ceptable by reason of territorial en largement, annexation, both open an disguised, colossal strengthening o Germany as a military power. l Act II. The Allies, who will figh 5 to secure a true and lasting peace bas
 ed on mutual understanding and put 5 ting an end to military states, rejec these peace proposals-exactly as tn German Government foresees. r Act III and curtain. The Germa people is informed through the bellig . srent (field-gray) press that tn
 wicked enemy will have absolutel 5 nothing to do with peace, that the s insist upon the complete annihilatio : I, of the German people; that therefor 3 naught is left but to endure throug :, everything, to starve to the very ent :, to shed their blood to the last drop y until Junker and captain of i;r6ustr 8 have attained the object of, their wa
 which is the robbery of other people : the enlargement of their power bot Il abroad and at home.