The daily banner., 1917-10-06

tinue 20 in, lIr t,,.--I, WITH phrases.
+ CZGTnIH IL uEG-. ,t..U candid yIOu5n ia
all COASD4on>C. lie Aus trU-L1unG ga
ran tOIeIGA minister's > speech IL
Budapest 1lu1Ga WIIn irdukucaa; II
strips Gil l4r whole UDC OF pIntelse
with Wn,ua ms herman COiiedSueS
nave been euGea, CtIuZ 80 ,Oyor un
,heir ur,E- IUI Conquest IN tuc iiJIGG
81 pea>u. me LrI.luI Iuu Austrian
replies pC tAo p1pD Ous.l accepted his
proposal ivr UleuItuuGlCul On lana
and J0!Ous4 enlarged III, suggestion
81 diaaI4la.-e.-- q, s>a. ne Allies
are nG, tt-a.nat NIadrI..an4eHJ, but
,hey nave no iuLGItl,a Ci ueSOJ.dt-
4ng IOF QISaIi4.,II -, Vim tWO . en-
pires Jnal WouIu uOt carry out the
agreement III good Iuith. Perhaps
some GuIIeIGG5 Americans have thou
3ht the allies were loo suspicious;
out now comes the Austrian Foreign
minister with TINS frank statement:
"Probabiy the present generation
will noc Il,e 10 see the completion OF
his great pacific movement tdIsar-
nameIi.J
austria ana Germany would have
ne Allie, Iu. down ,A@!r Grns and
nter iu.0 (, tE,.l., N-t- i-gll Iur d
disarmament ). iiI,.. "thy present gen
eratiOn ), al To. i've 40 So. Il Is to
Je done gradually, o. @ouI.a, nui how
5raaluaLs. IL is easy 20 lrcture the
atioHs entering into aucH an agree
aent; treaty IOr gradual and sim
1ltaneOUs disarmament, 10 be COM
Jleted Il. some time hen all the
present generation are dead; The dis
armament proceeding for a few
ears; the discovery that Germany
1as not executing the agreement;
complaints, cOunteTchaTges a sud
zen onslaught by Germany, and the
oresent war on again more bloOdily
han ever. OF course Germany and
Austria are delighted with the idea
Of disarmament; il IS something they
2an play with, something that Will
7upply them with endless OppOrtuni-
les for triclery; and according to
heir own idea, Lhus biUrted out by
Jzefnin. they do not expect even The
Ormai agreement for disarmament
D eOntcIlPIate its completion with
4 ethc present generation. hctu-
4ly, OF course, tLGy do not cCntem-
late its completion within ten cen
,JIies, or 80 .OnS a5 Europe ldsls;
hey would no. put it forward if they
,lds This. then. is what they meant
" disarmament, soothing syrup
gieemcIt made At u peace confer
nee, TO which they would subscribe
18th WinR.
Again, Count CGernin is TeCkIessly ,
carldid in discussing the attitude OF
shet Allies toward peace. He repeats ,
hef old ritual about how they sought /
he 'annihiIation' of Germany and (
Austria at the beginning OF the war, .
3ut he adds that they have abandon /
ID that mythical Jury Of theirs:
nfhey demand neither our life nor +.
our right to decide our desJinies as = !
stale, but they demand more or less /
arge frontier re2LiticaLiOnS p"
The Allies never did seek the AN /
uilalaticn'' OF Germany, never did !
seek the life" of Austria or its right |
o decide its 1estinies. But ii is OF |
no Importance that the Minister re-
gasts the stale old calumny, since he |
- Abnitely proc9aims hat the Al
lies entertain this savage wish no |
longer He procIaims that, what 7
ever may have been the case in the |
past, Germany and Austria are not |
now fighting for life; he obliterates, |
81 1d1 SlS Aus u ID 10 SOASNAL LASNs IAAS
whole structure of humbug which
has been erected to keep the German
and Austrian peoples fighting Tor the
HonenZollernS and the HapsburgS. 1t
is not true that .ne Allies demand
frontier rectihcations" as such;
-neir demand is tlat Germany and
Austria be prevented forcioly, II they
will not yield voluntarily, from again
Il. : l. OF- n nd
hey demand such frontier rectifica-
lions as will guarantee the inability
Of Germany and Austria to make
such an assault But that is not the
point now; the point is that however
Count Czernin may describe the sub
5ect of annexatioms, he admits that
the lives of Austria ana Germany and
their right to decide their destinies
are not in the least danger, and that
he pretense to that effect by which
their peoples have been led to the
slaughter was a Will-o'-the-wisp.
1t is no wonder, when the Austrian
Foreign Minister talks as frankly as
his, that the Austrian people are I'M
patient with the deceitful claptrap
which still gushes in steady stream
from Berlin, that they cannot longer
endure the masked phrases OF hu-
ahlmann and Michaelis. Thus the
Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung angrily dis
misses Kuelhmann's speech as poet
jcal fummery," and declares that II
Michaelis means what his mystic for
mulas seem to imply-annexaticn
then "all the chatter about honorable
peace would be pure and simple
swindle." That is exactly what 1t
IS, and the Arbeiter Zeitung. so un-
derstands it, for it adds, 1T looks as
if all this peace talk were nothing
whatever but a convenient alibi in
tended to appease popular opinion