The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-04
AUI0CRACy N GERMANY
MUST END SAYS COCHIN
Catholic Party Member Dis
cusses Pope's Proposal
and Wilson's Reply.
NOT ENTIRELY AGREED
Ante-Bellum Status or Over
throw of Hohenzollerns
Will Not Suffice.

Paris sent. 2.-"You ask for my
opInion concerning the utterances OF
Pone BENEDICT and President Wilson.
said Baron Dcnys Cochin, one Of tho
members in parliament Of the Catholic
PARTY of France. to the Associated
Press today.
Did the pope speak in vain No,
| because, his voice has been listened to.
| Did he speak noprortuneiy No, the
| highest moral authority in the world
| VAS obliged 10 speak. Did he speak
with partially No one has been able
| to pretend so.
He desires first of all to put things
| back where they We're before 1914 and
| TO regulate afterwards the questions
| raised in the orient and in western
| Europe in conformity with the wishes
| OF the people. and in such manner
as not to provoke new wars. lie does
no, forget the horrors committed, the
| inoffcnsive populations carried off into
| slavery. tho open towns burned. lie
| condemns these crimes. He renders us
fun Justice as to the honor of our
armies
| For the future he recommends to
| AL, to those who attacked us as well
| as to ourselves that they disarm. and
we shall soon sec the Germans Obliged
| to resign themselves to that
| But One Napoleon.
| "The president desires to end mill
| tarism. SO does the pope. But in adj
dition. Mr.. Wilson desires the end OF
the Hohenzollern dynasty which in
stituted this regime. lie makes wal
less upon the German nation than
upon its guilty head. He uses about
the same language as that used by the
allies against Napoleon in 1916 aftcl
| the return from Elba.
MY notion is quite different. There
was only one Napoleon. while there
are among the Teutons Of the north
millions of henzollerns-among the
manufacturers and bankers of Prus.
sian cities, among the legions of mer-
chants. who, as the advance guards o.
their armies fell upon our countries
They are among the Socialist work
men. even and all of them are ami.
!; mated by the fury of domination. Lit
erary Germany and philosophic Ger
the evolution of the state, the cult o
might which their celebrated "die wei
: geschicht list das welt gericht" 9TH
: worlds history is the worlds tribunal
: at once explained and completed b,
the words Deutschland nber allies
The naughty and aristocratic reform
Luther both prepared and seeonde
the alteration.
~ am and shall always remain
said Hagel, a pure Lutheran
| Autocracy Must End.
AS for me, it goes without sayin
that l shall be delighted with all tn
vexations that come to Emperor Wi
liam. To have the power of that ma
after 2o years of marvelously prosper
Gus reign and to have let loose upo
the world a tempest of ruin and deaf
Ito have allowed that to be dor
through weakness or to have done
III through arrogance, takes from him a
right to any consideration. But | col
/ feSS that | do not see in the fall
this traditional autocrat and in h
being replaced by some other electt
| autoerat a solution of the E,nropes
catastrophe. For us that would not
| worth another week of the war.
| THE president is more happy whs
| | he declares the present Germany to
| the enemy of four fifths of the hum;
| race. She is their enemy because 81
] wanted to Cypress them. Let tn
people. says the president in high al
generous sentiment, resign itself
- the acceptance of Il regime IF equal
| and no longer seek 10 dominate
other nations as il is trying to do [
day-such is the primordial basis
every peace project There is no
other than that, and the desires of 1
pope arc the Same as those of {
l president