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WILSON CAN END WAR BY
TRUCE SAYS HARDEN.
German People Want Peace and
Government Sees It, Declares
Macmillan Harden.

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Paris. Sept. 24.-News distrib
uted to Spanish newspapers by
German representatives, accord
ing to a dispatch to the Temps.
announces that German newspa-
pers aver that the Pope intends to
propose to the belligerents that
King Alfonso Of Spain act as
arbitrator Of the war. The Ger
man press is described as welcom-
ing the suggestion.
1T appears. therefore, " the
dispatch adds. that the govern
ment of Berlin. seeing the wreck
age of its maneuyers through the
Vatican, is pursuing other tactics
by placing the King of Spain in
the foreground Of the peace move
ment."
Berlin, Sept. %. via London,
Sept. 24.-In response to request
for his opinion of the German re-
ply to the Pope's peace note Max
imilian Harden, editor of Die
Zukunft. in statement to the As
ISOLATED Press today prefaced his
remarks with the reminder that
every nation and every govern
ment is more or less traditions
bound, none probably with tighter
cords than Germany. This tradi-
ton, he said, heavily impedes any
effort to break through the terri
flying charmed circle with which
the wars Affections encompass
them.
f'The German reply, said Herr
Harden, is the first visible at
tempt to escape from the charmed
circle. whose final obliteration IS
. preliminary condition to an en-
during peace.
Herr Harden proceeded to del
clare that the note reflects the
honest and sincere will OF the
majority Of the people as I'M
eql1ivocally expressed in the
Reichstag resolution. adding:
Says German People
Want to Stop War.
$50 far as lies in our power We
want to stop the war and prevent
the possibility of new wars by the
cultivation Of new spirit, which
will SO completely impregnate in
ternational intercourses with
ethical feeling that never again
shall humanity behold the day
when force will strangle right"
Denying that the German peo-
pie ever seriously intended to ap-
ply open or covert force to the
people or government of Belgium,
he said:
1.-THE words that were so con-
strued were intended only %
serve the purposes of war tactics,
or sad necessity. Most eagerly
do we desire to cooperate in the
work Of converting the misery and
disgrace of this war into the turn
ing point for new epoch in which
the sun will rise for the soul of
That is the spirit and
import of the German answer.
"The German empire will now
be told that its answer is not SIN
cerely meant and that it is, in ad
dition, a plain indication Of the
beginning of exhaustion If in
this most tragic hour Of all human
experience we are unable to rise
above the unclean vapors Of such
manchinations. then we are indeed
dwarfs in the hands Of mighty
fate.
81 am not given to alteration
Of my government, yet my con-
science commands me to say that
the German government, in the
full flush Of military successes and
In the exuberance of national
strength. in this hour has at
tempted the possible. and the I'M
bending and determined will of
the majority Of the German peo-
pie stand surety for that which
the government and the Reichstag
majority have promised.
Thinks Wilson Can
Break the Ice.
II belong to that by no means
small number who. despite misun-