The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-27
SiDE[lGHTSM WIRMNES

IN BERLIN, DR. Mchaehs gives forth a dolar alton that the allies are seeking
| conquest; that France wants to get back the Lost Provinces" that Germany
=. IS lighting for the integrity OF her domain and that for this she will fight to
the last
;, Simultaneously in Vienna Count Otokar Czernin Won Chudenitz, Austro-
hungarian foreign minister, prooaims that the Teutons cannot be crushed and
VII" austria Hungary. rs ready to accept al honorable peace.
About the time the two gentlemen were issuing their statements airmen
r. me eaonc army were busy dropping bombs on a Red Cross hospital in
i'"Ce. iWo physicians a chemist and a nurse ere. killed in this attack.
IL IS time the chanCclores of Vienna and Berlin abandoned this buncombe
VI an honorable peace There is nothing HONORABLE about the royal institutions
OF Germany or Austria Neither the German kaiser nor his political family is to
dehberatey broke its pledge to the world whcn it violated the neutrality OF Bel
k nu us ohic'al spokesman .contemptuousy characterized the treaty that was
paans unfortunately has drregarded international law a thousand times and
]"S'red every act which she committed as warranted by necessity
A. through 1t al Germany has maintained that her enemies started the war,
w." ' n 81, "" atacKed me mat the war was the result Of a hclHsh conspiracy on
me part OF Germanys envous ncighbors
II, N " "a was started as was the war between Prussia and Denmark and
NAT hetween Prussia and Austria and that between France and Prussia
Any nation that would trust Germany in view of the four val crimes be
ginning with the .pIunderng OF Denmark and ending with the present wa, for
which Germany planned for forty years and which through world domination
vas 10 crown he whole structure OF Gemanys ambition, would deserve NV
thing that happened NJ"
p Above all nations Austria has least reason to trust Germany Ausria was
enInafk apart Prussia turned on Austria and crushed her It's sur a fate, no
matter how the present va ends Germany will pick a quarrel with Austria and
p'uhder her to pay IN part for the cost to Germany of this a
Germany IS without conscience without truth, without dcccncy She has
mauc a VfW OF hypocrisy and IS crazy enough to believe the untruth which she
uters parrot-h", week n and week out month in and month ot yer in and
year out And Austria, poor, foolish Austria, which really has the con,nnt
the words of the German.
An honorable peace? What does Germany know of an honorable peace
What docs Germany know OF honor' No man believes a confirmed perUmer
Germany stands before the family Off nations a ne whose word cannot be &C
ceped. one to whom honor is unknown, me made mad by blood lust and who
will listen to no argument except the one OF force
There can be no talk OF peace with Germany except with Germany N her
knees with Germany sane, with Germany conuie, with Germany unable TO run
amuck and murder at her will. TO parey with such a murderer of nations as
Germany has beer, would be unthnkable The only argument that has weight
and force with a blood crazed Teuon is a club The allies must Use the club
upon Germany until Germany is beaten.
Dr. Michaehs and Count Czernm may find it polite to talk of honorable
many and a crushed Austria or the world will know ne peacefully Financial
America.