The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-29
WARNS AGAINST
WILLIAMS new
PEACE OFFERS
Acceptance Would Sound
Death Knell Of Nations,
Says Professor.

TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Dec. 29.-Ac-
ceptance of the kaiser's new peace
terms as promulgated by Czernin, the
Austrian chancellor, would sound the
death knell of nations" Frank S. Bo-
gardus. professor of history at the In
diana State Normal school, told a
meeting of real estate dealers.
From the northernmost part of
Europe to western Asia, stretches a
colossal war machine under a unified
control-just as German historians
and pan-Germans hoped and prayed
for thirty years" he said. Germany
has solicited and consolidated Scan
dinavia, Austria Hungary, the Balkan
peninsula and Turkey into the most
powerful and effective group on the
face of the earth
What the Kaiser Would Say.
After three years of the war-after
Great Britain, France and Italy have
put forth every ounce of their great
strength and resource-Germany
stands today with most of it's chief
purpose realized The kaiser can
say: The war has been On three
years, and since it's beginning not
foreign foot has stepped on German
soil. Every battle has been fought
on enemy soil. Does. that not prove
that Germany is right And the Ger
man people will believe him.
IF we accept peace on the basis he
holds out-no indemnities and no fore
ed annexations-we should immediate
ly prepare for a world struggle, the
like of which the world has never
known on our soil. We would be the
last great nation whose shadow would
be across the path of the German"
Professor Bogardus said he had
abandoned the policy of trying to
please audiences 81 am endeavoring
to tell the truth and point out the
facts. We must begin to realize and
admit the kaiser is one of the most
energetic leaders the world has ever
known. We must begin to realize that
we are facing a group as powerful as
the Roman empire, a great unified war
machine which has cut Europe almost
in twain and is able to divide the
world and strike either east or west"
New Note in the Proposals.
Professor Bogardus then interpreted
"no forced annexations "-a new note
that had crept into peace proposals, he
said. Belgium. Serbia and Roumania
were the occupied territories, he said.
Natives had long since been driven
out and the subsidized people at pres
ent living in them would, no doubt,
were peace declared on the new terms,
readily agree to allow these countries
to come under German control
"The no indemnities' proposal is
past discussion" he said. Imagine
going home and finding burglar in
your house, who had just killed your
children and was looting the place.
You covered him with a gun. Imagine
him saying. Now. wait. Let's talk this
over. I'm perfectly willing to settle
this on no indemnity basis. I'll leave
the loot here and just withdraw
There's the kaisers plea simplified.
NO" he concluded, I'VE must be in
this war until Germany sees that JUS
tee and morality shall and must oper-
ale between nations-until it realizes
its crime against the world and re-
penis. | can see no reason for con-
Guiding this war, but l can see every
reason for continuing it,
I'VE must soldify and unity. We
must organiZe-organize. That's the
secret of German success in the war
today. But to solidify, we must rea-
lie the danger we're in. We must not
talk of peace. The easy road now is
the road to disaster