Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-09
The Hands of ESau.

The Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign af-
fairs reiterates his Governments desire for peace
and again pleads eloquently for disarmament and
arbitration. But the trouble with all such Aus
trian professions is that while the voice is the
voice of Jacob, the hands the hands of Esau.
However fair may the words of the Dual
Monarchy and however sincere it's desire for
peace may be- it is now a puppet of the
Kaiser and as such, may conceal we know not
what Hohenzollern trickery. peace conference
inaugurated by Austria at this juncture would be
a peace conference inaugurated and directed by
the Kaiser, whose intrigues to obtain a truce be-
fore his criminal power is completely broken have
cropped out all the way from Vienna and the
Vatican his yellow-streaked press agents in the
United States AS an independent nation, Aus
Hungary could easily peace if she would
consent to restore Serbia together with the Ser
bian provinces give back the territory that rightly
belongs to Italy and guarantee just treatment for
her Slavic population. But If Austria sticks to
the Hohenzoern conspiracy, she can expect, as
far as her Government is concerned, more credit
for sincerity than the MaChiavellian tyrant whom
she
Furthermore, the effectiveness of the principle
of disarmament and arbitration depends altogether
on the destruction of Prussianism For the Kaiser
and his spokesman to preach those reforms from
the midst of their wanton crimes is as though the
captain of the Forty Thieves fell to lecturing his
victims on honesty and human kindness Interna-
tional agreements are wholly inept unless backed
by good faith and moral ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
in which the present German Government is en-
trey lacking. In that perfdious regime there is
one whose pledge the world could trust. Its
diplomacy has, been revealed time and time over
again simply web of deceit and treachery. It's
craftsmanship, so-caled, has cynically repudiated
hipdip TO info
tionaI compacts. What security could we expect
in dealing with a Government that shamelessly
describes a treaty as "a scrap of paper? What
confidence could be put in Government which
while protesting friendship for the United States
was plotting to attack this country and was fur
nishing it's ambassador at Washington with huge
sums of money to organize and conduct in very
midst its forces of bribery and intrigue? No
ton would be safe in receiving embassies from a
Hohenzollern Government, for they would be moth
ing more nor less than spies, matter what
treaties Of peace might have been signed before
their coming
Certainly no nation would be safe in reducing
its armament on the assumption that Germany as
now ruled would do likewise. in agreeing to
arbitrate a difference with Hohenzollern Germany
on the assumption that the latter would abide by
the decision. The one thing of which could be
certain If made truce with the Kaiser would
be that at the first opportunity he would toss his
pledges to the wind and plunge the world into
other war. Disarmament and arbitration never
be established on the quicksands of Hohenzollern
perfdy. They never be established in
conclusive and treacherous peace. They
be established until the principles of good faith and
freedom for which the Allied democraces fight
made effective Not until Kaiserism is overthrow
will the principles which Ausria's foreign minister
lauds be practically dscussabe the peace of
which he talks be possible.
An Ohio judge says there is no law against
man making fool OF himself but there ought at
least to be unwrtten law.
Germany's intrigue has the fault of not being
secret enough Otherwise it is all right, in
trigues go