The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-05-26
THE SISTER REPUBLICS!

IL may De that the Allies are bad state, that
England is starving France exhausted Germany victor
GUS all along the line. We have of exact in
formation but forced to for the hardest facts
newspapers that destroyed England by of Zeppe
early of September 1914 On the other hand faith
in these assertions is sometimes shaken by intmations
from German that would to indicate any,
thing but victorious feeling remote hope of
victory. Imagine to triumphant Germany suggesting
peace! Yet the German peace propaganda in this coun
try has started earlier than Golfers predicted This
government had hardly warmed up to the war; there had
been scarcely time to make contracts for submarine
chaser before the friends and agents of Germany began
to talk OF peace agreeable the interests of
both nations. In New York there are number of pro-
German newspapers. There is in particular which
was so distinctly in the propaganda that it became public
nuisance After was was declared against Germany it
quiet for few days, probably from judcious re-
gard for its own safety Then crept out of its hole
Germany Great Britain and the United States"-an ex
quste dea but not that conveys note of triumph
Abroad there are other signs that while victory is
sweet there be too much of it. 1t is pang this
meek and Christian dynasty 1t if they would
almost welcome the homely fare of defeat Nothing is
more certain than that the autocracy has firm grip
as ever on public opinion in Germany What is published
in the papers is published by permission What dis
cussed in the Rechstag is agreeable to the who con-
troll the military policy of the government Why has alb
solutism softened? Why unheardof constitutional
reforms openly discussed? Why is Macmillan Harden
permitted to denounce the government and call for radical
reorganization? Why socialist sent government
mission to confer with foreign socialists and when he re-
turns appointed to the head of the Constitutional
mittee of the reichstag? Why the editorial
of "Vorwarts" no longer in the county jail?
Germany, the Germany of blood and iron, of rule
ruin has suddenly gone democratic The Kaiser in effect
is saying to the democraces of the world: "Look, am
longer supreme. / have the error of my ways
/ withdraw from power or if you like it better have
been forced out by great upheava of popular sentiment
for which instructions have been issued through the
tomary police and journalistic agencies. You refuse
discuss terms of peace with me-? Very WE'LL them no
longer speak for the German people, They will speak for
themselves through my reichsag 1t is admirable in
strumen of public thought know for my glorious and
invncbe ancestors made it themselves and have added
few inventions of my own. Is composed as you see
of lawyers merchants journalists, sociasts-just the
sort of honest fellows who make the house of repre-
sentaves at Washington There will be no longer ques
ton of autocrat imposing his will the world, but
democracy shall speak to democracya republic in every
thing but to her sister republic in nothing but
These two democraces have culture and surely
the land of Karl Marx and Beethoven address the land
of Washington and Sousa You say you feel hostility
to the people of Germany Then there be obstacle
to agreement for peace Let the democracy of Ger
many and the democracy of the United States of North
America embracep'
To the casual observer it sounds good deal less like
note of triumph than an acknowledgement of defeat
There talk of German democracy Constitutional
reforms constitutional monarchy after the peace
of Cersales If the German people wish to treat for
peace republic, they should not overlook small
preliminary. They have only to become a republic.
Golfers