South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-16
Administration is Determined
to Make No Terms With
Present Government of
Central Powers.
GERMAN AGENTS TRYING
TO INFLUENCE NATIONS
Newspapers Telling German
People That Almighty
Dollar" Forced This
Country Into Conflict.
International News Services :


WASHINGTON. April 16. - De-
claration that the United States
never will make permanent peace
with the government of Germany
as at present constituted" will fol-
low the coming international con-
ference here, officials minated
strongly today.
The delegates to this conference
will represent all of the entente
powers whose desires will count in
the making of a peace pact They
know exactly the maximum and the
minimum terms upon which their
nations will consider the ending Of
the war. And. it is unanimously
agreed among officials here who are
in a position TO know all of the facts
that the irreducible minimum of all
involves the destruction Of the Prus-
sion autocracy and substitution
therefor in Germany and Austro-
Hungary of government resting on
the consent of the governed as out
lined by Pres't Wilson in his mes
sage 10 congress calling for the de-
claration of a state Of war
That will be the slogan of the
representatives of the United States.
who will have seats at the coming
council table. And, il is expected
tina; this council will speak in terms
that cannot be misunderstood by the
German people themselves and their
allies who are acting in concert
now only because Of the influence
German agents within their bound
aries exert.
Berlin Works for Peace.
A quiet investigation of the peace
suggestions has revealed 10 the ad-
ministration that German agents
everywhere now are working fran
tically TO create a feeling of re-
ceptiveness throughout the United
States, in Russia, France and Italy,
but are ignoring Great Britain. In
this country the peace suggestions
have been sugar coated" They
are fathered by certain interests and
passed from mouth 10 mouth
coupled with the statement that "all
this is being kept quiet by the state
department but il will have to act
soon" The truth is that the con-
trary is the fact. The Swedish
peace movement died aborning
The Swedish government and
king conveyed to Minister Morris
on two separate occasions the fact
that Sweden was willing to use her
influence to compromise the differ
ences between Germany and the
United States. With peace rumors
industriously circulated in every
quarter of the world entirely
through German agencies. officials
realize that the success of the en-
tante cause will depend on nothing
being permitted to becloud the is
SUES so far as the United States is
concerned.
German newspapers are telling
the German people that the real
reason the United States is at war
is because the nation wants 10 con
tinue its garnering of the dollars
and they promise an adequate in
.demnity when the United States is
crushed Austro-Hungarian news
papers are telling their people that
the Russian revolution spells leu
tonic success ana lnal a iNuSStdI
republic is impossible. They also
assert that the United States is
fighting for the dollars that are in
it.
Appeals To Every One.
IL is because all this is known 20
the administration. that Pres't VIII
son. in his remarkable address to
the people issued last night, appeal
ing 10 every American, man. woman
and child "tO speak. act and serve
together TO meet the nations SUI
preme test" emphasized once again
that fact that the United States is
now AT war lighting for what we
believe and wish 10 be the rights OF
mankind and for the future peace
and security OF the world"
These uggestions-from Sweden
which were infOrmal-were re-
ported TO the state department in
the routine way from Stockholm
They did not impress the United
States il is certain