Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-30

,quel he sets forth the means by which d peace.)
 through crime-either in order to re-
 tain it or to use it in negotiations with the owner.
 The position of the German govern ment is that it neither wishes nor in tends really to keep possession of Bel gium or France, but that it holds this territory as a pledge for an indemnity or for the restitution of colonies.
 An indemnity for us would be mon- strous, quite apart from the present military situation. Only man of no moral sense could think of such a thing. Imagine robber sending his victim a bill for his expenses!
 A rich man, but of the close-hsted type, saio to me in the spring of 1915, when asked him why we had occu- pied northern France if we didn't in- tend to keep it: "We must hold on to it for an indemnity, even if it takes five years" To this 1 replied: "As- sume that we receive 65,000,000,000 marks indemnity, then each German will get 1000 marks. Are you willing to allow your fellow men to be slaughtered and crippled for five years? If so l. assure you that I'll gladly pay you 1000 marks here this moment for the privilege of shooting out your eye or hacking off your arn1." The man turned pale to the roots of his hair, and made no reply.
 You would let your brothers be murdered for money? To what depths have you sunk?
 Are we under obligation to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Germans for the 27,000 who were in the Ger man colonies in 1913? After the war We shall need immigrants, not em;- grants. Certainly We should negoti- ate the colonial question as we'll as all the other questions that the war has raised, but upon the grounds of jus tice and not of injustice.
 There is a second measure that will bring peace to you and to the world; immediate peace, permanent peace, and freedom four yourselves, and for your children. You must show and prove that you are weary of being the accomplices and the victims of the most shameful crimes; you must de clare that never again will you sub- init to be slaughtered at any mans | SoliiA1ldli0 IOI lllo OWH IJIOllI, dllu NOG can only publish this fact by one deed, by founding German republic. , This republic need not be fully accomplished fact in order to settle the preliminaries of peace. Negotia- tions can be begun even with an en- bryo-a partly realized republic. An interesting example of this is the present Venizelos party in Greece. That revolutionary party has been founded to wage war for the entente, rather than stand inactive in the struggle of mankind for its holiest rights. You should organize your selves in the same way in order to conclude peace with the entente. Your incentive is peace, your object is freedom, your power is the truth, your weapon is right. Were there ever holier grounds for a revolution A German republic could conclude peace with the entente incomparably ! more easily and on more favorable 1 conditions than could the imperial 1 government.
 In B months the imperial author ities have shown their complete inca pacity to extinguish the confagration which they have kindled. You must settle firmly in your own mind that no issue is involved in this war which l can not be solved, and that in the 1 name of a German republic peace can be made with the entente that will assure Germany absolute security in | working out it's full social and eco- homie destiny as a free nation-that is, We can realize every purpose which the imperial chancellor in his reich stag speech of December 8, 1914, claimed as a motive for our continu- ing at war.
 Under German republic you would be liberated from the pride and arro- gance of military and junker rule, and you would be free people in far truer sense than before the war. In| spite of your crushing public debt and the necessary care of countless wid- ows, orphans and cripples. whom we owe to the war policies of military and junker caste, a few years peace would make us richer and happier than before. These assurances are not based on pure speculation, but upon painstakinc investigation of German economic resources, upon thorough knowledge of the blunders of the ex- l isting government and the faulty if nancial system of the empire and the federated states, and upon jealous study of measures which can and must be adopted to remedy the con- sequences of these blunders. Up to the present you have intrusted your government to quacks, and their treat ment must some day bring disaster. If you continue that treatment after the war, you will inevitably be crushed under the weight of taxation. You lean not possibly scrape together the billions required for the interest and l sinking fund of your public debt, for the support of those disabled by the xuor fo.. ,eocfo.i,a6 fhn sAa.da,.d af