The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-08

gether, "Lct us have peace by nego
tiation!" or Compel the allies tc
state their terms!"
The whole thing was as plain as
day before us.
Right after the revolution in Rus
STA, when the country was warm Will
the hope of universal democracy and
feeling of good will to all the world
a thousand German agents ran about
the Field of Mars, the trenches and
every center Of thought in Russia, cry
ing:
why should we fight our brothers
The German people are like all other
peoples of the world, brothers of ours.
Let US cease to kill our brother!"
This didn't last very long for a very
good reason. Early in its career it
was met by Eussian soldiers that had
escaped from Germany's hell holes Of
war prisons and they had only to
show their scars and tell their stories
to put the kibosh on the brOtherly
love business.
Apostle of Peace.
You cant make much of hit with
your praises of German civilization
when broken-down wreck of SOL
der gets up after you and tells how
he was beaten. kicked, burned, i'm
paled, mutilated and starved by these
gentle apostles Of peace and frater-
nal good will.
1t also became plain that every day
more Russian people saw the only pos
sible road to the worlds peace was by
the world of the curse and
blight of German militarism, which
makes war inevitable. Even the men
that at the beginning of the revolution
had been fired most with dreams be-
gan to see this absolute truth.
So the next cry was mo Annexa-
tons, No Contributions" which was
in full swing when we arrived.
Nobody knew exactly what it meant,
but the sound of it was grand and
which was enough for
intellects in Russia and the
United States.
Therefore, at first it had a great
run.
After a time, men in whom the
linking faculty was more than rudi'
nentary saw the whole thing must
)e device of desperate Germany to
save her colonies, and then that too
,egan to fiZzle out.
1t was followed by "No Imperial
SIN! Beware of the imperialistic aims
If Great Britain, France and Amer.
ca! Great Britain is fighting merely
o get more colonies. France is tight
ng merely to get Alsace and Lorraine.
The United States is fighting merely
0 grab more islands, Down with inl-
Deceived Many.
This went quite we'll for two weeks
nd deceived many persons, reaching
ven to the national council, where
Olks usually have more sense. The
ignal had been given; the agents in
he trenches and in all the Russian
tiles were repeating it at the same
aoment that it was urged by hun
red speakers on the Field of Mars.
>olorious German agents from Amer
ca spouted it, coupled with the in
ormatlon that being Americans, they
new we'll the real aims Of the United
tates. 1t died out before some stern
Inquiries as to how France was fight.
ng for Alsace and Lorraine when she
vas ruthlessly invaded, and exactly
here lay those islands for the sake
t which the United States went into
var. 81
Just before we left the same agents
we're to be seen running about Petro-
rad shouting, LET the allies state
heir terms of peace! What are we
ghting for? Compel all the allies to
tate their aims"
And at the same identical moment
he same demand, you will remember,
'as raised in conspicuous places in
he United States and was included
n the activities of the so-called peace
ocieties that pro-Germans, for their
wn purposes, are maintaining here.
While was in Petrograd the able
nancial department of the provision
| government conducted an INJURY
nto the amount of corruption money
'ermany had sent into Russia since
he revolution and through one chan
ell alone came upon traces of fifty
lillion roubles.
Does Germany send her corruption
billions to the United States?
Does she have to?