Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-04
RULERS Of GERMANY
BACKED BY PEOPLE,
TEUTON PAPERS SAY
Press of Berlin and Vienna
CenSure Wilson's Reply to
Pope, Asserting He Does Not
Know German People

AMSTERDAM. Sept. S.-The Vienna
President Wilson's note. says:
Even an unprejudiced perusal must
lead to the conclusion that President
Wilson's reply is the most partisan
presentation imaginable, that lacks all
Justice; is filled with malignity and
prejudice against Germany and shows
that President Wilson has no inkling
of Germany's political institutions or
the character of the German people.
president Wilson appears to know
nothing either of the isolation policy
or that France is at least as militarist
as Germany. He has not read that in
the Soukhomlinoff trial the clearest
proof that has been given that the war
was unclaimed by the military caste
of Russia, even against the cars will.
He does not know and does not want
to know that by disregard of the Lon
don and Paris declarations, Great Bril-
tain is responsible for the entire mis-
fortune at sea-"
The paper further terms the note
"nonsensical," adding: For even If IL
were assumed that Germany had striv-
en- after world domination, no one will
understand why the slaughter must
continue, despite the Illustration of the
alleged plan QOmlnaLlOn.
1t sees in the concluding words of
the note the only ray of hope and de-
clares:
Even the American people could not
offer a better guarantee of treaties
than the agreement between the Ger
man parliament and government exhib-
tied by the reichstag resolution and the
chancellors acceptance thereof"
The Vienna Fremdenblat declares:
THE contents of president Wilson's
reply are as unparalleled as the tone
of the note. In a most humiliating
and offensive manner terms are dictat-
ed 10 the German people, the fulfill
ment of which would constitute the
most humiliating Intervention in the
most primitive rights of the German ma
ton II Germany lay PROSTATE, her
army destroyed and fleet hors de COM
bat, no more degrading terms could
be proposed by the president of the
United States.
The fact has been made clear that
by rights of self-desrruction the en-
tente understanding nothing but their
own determination of the fate of hos
tile peoples, President Wilson simply
declares the resolve TO force his will
on the German people. He sets up an
European Monroe doctrine and claims
for himself the right to remodel state
forms on our continent, according TO
his pleasure. Europe shall become a
of America. ...
"It having been made clear that the
resistance of the central powers can
no more be broken by the force of arms
than by a starvation war, the attempt
Is made by enemies to implant the
germ in the peoples of the
central powers. The reichstag peace
resolution does not satisfy Mr. Will
son. He requires a peace resolution;
he would like to transform Germany
into the condition in which Russia now
1t, thanks to its Joining the western
powers.
THE German people, however, will
give a fitting answer to this unsought
and every one who has re-
tained clear judgment will recognize
that the freedom Mr.. Wilson breaches
is nothing but subsection to Ameri-
cas- dictation."