Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-18
Friday Morning, January Is, 1918.
That Brest-LitOUsk
Convention

In order arrive proper understanding of just
how hard the English and French have hammered the
kaisers Iegions 'front.' and of just how
much the English blockade of the pinches the Ger
man flesh and just 1nenacing is the terrible
preparation of America to her entire strength
into the balance consider the German attitude
as represented by the rulers at this time
For forty years the German diplomat and military and
civil official by far the most arrogant and
overbearn and offensive domineering the world has
known since the centurions of Rome swept away
in the cobwebs and dust corruption of Roman de-
cay Upon every in every land the German was
always to be marked by impatience towards other
peoples He could not brook equal much less SUI
peror- Scorn contempt for all things not German
were part of the breath he breathed-
And the rest of the world. fearing the mighty Ger
man armies and the great munton and ordnance works
intensive preparations of many years for war
were reluctant TO bluff the Ger
man bully sternly answer the German boaster- Ad-
mraI Dewey did Msnila bay. but then were al
ready at war, and committed to policy
of war preparation But MAN. the kaiser and his
minions have staggered Europe and many other
parts of the world unchecked unhindered by the
other great nations whose resources and efforts
directed only in peaceful channels.
Now witness the pride glory OF the German
court at BresLitovsk dickering and dealing and hagg
ing for peace with who only year ago.
hanging about the streets of the side
trying to pick up poor living by making speeches to
socialist gatherings halls writing hack stuff
for little slav newspaper printed back of bskeshOp
This Leon Trotzky Russian representative extra
ordinary this peace conference An wild eyed
former ten dollar hanger on to the edges of
miserable existence
Witness the sight of German generals in gold lace
and brass and leather and gttering helmets and pomp
untold meeting terms of equality former unkempt
unheard of ensign in the Russian This
fellow commander in chief of the Russian forces
such they He may know battle plan
an engineers estimate picture puzzle a farm
weekly. he's the companion OF the in the
halls Of
Germany sought this peace; fighting for it
for months But consider her case when the proud
junkers bargain and and confer with
these socialist reds radicals of the sums of
great city of the world How evil be her condition
to fall from heights so high TO valleys so low.
After bullying christendOm for nearly half century.
the Hunnish princes and mtarsts stop and dicker
for weeks with these peasants ploters prison
birds peace that imperative if the kaiser is to
make Roadway another year against his enemies in
the west
Already this is victory for Democracy that would
have been deemed wild dream five years ago. Events
crowd upon the heels of events But right the
world Witnessing the spectacle of the whiskers of
Russian peasants brushing and tickling the bald heads
German diplomats in the salutations common all
conferences Of representatives upon great
How it stings the German pride and bruises
the German loneliness and the German superiority
only the German knows
And unless the English and French and the
american soldiers can break the Hun in the west Rus
STA will pay the last drop Of blood kopeck OF
money and spasm Of suffering for the BrestIitovsk
conference and every Russian who has tongue left
in his mouth after torturers have finished