The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-22
NY, PRESS SCORES
GERMAN HYPOCRISY
Confession of Brutal Savagery
Not Graceful, Says
the Stiffness"
END Is CApITULAT10N
May Not BE This Year but Is
END is CApITULAT1ON
May Not Be This Year but Is
= Sure to Come Finally,
Declares "Nyorld."

The editorial com m ents Of NeD York
netcspapers on me latest German peace
plea urc as foIfotos:
New York Times--The Germans have
not yet learned to understand, much less
TO speak our language of agreement.
We may regard their latest note m
German effort to meet the Presidents
demands. In part II does move toward
them. but haltlngiy and with evasions.
notably in respect to the abandonment
of inhuman practices contrary 70 the
laws Of war on sea and land: but IN
other parts Il rings false, II Ia colored
with those receptions and hypocrisies
which we have come to regard as insep-
arabic from the processes OF the German
mind.
While the note is NOT compliance
with the demands of Mr.. Wilson. II Is an
ayowal of defeat, II Is a confession that
Germany has conducted the war not IKE
a civilized nation but with brutal saw
agery. She does not confess gracefully
or like a penitent--that was not to be
expected.
She almost throws herself on the
mercy Of President Wilson, practically
begging him not TO approve of demands
(which would be irreconcllable with the
honor Of the German people" As they
their honor, that plea In extenuation will
avail little. The terms Of peace will be
Just to the rest Of the world, however
harsh Germany and the German people
may deem them to be. 1t remains for
them not to choose the terms but to ac-
cept whatever terms may be imposed.
The worid-we have here an unac-
ceptable assertion as to the liberallza-
ton of the German Government. which
everybody knows Is not yet true; de-
NAL OF the very atrocities at sea and on
land that brought the United States into
the war: a request for commission TO
discuss the matter. and finally n grudS-
ing acceptance of the idea that the arnlis-
tice which It seeks must be granted by
the military commanders In the neid
with the trust that the United states
will approve OF no demand on their part
that will prove humiliating to the Ger:
man people, who are not yet In contfoi
OF their own government.
Unsatisfactory as this communication
must be regarded. we are bound to ad-
NIT that It shows progress. AS was said
in these columns when Germany ilrst eh-
tered upon these peace manRuvres few
weeks ago, Berlin will come again and
again with its propositions, and capitu-
la ton will be the end OF them--perhaps
not this month. perhaps not this year
but finally.
New York Hefaid-In it's talk about
armistice, autocracy has nothing else In
view than Its desire to save the married
and battered armies of Germany. Its
| assertion that II has ordered Its C-boats
F. to refrain from torpedsipg passenger
, vessels has the same value as German
autocracy's other promises of far deal-
| ing, and that means no value at all. Its
protestatlon that It has not resorted 10
wilful vandalism and 10 crimes unspeak-
| able is giver, the lie by the revelations OF
| every city and town In France and Bel
gium reclaimed from Its grasp.
To-day, as on the heels OF the Amer
| lean note OF October s, the demand OF
| the American people will be-no armis-
! tice. no negotiations. no discussions, no
Deace until there Is open admission oil
! defeat by whatever government Ger
many may have, and no thought OF peace
until the German armies have surren'
dered Internationally
The Tribune--Exhiblt v In the diplo-
matte correspondence between Germany
| and the United States on the subject OF
an armistice with the Hun and peace
with him thereafter appears this morn
ing on the front page of every news
| paper, II 1t does not raise such storm
of disgust and anger as will slam the
door from this side hard enough to drop
the bolt and put an end once for all te
these offending negotiations. we shall al
| OF us deserve the consequences-not only
those of us who are responsible but those
| others also who for any reason forbeai
| TO speak their misgivings out,
New York German Heroid--An exami
| nation OF the wireless version. as 1t ha'
| reached us. seems to show that there Il
! at least some endeavor on the part o.
F.! Germany to fulfill the basic conditions
as enunciated by Mr.. Wilson. We trus
| the German rulers are, at last, inclined
| to let reason rule and see things al
| thay are