Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-25
TERMS OF PEACE
REVEAL HYPOCRISY
Russia's Plight Shows American
People What to Expect
From Germany.
RUSSIANS ARE DESERTERS
New Campaign in East Not Dis
quieting Even From Eco
nomic Standpoint.

WASHINGTON, February ci.-It any
allied government that Gcrinany's war
, is war of conquest and aSgrandizc-
ment, that doubt has been completely
removed by the terms of peace which
She has bcncvolcntly offered Russia
And IL any Individual citizen OF any
country now arraycd against the cen
trail powers failed to realize what
would happen 20 him If Germany
should win, he must at last realize it
from the experience which the Rus
sian people are having.
No circumstance since the war be-
gan has more clearly exposed the mo-
t!vcs OF Germany and the duplicity Of
German diplomacy than has the rcve-
alton OF thr terms proposed By hcr
10 the Bolshcvik government Not
only does She BADLY announce her de-
termination to occupy Poland, Lithu-
ania. Riga and Neon Island but she
demands a tribute OF $4,000, 900, 600 as
the price OF peace.
II is as clear as daylight. therefore.
that Germany is the arch hypccrite of
all history. That country has pratcd
'or more than three years about a war
. that was forced upon her: about un-
q
measures; about the necessity of de-
, tending herself against the determine
ton OF her enemies &c ruin her, and
about the sacrifices she was making
( 10 preserve her territorial integrity.
she has insisted that She entertained
no dreams OF world domination and
no designs upon the autonomy of her
nciS hbors. She only entered Belgium
as a military necessity; she only
sunk neutral merchantmcnt as de-
icnSiHe measure; she only killed vo-
men and children Of England from the
air because London was military
base"
Not only that but the ReichstaG de-
c'ared last July against either indcm-
mites or anncxatious. and the Ger
man government never repudia;el thar
. action. And yet when the frs, of Ger
many enemies admits It's defeat and
sues Tor peace. German? calmly an
houn"cs that she proposes TO seize all
russian territory worth having and
proposes 10 exact an indemnity of a
tTihinS SUM OF $1,000 600. 900 from the
people III that part OF Russia not
worth having.
These facts have at least convinced
the United States government that Ger.
Z NJ
b!tion 10 first crush her enemies T.,
Europe. then 10 dominate that conf
ncnt And il convinccs this govern
ment as nothing else has. ,ha, Ger
many must be defeated If il takes ,en
years 10 do it. Unless she is defeated
she will sooner or later paralvXe ,b,
resistance Of European enemies ,ud
only America Will remain 10 cbaI,c,-o
( her supremacy
GERMANS REAL PURPOSE
CLEARLY SHOWN Ip
Moreover. officials OF this Eovcrumeu,
are somewhat rcconciicd 10 i.uss;,.s
plight. for they see in it an onnor
tunity 10 show The American nconl.
/ just exactly what they arc IN an,ins,
There still remains in this country. =
/ lot of people who took stock in Ger
many's sclf-dcfcnse prctensions. who
seemed TO believe that all she wanted
was chance 10 live within her natural
/ bounds, and who were never quite CON
Flhced that German militarists were
bent upon wholesale conquests. But If
! these people are not now conscious of
the danger ahead of this and every
other allied country, they are totally
/ blind.
/ No sympathy is being wasted in
/ Washington over the fate of y.ussia
That nation is simply chaikcd uD as n
descrter and is getting what dcsertcrs
generally get when they arc caught
The United states offered Russia al!
the support IL vas physically possible
10 give. 1t undertook the rchabilita-
: ton OF the Russian railroad system.
Hundreds of millions of dollars was
loaned 10 her. American markets were
/ thrown open TO the Russians for the
| purchase of munitions. food and other
| military stores. Rcd Cross units were
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