The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-24

part of the note which otherwise is
largely overlooked here, namely Ger
| many's backdown on the question OF
unrestricted U boat warfare whlch
was the direct cause OF Americas
entry into the war. Americans say
lit comes too late.
! Competent observers insist Inat
Germany stands alone against the
allies. Austria-Hungary and Turkey
already are out of the running, they
say, and her own population Is spht
up on internal questions. me almost
unanimous quest of peace puts her
between the devil and the deep sea
| OF capituIation or revolution. IL Is
believed that both are merely a Ques-
ton of time, although the allied
armies may yet be forced 10 strlke
the hardest blows OF all
Lodge Disapproves.
WASHINGTON, Oct 24.-Disap-
prevail of President Wilson's course
in continuing the discussions Win
the German government and IN trans
hitting the request for an arn1stice
and peace to the allied governments
was voiced by Senator Lodge OF Mas
sachusetts, the republican leader In
Nebraska, chairman Of the senate
foreign relations committee, approved
the presidents reply, saying 1T would
create a political crisis In Germany.
1.-THE president" said Senator
Lodge, says in his last sentence
that IL we must deal with the mill
tary masters and autocrats OF Ger
many we must demand. not peace
negotiations, but surrender With
this | am in full accord, as ! was
with the presidents statement OF
September 81. In the first paragraph
the president says that as the pres
ent German government, which, as
all the world knows, is controlled by
the kaiser and the military party,
represents, through its ministers, the
majority of the reichstag and an
overwhelming majority of the German
people, he feels that he cannot de-
cline to take up with the allied gov
ernments the question Of an arms
tice. With this I am not in accord,
for the German government described
in the first paragraph and that de-
scribed in the last sentence are one
and the same.
my own view is very simple
one. There is no German govern
ment in existence with which / would
discuss anything. / deplore at this
stage, when we are advancing stead
lily to a complete victory, any discus
sion or exchange of notes with the
German government. The only thing
now is to demand unconditional sur
render. 1 would leave that to Mar
shall Foch and the generals OF the
armies. When they report that the
German army has surrendered and
ceases to exist as an army In being,
then and not until then let the allies
and the United States meet and
agree what terms they will impose
on Germany to insure the safety or
civilization and mankind"
Senator Hitchcock made this state
ment:
in this note, the president reaches
logical climax to his correspond
ence with Germany. He places
squarely up to the people Of Germany
the issue of democratizing their gov
eminent and being accorded peace
of Justice or holding on to their mill
tary autocracy and submitting to an
unconditional surrender. In my
opinion his note will create polii-
cal crisis in, Germany. 1 believe the
American people will fully indorse
/ the firm stand he has taken, and 1t
is very evident that the allied nations
! are giving him their support. An
armistice does not seem to me prob
able for some time to come under
! the circumstances"