The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-09
PRESIDENT DEMANDS
 GERMANY SHOW
 HER SINCERITY
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questions vital from every point of view.
 Accept sir the renewed assurances of my high consideration
 Robert Lansing 2"
 Associated Press dispatches last
 night announced that the president would not make court and perempt- ory rejection of the offer nor bhntiy
 demand an unconaHonal surrender now because the American govern ment did not propose to fall into the trap of supplying the German mih-
 tarists with means of holstering Lp their argument that the Germans are
 fighting Q defensive" war and tha; the announced objects of the allies are only to 'destroy' them.
 That is precisely what President Wilson has avoided He has met what the allied diplomates regard as a trick with a move which will expose
 it, if a trick it be. He has called up- on the German government for eyI- dence of it's good faith and should it not be forthcoming. he has left with the German leaders the problem of eX- blaming to their own people, already
 clamoring for peace, why they are not willing to accept it.
 From that point the president passes to another which will develop as the exchange proceeds, whether the United States and the allies will G3al except on the battle field with the| German government as at present con-
 stituted The president tells the chan cellor that he feels he is justified inI
 asking whether the tmperial chan
 cellor is speaking merely for the cOn- stiuted authorities of the empire. whJI have so far. conducted the wal"
 This will develop whether MaXimil-
 ion speaks for the German militayistsl whom the presndent has denounced as| unworthy of any trust and who rel garded treaties as a scrap Of paper, I or whether he speaks with the torceI of the people of nation. This is re- garded as probably the most impor- tant part Of the presidents commuH icatior!. Ifraught with potent pOssi bilities of the most far reaching ef feet Germany, where an active al- lied prop uganda has been making rap- id roadway in awakening the German people to the necessity of assuming the responsibilities of ther own gov ernment and making their own peace. To appreciate it's meaning, this part
 of the presidents answer mus; ac| considered in connection with a por- tion of his speech of September 27, in New York in which he declared: We are all agreed that there canI
 be no peace obtained by any kind of bargain Or compromise with the| governments of the central empires,
 lecauee we have dealt with them already and have seen then, deal with ather governments that were parties to this struggle ct Brest- I4itovsk and Bucharest. They havel convinced us that they are without honor and do not intend justice Theyl observe no covenants, accept no prn-l ciplc but force and their own infer~l ests. We cannot come to terms withl them. They have made it impossible The German people must by this timel be fully aware that we cannot accept lthe word of those who have forced taisl war upon us. We do not think theI same thoughts or speak the same lan- suage of agreement It can be aUthoratiyely stated thatl this pronouncement will be the ans-l wer to Prince Maximilian if he re- plies that he speaks for the kaiser, It is regarded as possible, ii notl indeed likely, that the German mili-l tarist leaders hoped for a curt anal defiant answer with which they couldl rally their people to give their lastl drop of blood for the protection of thel fatherland," and with other rolling | phrases in which the German official announcements abound The unani | mous opinion among diplomats is thatl the president by a carefully studied | most skilful reply has robbed them oFt that opportunity if they desired it,I land has sent to the German people, themselves a new message that tnel United States and the allies desirel nothing more than "a reign Of law,l based upon the consent of the govern l ed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind"
 It was freely conceded that a hastyl reading of the presidents answer might not at first satisfy some whol hoped for flat rejection of any terms but an unconditional surrender ButI the government is confident that as the presidents communication is care fully digested it's full import grasped, it's almost inevitable effect realHed,I and it's possibilities for weakenng the German military party on its nome grounds comprhended, it will be seen that the president chose a deep, but direct method of developing an ans wer for all time to the question. 10 the German people want peace?
 An armistce while the invaders re main on violated soil is already re- jected. Germany now must state