Evening star., 1918-06-23
itNAR-WEARY PEOPLES
1. NOW DISILLUSI0NED
Want Peace, and a Quick One to
i Rid Selves Of Present Torment.
AUSTRIA WORST SUFFERER
eConditions in All Powers Arrayed
Against Entente Worse Than at
a Any Tine During Conflict.
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
! Rolling, reverberating thun'
ders of popular discomfort and
lightning flashes of civilian
wrath are heard and seen upon
the horizon of the quadruple
alliance. The kaiser and his
puppets, Charles of Austria,
Ferdinand of Bulgaria and pli-
ieble Sultan of Turkey, must be
htremble.
The most trying period of the
{war for the forces arrayed
against the defenders of democ-
facy, right and justice. is at
hand. Conditions today in Ger
inany, in Austria, Bulgaria and
Turkey are more chaotic than at
any time during the course of
the war. They are menacing to
lthe selfish, gluttonous aspirations
of a quartet of ruthless rulers.
Roseate dreams of world domi-
nation are as brilliant lined
bubble and as stable. The utter
collapse of those interests today
guiding the quadruple alliance
may be occasioned by the leaven
which today is pronouncedly
working.
The peoples of the four powers ar
itayed against the entente are griev-
ously weary of
People Weary Of this world mael-
World Struggle. have b,ea. thew
have sacrificed, they have suffered
the tortures of the damned, but have
followed, more or less blindly, their
aggressive governments during the
period Of the war. But time has
brought increasingly startling
The exhausted peoples, deprived of
actual necessities of life. and, what
is more important, awakening to the
tr1ckery OF those whom they once
'Srusted. are beginning to ask for an
accounting. Conquests in the east,
chaotic Russia and the oyerrunning
OF Balkan nations are not sufflcient
reasons in the minds Of the peoples of
tho quadrangle alliance for continu-
ence or the struggle. This but in
tdicates the extent of their sufferings.
They want concrete evidences that
and win 1t quick.
In Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey
tehere are increasing signs that the
fpeople are not much concerned
twhether they win it at all as long as
national frontiers are preserved.
peace at any price. 1t is peace. peace
labove everything else that Is longed
iSor.
The present one is not the demand
j9or peace Of q year ago. Then the
fEovernments arrayed against the al
iand force. stating that ii the people
kwould hold on, the decision soon would
De wrought to their best national in
!ferests- The people went through q
ttrying winter and entered the present
fyear with hopes strung high. These
sGreater part of the period of cam.
Daigning remains.
More and more the peoples are be.
3coming awakened to the fact that the
q tQuAuIupl0 alliance can never win
tThey know they have nothing to gair
{by further struggle-then why the
sstruggle? This Is their line of rea.
fpontng a. evidenced by the hundred
Sand one little dispatches which have
:trickled over frontiers despite the
most rigorous efforts of govern
synsntal censors to prevent the enemy
E1rom gaining an iota of knowledge
{As to tho true situation. But that the
keituation is serious and that the
sfu1ers OF the Quadruple alliance are
{ In for stirring and treacherous times
is believed in every capital in Europe
Even the neutrals admit that the
iship Of the quadruple alliance has
Preached the sands and that it may
have dtmculty in extricating itself
sbefore damage has been done and
Hthe people themselves have taken the
Ehelm to steer clear Of future threat
Sening conditions.
Thon0h workara 49,