Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-25
Won HERILING
C0MPL LAlNS NO
ATTENTION IS
PAID TO OFFER
Declares Submarines Are
Restricting Transporta-
ton Of U. S. Troops.

Amsterdam, Sept. 25.-Count Won
Hertling, the German imperial chan
cellor, in addressing. the reichstag
main committee. complained Of the
the four points laid down by President
Wilson as peace essentials had met
from the American executive.
The chancellor asserted that on
February % Of this year he declared
In the reichstag his agreement in prin-
ciple with the possibility of discussing
q general peace on the basis Of the
four points of President Wilson'S
message of February Q, but that Presi-
dent Wilson, neither at that time or
since, had taken any notice Of tie
chancellor's declaration.
Count Won Hertling continued by
declaring that he favored the forma-
ton Of league Of nations, the pro-
motion of universal, successive, dis
armament in equal proportion7 the
establishment Of obligatory courts of
arbitration, the freedom Of the seas
and the protection of small nations.
"Ncver Thought of Conquest"
I'VE have never concealed the
fact" said Chancellor Won Hertling,
that all thoughts Of conquests were
far from our minds. But how do
things stand on the opposite side? II
one credited the utterances of the
epemv, official and unofficial, they
only desire to repel a Germany which
in criminal arrogance is striving for
world hegemony; to fight for free
dom and justice against German i'm
perialism and Prussian militarism.
I'VE know better. The world war
was prepared years ago by the we'll
known encircling policy of King Ed
ward. In France there arose extern
sive war literature which referred to
tria-Hungary's influence In the
Balkans was to be eliminated. The
Russian expansion movement and
the Pan Slavic idea demanded 1t.
The match was not put to the
powder by the Prussian military par
ty, but while the German emperor
was. UP to the last moment endeavor-
military pa put ts>pn,.Eh, tbs II, obs 4
illzariun agaa1ist theewfiis of st1ie. weak
czar and thereby made war unavoid-
able. r.
''The official account Of the suk-
homlinoff trial made this clear to ev-
eryone who desired to see.
Can Look Forward.
1--WE can look calmly forward to
the judgment Of posterity. For the
pTCSeuL IL lS LIuc luOS0, WuO cIo III
power in the enemy countries have
succeeded in an unparalleled cam
paign, of lies and calumny in obscur-
ing the truth. When a result was
not obtained by the spoken or writ
ten word, it was achieved by pictorial
representations-pro of abso-
lutely devilish fantasy, from which
one turns with horror and disgust.
But the object has been attained
A hatred has been raised among the
enemy populations against the CEN
trail powers and particularly against
Germany--a hatred which eschews
all moderation and chokes of all just
judgment.
enceau's last speech, q speech which
seemed in its fanatical hatred and
the coarseness Of mind displayed. to
surpass anything hitherto achieved.
But in America it found many
voiced echo, as is proved by the pro-
nouncements that are reaching our
ears from across the ocean.
His Opinion Of America
Tho widest war fury is at present
raging in the United States. The
people are intoxicated with the idea
that America must bring the bless
ings of modern liberal kultur (?) to
the enslaved peoples of central Eu-
rope. while at the same time they
are rejoicing at the many millions OF
dollars which the war ornaments are
causing to. flow into the pockets of
the business men.
Theory and practice are two diff
ferent things. The old proverb of
the note in another's eye and the
beam in ones own finds constant
illustration in the Vaccinations OF
the Entente. They are never tired
of condemning our march into Bel
GUM but they pass over the oppres-
sion OF Greece, the interference with
that country's internal affairs and
the enforced abdication of its king
as If they were matters Of course
They assert that they are fighting
to protect oppressed nations, but the
century-old sorrows and the justifi-
able grievances OF Ireland nowhere
find a hearing, not even in America,
where the people are acquainted with
them through the numerous Irish i'm
migrants The British governpent
which is especially fond Of talkink OF
right and justice recently found !:
compatible with those principles to
recognize the conglomerate rabble OF
Czecho -Slovaks as belligerent
How will the German people
: have to meet that? VIII It. fors6oth,
beg for mercy in fear and trembling?
No, gentlemen remembering ita
great past and its still greater mis-
sion in the future. 1t will stand erect
and not crtnge or grove.