New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

Of eighteen and men of forty five with
their thousands of spies, and their mill.
ion dollars for what they were nless.s
! to call propaganda (Which included NM
der). the Germans had no idea that th;,
could be. There was one spot opened n
US all, but into which Germans sn..
could not pry, that was the Americsn
heart.
Zone of the best French cartoo,.
/ published during the war appeared 70.
/ Gently. 1t represents the Kaiser stae.
gered at the sight of an immense ann
arriving in the distance. Before him
stands an armed angel. whose onsn
wings show stars in their upper par.
while the long feathers below simulats
stripes. Says the Kaiser: But wha.
is the feet which can have carried
over the seas this numberless army
The angel answers: The Lusitanis'
"A valiant army, if any, the praise
Of which is on every lip; youthful
good-humored, CHEEKY army, whose
every soldier is welcome in the castls
and in the hut, and is offered Just AZ
heartily the best cake or the last
crust; ar immense army that cease
lessly grows; month after month you
send over to France double the mum
ber of men Napoleon had at Waterloo
Many French Names written on the
map recall our presence here at the
time of your fight for independence
chief among them that of Lafayette.
"The enemy is doomed The day is
unknown; the fact is certain. Tn.
enemy feels anxious; when he feel,
anxious, he raises his eyes to heaven
deplores the slaughter. complains Of
his being friendless and lonely, and
wonders at the heartlessness of us who
will not desist; he babbles of peace.
Falstaf, on his death bed. was, as YOU
know, 'babbling of green fields They
think they can lure us. having lure;
others; but they are mistaken. OFT
peoples know how to read, they Ga
even read between the lines.
Who could believe that it is really
a German who talks thus: The tjms
must come when. between peoples and
! peoples, something like an impulse q.
/ confidence shall germinate: when on.
pressed human nature shah revolt
against false doctrines, threatening 70
suffocatc the lAnermost human ATM
: ties
Yes, il is German who is piping
thus, an exalted one. but an anXious
one It is DR.. Solf, their Minister OF
l Colonies man Of leisure he must BE-
I just now); thus was he speaking nor
more than fortnight ago. He waS
| so good as to add: We do not intend
TO retain Belgium in any form whs,
ever. But it IS a fact that for wha,
| Germans intend or do not intend or
that point, We do not care Noble Bel.
GUM shall owe nothing to her unspsak
able tyrants.
I'VE are. however, moro diffiden,
than ever, for VIC are no longer re.
duced to suppositions, probable as
those were, concerning TIE kind o.
terms thes intended to propose. Thev
have signed IN the course of the pres
ent year series Of peace treaties So
that any one can Judge; treaties with
Ukraine, Bolshevik Russia. Finlaad.
Rumania February 9, March 3. March
Z, MAY g..
Were we right or were we not when
we declined to lay down our arms, as
the Russians did. before discussing
terms in STORE fer them. and when
We refused to walk into the tran laid
out for US? If there had been am
doubt it would have been removed BY
casual remark of the German dele
gates at Bucharest. When the Ru
manians expressed their horror at the
terms proposed to them. the Germans
coolly answered (and that | do know
They are very moderate in compari-
son with what is in store for the
Allies after the German victory
81 ne peace offensive of the enemy
Will fail as we'll as his other often