The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-13
VICE CHANCELLOR ISSUES WARNINGS AGAINST AMERICA Laceration of Each Other Will Place Power With
 Cleverer Peoples. RESPONSIBILITY
 ON BELLIGERENTS Filling Up of Enemy Army
 By Americans Has Its ! Limitations.

Amsterdam, Thursday, Sept. 12.-l The postponement of peace prospects and the likelihood of fifth war win- ter weigh equally on all belIigerents and not on Germany alone, in the opinion of Friedrich Won Payer, the imperial vice chancellor of Germany, in a speech at Stuttgart.
 "Our state debts" the vice chan cellor said, "are everywhere reaching fantastic heights and everywhere we struggle against the encroachments on our personal liberty. All of the bel ligerents of Europe must admit, if they are not blind, that the longer the European peoples lacerate each other the more certainly will the historical and paramount position of weakened and impoverished Europe be lost in favor of cleverer and more calculattng peoples"
 Herr Von Payer reminded his auo> fence that after four years the war still was waged almost entirely on en- emy territory. He admitted that the submarine war had not worked so quickly and surely as had been hoped. He added that it was useless to dis, pute whose was the fault. The enemy, he said, still was unable to compen- sate the losses by new construction and declared that the robbery Of neutral ships almost without parallel by the Entente could not be repeated. ''The more troops the United States sends, the greater will be the need of shipping for endorsements of muni- tions and provisions" he said. ''The filling up of the enemy army by Amer | jeans, therefore, bears in itself it's hm- | itatons.'
 He argued that the loss of shipping would become fatal to Great Britain arter the war because that country would lose it's shipping superiority to the United States and "the hope of compensating themselves from the German fleet, which still has to be conquered, will surely be adequate comfort only for the very imaginative Britishers."
 ! Contending that technique and inven- tive genius, which already had helped i the Germans over heavy obstacles, would still help them, he said: i If we lack cotton and oils our enemies lack coal. Food is scarce here and there but already things have probably turned in our favor. In the east the world again is open to us for a food supply, while our enc mics supplies of foodstuffs and raw materials give precedence to the 1 fronts call for Americas armies and their provisioning"
 The speaker said the Germans have only to see that the war continues to be waged in a foreign country, that the Germans are fighting for their lives and their homes, and that the enemy's only hope is that the Germans | collapse inwardly sooner than they. l He asserted that the enemy attempts l to SOW discord were unavatling and that the Germans were strong enough to reach a decision "in our differences 1 of opinion regarding economic power | and political rights, even down to the i food question:
 Herr Won Payer urged the necessity 1 of Germans holding together in the 1 hour of danger, and said that disap- pointed hopes must be prevented, jus tified hopes fulfilled and actually ex-
 
 1 garding the Prussian suffrage bill which he regarded as of prime inn
 portance he said that "it is no long,
 CT Prussian, but eminently a German
 question, and on it's decision depend:
 the confidence that the population
 places in the Prussian and the i'm
 perial government" Further post
 ponement, he said, is not permissible
 adding moreover it is my belief tha
 the decision of the Prussian govern
 ment may be regarded as already talk
 en and If equal suffrage does not issue from the committee of the uppel
 house the government will proceed tt , dissolution"
 Herr von Payer regarded that the present terrible struggle would no
 end with a peace of the customar! character. A mere glance at the stat
 of complete exhaustion of the worlt
 excluded such a possibility, he said.
 Tn former peace negotiations" h'
 said, "the middle and lower classe; when it came to the council table fel
 quietly into the background. This i
 now over and the governments vii
 conclude the coming peace treaties il
 close harmony with the entire peo ples.
 "The main thing for them in peac !; is not the acquisition of land, treas ure and glory; they aim nowadays 9 , least at the conclusion of a lastinl
 peace and therefore there will be nc peace of conquest"