The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-14
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WAR WILL WE|C \
HEAVILY HUI n SAYS
pOSTPONEM ENT OF PEACE IS
BITTER PILL FOR PEOPLE
OF GERMANY
VICE CHAN NCELLOR TALKS
Our State Debts Everywhere Are
Reaching Fantastic Heights" He
Declares. Also Takes Comfort in
Alleged Troubles of Allies.

Amsterdam, Thursday, Sept. H.
The postponement of peace pros
poets and the likelihood of a fifth
war winter weigh equally on all be
ligerents and not only German"
alone, in the opinion of Friedrich
Won Payer, the imperial vice chan
cellor of Germany, expressed in e
speech at Stuttgart
Our state debts" the vice chan
cellor said, "are everywhere reach
ing fantastic heights, and every
where we struggle against the en-
croachments of our personal liber-
ty. All the belligerents of Europe
must admit, if they are not blind, the
longer the European peoples lacer-
ate each other. the more certainly
will the historical and paramount
position of weakened and impover
ished Europe be lost in favor of clev-
erer and more calculating peoples"
Herr Won Payer reminded his
hearers that after four years. the
war still was being waged almost
entirely on enemy territory. He ad-
mitted that the U-boat war had not
worked as quickly and surely as had
been hoped. He added that it was
useless to dispute whose was the
fault. The enemy, he said, was still
unable to compensate their losses
by new construction, and declared
that the robbery Of neutral ships al
most without parallel by the entente
could not be repeated.
Shipping Need Grows.
The more troops the United
States sends, the greater will be the
need OF shipping for reinforcements
of munitions and provisions" Herr
Won Payer said.
"The filling up OF the enemy army
by Americans, therefore. bears in
itself its limitations" He argued
that the loss of shipping would be-
come fatal to Great Britain after
the war because it would lose ship
ping superiority to the United
States and "the hope OF compensat.
ing themselves from the German
fleet, which still has to be conquer
ed, will surely be adequate comfort
only for the very imaginative Brit
ish."
Contending that technique and in
ventive genius which already had
helped the Germans over heavy OBJ
stacles would still help them, Herr
Won Payer said:
If we lack cotton and oils, our
enemeis lack coal. Food is scarce
here and there. but already things
probably have turned in our favor.
In the east, the world is again open
to us for food supply, while our
enemies supplies of foodstuffs and
raw materials give precedence to the
fronts call for Americas armies and
their provisioning"
Begs for Cohesion.
The speaker said that the Germans
have only to see that war continues
to be waged in foreign country,
that the Germans are fighting for
their lives and their homes, and, that
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Germans might collapse inwardly
sooner than they. He asserted that
enemy attempts to sow discord were
unavailing, and that the Germans
weer strong enough to reach de-
cision in our differences of opinion
regarding economic power and po-
litical rights, even down to the food
question"
Herr Won Payer urged the ne
cessity of the Germans holding to-
gether in the hour of danger and
said that disappointed hopes must be
prevented. justified hopes fulfilled.
and actually existing wrongs re-
dressed.
Regarding the Prussian suffrage
bill, which he considered of prime
Importance, he said that ''it is no
longer Prussian, but eminently
German question" and on its de-
cision depends the confidence which
the population places in the Prussian
and the imperial government. Fur
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