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New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
We Have Now to Finish the
Fight With Germany
Herself
BY FRANK Fl. SIMONDS
Author of ''The World War;" 'They Shall Not Pass

rights and liberties Of other races that
Germany herself will recognize the i'm
possibility Of the undertaking and be-
come what used to be described as "a
good European" We cannot do this by
taking German territory. Here, again,
history is eloquent and unmistakable.
The unity Of the German people is a
permanent fact. doubtless to be ex-
tended in the future by the entrance Of
the Austrian Germans into the Teutonic
family establishment.
Our solution must inexorably be
found in the just and proper recogni-
ton Of the rights and aspirations Of
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

lens in his celebrated Fourteen
Points" which, SO far as they concern
the righting of wrongs and the bestowal
of liberty, have the unanimous approval
Of all mankind.
But we in America must not think
that the settlement Of the Polish uues-
tion, for example, or the liberation Of
the Austrian Slavs is remote and
intricate European affair. There are no
longer any exclusively European affairs.
as our course in this war has proved.
1t is no longer possible for Europe to
fight general war without involving
the United States, and henceforth our
frontiers of interest, if not of geog-
raphy, are European as we'll as Asiatic.
If the present settlement does not abol-
ish the German peril we shall have to
join in the next battle to resist it. and
therefore it is for US to contribute
what we can to the erection of barriers
against such new German eruption.
A new Poland, unified Rumania. two
new Slav states, one on the Adriatic and
one along the old frontiers between
Russia, Germany and Austria; four
states. whose combined population will
exceed 55,oo0,000, a population far
greater than that Of France, of Great
Britain or Of Italy; these will be bar
riers to any new German dream Of ex.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
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those millions of people who were yes
terday Germany's helpless slaves, whose
men supplied the cannon fodder, whose
fields yielded the food, whose factories
furnished the machinery for the present
war, whose collective contribution to the
German side alone made this war pos
sible. We must set them free, we must
provide them with the necessary re-
sources for separate national existence,
and we must guarantee them our pro-
lection during that relatively short
period necessary to their organization.
We should do all Of this as an act
Of justice. We owe it to the Poles, the
Rumanians, the Greeks, the Serbs, to the
people Of all the enslaved races, to
bestow upon them those blessings to
preserve which, so far as we were con-
cerned, we took up arms against Ger
many. But aside from the moral as
pect, which should be controlling and
rarely is in international relations. there
is the material consideration. Unless
we do liberate and fortify these races
we shall have to fight the German again.
and he will again be able to throw these
people against us and to use their labor
and their lands to support his war
upon rs.
The question Of the league Of nations
invelyss other considerations; yet. even
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
prohting by the Experience
Il Of Napoleon

1t is not by taking German provinces
and German people from our present foe
that we shall prevent his return to the
attack. Napoleon found this out in tho
case of Prussia. In a free world
united Germany will be in a helpless
minority to enforce imperialistic arno'
tons. In a. free Europe the very exten'
Of the states which would be threatenea
and would fight would veto the attempt
But if we deprived Germany Of her own
brethren, neither time nor numbers Wouis
lead the Germans to despair Of restora'
tion Of their "lost provinces" France
has proved all this in the last half cen'
tury.
For me the liberation of Europe is ue
first and the necessary step toward
league of nations. But it is not merely
desirable as a step toward sornethIH
else. If it is achieved, if Europe is W.
bound, this great human fact viii justly
the sacrifices Of the last four years. ana
it must lead toward an eventual reYoia.
tion in international relations. 10 a0s
sixty millions to the number of free me-
and women in Europe is to increase y
just this much the potential barrier =
future imperialistic ambitions Of any O@
race. The development of Poland ~
mania and Jugo- -Slavia in half ess'
tury will automatically abolish uss s,
German ambitions which seem SO terss"'
to US, exactly as the unifcation Of ~
many and of Italy put term 70 Wv
French imperialistic aspirations o. =
poleon and Louis XIV which tou'~'
Europe in other days 81.
We have to finish the task OF deies'ss
Germany; this is thefirst duty. we ~.
then to redraw the map of Eu'0p
such fashion as to liberate the mS',
races, to set free the sixty millions Ks
were to have been eternal slaves = 8.
Germans and have been tempors1s 81.
tins. These things done, and rignt' 80 .s:.s
the task of erecting the league q p,ss ....,
must be undertaken, but it can g es'
fully undertaken then.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

this consideration in mind that we must
examine the map Of Europe, studying
in the boundaries not merely the politi-
cal boundaries between existing states,
but the ethnographic map on which are
written the boundaries between races,
to find the solution. If Germany is not
to fight the world again, harnessing to
her war chariot the Poles, the Slavs, the
Rumanians, it must be because we have
so written our European settlement that
she can no longer control these races
and that these races, Joined voluntarily
and logically with us, will make force
too great for the German to challenge
So much for the material considera-
tions. We in America are so remote
from the battlefield and from the ques-
tions which through the centuries have
plagued European statesmen that it is
not strange that neither on the military
or on the political side is there any
general grasp Of affairs And yet it is
essential that there should be some
grasp, now that new phase is to open.
To the information of his fellow coun-
trymen the President had contributed
much by his references to various prob
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Freeing Sixty Millions
l. of Slaves

We have fought and are winning a spsv
war OF liberation. We have coma 70 tbs
point where we can free sixty million,
Of slaves. Their hands are stretched ant
to Us, their fate is in measure IN our
keeping. Age-long tyranny has begun
to crumble and the masters Of the ola
regime are on the run. The last chain
which Metternich and those assocIaied
with him put upon human liberty at
Vienna is breaking. If one could oply
recall now the millions Of men and
women Of the subject races who have
suffered and dared and died, maintained
through all their agonies by the hone Of
the coming of the hour which has come.
one could gain a more accurate notion
Of the splendid possibilities Of the dav
in which we live.
In other times, after wars, coalition
wars or contests between individual na
tions, the prize of the victor was a prov
ince, the control of continent, the power
to impose one nations will upon another.
To-day, as there draws to its close the
greatest of all wars, the plain opportu
nifty is within our grasp to reach SET
tlement which will go far toward max
ing new world war impossible. But We
cannot do this merely by international
agreements. The Holy Alliance and the
Concert of Europe are good examples Of
the futility of such insurance policies.
If. we do not erect strong and homo
geneous states across the pathway Of
German ambition, if we do not enable the
Poles, the Rumanians and the Serbs to
defend their own independence and thus
to protect the world against new Nit
teleuropa, there is nothing in history to
suggest that at later date the great
German nation, which will in any event
survive this war, will resume its old wor.
ship of power and its old lust for expsn-
sion. We can not and we should not take
German territory from Germany. This
will create new evil. Even the sugges.
ton that we should take the German
fraction of Schleswig- -Holstein-and it's
by far the greater fraction-from Ger
many and bestow it upon Denmark seems
merest madness. Denmark could not
keep it, and we should sin against our
own light.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Europe Unbound-A War of Liberation

pansion through the Balkans to Asia,
while in Asiatic Turkey other states,
Armenian, Syrian and Arabian, guaran-
teed and protected by France and Brit
ain, will present no opportunity for
German exploitation.
And without these things, without
these liberated races, our victory, how
ever complete on the battlefield, will
have no permanent value. Germany,
foiled, will return, no matter what bur-
den be placed upon her and no matter
what form of league of nations be
framed. Certainly Germany must in
denlnify France as we'll as Belgium for
her wanton devastations, just as she
must restore Alsace-Lorraine and lib
crate her Poles and the 100000 Danes of
Northern Schleswig; certainly she must
pay the bill for illegal submarine depre-
dation, whether tongue for tongue or by
money payment. Unmistakably the de-
mand for an unconditional surrender of
her military and naval establishment
must be made good upon the battlefield
if the surrender is refused now. But
not all Of these things will permanently
shackle nation Of 75, 100000.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

here we may be sure that no league of
nations can have even a ghost of a
chance of success if it is not founded
upon the doctrine Of equal rights for all
races. AS mere insurance against war
this league Of nations will be as impo-
tent as the Holy Alliance or the more
recent Concert Of Europe if underneath
it there exists an ulcer such as the East
ern question or the problem Italy pre-
sented after the Congress of Vienna.
If we make peace without bestowing
liberty upon any race, that race will re-
pudiate our agreements, seek its own
rights and inevitably overset our
league of nations as the Balkan States
overturned the Concert of Europe.
To make peace permanent we must
abolish evils which are menace to per-
manent peace, and the greatest of such
evils is the survival of international in
justice expressed in the denial of liberty
to any race or nation. The refusal Of
Europe, divided by it's own selfish am
bitions, to do justice to the small Bal
kan States led the Balkan States to act
for themselves, led inescapably through
Serajevo to Armageddon.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

The question of Poland, of Rumania,
of the Austrian Slavs, is not, then, a
remote and relatively unimportant ques-
tion for Americans. On the contrary. it
is the most vital Of all questions, once
Germany has been beaten and forced to
surrender. Our mission, if we are to
have mission, in the making of peace
must lie in resolute championship of the
rights of all the peoples whose condi-
ton in the past has been such as to
make world confagration possible, in
evitable. If we do not desire again to
send our boys to Lorraine and to Cham
pagne generation hence we must see
to it that the protection against a new
German assault upon our common civili-
cation is made possible. And we must
do this not by making Germany weak
"a thing which cannot be done perma-
nently in any case or wisely in any
degree-but by making strong those
peoples who collectively supply the one
sure barrier to recurrence of the
German attack.
r oundaries Between Races as
- Well as States
1t is with this situation In view that
we must consider the problems supplied
by Poland, by Rumania, by the Czecho-
Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs. 1t is with
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
FEW days ago there met in
Independence Hall, in Philadel-

n 1ndspsndsne. Han, in phi'sdsl-
phia, the representatives Of
some sixty millions Of people in Europe,
members Of half score Of enslaved
races which in whole or in part have
been included within the limits of that
randiose German scheme of Mitteleu-
.opa. These representatives Of the
races which the German has character
ICED as "inferior people," and upon
whose permanent slavery he founded his
hopes Of world empire, in the most his
toric Of American buildings made appeal
tv the American people to lend their
aid in making this war true war OF
liberation. And it is to this phase of
the peace settlement that I desire to
turn in the present article.
The Mitteleuropa which the victories
Of Allenby and d'Esperey have recently
all but annihilated extended on the map
from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf; it
included more than 160, 100000 Of peo-
pie, and Of these but half were German;
the balance belonged to a score Of races,
and of these the Magyar, the ~Osmanli
and the Bulgar were admitted to a de-
gree Of partnership. In the German
conception the Austro-G German and the
Magyar were to be the overseers Of the
Slavs and Latins Of the Hapsburg en-
pire, the Bulgar the padrose Of the
Balkan races, the Osmanli Turk the
agent of the German master in Asia
Minor.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
\ II This Is Only the
~ First Step

This Mitteleuropa has been broken;
Bulgaria has surrendered; Turkey is on
the point Of capitulation. Austria, in the
happy phrase Of a German orator, "is
disbanding." On the negative side we,
the nations in alliance against Germany,
have prevailed. We have broken the
German conception, but this is obviously
only the first step. We have now to
finish the fight with Germany her
self; to achieve that victory which must
be achieved before there can be real
peace. But beyond this step lies the
next, which is Of appalling magnitude.
We have to prevent a recurrence Of the
German attack Of megalomania, Of lust
for world empire.
How shall we achieve this end? OBJ
viously, it is not possible to destroy any
considerable fraction Of the German
race, even were there moral justification
for such course. We cannot in any
considerable measure partition or en-
slave the 100000 members Of the
Teutonic race inhabiting Central Eu-
rope. To do this would be merely to
create a new Alsace-Lorraine or new
problem such as that Of Italy in the last
century. That this great mass Of Ger
man people would ultimately regain its
unity, and until it did regain that unity
Europe would be in a state Of Unstable
equilibrium, is patent.
By contrast, it is not now possible to
conceive that the 75.000,000 Germans
would in the past have undertaken
their gigantic attack upon civilization
had they not exercised complete control
over an equal number Of people, only
small percentage Of whom were willing
subjects or allies. An alliance between
100000 Britons, 40,000,00o French,
35,000,000 Italians, together with the
10000, 600 Russians Of the days be-
fore the Russian revolution, would have
constituted an obstacle too great to be
passed. Germany risked her frightful
adventure solely because of her mastery
Of other races.
hrottIing Empire-Hungry
I Germany
If We can break the hold Of Germany
upon subject races, If we can transform
this war into a real war Of liberation.
if we can free some 6000O,000 Of
men and women from the yoke Of Ger
many, we shall have created an obstacle
too great to tempt the ambition Of the
most avaricious and empirc-hungry Ger
man. By contrast, If we fail to do this
all history points to the probability
that ut some other time Germany will
return to the charge, as France, in
the days before the unifcation Of Italy
and ox Germany, placed similar obsta-
cles in the pathway Of her Imperialism.
In it's simplest terms the problem OF
those va, are to redraw the map Of
Europe is to erect such barriers to
German expansioa st the sxpenss Of the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

AS to partitioning these $4,000, 900
Germans, shackling them by economic
or political chains imposed by the vic
tors, this is a combination of madness
and nonsense. The thing is impossible;
it is also immoral. But in free Eurone
the 75,000,o00 Germans will not be
menace. They will be minority far
too feeble to yield to the temptations of
the past. To make the world safe for
democracy we have first to make it free.
Having made it free there is no race
among all the races which can hope to
dominate the rest of mankind.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
before All Else a War
- of Liberation

1t is not the territorial aspect, how
ever, which I wish to emphasize in this
statement, covering ground already dis
cussed frequently in these articles. To
me this war is before all else war of
liberation. The fact that a just and
honorable settlement will set free some
sixty millions of human beings from a
slavery which for their respective races
has endured over centuries, that it will
oestow unity upon other races, that it
Will draw map based not upon the am
oitlons OF kings nor the appetites of
imperialistic nations, is for me the su-
preme fact, which goes far to justify all
the great suffering Of the last four years.
If we are to have federation of the
world" we can only have it when al, the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS FARMS
FOR SALE
300-Acre Stock and Dairy Farm
Fully Equipped, Only $4,1OO

100 acres rich, loamy, machine-worked fields
raising bumper potato hay, corn, grain, other
crops spring-watered pasture for big herd SO
acres valuable wood variety fruit good s-room
house, soft. barn. basement, spring water all
buildings, piggery. etc. one of best stock farms
in county, convenient auto road, schools, cream
cry. stores, etc. owner retiring includes DR..
good horses, II cows, 8 heifers, potatoes, corn,
oats, hay, moving machine horse rake plows
harrow, cultivator, cream separator. potato
hitler. sprayer, wagons all tools and machin-
cry s4,10o gets all. part cash details page g.
Strout's Catalogue of this and other big farm
bargains. many with stock. tools, growing
crops. mailed free; f. A. STROUT FARM
AGENCY. Dept 272s, 2s4 Washington street.
Boston. Mass.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21
ABOUT JUNE Ia. 1918
HORSES-HORSES
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE

One pair brown mares s and years old
weight 2.seo ms: they are certainly a nice
team. well broken They are made I'D righ'
and Just what the farmers ought to breed
They are right Of the farm in Iowa and are
used 20 work. Call and look them over II you
want sood team ] think they will please
the most particular person
Also a pair Of own sisters, 2 and 4 yezus
old. weigh about 1900 Ms. not broken
also have 10 secondhand horzes and mares
weiEhing from 200 20 1890 each and every
horse wiil be - repnszenfed or no sale. Thcy
are not worthless pluEs. but al right out Of
work. and some have been used hart a. that
We Are ready ~ all times 70 bitch and show
these horse. Sundays cxcepted
b. H ADAMS. CHELSEA. VI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21
Increasing Muscles for War Work.

Randolph Center, June 2l.-Horace
Morse of New York City tried to enlist
in the navy about year ago, but was
rejected on the ground of not having
sufficient muscle. He came here and
worked on a farm during the fall, and in
the winter went to the mountains in
Roxbury and cut pulp wood, came back
and has been at work on the agricultural
dormitory. Now he thinks he has sufii-
cient muscle and has gone to his home
in New York again to try to enlist in
the navy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21
Saturday, June r
AT AND 1890 P. M.

Large list invoiced for this
sale. Refrigerators, a gas
range, l large model Gold
Coin range, kitchen cabinet,
dressers, tables, dining and
upholstered chairs, rockers,
cottage organ, iron and
spring beds, l large coffee
percolator, restaurant stools,
iron sink, l wagon, bicycle,
screen doors, about 100 prs.
of new shoes, and a large va
riety of other goods that
must be sold, as the people
are going away.
Sale at 2 and 1880 D. m.
Saturday at our new store.
255 Main street, just oppo-
site our old stand.
Private sale going on all
the time.
0. H. HALE, Auctioneer
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21


NO. 1866 acres with cows. pr horse.
worth nearly $4,000; all tools poultry hogs
and growing crops located on main road about
4 miles from Plainfeld and miles from
Barre; l0-room brick house: 2 barns very
pleasantly situated; near neighbors In sight
OF school mail delivered cream and grocery
teams call soil Is very productive pasture Is
wei watered bargain at s2.700.0o for every
thing as ii stands.
NO. 1856 acres with house and barn in
East Montpelier; 20 to rs acres tillage; balance
pasture and woodland; good soil located on
main road about "a miles to village price,
S2,700.00
NO. i24s-Just listed 100 acres, main road
from Barre To East Montpelier; 80 to 40 acres
IN tillage, entirely free from stone; will keep
10 cows, young stock and team barns, good
warm house, and a very desirable farm near
Barre and on a fine road plenty of wood and
a large quantity Of lumber. The first man TO
look his place over will purchase IL II in the
market for farm of the size. Price 1900 90.
We can please you on farms or city homes.
Auction work properly attended to-
THE d. A. PERRY REAL ESTATE
AGENCY
Rowland Building, Barre Vermont
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21

geant lat arms at the last three Repub-
lican national conventions and at the
worlds fair in Chicago in 1898 was one
of seven men appointed to assist at the
dedication exercises of the New Hamp-
shire building. Mr. and Mrs. Howe OBJ
served their golden wedding anniversary
June IL, 1917.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21
LOOK
Read About These Farms
for Sale

| Here is a farm TO head the list OF 1870
| acres one Of the best hill farms in the eoun-
try 40 acres Of machine-mowed land south
I east cant balance in pasture and woodla nd :
nice sugar place. 500 trees. equipped good
fruit orchard nice set Of buildings, newly
painted in good condition; all modern i'm
provements well lighted and ventilated one
Of the best silos In the state the stock con-
sists Of IL nice cows, 2-year-old heifers 5
yearings, calves, hogs, and 3 good horses !;
also good set of nearly new farm implements /:
u mile from school. l y miles from the village
and within driving distance of Barre this
farm viii be sold at right price. as the owner
is anxious 20 sell It
sEVENTY-ACRE FARM. n tillage and the
rest pasturing and woodland cuts from 35 TO
20 tons Of hay, and almost all machine now
ing good set Of buildings, consisting of a
house of rooms, clothes press and pantry an
ell with barn connected barn has basement
and henhouse and barn floors, also stable
for horses can tie 10 cows running water
at horse and barn large orchard Of fall and
winter apples 100 blackberry bushes and lot
OF strawberry plants miles from Washing
ton village, on the road to Chelsea, and Just
on the road to Williamstown. which is miles
away; miles from Graniteville. 10 from
Barre.
EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD FARM Of 100
acres, containing 40 acres of tillage and a bal
ance of pasture and woodland good fruit or
chard and sugar orchard of 200 trees !. nice
set of buildings. in fine condition house con-
sists of 10 rooms barn. with chicken house
attached, and silo water at hoeue and barn,
from an artesisn we'll, lsl feet deep; tele-
phone; good garage; stock consists Of II cows
2-year-ods, 7 yearlings, 2 calves s horses |
and about 100 hens good crops of all kinds, |
and complete set Of farming tools this farm |
= located about ! mile from Barre City and
- mile from school; a splendid farm, and
worthy of your earnest consideration.
For information concerning these farms, or I
any other farms or city property on our lists. |
consult with
j. J. DASHNER
REAL ESTATE AGENT
Telephone $40 Barre. Vermont
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-21
FRIDAY, JUNE q, 1918
So Head of Cattle

TWENTY-FIVE cows, grade Hol
stems and Jerseys, some new mich ant
others to freshen this fall, all in Rooc
order; 20 head of yesrlings and 2-year
olds, 6 OF veal calves.
Every animal will be sold without re-
serve or limit, and the same condition.
as prevailed at our other sales; positive.
" no by.bidding, as we offer az all our
sales to pay 20 anyone proving that any
animal Is bid in, the price of such animal
We have no use for this stock, and al
viii be sold 10 the highest bidder.
Terms az time Of sale. Lunch served
those coming from a distance. Friday.
June 81.
GEORGE C. BENJAMIN.
JOHN ?. BENJAMIN, Owners.
D. A. PERRY, Auetioneer.