The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-13
WORRYING
OVER WINTER
Germ ans Dread Another
Hard Seasons Cam
paigning
STATE DEBTS REACH
FANTASTIC HEIGHTS
Vice-Chancellor
Says Europe Is Being
Bled to It's Ruin

Amsterdam, Thursday, Sept, 1.-THE
postponement of peace prospects and the
likelihood Of fifth war winter weigh
equally on all belhgerents and not on
Germany alone in the opinion OF Fried
rich Won Payer, the imperial vice-chan-
celior of Germany, in speech at Stutt-
CART.
"0ur state debts" the vice chancellor
said, "are everywhere reaching fantastic
heights and everywhere we struggle
against the encroachments on our per-
soual liberty. All OF the belligerents Of
Europe must admit, if they are not blind,
that the longer the European peoples la
eerate each other the more certainly will
the historical and paramount position OF
weakened and impoverished Europe be
lost in favor of cleverer and more cal
culating peoples"
Herr Won Payer reminded his audi
ence that after four years, the war still
was being waged almost entirely on en-
envy territory He admitted that the
U-boat war had not worked so quickly
and surely as had been hoped. He added
that it was useless to dispute whose was
the fault. The enemy, he said, still was
unable to compensate their losses by new
construction and declared that the rob-
berry of neutral ships almost without
parallel by the entente could not be re-
peated
"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 become fatal to Great Britain
after the war, because it would lose its
shipping superiority to the United States
and 'fhe hope of compensating them
selves from the German feet, which still
has to be conquered, will surely be sde-
quate comfort only for the very imagi-
native British
Contending that technique and inyen-
tive genius, which already had helped
the Germans over heavy obstacles, would
still help them, Herr Won Payer said
"If we lack cotton and oils our enc
mics 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 food sup.
uly, while our enemies supplies OF food
stuffs and raw materials give precedence
to the fronts call for Americas armies
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 enemys only
hope ia that the Germans collapse in
wardly sooner than they. He asserted
| that the enemy attempts to sow dis
cord were unavailing and that the Ger
mans were strong enough to reach a
decision Gin our differences of opinion
regarding economic power and political
rights, even down TO the food question"
/ Herr Won Payer urged the necessity Of
/ the Germans holding together in the
hour of danger and said that disap-
pointed hopes must be prevented, justi-
| fed hopes fulfilled and actually exist
/ ing wrongs redressed Regarding the
Prussian suffrage bill, which he consid-
cred Of prime Importance, he said that
cit is no longer Prussian, but eminently
German question" and on its decision
depends the confidence which the popu-
Ilation places in the Prussian and the
| imperial government. Further postpone
ment, he said, is not permissible, adding
moreover II is my belief that the deci-
sion Of the Prussian government may
be regarded as already taken and i
equal suffrage does not issue from the
committee Of the upper House the gov
eminent will proceed to dissolution
Herr Won Payer considered that the
present terrible struggle would not end
with peace Of the customary charac
ter. A mere glance at the state Of com.
plete exhaustion of the world exclude;
such possibility, he said,
ON Former peace negotiations, h,
said, "the middle and lower classes wher
1t came TO the council table, fell quietly
into the background This is now ovel
and the government will conclude tn,
coming peace treaties in close harmony
with the entire people.
"The main thing for them in peace i
not the aequisitioning of land, treasure
and glory; they aim nowadays at least
at the conclusion of lasting peace anC
therefore there will be no peace of con
quest"