The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-13
It's a Lasting Peace Germans
Are After Now--W War Burden Heauy

he said, was still unable to cOmpen-
safe their losses by new construction
and declared that the robbery Of neu-
trail 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 reinforcements. of muni-
tions ard provisions" Herr Won Payer
said. "The filling up of the enemy
army by Americans, therefore, bears
in itself limitations"
"Must Hold Together"
He argued that the loss of shipping
would become fatal to Great Britain
after the war, because it 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 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 enc
mics 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 a
food supply, while our enemies sup
plies of foodstuffs and raw materials
give precedence to the fronts calls
for Americas armies and their pro-
visioning"
The speaker said that the Germans
have only to see that the war cOntin-
ues to be waged in a foreign country.
that the Germans are fighting for their
lives and their homes and that the
enemies only hope is that the Ger
mans might collapse inwarily sooner
than they. He asserted that enemy
attempts to SOW discord were unavail-
ing and that the Germans were strong
enough to reach a decision 'in our
differences of opinion regarding econ
omic power and political rights, even
down to the food question"
Herr VonPayer urged the necessity
Of the Germans holding together in
the hour of danger and said that dis
appointed hopes must be prevented,
justified hopes fulfilled and actually
existing wrongs redressed.
Want Lasting Peace.
Regarding the Prussian suffrage bill,
which he considered Of prime import
ance, he said that ut is no longer
Prussian, but eminently a German
question" and on it's decision depends
the confidence which the population
places in the Prussian and the imper-
ial government. Further postpone
ment he said, is not permissible, add
ing: Moreover, it is my belief that
the decision of the Prussian govern
ment may be regarded as already TAX
en- and if equal suffrage does not issue
from the committee of the upper house
the government will proceed to dis
solution"
Herr VonPayer considered that the
present terrible struggle would not
end with a peace of the customary
character. A mere glance at the State
of complete exhaustion of the world
excludes such a possibility, he said.
'In former peace negotiations" he
said, the middle and lower classes,
when it came to the council table, fell
quietly into the background. This
now is over and the governments will
conclude the coming peace treaties in
close harmony with the entire people.
The main thing for them in peace
is not the acquisition of land, treasure
and glory; they aim nowadays at least
at the conclusion of a lasting peace
and therefore there will be no peace
Of conquest"