Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
WILSON'S SECOND
|VOYAGE RUMORED
Paris Reports He May Visit
Germany OH Another
Trip
Is URGED TO co NOW
DIR. Suedekum Hopes He Will
Go and See Changes Before
Peace Is Signed
) URGED TO co NOW
By JOSEPH HERRINGo
Special Cable 10 Evening Public Ledger

Special Cable 10 Epening Pubic Ledger
Copyright. 1918. BIZ Netp York Times Co.
berlin, Dec. 4.--(via Copenhagen an"
London.)
A message dated Paris and published
here mentions that President Wilson on
a second European voyage might Visit
some German port. This news has ere
ated quite a stir in Government circles
since, for some days they had considereu
the proposition OF inviting freSlue"I
Wilson to come to Germany and person
ally inspect the existing poiiucal anu
economic conditions.
Your correspondent called on l'oCtoF
Suedekum, who Is now Prussian Minis
Ter OF Finance in that handsome Finanz
Ministerium, to inquire what progress
the proposition had made. Doctor Sleae-
kum's well-known sympathses for the
United States, where he had visited
several times and his close intimacy
with men governing Germany toOaE'
suggested that he might know some
thing positive about the plan. But ne
shook his head:
DOUBTLESS wilson's visit to Germany
or at least some of the German ports is
held as of highest Importance and would
be heartily welcomed by every true
friend of Germany, because of all the
enemies. the American President is gen
orally regarded here as the fairest.
"The German people ask nothing but
that President Wilson come and see with
his own eyes that he Is dealing with n
new nation, having nothing whatever in
common with the Germany of tho
fIohenzollerns and the twenty other
nionarchs and princes. He will find
Germany that has completely burned the
bridges leading from old Ka!serism and
militarism to the most modern republic
in the world
Urges visit Before Peace
THAT Paris message, however. men
tions President Wilson intends to defer
his visit until the peace negotiations
are about to be signed. l hope that in
the interest OF fair deal President
Wilson will reconsider this intention
and see for himself before he commits
the fair name OF the United States to
a deed that is bound to have the gravest
consequences for the worlds future
welfare"
Your correspondent asked II the Gov
ernment had already agreed on a formal
invitation.
with events cascading down Ger
many hourly, each OF which would
form the task of a lifetime for an
ordinary pre-war statesman, our over
burdened Government has been as yet
unable to give the proposition the care
full consideration It requires before II
can be brought to President Wilson's
notice. However, the matter is far
too Important to brook any delay and
decision will doubtless be hastened as
much as possible
But Doctor Suedekum had sonmething
more on his mind. He called attention
to telegram from London stating that.
in the opinion of the Daily Chronicle.
Germany might be made to pay an in
demnity in yearly installments of s.
100000, 900 marks.
Tries to Dodge Indemnities
what would the the world say to the
spectacle Of dozen able-bodied men look
ing on from a safe position, jeering and
sneering at a drowning man whom every
time he tried to scramble ashore they
brutally Kicked back into the deadly
element? What would the world say
il at last. by sheer luck and pluck. this
abused creature managed 10 save his
life, II thereupon his torrnentors kicked
his prostrate body and made his ex-
hausted limbs carry their own bur
dens? That Is exactly what the Entente
is doing with Germany When II COM
\ pels US to pay fabulous indemnities al
though we are starving and are torn
with internal convulsions.
II notice from another newspaper dis
match that America and the Entente
stili distrust Germany 10 such degree
that they feel they cannot afford tc
make any change in the inhuman armi'
stice conditions for fear Germany should
manage to crawl out somehow.
s.Now, who has been cheated right anc
Jeff but Germany? Who has been tolc
for years by Entente statesmen thai
they dreamed of neither conquest, an
nexations nor revenge? Who has beer
told, even as late as a month or tive
ago, that II only Germany changed hel
Government she might reckon on a peace
Of Justice and conciliation?
Germany has undergone n change o
such completeness as is unparalleled II
history, not because of those promises
but because her time had arrived. Never
theIess, those promises still stand. Blu
now look at what treatment the mos
modern OF all republics receives from th
old democracies Where is your peac
OF Justice and Cancellation? What ha
become of Wilson's fourteen pointsT