Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-10
! Max IS fOlDn As. ..
ATch Hypocrite'
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Censsnued from Paee sOps ts,t ....
tent. onxtf,e; Other hand. that hateful
Daper &4he 7F,rankfurter zeitung be-
smears snlet with .its laudatfons al
though cis&rly enough held up to
sscorn iusmy speeeh che popular outcry
10r 'deNAf5crxoSx and all current party
wAtchwdzAs, Especially ''parlian,entar-
TheAcfsksis out Of joint and peo-
ples' mipt1ssxfre unbafanced. Everybody
- 80 hybnetized III these crazy ideas
that I cannotsget them to take in ear
rense aSSuf q ma tshr,stianity and the
desentiNstnfaitlf az. Of the conscience OF
Z Ihnrhan{tY ASE {*h6les t.tlS
For Asdsny.a day = ,lonsed to have a
GOOD die At paf.. eher1ies and to hold up
% i1dicPa< lA1N affeeted- judicial attitude
q thsfue nc the matter OF responsibility
sor the sSpE, III wel}sse their care aboln
oemocrelH "ss For many day too, I
l0need r. csnHont siefas and their pagan
tricks With TIE Sermon on the Mount.
and together With fnis doctrine of love
g set 3yroiearer light the duty Of the
strong td'gnard, the rights OF ,manIsind
Our enemies faisify the most sacred
principfes with their Hes and libeis and
we allow ourselves to be influenced nv
tneir base Vaccinations. The beginning
and end of my speech were therefore
concerned> In rebutting the lies and false
euggestfons Of the enemy's moral ~
Iense. AS my object was also to laugh
to scorn the democratic war cry of the
Western Powers, had to come 10 a sor,
- compromise with my audience about
vur owh internal anairs. As I quite de-
LIS 70 accept any such thing as west
cemocracy for Germany and Baden.
heo perforce to tell my hearers tba, 7
psrfectiy understood their needs hut a ;
fne same time I could not but warn
tnem that ] had arrived ut a sort n,
potloAl platform which gives me In
trV 70 follow paths l have marked out
Tor myself "e' ou'
Urges Exploitation
with regard to the peace quest on
HAke up the same stand in contrast
q the rules of the western Powers
Ny object was only to sugeest rho co., :,
oral, mood in which such ouestIons
hnould be approached. The ''how" is
% the gre&test value because the what
y SO dimcult to define for too nat,Ir-
Ally, wish for the greatest possible ex
X plo1tatfon OF our successes in contra st
70 the so-called peace resolutions of
I July, 1917. which was a disgusting child
born OF fear and the fserlin dogdays.
wish TO have the greatest nos
eibie indemnities. no matter in what
torm, SO that after the war we NAV
not be too poor. My view in these mat
i ters b not quite yours. for / am NOT
vet In favor of anything more being
said about Belgium than what already
has been said. Our enemies know
4 enough. and in dealing with such a cum.
ming and astute opponent as England
Bsigiusn is the only object of compen.
nAfIon which we possess
J" There you have. then, my own inter.
pFetstion of my speech. 100000 copies
of which have been distributed as a
4 Iea0et for propa ganda purposes Ny
. opeech is to be read as a whole n IT /.
b not to be misunderstood. have a yer,
pqor opinion of the moral disposition
% the rulers Of our enemies as vel
~ Of the terrible lack OF udKmen,
hmopg the people whom they rule. The
1aocnsss Of their IDEAS is too shamefu
4or words. We Germans. on the othel
Hena. ain .iby Jour stupidity, for both
<Ao Psn-Germans and peace resolutions
4 IRE alike stupid things"