Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-11-08
The responsibilities OF wilson

The Responsibilities Of Wilson
President Wilson has heavy respon-
sibiIities resting upon him In acting ss-
spokesman for this country and for our
Allies in Europe, in the present confer
ence with Germany which seeks an
armistice and apeace settlement on the
best terms possible.
A mis-step In the negotiations would
affect millions Of human beings. To
end this war is the desire of the world,
but the Allied governments are deter
mined that it shall so end that another
world-war will be made impossible,
and they are much bampered in any
negotiations because of the total lack of
confidence in any representations the
German military party may make, and
more than that 1t is next to impossible
to know truthfuIly whether the chief
aim of the Teutons is to save their
country or simply to save the Kaiser
and his precious brood of Divine right
rulers, and with them the chiefs of the
military caste.
The kaiser is reported to want peace
with honor. He may get peace, but he
will never get honor. The ruling pow
ers of Germany which consented to this
war and who are responsible for more
damnable outrages than have ever been
charged against any other nation, offer.
dirty hands to US. They have dishon-
ored themselves by throwing to the
winds treaties, violating all information
al codes Of war, proved Themselves liars,
murderers and unworthy to be treated
as men,. They belong with the bloody
tyrants of the dark ages whose memoir
les are a stencil in the nostrils of INTEL
igent human beings and whose deeds
are looked upon with horror.
The kaiser and his infamous minions
have no right to expect decent peoples
to even recognize them, when we take
into account their previous signatures
defled by broken covenants, treaties
stained with innocent blood of slain
victims, desecrated by the ravishments,
brutality and lust performed and con-
doned in German soldiery.
There are evidently classes in Ger
many fit to deal with. We know that
by our experience with good German
people who have made this country
their home and who have ever been
among our best citizens, but how to
sort out the wheat from the tares in
peace negotiations, is a tremendous
problem.
Every Liberty Bond we in this coun-
try have been solicited to purchase,
every War Stamp we have bought,
every donation to wal work we have
made, every food sacrifice we have or
must endure, all the lives and property
lost In this war, all these things are
to the kaiser and his crew,
lying as they tell us that they have moi
permitted the Smelling and sinking Of
life boats containing non-combatants-
lying and knowing they are lying as this
country and every other of the Allies
know. It cannot he otherwise than
that every high official in Germany
knows of the inhuman, detestabls war
practices which have been permitted
and condoned, and we presume the
perpetrators have been commanded to
do those very things.
We hope somebody will be found in
Germany who can at least extend hands
undefiled by u~nspeakable brutalities,
because peace is desired, and a peace
brought about If possible without
Germany into a state of an
archy such as had prevailed In Russia.
IfGermany should decide to get along
without the kaiser and his military
bunch, this country could find a way
to get along with Germany.-Eymer