The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-25
More Peace Suggestions

Germany's latest peace overture made to the
Spanish government, according to the Socialist
paper Vorwaerts of Berlin, contains six sugges-
tions. all of them being simon pure camouflage
and bunk, intended solely to foster unrest among
the soldiers and civilians of the allied countries.
They will be spurned with the same contempt
that was accorded to former peace pretenses Of
the Berlin gang The only kind of peace that is
acceptable to the Allies will be obtained by force
of arms on the battlefield, even if it takes ten
years to win that contamination.
The latest vaporings assert that Germany
wants no annexations and ndemnities in the
west; that the peace treaties with Russia and
Roumana must not be questioned; that the fate
of Belgium may be settled at peace conference
and that Germany is to enjoy the freedom of the
seas, and England to dismantle Gibraltar and the
Suez canal.
We believe the people of the United States
are sufficiently informed about Germany's hon
esty and integrity to know that nation which
plunged the world into and later tried to deny
it, that said the treaty with Belgium was scrap
of paper, and permitted it's ambassador to this
country to order the dynamiting of our indus
tries, cannot be trusted.
All the peace proposals of Germany are It's
namely, to try to make the people of the allied
countries believe that Germany really wants
peace. Germany is trying might and main to
crystalze public opinion in France, England and
the United States to talk peace and wish for
peace. The Most High knows that he cannot
delude the great statesmen and generals of the
Allies, and so he is trying to undermine their in
fluence by getting the people to believe that Ger
many is ready to declare peace any day her enc
mics say they will quit. That's the real motive
back of the peace talk which emanates from Ber-
lin with startling regularity. The Kaiser is not
sincerely seeking peace. He is looking for pre-
mature peace that will enable him to hold the
territory he has stolen, keep the booty he has
pilfered, and escape punishment for the crime
against Belgium and her people. A premature
peace, brought about because the allied civilians
demand it, will be playing into his hand
His Most High knows the Jig is up. American
bayonets, bombs and bullets, hurled among his
troops by American boys, have made him realize
that the fateful hour is drawing near. If, how
ever, he can escape the final consequences of his
insane desire to rule Europe by an artful peace
compromise, he will win the war;
There is just one answer to his latest peace
suggestions. And that's more bayonets, bombs
and bullets. The Yankee boys Numbered their
reply to "camouflage peace compromises by
driving the picked veterans of the Crown Prince
across the Marine. Non-combatants must be in
spired with the spirit of the fighters. Let them
turn deaf ears to the siren songs of Berlin until
the Americans and British have broken
the Hun power forever and dictated the terms
under which the subjects Of the Most High are to
live. In the meantime the Most High may con-
tinue sending out peace doves. They will return
to the Berlin coop with scrolls on which are
written, "War to the Finish"