The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25
SENATE DISCUSSES PEACE
TERMS

TERMS
On Moiday, October Ia, while
resident Wilson was preparing his
stern reply to the German chancel-
lor's announcement that GERMANY ac-
cepted his terms of peace, half a dog
en- Republican senator's made an ap-
parently concerted protest against
any dealings with Germany except a
demand for unconditional surrender.
Not only that, but they suggested
various changes in. the peace terms.
When the Republicans were through,
some of the Democrats made sugges-
tlons of their own account.
The bitterest of the bitter-end
speeches heard thus far in the SEN
ate was delivered by Cummins OF
Iowa. He said he assumed that be-
lore peace could be discussed, the
German armies would be removed
from all foreign soil. The question
arose then as to the treatment to he
dealt out to Germany. He demand
ed:
Germany must pay, pay to the
last farthing of her capacity to pay,
pay until the generations yet to
come will remember and curse the
insane ambition which we'll nigh de-
stroyed civilization itself, and so she
will repair in some small measure
the destruction she has wrought.
eve entered the war with our eyes
open to the consequences which would
follow as inexorably as the passage
of time, for from the moment of our
entrance into the struggle it was sure
that either the United States or Ger
many must die as first-class power.
My proposal is capital punishment
for a nation, and I am keenly con-
scious that many innocent German
people will suffer, but why shrink
from the inevitable? ?"
WILLIAMS URGES NO VINDIC-
TIVENESS
To all the imprisoned discussion
cid John Sharp Williams of Missis-
sippi added a corrective humanitarian
note.
81 agree with everything the sena-
tor from Missouri has said, except
one thing" he began, referring to a
previous bitter-end speaker. 81 Go
not want to see ruined Germany
God knows there is ruin enough IN
the world now. I want to see q
broken German army; | want to see
a ruined Prussian and Austrian au-
tocracy; I want to see the fiat of the
civilized world go forth that the
Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns
have ceased to reign | want to see
the people of AustriaHungary and
of Germany take the government OF
their land into their own hands; but
it would give my heart no gratifi-
cation to burn a single German vii
lage or to retaliate for the death of
Belgian women by killing German
women"
I Senator Myers of Montana refused
to agree with Senator Williams. MY
| ers said there was no distinction be-
tween the German government and
the German people; they are all alike
cruel, lustful, insolent, treacherous.
They should all be punished alike.
Mcclellan of Tennessee said that ne
was confident of sthe president :
answer-that it would call for the IN
conditional surrender of German
n1ilitarism, and the completion OF thS
victory of the allied armies by de-
stroying forever the danger OF anoth
or Hunnish raid upon humanity.
And when the presidents answer
10 the German chancellor, calling fol
the removal of the present German
government by the German people
! and refusing an armistice except a
,l tbe advice of General Foch, was reat
10 the senate by Senator Hitchcock
, chairman of the senate committee OF
) foreign relations, even Lodge ans
Brandegee joined in the applause.
, sIJFFRAGIsTS ARRESTED AGAIf
5 Fourteen suffragist enthusiasts
{ members of the National Woman
r marty were locked up in the ofic
. ,oon, of the capitol building in tn
basement beneath the senate wing =
; the building, while the German pea