The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09
Judge Wheeler Demands Peace Just But Firm
 Germans Pay To Limit

son, unconditional surrender" And
 that Is practically what the armistice
 is. For with our armies on German soil across the Rhine, in easy striking
 distance for our airplanes, her soI-
 diers stripped, the greater part of her navy in an English port, never again, to fly the German flag, she is power less to strike, no matter how strong her will.
 . Tonight I protest against a peace of sentimentality.
 No one of us is thinking of a peace of vengeance. But we think, and we believe, in a just and stern peace. We must consolidate and secure the fruits of our victory. We fought to free enslaved peoples, to give them liberty, and to preserve it for our selves. We fought that our ideals might conquer the ideals of Germany. Having done this, let us see that they shall outlive those of Germany
 And no man can say that justice to France where 100000 men working twenty years cannot restore her de- stroyed buildings; to Belgium, who suffered in kind, to Serbia crucif1ed, to Armenia exterminated that justice can be done these until restitution and reparation are made, and guarantees adequate and complete given. Justice means the punishment of 8 people which could commit or permit the commission of such crimes There is no such thing as law or justice where the criminal goes unwhipped of jus tice.
 Let Germany Pay.
 say with Lloyd George, let the people of Germany pay to the extent of their capacity. It is the way of nature; it will prove that the way of the transgressor is hard, and future generations will fight shy of world dominion as an engaging and profit able business.
 We cannot forget EngIands way or treating our soldiers and sailors, in- deed of all things American. Praise | for their valor and brave deeds, high ] est commendation for all that we have | done to help on the war, sympathy | TOT our every effort, and kindness and i abounding hospitality for all our boys | on English soil. And such wide. open- hearted appreciation of our army and navy.
 Here is what Sir Douglas Haig wrote of our Second Corps:
 "On the 18th of September vou participated with distinction in great and critical attack, which shat cred the enmy's resistance on the 11ndenburg line, and which opened he road to final victory.
 "The deeds of the Twentv-sava1,+1 lnd Thirtieth Divisions, which took 7elecourt and Nauroy and gallantIv iusta1ned the desperate struggle for sony, will rank with the highest achievements of the war.
 The names of Brancourt, Fremont 7us1gny, sVaux-Andigny, St. souplet 'nd Wassigny will testify to the dash lho enegry of your attacks. I am proud to have had you in my com nand.'
 England and America have been comrades in great cause. Thev mall cantinue comrades in the great '0 cause earth or heaven has for man, the cause of an enduring peace Jnlted by the ties of faith and b1ood emented by the associations o4 +bts leVer-to-be-forgotten year, and stead- ca oy the great responsibility which AImlghty God has laid upon us we nall go on together, down the apes harged with the solemn duty of nre- crying here among the peoples of +ba 7 nen." "Aii eo