The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-09
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

macy the better it will be for the future of mankind
 have maintained that Germany was beaten at the battle of the Marne and that the German leaders were aware of it, and while waging an offensive war have been trying to create an atmos- phere in which she could negotiate q peace without indemnities and annexa- tions"
 have never been fooled for one min ute by Gcrmany's feigned wish to stop the useless shedding of blood. The mill tarists would be willing to swim to vic tory in rivers of gore. It isn't any hu-
 manitarian motive which makes the | Teuton keep angling for a negotiated peace, but a desire to muddy the waters so that he can get away with his catch without having to throw them back and pay for fishing in others ponds. l Germany has been for sometime past ready to gain breathing spell by trans
 ferring the conflict from the battlefield l knows full we'll that if she could quit the l struggle by preserving the pre-war status quo that it would be a great German | victory. It would take only few years 1 with her predominant position in Mlttel Europa to rehabilitate herself and once more disturb the peace Of the world.
 She is making mighty effort on the western front, not in the hope of win ming decisive victory over the allies. but to make it possible to get them in . | frame of mind in which they will be will ing to take up terms of peace which will let her off without indemnities and an- 1 nexation." But the allies intend to de- eide for themselves when and under what conditions peace shall be made They are too sure of ultimate victory to be 1 bullied or cajoled into a German peace.
 The Tan-German watchword. From Hamburg to the Persian Gulf, is dream of the militarists which has gone glimmering, and no Prussian in authority any longer in his heart of hearts believes l that the Berlin-to- Bagdad railway IS | going to be operated solely by and in the interest of the Wilhelmstrasse gang of land pirates; but if completed will be controlled by outside influences hostile to German ambitions of mastery in the | orient.
 | Germany seemed mighty smart in set ! ting up the Stockholm fiasco and humil- iating Russia with her peace confer ence trick" It was the most stupen- dous piece of treachery every staged and will go down in history as the biggest 1 diplomatic flin-flam ever pulled off. 1t | seems at first blush to have been an un- | qualified success, and at any. rate has | proven a stumbling block in the way of a speedy victory of the allies, but it will take time to tell if after all it does not 1 prove boomerang.
 | It opened the eyes of many to the fact | that the Marxian philosophy which found l it's way into other countries through the propaganda of German socialists was, ir spite of it's pretensions of cosmopolitan | ism, but the cult of Germany to be used | for furthering the ambition of the Vater- | land. It's opponents were Germans firsts ] and socialists afterward. It will never hereafter be able to rid itself of it's Ger | man t..int.
 The Stockholm affair ought to forever make the continental socialists wary of putting their necks in any yoke to help pull Germany out of the hole into which her criminal madness to wage war as gainful occupation has brought her. They have in Russias debacle sufficient evidence that the great touted German
 scheme of a peoples peace" is but a bit of camouflage to boost the Hohen-
 zolerns dream of empire in which
 blood and iron" will trample underfoot the rights of the common man.
 There is one thing which Germanys intrigue in Russia has burned into the
 minds of the allies, and that is that any peace which they make will not be based
 upon the international dreams of social
 ists who are stage-managed from Berlin and masquerading for Prussian purposes
 
 in order to fool the unsuspecting and make them fall into the same kind of trap Which caught the great white bear. l The English lion has whiffed the bait
 and let out such roar that all his allies will keep out of harm way.
 |
 It has been said that we know enough. although the whole story, in all of its callous depravity, has yet to be told how Germany tricked the Russian revolution ary leaders and the Russian people to
 their doom. l can never forget the scorn
 which Princess Radizwill poured out cn
 Lenine. the man she met in Stockholm on
 his way from Switzerland to Russia with
 a German passport in his hands and Ger man gold in his pocket.
 1 I have set out this much to put our people on notice to beware of Germanys $
 underground propaganda in America. Delirious with joy and drunk with her success among the Slavs, it is her deter imitation to produce forthwith national and racial ruin and international chaos"
 by using her socialistic propaganda to
 try and organize among the allies q sympathy for peace dictated by humanity instead of a peace forced on
 her after defeat.
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