The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-13
German Vice Chancellor
Dwells On Desire For
Peace In All Nations
ALL DREAD FIFTH
WINTER OF WAR
Talks Of Huge Debts and
Need Of Peace For
The Common People
CBy Associated Press.o

Amsterdam, Thursday. Sept IA
The postponement of peace pros
poets and the likelihood Of fifth
winter Of the war weigh equally on
all belligerents. and not only on Ger
many, in the opinion Of Frederick
Won Payer, the imperial vice chan
cellor of Germany expressed in a
speech at Stuttgart
"our state debts" the vice chan
celIor said, "are everywhere reach
ing fantastic heights and everywhere
we struggle against the encroach--
ments on our personal liberty. All
of the belligerenta OF Europe must
admit, IL they are not blind. that the
longer the European peoples lacer-
ate each other the more certainly
viii the historical and paramount
position Of weakened and impover-,
ished Europe be lost in favor Of
clever and more calculating peo-
nles."
Herr Won Payer reminded his
hearers that after four years the
war still was being waged almost
entirely on enemy territory. He ad-'
mitted that the U-boat war had not
worked as quickly and surely as had
been hoped. He added that the
enemy was still unable to compen-
safe their losses by new construc-
ton and declared that the robbery
OF neutral ships almost without
parallel by the entente could not be
repeated.
Loss Of Shipping. 80
He argued that the loss Of ship
ping would become fatal TO Great
Britain after the war because 1t
would lose its shipping superiority
to the United States. and the hope
OF compensating themselves from
the German feet, which still has to
be conquered. will surely be ade-
quate comfort only for the very
imaginative Britishers."
Contending that technique and in
ventive genius which already had
helped the Germans over heavy OBJ
stacles, would still help them. Herr
Won Payer said:
"Tf we lack cotton and oils, our
enemies lack coal Food is scarce
here and there but already things
probably have turned In our favor.
In the east the world is again open
to us for a food supply while our
enemies supplies Of foodstuffs and
raw materials give precedence TO
the fronts calls for Americas ar
mics and their provisioning"
The speaker said that the Ger
mans have only to see that the war
continues to be waged in a foreign
country, that the Germans are fight
ing for their lives and their homes
and that the enemies only hope is
that the Germans might collapse in
war sooner than they
Must Hold Together.
Herr Won Payer urged the neces-
sity OF the Germans holding togeth-
er in the hour of danger.
Regarding the Prussian suffrage
bill, which he considered Of prime
importance, he said that "it Is no
longer Prussian but emtnently q
German question, and on its deci-
sion depends the confidence which
the population places in the PTus-
sian and the imperial government.
Further postponement. he said is not
permissible, adding moreover, It is
my belief that the decision OF the
Prussian government may be regard
ed as already taken and ff equal
suffrage does not Issue from the
committee Of the upper house the
government will proceed to disgolu-
ton"
Herr Won Payer considered that
the present terrible struggle would
not end with a peace OF the custom
ary character. "a mere glance at
the state of, complete exhaustion Of
the world excludes such a possibil-
ity," he said.
siIn former peace negotiations. he
said, "the middle and the lower
classes, when 1t came to the coun-
Ell table, fell quietly into the back
ground. This now is over and the
governments viii conclude the COM
ing peace treaties in close harmony
with the entire people
The main thing for them in peace
is not the acquisition Of land, treas
ure and glory: they aim nowadays at
least at the conclusion of lasting
peace and therefore there will be no
peace of conquest"