The Alaska daily empire., 1918-11-26
The German People.
(St Louis Republic. ]

est. Louis Repubic.) Dr. Solf, Foreign Secretary of the German Peo- ples Government, has begged President Wilson to intercede with the Allies for mitigation of the ar mistce terms. We will die of starvation if they rgidly carried out" he says.
 Solf apparently is familiar with the tac- tics of the German Junker mlitarists than he is with the Allies and America. Because the Hohen- zoerns and the Iindenburgs permitted thousands of women and children in Poland, Armenia and oth- CT occupied Provinces to starve to death, he fears | like fate is to be visited Germany. | It is needless for us in America to that he is greatly mistaken Militarism wars women | and children and noncombatants, but humanity does not, and the pure white banner of humanity has ever foated over the war standards of the United States and her allies
 No man, child in Germany will starve, even if the victors compelled to reduce their own rations. No infant in Germany will lack milk, even if we have to reduce the amount give our own children No in the conquered lands shall go unclohed if have to less cloth ing ourselves.
 If Dr. Solf will give matter little thought he will find that have been fighting against the very things he fears will happen in Germany We have sent death to prevent a handful of people from dominating the lives of the many. We have been fighting for freedom for the German people well for freedom for ourselves. We have shed our blood to make the world safe for de- mocracy and that safe for all the people of the world. We have been fighting against the form of government that permits feudal Junkers live eff the fat of the land while the peasantry about them is starving. We have been fighting for human equaty-and we are not going to let equals go fam ished.
 II time to draw distinct line between the German miaritss and the German people, The former we have helped to crush. No fate that take the men who plunge Europe into bloody pool for four years be too heavy. Hanging and shooting is too good for those who caused the death of millions for personal and imperial aggrandze ment
 But the German people deserve sympathy and help. Because they misled is reason why they should be punished. We have killed the beast that has sucked the blood from the Teutonic people, but that is not enough. We bind the wounds of it's victims and help them back to health and self-respect.
 The German people have a terrible struggle be- fore them, and they will need the help of all lovers of democracy. It is not easy matter to shake off 50 years of military discipline and 50 years of iron and blood training. For half century the German has been taught in schools and from the pulpit that he made of a superior sort of clay and that he would some day dominate the world.
 What the German people need to learn is that they better than other peo- pie. If they sincere in their efforts for de- mocracy, if they truly want to live in amity and cooperation with their neighbors and if they have really cast off forever all ideas of blood Land iron supremacy, then glad to welcome them to the family of nations
 from the just completed, but believe that in time there will from the crucibe of suffer- ing and repentance people that the civilized world will be glad to take by the hand and call
 Brother"