New-York tribune., 1918-09-26
German Chancellor Tells
Reichstag Yankees Now
Are ''Kulturists"
Wilson Silent on
Peace Plea, He Ayers
Offer to Accept Presidents
Four Principles Is lg-
nored, He Says

D.
ling, the German Imperial Chancellor.
IN addressing the main committee of
the Relchstag yesterday. complained of
| the lack of attention his acquescence
IN the four points laid down by Pres-
dent Wilson as peace essentials had
met from the American executive.
The Chancellor asserted that on Feb
rua,y % of this year he declared in
the Relchstag his agreement in princi-
pie with the possibility Of discussing a
general peace on the basis Of the four
points of President Wilson, but that
President Wilson, neither at that time
Chancellor's declaration.
Count Won Hertling continued by de-
claring that he favored the formation
Of league of nations. the promotion
Of universal, successive disarmament in
equal proportions, the establishment of
obligatory courts of arbitration, the
freedom of the seas and the protection
of small nations.
eve have never concealed the fact"
said Chancellor Won Hertlng in the
course of his address, chat all
thoughts OF conquests were far from
our minds. But how do things stand on
the opposite side? If one credited the
utterances of the enemy, official and
unotfi cial they only desire to repel a
Germany which in criminal arrogance
is striving for world hegemony, to fight
for freedom against German imperial
ism end Prussian militarism.
1--WE know better. The world war was
prepared years ago by the well-known
encircling policy of King Edward In
France there arose extensive war liter
ature which referred to impending war
with Germany. Austria -Hungary's in
huence in the Balkans was to be cimi-
mated. The Russian expansion move
ment and the pan Slavic idea de-
manded it.
Russia Blamed for War
"The match was not put to the pow
der by the Prussian military party, but
the last moment endeavoring to pre-
servc peace the Russian military party
put through thc mobilization against
the Will of the weak Car and thereby
made war unavoidable.
"The official account of the Sukhom-
linoH trial made this clear to every one
who desired to see. We can look calm
~ forward TO the judgment Of poster
ity. For the present it is true. those
who are in power iii the enemy coun-
tries have succeeded by an unparalleled d
campaign of lies and calumny in OBJ
not obtained by the spoken or written
word it was achieved by pictorial rep
resentations- productions Of absolutely
devilish fantasy, from which one turns
with horror and disgust. But the OBJ
iect has been attained. hatred has
been raised among the enemy popula-
tons against the Central Powers, and
particularly against Germany-a hatred
vhich eschews all moderation and
chokes off all just judgment.
"You have all read Premier Clemen-
ceau's last speech. a speech which
seemed. in its tanatical hatred and the
corseNess OF mind displayed, to sur
pass anything hitherto achieved. But
in America it found a many-voced
echo. as is proved by the pronounce
ments that are reaching our ears from
across the ocean.
War Fury in America
The widest war fury is at presenl
raging in the United States. The peo-
pie are intoxicated with the idea that
America must bring the blessing Of
modern living kultur p to the en-
shaved peoples of Central Europe. while
at the same time they are rejoicing at
the many millions Of dollars which the
war armaments are causing to flow into
the pockets Of the business men.
"Thcory and practice are two differ
cnt things The old proverb Of the
mote in anothers eye and the beam in
ones owr finds constant illustration in
the Vaccinations of the Entente. They
are never tired of condemning our
march into Belgium. but they pass oveY
the oppression of Greece. the interfer-
encc with that country's internal affairs
and the enforced abdication of its king
as if they We're matters Of course.
They assert that they are fighting
to protect oppressed nations. but the
century-old sorrows and the justiiiable
grievances of Ireland nowhere find a
bearing. not even in America where
.hc people are acquainted with them
through the numerous Irish imm
grants. The British government. which
is especially fond OF talking of right
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