Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-01
THE IMPOSSIBLE.

THE IMPOSSIBLE.
Once the moment arrives-when !
care not to prOphesy-that the nations
which are at present locked in battle
will exchange views, one Of the
preliminary conditions must be GER
tain degrees of mutual confidence in
each others honesty and chivalry.-
Won Kuehlmann.
Won Kuehlmann is the German for
eign secretary and suggests condi-
ton that is absolutely impossible.
The German government has repeat
eddy violated its pledges and the
military caste of Germany looks upon
agreements as scraps of paper. Then
why does Kuehlmann take UP the
time of his people in offering such
nonsense as the foregoing, in the
reichstag? Look at the way Ger
many is doing in Russia. After
pledging herself that she did not
want indemnities or territory, she
took all she could when the peace
treaty was forced with Russia. More
over, Germany is paying absolutely
no attention to peace pledges, but is
proceeding in Russia as though the
war with that country was not de-
clared off, Yet this man Kuehlmann
has the brass face and granite nerve
to stand up in the reichstag Of Ger
many and get off the camouflage
contained in the foregoing quotation.
There has been instances of honor
among thieves, but there is no in
stance Of honor in the government OF
Germany when dishonor promised to
help Germany After saying that
there must be a certain degree of
mutual confidence and respect, Won
Kuehlmann declared that Russia was
"the power which planned and desir-
ed the war, with France abbetting
her, and England's attitude strens-
thening the Russian desire for con-
flict.' Nobody in the world, outside
of Germany and the circle Of pro-
Germans in other countries, believes
a word of that and men like Won
Kuehlmann in Germany know it is
false, absolutely false. Evidence up
one evidence has been piled high as
the mountains of Italy proving
absolutely and irrefutably that Ger
many planned and is responsible for
this war and that she planned and
launched it for the single purpose of
conquest. Her military caste, aided
by the government, has carried on
propaganda for forty or fifty years to
prepare the German mind for the
great war Germany was going to
start, and to lead the world into the
belief that Germany was forced to
fight in self-defense. The revelation
of Prince Lichnowsky, the quota
lions from Bernhard, Treitscheke,
Hardin and other German authori-
ties, the statement of returned mis-
sionaries from Turkey, and the fur
Their fact that Germany was able to
march an army of 100000 men into
Belgium the day following the de-
claration of war by Germany, while
the allies We're wholly unprepared, es-
tablished the fact beyond peradven-
ture and the least shadow of doubt that
Germany and Germany alone is re-
sponsible for this great world con-
fiagration.
How can other nations have any
in the ruling classes of
Germany when its representatives
who know the truth stand up before
the world with a brazen affrontery
never excelled and pour forth falls
hood upon falshood like those that
flowed from the deceitful lips of Won
Kuehlman from his lying and black
ened heart? He knows he was deal
ing in falsehood. The kaiser knows
it. Hindenburg knows it and so does
Ludendorff and the entire
ruling class.
Some day, perhaps, the German
people will discover that they have
been lamentably weak in allowing