Evening journal., 1918-10-07
NO GERMAN PEACE
COUNTRY'S ANSWER
Want No Farley With the
Foe Until He is
Smashed
THIS ADVICE POURS
IN ON WASHINGTON
ny l.. G. MARTIN.

| HOuSdnus OF letters ana telcHralnl
pouring into the capital TO Senator,
and Congressman.
BY actual count less than> One-ilftt
I OF one per cent. OF the messages ever
suggested consideration OF the "Austro.
German plea" The voice OF the nation
as heard inCongress,is practically unsn-
imous against a parley with the foe
until he has been smashed into help
lessness. The letters and kilograms
simply confirmed what -smbers OF
Congress have been hearing for months
from their constituents. Those who
have gone home campaigning have
been told, they say. that lynchlng bee
Is In store for any party who favors
any peace offers until American and
Allied troops are within German Dor
ders.
This feeling is stronger in the great
middle west than anywhere else, al
though every section Of the country
displays II in marked degree
A close friend OF a high government
official recently returned from a tour
Of mid-western States. To his official
friends he reported that the issue in
Congressional elections this fan is
simply (which party will treat the
Germans roughest."
Many Of the letters and kilograms re-
ceived today demanded personal pun
ishment Of the Kaiser before peace is
declared. This idea-making the insti-
gator Of the war pay personally for his
crimes-has long permeated a large
part OF the country. Congressman said.
Prom every quarter comes word to
the President and the Government that
America is in to the finish and viii
be satisfied with nothing short Of a
completely victorious peace based on
a clean cut victory said senator
Lewis, Democratic whip Of the Senate
today. "The people OF this country,
OF whom 10 was once said that they
were lukewarm toward the war today,
are committed TO 10 as they were never
committed to anything else The an
swer to Berlin intriguers Is plain"
Representative Fess. chairman OF the
National Republican Congressional
Committee. today issued the following
statement on the Austrian peace offer ::
This is no time TO parley peace
around a table. II must not be over
looked that Germany has up 10 date
fought this war with profit TO herself
save only in loss Of manpower. In the
boast that .Germany's enemies must pay
for the war her armies have Overrun
every contiguous country.
"Afier four years OF rapine and or
gsnized murder the tide OF war has
turned and on every border the German
hOrdes are encircled with sword and
flame. and defeat Is ss sure as fate.
ITO consider such proposition
would be a crime against the future.
No peace talk should be considered un-
I'll our armies are on German SOIL
Germany's armies surrendered and the
German people who have upheld the
campaign OF terrorism have been COM
PEELED to taste the fruits OF their own
planting Otherwise. the end Of this
war IS but an adjournment TO another"
Declaring that an armistice now
means the loss OF the war, senator
P0indeXtsr. Washington, today started
a discussion in the Senate OF the Aus
peace offer.
In warm oolloquy with Senator
Chairman Of the foreign re-
lstions committee POindexter declared
Hitchcock appeared TO favor such an
armistice.
This Hitchcock hOtly denied. declar-
ins an armistice now is "preposterously
impossible"
Senator's Fletcher. Nelson, Reed and
Norris joined in the discussion which
around a question Hitchcock
asked POindeXter.
III Germany evacuates all territory
do you think that would Indicate that
the Kaiser Is meeting President Wilson's
ii peace terms and that we could begin
with her on the basis OF
these terms?" asked Hitchcock.
POindeXter expressed Surprise az The
attitude OF the chairman OF the great
foreign relations committee" He con-
strued HitchoOcks question as indicat-
ing that Hitchcock believed negotiations
could be begun at that time with safety.
Hitchcock declared POindexter was
wrong and that he had not assumed
any attitude.
POindeXter demanded that the foreign |
committee keep the Senate ad- |
vised in advance Of the diplomatic sit |
lation.
"Our enemies" said Hitchcock. ARE 1
territory therefore not in a |
position TO sue for peace. They also |
are in retreat, hence not in a position /
10 dictate peace.
1T is unthinkable that we can dis |
,uss peace while the enemy occupies /
French and Belgian territory. No re-
sponsible person in this country fsyors I
such an armlstice for an instant" !
Il infer that you think that when /
has evacuated the occupied
territory, we can talk peace" said
withhold your inferences. said
hitchcock I'm going to state my po-
,ition clearly President Wilson's "a
peace terms have become the founds-
ion stones Of the peace settlement, not
only for America. but for the Allies.
said Hitchcock.
You say the Allies agree 10 these
.erms," said Senator McCumber. There
Is 20 word in them Of reparation. vet
Lloyd George and Clemenceau have
lime and again insisted there must be
"The President has never said" re-
Piled Hitchcock. that these are COM
plete terms or the only terms. For in
stance we have no right to dictate 10
he German people who their rulers
shall be- But we have a right TO say
we will enter into a contract
With those rulers II they are Hohen- /
sollerns. I think we should add TO the
peace terms that We'll make no peace /
contract unless representatives OF the (
German people are empowered 70 con-
ract with us"
Senate porah declared President WIZ [