The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-10-16
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WILSON'S REPLY

the dismay that Mr.. Wilson's answer
to Germany caused to the kaiser anG
his band Tuesday. 1t is no wonder
they doubted he meant what he sale
when he declared some months age
that "force, and force to the utmost, :
was what they should have. They
have sifted over his words in the past
few weeks as miner would sifi
gravel, hoping to find some COLDER
grains of hope. And now the SAND
has PANIED out without color and al
they have left to show for their labor
is heavy, indissoluble grit.
The stern, implacable Wilson who
wrote the crushing sentence refer
ring to the Ticonderoga and the Lem
ster has evoluted from the mild Will
son who pleaded in the days after the
Lusitania was sunk that it was not
right to murder women, children and
helpless men; even as the hundred
million tiger-power American nation
has evoluted from the crowd of easy
marks who four years ago had little
foreign policy except desire to be
kind to every body. And Germany. Is
principally responsible for the evolu-
ton of both.
There is no hope for the house of
Hohenzollern and the other houses of
their class. They must go and they
are going.
Mr.. Wilson has not shut the door
of hope on the German people They
have sinned grievously and they must
pay for their sins. But they may, if
they please, pay thru due process of
law, which will leave them their lives
and enough of their property to en-
able them to obtain a reasonable
amount of comfort and pleasure from
existence-much more, in fact, than
they have derived while they drew
the car of their Jove, who has proven
in the last few years to be their
Moloch.
The German nation may elect to
commit suicide. But we do not be-
lieve it will, We believe that if it's
tyrants do not abdicate within a few
months they will be overthrow.
Germans have as much bravery as
any people. There are plenty of men
among them willing to die-for some
thing.
But we think it is likely that there
are also many who are not willing
to die-for nothing.
It is time for them to overthrow
their tyrants, ask for peace and 60
to work to help rebuild the world
that they have so nearly torn to
pieces.
MIR. Wilson's Message
"The unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by
a large majority Of the reichstag of
the terms laid down by the president
of the United States of America in
his address to the congress of the
United States on the Sth of january,
1918, and in his subsequent addresses,
justifes the president in making a
frank and direct statement of his
decision with regard to the commune
cations Of the German government of
the 9Th and 18th of October, 1918.
'It must be clearly understood that
the process of EVACUATION and the
conditions of an armistice are mat
tiers which must be left to the Judge
ment and advice of the military adj
visers of the government of the Unit
ed States and the allied governments,
and the president feels it his duty to
say that no arrangement can be ac-
cepted by the government of the
United States which does not pro-
vide absolutely satisfactory. safes
guards and guarantees of the main
tenance of the present military SUI
premacy of the armies of the United
States and the allies in the field.
"He feels confident that he can
safely assume that nothing but this
will also be the judgement and de-
cision of the allied governments.
"The president feels that it is also
his duty to add that neither the gov
eminent of the United States nor, he
is quite sure, the governments with