The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-10-05

London, Sept. 26.-The speech OF
Count Won Hertling, the German i'm
perial chancellor, delivered yesterday
to the reichstag main committee, made
an unfavorable impression upon the
reichstag members, the Exchange Tele-
graph correspondent ut Amsterdam re-
ports. In reichstag circles the adj
dress is considered to have been I'M
equal to the gravity of the situation
Amsterdam, Sept. 26.-Count Won
Hcrtling, the German imperial chan
celior, III addressing the reichstag main
committee, complained of the lack Of
attention his acquiescence in the four
points laid down by President Wilson
as peace essentials had met from the
American executive.
The chancellor asserted that on Feb
rualy y of this year he declared in the
reIchstag his agreement in principle
With the possibility Of discussing a gen
eral peace on the basis of the four
penis of President Wilson's message
Of February ,, but that President Will
son, neither at that time nor since, had
taken amy notice of the 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
III eqna rroportion, the establishment
M 93s3 ary a4ult at a1I Dti0n the
tisa nrtsssai "a
Ions
8 declared hat tha ubmarine
Wart1rG rs sI0#iy huH surely diminish
ing atileu tonnage. 4AUogu all" he
said, 'it is restricting the transporta-
ton Of re-enforcelnents of men and ma
terial from America.
"No Thoughts of Conquest"
eve have never concealed the fact"
said Chancellor Won Hertling in the
course of his address, that all
thoughts Of conquests were far from
OR minds. But how do things stand
on the opposite side? If one credited
the utterances of the enemy, official
and unofficial, they only desire to repel
a Germany which in criminal arrogance
is striving for world hegemony to fight
for freedom and justice against Ger
lnan imperialism and Prussian mill
tarism.
"We know better. The world war
woe, xorororod uoorc opn NV tha XUnll-
known encircling policy of King Ed
ward. In France there arose extensive
war literature which referred to i'm
pending war with Germany. Austria
/, Hungarys influence in the Balkans was
to be eliminated. The Russian expan-
sion movement and the pan-Slavic idea
demanded it.
Russia Also Blamed.
"The match was not put to the pow
der by the Prussian military party, but
while the German emperor was, up to
the last moment, endeavoring to pre-
serve peace, the Russian military party
put through the mobilization against
the will of the weak ear and thereby
made war unavoidable.
'The official account of the Sukhom-
linCff trial made this clear to everyone
who desired to see. We can look calm
| ly forward to the judgment Of poster
! ity. For the present it is true those
who are in power in the enemy coun-
t1ieS have succeeded by an unparal-
! leled campaign of lies and calumny in
obscuring the truth. When a result
was not obtained by the spoken or
written word it was achieved by pic
toral representations-p productions Of
absolute devilish fantasy from which
one turns with horror and disgust.
"WiIdest Fury in United States"
"But the object has been attained.
A hatred has been raised among the
enemy populations against the central
powers, and particularly against Ger
many--a hatred which eschews all
moderation and chokes off all just
Judgment.
"You have all read Premier Glenn
enceaus last speech, speech which
seemed in its fanatical hatred and the
coarseness of mind displayed, to sur
pass anything hitherto achieved. But
in America is found a many-voiced
echo, as it proved by the pronounce
ments that are reaching our ears from
across the ocean.
1 1.-THE widest war fury is at present
raging in the United States. The peo-
pie are intoxicated with the idea that
America must bring the blessings of
modern liberal kultur (D to the en-
shaved people of central Europe, while
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