The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-14
DOPE FOR PEOPLE
Vice Chancellor Administers
"ShOt in the Arm"
Declares Allies Are as Bad On
as Is Germany.
MAKES A PLAY TO LABORERS
Forgotten Suffrage Reform
Suddenly Urged Again.
EXPLORERS of Russia Prate OF
'No Conquest" Peace Terms.

Amsterdam, Sept. 1.-THE post
ponement of peace prospects ana the
likelihood of fifth war winter weigh
equally on all belligerents and not
only Germany alone IN the OPINION OF
Friedrich Won Payer, the imperial
vice chancellor of Germany, expressed
in a speech at Stuttgart.
"Our state debts" the vice chancel-
lor said, ARE everywhere reaching
fantastic heights and everywhere we
struggle against the entertainments on
our personal liberty. All of the belli-
gerents of Europe must admit. If they
are not blind, that the longer the
European peoples lacerate each other
the more certainly will the historical
and paramount position of weakened
and impoverished Europe be lost in
favor of cleverer and more calculat-
ing peoples"
Admits U-Boat Failure.
Herr Won Payer reminded his hear
ers that after four years the war still
was being waged- almost entirely on
enemy territory. He admitted that
the U-boat war had not worked as
The enemy, he said was still unable to
compensate their losses by new con-
struction and declared that the rob-
berry of neutral ships. almost without
parallel by the entente could. not be
repeated.
Inc IIlOIS troops the OHlleQ Oldl0S
sends the greater will be the need of
shipping for reinforcements of NUM-
tions and provisions" Herr Won Payer
said.
Sees Hope in Russia.
IF we lack cotton and oils our enc
mics lack coal Food is scarce here
and there but already things probably
have turned in our favor. In the east
the world is again open to us for a
food supply, while our enemies sup
plies of foodstuffs and raw materials
give precedence to the calls for
Americas armies and their provision
ing"
The speaker said that the Germans
have only TO see that the war con-
tinues to be waged in a foreign coun
try, that the Germans are fighting for
their lives and their homes and that
the enemies only hope is that the
Germans might collapse inwardly
sooner than they.
Herr Won Payer urged the necessity
of the Germans holding together in
the hour of danger. and said that dis
appointed hopes must be prevented,
justified hopes fulfilled and actually
existing wrongs redressed.
Urges Suffrage Reform.
Regarding the Prusssan suffrage
bill. which he considered of prime i'm
portance, he said, that 1T is no longer
Prussian, but eminently a German
question" and on its decision depends
the confidence which the population
places in the Prussian and the i'm
perial government. Further postpone
ment, he said, is not permissible, add
ing moreover. it is my belief that the
decision of the Prussian government
may be regarded as already taken an
If equal suffrage does not issues from
the committee of the upper house, the
government will proceed to dissolu-
,tion."
In former peace negotiations he
said, the middle and the lower
classes, when it came to the council
table. fell quietly into the background
This now is over and the governments
will conclude the coming peace treat
les in close harmony with the entire
people.
The aim nowadays at least is the
conclusion of lasting peace and
therefore there will be no peace of
conquest