Evening star., 1918-10-22
AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT
ON GERMANY,S REPL Y
TO PRESIDENT WILSON

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ManeAester. n. H., Unions Tho note
the American people. The answer Of
the American people to the original
peace proposal was an oversubscrip-
| ton Of the $6,000.000.000 liberty loan.
This one will be demand that the
President cut short a discussion that
is becoming wearisome and might be-
come vicious.
response it is apparent that the ruling
powers at. Berlin now look complete
defeat in the face. There is but one
mind in America on this war-that it
shall go on to victory, to the utter
destruction Of Prussian militarism and
on its ashes.
altogether unsatisfactory
Fort Worth, Tex, Record. Germany
should fish or cut bait - Why con-
tinue the correspondence? Why not
on to Berlin and finish the job?
Salt Lake City Telegrams Germany's
latest note is not such as will justify
the hope that the hour Of peace has
+! dawned. The publication shows no
lremorse, no spirit Of repentance.
Denver Rocky Mountain Newss
Neither statute nor constitution can
change the heart Of a people, and the
German heart is still for the kaiser,
still for wal as a means to an end and
still unrepentant Of her crimes against
humanity. We say again. Let Marshal
Foch decide.
Duluth News-Tribunes But one an
swer should be made this greatest Of
criminals and liars. It should refer
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tary council for all further parley and
refuse to receive any further COM
munications until the armies have sur
rendered.
| Providence, n. l., Journal: The Ger
man government offers reply that is
not worth the paper on which it is
printed. It issa compliance in
form without yielding anything ex-
cept what has to be yielded to the
hard argument Of force.
Portland. Me-, Press. The reply is
nothing more than clumsy effort to
keep open the door of negotiations and
to provoke further discussion. 1t will
not impress the American people as
sincere.
Buffalo. N. Y. Express. If Mr.. Will
tson replies at all it should be to the
effect that II the German government
desires an armistice'it should send
commissioners to the allied war coun-
Gil headed by Marshal Foch.
Waterbury, Conn, Republican. The
terms of evacuation must be dictated.
Germany must not be allowed in her
surrender to put any Interpretation of
a draw upon the ending of the war.
Greenville, $. c., News. Falls in
! part, false in all is the test by which
the German reply falls. Not further
peace parley, but force to the utmost,
force without stint or limit, forcing
unconditional surrender, is the safest
answer.
reason to believe that the latest Hun
answer is anything but play for
more time and more talk.
Roanoke, Va, Times: It will take
more than the unsupported assurance
of German secretary of state or
| foreign affairs to convince the world
that Germany has become as other
nations.
Mobile Register: The average hon.
only with suspicion upon the sincerity
Of German diplomacy and German
notes.
Savannah Morning News: The whole
| thing is a TRANSPARENT camoufage: a
chi1d's play answer; an evasion; a
| jockeying for time; a lie on the face
of it. The note from the Ger
man people has not yet been received.
Chattanooga Times: The American
people do not intend to discuss U-boat
piracy or parley over the atrocities
! and inhumanities of the German armies
| in the field.
! Natchez, Miss, Democrat. The tenn
per Of the American people has
| reached the point where they will no
| longer tolerate so-called diplomatic
| exchanges with a country at whose
head are the blackest criminals in the
| worlds history.
MUskosee, Okla, Phoenix. The Ger
in horror and protests that its acts
! have been entirely humane. There
is little to be gained by an exchange
of notes with this sort Of enemy.
Birmingham AEe-Herald: The kai-
ser keeps in the background, but the
dynasty and the war lords are still to
be reckoned with. Germany needs
respondence by conceding a point here
and there. Quibbling will not gain
the end she seeks.
Houston, Tex, Post: The latest Ger
man note indicates the earnest Ger
man desire for peace. but not a will
ingness to take the one necessary step
to secure peace, which is uncondi-
tional surrender.
Tampa. Fla, Tribunes The one adj
mission that "the government formed
under Prince Macmillan is respon-
sib1e to the reichstag" makes Ger
many's4 Acceptance" Of Mr.. Wilson's
terms the most monumental attempt
at fooAng a wise and sane people
that history records: Beware this,
armistice: It is "the truce Of the
bear" =
Atlanta Constitution. The latest
German peace note to President will
son Is involved and ambiguous.
Now, let US refer all further
communications from Germany to
Gen. Foch for his attention. II we
are to have peace it will come that
way. cas-.
New Orleans Times-Picayune. Ap-
parently the present German
government tries to meet the charges
Of illegal and inhumane conduct
trived in the hope that it may win ac-
iceptance by casual readers in Germany
and abroad as an outright denial.
Philadelphia Inquirer. Whether the
j, President acted wisely or not in ap-
pearing to open the door to discus
sion,, he will not represent the over
whelming sentiment of this nation
unless he now closes that door with
a bang.
Philadelphia Presss What effect this
note will have in Washington remains
to be seen, but we suspect that it will
give a new impulse to the passage Of
the pending Lodge resolution that
'it Is the sense Of the Senate that
there should be no further communi-
cation with the German government
on the subject Of an armistice or con-