The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-19
No Answer From Germany.

NO Answer FROM Germany.
What is tie answer from Ger
many" lloyd George continued.
There has been but one answer and |
IS came from Won Tirpitz's soul |
never
There was a demand for the re !
consideration of the wrongs of Alsace- |
Lorraine. What is the answer from |
Germany Never
When suggested that Mesopo- |
tamia and Palestine should never be |
restored to the tyranny of the Turk, |
what was the answer OF Gcrmany--'wc
viii go on until they are restored
rs there a single condition laid |
down by you in your trade union aims
to which you have had any response
from anybody in Germany, who has
got any authority to speak? Not one.
will tell you another fact which is
very significant. There has been no
civilian answer at all. There has
been conferences hurriedly called to-
gother Generals Hindenburg and Won
Ludendorff were brought back from
their armies in Il breat hurry to Ber-
lin, but Herr Won kuehlmann has not
been allowed to speak. Why? If II
means anything, II means this; That
| the Prussian military power il domi-
| nant and the answer which is to be
given to civilization Is an answer
which viii be given from the lannon's
mouth. DO not let MS harbor any dc
lusions.
"You might as we'll stop fighting.
unless you are going to do il we'll.
" you are not going to do it with all
your might, Il is real murder Of the
| aallant fellows, who have stood there
for three years.
| "You either have got to put your
whole strength into It, or just do what
is done in the Russian army and tell
those brave fellows that they can go
homo whenever they like and no one
will stop them.
Believe me. If there arc men who
say they will not go into the trenches,
then the men who are in the trences
have "a right to say Neither viii we
remain here
Suppose our men should leave the
trenches. would that end the war?
Yes it would: but what hort of an end?
When the Russians ceased fight
ing and simply talked ideals and prin-
ciples with the German army did the
German army retrcatH No. They took
Riga and the islands.
THE channel ports are not so far
from the fighting line and unless we
are prepared to stand up with the
whole might of peoples who are domi-
mating Germany now and will dori
nate the world tomorrow, If we allow
them, we will find that Great Britain
and the British democracy, the French
democracy and the democracy of Eu
rope will be at the mersy Of the most
cruel military autocracy the world has
ever seen.
What sort OF terms do you think
we would get from General Won Hin
denhurg If we said to him, We want
YOU to clear out of Belgium He
would say in his heart. You cannot
turn me out of Belgium with trade
union resolutions But will tell you
the answer Nou can give him: We
can. and will turn YOU out of Belgium
with trade union guns and trade
unionists behind them.
We are fighting nov against priv
ilcge claimed by military caste.
Democracy. if it means anything. must
mean that the people of all classes,
all sections. all trades and all profess
sions must merge their privileges and
| their rights in common stock.
.'if any man standing in my place
can find an honorable, equitable and
Just way out OF this conflict without
fighting it through, for Heavens sake
let him tell me. My own is ths--the
people either must 90 on or 90 under"