The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-09-07

sit at the peace conference OF the allied
nations. He said:-
'Twenty-three nations of the world
are today engaged in a terrible war
against Germany. l name them in the
chronological order in which each of
them officially declared war against
the Kaiser's German Empire:
Russia, August LIST, 1914; France,
August 3; Belgium, August 3; Great
Britain, August 4; Serbia, August g.;
Montenegro, August 8; Japan. August
%, 1914; San Marine, May "a, 1915;
Portugal, March 9, 1916; Italy, August
%; Roumania, August %, 1916; the
United States, April 6, 1917; Cuba,
April Z; Panama, April 10; Greece,
June 30; Siam, July %; Liberia, Aug
ust A.; China, August IA; Brazil, Oeto-
Der 26; Ecuador, December 8, 1917;
Guatemala, April %; Haiti, July Is,
and Honduras, July 10, 1918, and
these nations are conducting that war
according to the laws and regulations
and usages that civilization and hui
mainly provide for in time of war,
advancing in honorable combat against
an enemy who has abandoned all prin-
ciples of law, honor, justice, mercy
and humanity, that, by written agree
ment, must prevail in the conflict of
nations at war.
Ever since Germany made war. on
France, almost so years ago, and
found what a profitable occupation
war was for Germany, an indemnity
of one billion dollars in gold, five
hundred millions more thar that war
cost Germany, and the a%nnexations of
the French provinces of Alsace and
Lorraine to Germany, worth fifty bill
ions of dollars, she has been preparing
for that worldwide war which was
proclaimed in the Potsdam palace of
Kaiser Wilhelm, at a conference held
in July, 1914, as a result of which the
Kaiser distributed among the wealth.
est and most influential citizens of
Germany a pamphlet that began with
this declaration by the Kaiser: The
Pan-German Empire-from Hamburg
on the North Sea, to the Persian Gulf;
Our immediate goal, 100000, 900 people.
Our ultimate goal, the Communication
of all the world. l am dreaming a
dream of the German World Empire,
and my mailed fist shall succeed
And all Germany from the highest
to the humblest, from the brainiest to
the most besotted dreamed as did the
Kaiser. But that dream will never
come true.
"Since hen five continents have seen
this German Emperor, this crazy Kai-
ser ~endeavoring for four years to car
ry out his dream of a Pan German
World Empire, and five continents are
suffering u~nspeakable misery because
Of that mad dream of an insane, ire
sponsible ruler.
Had he succeeded there would have
been no Peace Conference of the Allied
Nations, any more than there was
such a Conference between the sue
cessful Germany and the defeated
France in 1870. One hundred billions
in money and the annexation to Ger
demanded by Germany would have
been the penalty imposed against
them.
"Will the successful Allies admit
z,,al --~.o .oILo, - tl1.u Doa1o
Conference? No, No Never.
What l am now about to say is con
densed from those graphic letters of
DIR. Newell Dwight Hills, Pastor of
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, recently
published in a Syndicate of newspa-
pers for which he wrote.
1T is my belief that when the Peace
Conference of the World meets, as it
may within six months, assuredly
within a year, the first rule adopted
will be unanimity of actions, and that
when it comes to admitting enemy ma
tons to that Conference the vote of a
single Allied Country will preclude
such admission. And so when Ger
many mt crawling in the dust era
wing admission, and Belgium remem-
bering that twenty thousand of her lit
tie girls, so young that they might be
well playing with dolls, are today nur-
sing twenty thousand bastard babies,
the children mainly of German officers,
Belgium would say: There can be only
one place fit for German Commission
ers to sit in Conference, and that is in
the hottest section of hell.
Or. Hills reeites the story of an
English officer. telling his comrades
that in a week he would be on fur
Tough at home with his wife and little