The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-25
But Chancellor Won Hert.
ling Expresses Hope Allies
Will See Folly Of War
DECLARES U-BOATS
STILL EFFECTIVE
Advances Claim That Great
Britain Really Start
ed the War

Amsterdam, Sept. % Count Won
Hertling, the German imperial chancellor,
in addressing the Reichstag main COM
mittee, complained Of the lack of atten.
tion his acquieseence in the four points
laid down by President Wilson as peace
essentials had met from the American
executive.
The chancellor asserted that on Feb
p Of this year he declared in the Reich
stag his agreement in principle with the
possibility of discussing general peace
on the basis of the four points Of Presi-
dent Wilson's message Of Feb. 2. but that
President Wilson, neither at that time
nor since, had taken any notice Of the
chancellors declaration.
Count Won Hertling declared he fa-
yored the formation OF league Of ma
tions, the promotion of universal, success
slve disarmament in equal proportions
the establishment of obligatory courts Of
arbitration, the freedom Of the seas and
the protection Of small nations.
I'VE never have concealed the fact =
said Chancellor Won Hertling i'm the
course OF his address. "that all thoughts
OF conquest were far from our minds
But how do things stand on the opposite
side If one credited the utterances az
the enemy, official and unofficial, they
only desire to repel Germany which IN
criminal arrogance is striving for world
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tiee against German imperialism and
Prussian militarism.
I'VE know better. The world war was
prepared years ago by the well known
encircling policy of King Edward In
France there arose extensive war Iitera-
ture which referred to impending war
with Germany Austria Hungary's infn-
enee IN the Balkans was to be eliminated.
The Russian expansion movement and
the Pan.Slayic idea demanded it.
The match was not put to the powder
by the Prussian military party, but
while the German emperor was, in to
the last moment, endeavoring to preserve
peace, the Russian military party nut
through the mobilization against the will
Of the weak car, and thereby made war
unavoidable.
The official account of the Sukhom.
linoH trial made this clear to everyone
who desired to see We can look calmly
forward to the Judgment Of posteritv.
For the present, it is true, those who are
in power in the enemy countries have
succeeded by an unparalleled 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 pictorial representations
productions of absolutely deyilish fan.
tRsy, from which one turns with horror
and disgust But the object has been
attained A hatred has been raised
amongst the enemy populations against
the central powers and particularly
against Germany Ia hatred which
eschews all moderation and chckes off all
just judgment.
.'You have read Premier Clemenceaus
latest speech, which seemed, in It's fanati-
cal hatred and the coarseness of mind
displayed, to surpass anything hitherto
achieved. But in America it found a
many voiced echo, as is proved by the
pronouncements that are reaching our
ears from across the ocean.
"The widest war fury Is at present
raging in the United States. The people
are intoxicated with the idea that Amer
lea must bring the blessings of modern
liberal kultur t?l to the enslaved peo-
pies of central Europe, while at the same
time they are rejoicing at the many mil
lions of dollars which the war arma-
ments are causing TO flow into the pock.
cts of the business men.
Theory and practice are two different
things. The old proverb of the mote in
another's eye and the beam in ones own
friends constitutes illustration in the
Vaccinations of the entente. They never
are tired of condemning our march into
Belgium, but they pass over the oppres.
sion of Greece, the interference with that
country's internal affairs and the en-.
forced abdication of its king as if they
were matters of course, They say they
are fighting to protect oppressed nations
but the centuryold sorrows and the ins-
tifiabe grievances of Ireland nowhere
find a hearing, not even In America.
where the people are acquainted with
them through the numerous Irish immi. |
grants The British government. which
is especially fond of talking of right and
justice, recently found it compatible with
those principles TO recognize the con.
glomerate rabble Of Czecho- Slovaks as
belligerent power.
"How viii the German people have to
meet that? Will it, forsooth, beg for
mercy in fear and trembling /? No. gentle.
men; remembering its great past and its
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