Republican farmer., 1918-09-20
VICE CHANCELLOR WARNING AGAINST AMERICA Laceration of Each Other Will Place Power With
 Cleverer Peoples. RESPONSIBILITY
 ON BELLIGERENTS Filling Up of Enemy Army By Americans Has Its
 Limitations.

Amsterdam, Thursday, Sept. 12.- The postponement of peace prospects and the likelihood of a fifth war win ter weigh equally on all beIIigerents and not on Germany alone, in the opinion of Friedrich Von Payer, the imperial vice chancellor of Germany, In speech at Stuttgart.
 Our state debts" the vice chan cellor said, "are everywhere reaching fantastic heights and everywhere we i struggle against the encroachments on our personal liberty. All of the bel ligerents of Europe must admit, if they are not blind, that the longer the European peoples 1acerate each other the more certainly will the historical and paramount position of weakened and impoverished Europe be lost in favor of cleverer and more calculating 1 peoples
 r Herr Von Payer reminded his auo> 1 fence that after four years the war still was waged almost entirely on en- emy territory. He admitted that the | submarine war had not worked so 1 quickly and surely as had been hoped. He added that it was useless to dis, pute whose was the fault. The enemy, he said, still was unable to compen- sate the losses by new construction and declared that the robbery oE neutral ships almost without parallel by the Entente could not be repeated
 ''The more troops the United States sends, the greater will be the need of shipping for endorsements of muni- tions and provisions" he said. "The filling up of the enemy army by Amer licans, therefore, bears in itself it's lim- itatons."
 He argued that the loss of shipping would become fatal to Great Britain after the war because that country would lose it's shipping superiority to the United States and "the hope of compensating themselves from the German fleet, which still has to be conquered, will surely be adequate comfort only for the very imaginative Britishers.''
 Contending that technique and inven- tive genius, which already had helped the Germans over heavy obstacles, would still help them, he said: "If we lack cotton and oils our enemies lack coal Food is scarce here and there but already things i have probably turned in our favor. In the east the world again is open to us for a food supply, while our ene- mics supplies of foodstuffs and raw materials give precedence to the | fronts call for Americas armies and their provisioning"
 The speaker said the Germans have only to see that the war continues to be waged in a foreign country, that the Germans are fighting for their lives and their homes, and that the enemys only hope is that the Germans collapse inwardly sooner than they.
 He asserted that the enemy attempts to SOW discord were unavailing and that the Germans were strong enough to reach decision fin our differences of opinion regarding economic power and political rights. even down to the food question"
 Herr Won Payer urged the necessity
 of Germans holding together in the
 hour of danger, and said that disap- pointed hopes must be prevented, jus tified hopes fulfilled and actually ex- isting wrongs be redressed. Re
 garding the Prussiar suffrage bill, which he regarded as of prime im-
 portance he said that 'it is no long,
 CT Prussian, but eminently a German
 question, and on it's decision depends
 the confidence that the population
 places in the Prussian and the i'm
 perial government" Further post
 ponement, he said, Is not permissibls,
 adding moreover it is my belief that
 the decision of the Prussian govern
 ment may be regarded as already talk
 en and if equal suffrage does not issue
 from the committee of the upper house the government will proceed to
 dissolution"
 Herr Von Payer regarded that the
 present terrible struggle would moi
 end with peace of the customary character. A mere glance at the state of complete exhaustion of the world excluded such & possibility, he said ) ''In former peace negotiations" he said, "the middle and lower classes l when 1t came to the council table fell quietly into the background. This is : now over and the governments will
 conclude the coming peace treaties in close harmony with the entire peo- 5 ples.
 "The main thing for them in peace is not the acquisition of land, treas
 ure and glory; they aim nowadays at 5 least at the conclusion of a lasting peace and therefore there will be no
 peace of conquest"