Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-10-05
WON HERTL|iG
| IN PEACE ROLE.
Saws Wilson Paid No Attention
10 His Professions
SPEAKS TO THE REICHSTkG
Count Won HertIing Tells How The
German Government Has Always
Stood For The Protection OF
Small Nations.

| Amsterdam.-Count Won Hertling
the German Imperial chancellor, in adj
dressing the Reichstag Main Commit
| tee, complained of the lack of atten-
ton his adolescence in the four points
laid down by President Wilson as
peace essentials had met from the
American executive.
The Chancellor asserted that on
February % of this year he declared
in the Reichstag his agreement in
principle with the possibility Of dis
cussing a general peace on the basis
of the four points of President Will
sons message Of February 2, but that
President Wilson, neither at that tine
nor since, had taken any notice of the
Chancellor's declaration.
Count Won Hertling continued by
declaring that he favored tie forma-
ton of a league Of nations, the pro-
motion of universal, successive dis
armament in equal proportions, the
establishment of obligatory courts OF
arbitration, the freedom Of the seas
and the protection of small nations.
After rehashing the old argun ents.
claiming that England, not Germany,
forced the war, the Chancellor said:
THE widest war fury is at pres
ent raging in the United States. The
people are intoxicated with the idea
that America must bring the bless
ings OF modern liberal kulture (?) 70
the enslaved peoples of Central Eu
rope, while at the same time they
are rejoicing at the many millions of
dollars which the war ornaments are
causing to TOW into the pockets of the
business men.
Theory and practice are two diff
rerent things. The old provelb of the
mote in another's eye and the beam
in ones own finds constant Illustration
in the Vaccinations of the Entente.
They are never tired of condeEn;ns
our march into Belgium, but they pas
over the oppression of Greece, the in,
reference with that country's internal
affairs and the enforced abdication @.
its King as if they were matters of
course. They assert that they are
fighting to protect oppressed nations.
but the century-old sorrows and the
justifiab!e grievances of Ireland no.
where find a hearing, not even in
America, where the people are &C
Guainted with them through numerous
Irish immigrants. The British Gov
eminent. which is especially fond of
talking of right and justice, recently
found it compatible with those prin-
cip!es to recognize the conglomerate
rabble of Czecho-Slovaks as a bellis-
erent power.
How will the German people have
to meet that? Will it, forsooth. beg
for mercy in fear and trembling? No.
gentlemen. Remembering its great
past and its still greater mission in
TIE future it viii! stand erect and not
c:ilSe or grovel
The situation is serious, but il
gives US no ground for deep depres-
sion. The iron wall of the western
front is not broken and the U-boat
Is slowly but surely fulfilling its task
Of diminishing tonnage, thus above all
increasingly menacing and restricting
OF men and material
from the United States.
"The hour will come, because il
must come, when our enemies will
see reason and be ready to make an
end of the war before half the world
IS converted into heap of ruins and
he flower of its manly strength lies
lead on the battlefield"