The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-04
Says Wilson Paid No Attention
to His Professions
SPEAKS TO THE RElCHSTAG
German Government Has Always go
Stood For The Protection OF
Small Nations.


the German Imperial chancellor, in ad
dressing the Reichstag Main Commit.
tee, complained of the lack of atten.
ton his aquiescence 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 general peace on the basis
of the four points of President Will
sons message of February 2, but that
President Wilson, neither at that time
nor since, had taken any notice of the
Chancellor's declaration.
Count Won Hertling continued by
declaring that he favored the forma.
ton of 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 arguments,
claiming that England, not Germany,
forced the war, the Chancellor said:
1.-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 (?) to
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 flow into the pockets of the
business men.
Theory and practice are two diff
ferent things. The old proverb 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 condemning
our march into Belgium, but they pass
over the oppression of Greece, the in.
reference with that country's internal
affairs and the enforced abdication OF
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
justifable grievances of Ireland no
where find hearing, not even in
America, where the people are &C
Quainted 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.
ciples to recognize the conglomerate
rabble of Czecho-Slovaks as a bellig
erent power.
How will the German people have
to meet that? VIII 1t, forsooth, beg
for mercy in fear and trembling? No,
gentlemen. Remembering its great
past and it's still greater mission in
the future it will stand erect and not
cringe or grovel.
1.-THE situation is serious, but it
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
reinforcements of men and material
from the United States.
"The hour will come, because 1t
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
the flower of it's manly strength lies
dead on the battlefield"