Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27
WILSON SCORED /
BY CHANCELLOR
IN PEACE SPEECH
Won HertIing Assails U. S. for
"War Fury"
SAYS ALLIES sCoRN PEACE
Claims Germany VIII Discuss Views
of President-Address Viewed
as New Trap for the
Entente.

which were delivered by Count Won
Hertling. the imperial chancellor ana
the others of the German chiefs in the
main committee Of the reichstag are
shown by further details, given In dis
matches by way of Amsterdam, to have
been nut forward with two purposes
further batting of the peace trap for
the allies and camOuflage to deceive
the German people regarding the war
situation.
The extent to which this latter fea-
ture was carried out is shown by the
statement Of the chancellor that the
U-boat is slowly but surely fulfilling
its task, increasingly menacing ana re-
stricting the re-enforcements OF men
and materials from the United States"
The address of the chancellor was
largely a bitter attack on President
Wilson, whom he called the "head OF
the American imperialists." He said
that Germany had made repeated Of
fers of peace, but that the allies had
refused to consider them, and that Ger
many would not submit to 'the en-
y
ton"
Says Wilson Ignored Him.
Amsterdam, Sept 26.-Count Won
Hcrtling. the German imperial chan
ccllor, in addressing the reichstag main
committee, complained of the lack of
attention his acquiescence in the four
points laid down by President Wilson
as peace essentials had met from the
American executive.
The chancellor asserted that on Feb
ruary % of this year he declared in the
reichstag his agreement in principle
with the possibility of discussing a gem
eral peace on the basis of the four
pclnls of President Wilson's message
of February >, but that President Will
son, neither at that time nor since, had
taken any notice of the chancellor's
declaration.
Count Won Hertling continued by de-
claring that he favored the formation
Of league of nations, the promotion
of universal, successive disarmament
in equal proportion, the establishment
of obligatory courts of arbitration, the
freedom of the seas and the protection
of small nations.
Bertling declared that the submarine
warfare is slowly but surely diminish
Ing allied tonnage. above ALL" he
sad, "it is restricting the transporta-
tion of re-enforcements of men and ma
terial from America.
"No Thoughts of Conquest"
I'VE have never concealed the fact"
said Chancellor Won Hertling in the
course of his address, that all
thoughts of conquests were far from
orr minds. But how do things stand
ON the opposite side? If one credited
the utteranees of the enemy, official
and unofficial, they only desire to repei
Germany which in criminal arrogance
Is striving for world hegemony to fight
Eos freedom and justice against Ger
lnan Imperialism and Prussian mill
tGrism.
I'VE know better The world war
was prepared years ago by the we'll
ln0wn encircling policy Of King Ed
Ward. In France there arose extensive
war literature which referred to Inn
pending war with Germany. Austria
Hnhgary's influence in the Balkans was
to be eliminated. The Russian expan-
sion movement and the pan-Slayic !;iea
demanded it.
Russia Also Blamed.
The match was not put to the POW,
der by the Prussian military party, but
while the German emperor was, up to
the last moment endeavoring to pre-
serve peace the Russian military party
put through the mobilization against
the will of the weak ear and thereby
made war unavoidable.
The WIDEST war fury is at present
raging in the United States. The peo-
pie are intoxicated with the idea that
America must bring the blessings of
modern liberal kultur (?) to the en-
shaved people of central Europe, while
at the same time they are rejoicing mt
the many millions of dollars which the
war armaments are causing to flow in.
TO the pockets Of the business men.
Raves at the Entente.
Theory and practice are two differ.
ent things, The old proverb of the
mote IN another's eye and the beam in
ones own finds constant illustration
in Vaccinations of the entente. They
are never tired of condemnine our
march into Belgium, but they pass over
the oppression of Greece. the interior.
ence with that countrys internal af.
fairs and the enforced abdication Of
its king as if they were matters OF
course.
They assert that they are fighting
10 protect oppressed nations. but the
century-old sorrows and the justifable
grievances of Ireland nowhere find =
hearing, not even in America. where
the people are acquainted with then
through the numerous Irish imnl
grants. The British government
which is especially fond Of talking Of
right and Justice recently found 4