The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-29

fallen city was to impose upon 1t
| crushing taxes, to carry OFT its price.
less art treasures, to OveraWe France
| and seize it's accumulatiOns of CEN
turtles for the pride and enrichmens
of the kaiser and his favOrites .Autoc.
racy triumphant was to- reduce the
/ French people to industrial slavery
and perpetuate military and autocratic
control of the German people. The
last glimmering ray of liberty in Eu-
rope was to be extinguished and all
nations feel the force Of German
power. .+ -
| If the American army enters Berlin
its historic monuments and art treas
ures will be safeguarded, its houses
and shops protected and its women
treated with respect and courtesy.
The German people will be summoned
to form a government by the popular
will in any form they wish, but upon
lines which will for the present and
future remove the threat of militar-
ism that imperils the peace of the
world. 49, lr B." ,.sa er
Peace Movements and Real Peace.
One of the most curious and inter-
esting of the efforts of the last forty
years has been the movement for
peace. l found travelling on the same
ship when: went to Europe over
thirty years ago a peace delegation
from the United States to congress
which was to meet in London. l tolG
Mr.. Gladstone about it and he said
the whole idea was absurd, with over
seven million men in arms in Europe,
alone. The convention met, but the
London papers did not regard it OF
sufficient importance to note it's pres
ence. All efforts for peace during the
last quarter of a century, and now,
emanate from Germany. With the
rest of the world they have been and
are genuine and humane With the
Prussian General Staff there have
been and are shrewl attempts with
a vast propaganda to lull the world to
sleep while German autocracy and mir
itarism were preparing for Its con-
quest. The Hague Tribunal originated
with the Car. The nations entered 1t
honestly and with hope, except Prus-
STA, who carefully and very ably avoid
ed committing herself to anything.
The result of this propaganda was gen.
CEdl uupEcpdIcuucSS. Lu6ldNu o. ,SnO
commencement Of the war could senG
to the continent only one hundred
an fifty thousand men. Our own sit
uation was utter unpreparedness In
trained men or munitions or any of
the elements necessary for the prose:
cution of war. The safety Of the
world depended upon France. The
kaiser compelled her to dismiss Del
classe, and her foreign minister, whom
he discovered alone among Statesmen
of Europe saw and was trying to meet
Germany's ambitions. He appealed to
Queen Victoria to eliminate France as
a danger to the British empire, but
met with flat refusal. He started
to take away from France Morocco,
and did succeed in alternating a large
part of her African colonies. This
constant threat of the German army
always close to the border, and Of
ten over the line. aroused the fears
of the French republic, SO that alone
of European nations outside 'ot Ger
many she had for her defense an
army of nearly a million Of men. 1t
was this army as a nucleus and the
preparations by which it could be re-:
cruited and supplied with war mater
ial which said to the German invasion
at Verdun, "You shall not pass. and
at the Marine saved for the world lio'
erty and Christianity j..