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have never been neutral a. between Cor
many and 4 world at bay. we, who in the
word Of Professor Vernon Kellogg are
not Tor war but for this war to a Just
end. w turn to these gentlemen Of the
peoples oouncil.-- one Of whom grisvous-
iy, and II may yet prove disastrously. mis-
represents the mind Of the American
Jew,--and We say: You cry for peace and
purport 70 b the peoples council. Which
people do you Representa- Not the Ameri-
can people! Not the British. nor the
French. nor the Belgian, nor the Russian.
nor the gervian, nor the italian! The
peoples council! You are the betrayers Of
tho peoples Of earth. God pity the peoples
whose cause you feign to champion. Is II
perhaps the German people? No, not even
they. for you are not their friend as are
we who would. and under God will,
liberats them. II by any moral calamity
tho peoples council should gain the as
cendancy In American life, the German
people would be perhaps forever enslaved
by the Hohensollernism whose doom
under the heavens we have willed and
spoken.
The only way to guarantee the good
faith of any treaty made with the German
government is to make no treaty with 1t
that is not sealed by the German people
after It shall have regained freedom. Let
some Of the leaders of the peoples council
get into touch with governments. IL not
the peoples. Of the central powers. which
governments ought not be inaccessible to
them, and let these mako clear that the
world Is resolved to make no peace with
the German peoples as long as Kaiserism.
uncontrolled and irresponsible. remains
their accredited agent. They must give
guarantees Of good faith to the allied peo-
pies which guarantees Kaisers must be
certified to be neither free nor able to
repudiate. Kaisers broke peace and made
war. The people must break Kaisers and
make peace.
What are we fighting for? The answer
10 best given by considering further
query. far from ingenious, Of the
Peoples Council. "Is a military defeat
Of Germany absolutely essential before
We shall agree to peace so that Ger
many and all men may know that Ger
many's militarism Is not invincible?"
Yes, we repeat, Germany and all men
must know-and Germany must prove
that she knows-that her militarism is not
invfncible by adopting such a policy Of
national remuneration as shall make clear
her understanding, however sorrowful.
that no nation against which the world
must perforoe unite is invncible. Far
from achieving gains of territory and
population and power. through assailing
the sons and daughters of men and vio-
lating every scruple Of the moral sense
Of mankind. the German people must
come to see that German militarism has
brought down upon her the loathing Of
the lawful and honorable peoples Of earth.
and may yet necessitate a concert Of
peoples In order to prevent the world
being made unsafe for democracy and
peace by reason Of German autocracy and
German militarism.
Germany must not only be compelled
to realize that her militarism Is far from
invincible, but this must be brought home
In a Germany understandable way. In
word. no gain Of any kind must be
suffered to accrue to Germany in con-
sequence of the war. Not invincible and
most Improbable must German militar-
ism be shown to be to the German people
1t Is because Of this that the Evacuation
OF ravaged lands and the restoration Of
plundered goods will not suhice. II at
the end Of the war the central European
alliance be established under Prussian
domination. for one thing Prussia will
have won a hundred Belgiums and
Alsace- Lorraines and over and beyond
that the seed will have been planted
which In the next generation will Yield
harvest OF bitter and bloody revolt
against Prusstan dominance by the alien,
rather than allied. peoples of Austria
Hungary. Bulgaria and Turkey. In a
~oro' Frues'a must not be permitted to
reimburse fessh Tor its failure in the west
oy annexing central Europe. No gain
or pront OF any kind for Germany from
.n's "ar-must be osrmany's fate az 1t
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