Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-09
BaLfOur Stills
Talk of Peace
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Germany appeared as a liberator Next
to being ensaved by Germany, there is
no worse fate than being liberated by
Germany
Finland now was in the grip of Ger
many, who was debating the form OF
government she should have, stripping
her of copper and other material and not
supplying her with foodstuffs he AS
serted. but was attempting to drag her
into the war for still further aggression
against Russia and still further inter
ference with the powers on whom Russia
must depend for her regeneration.
Further to the south GermanE, was
endeavoring by force and by treaty
that had been eXtorted by force to make
the Esthenians, the Let's. the Lithuan-
ians, the Poles and the tkrainians her
handmaidens in the matter of commerce
and to supply her with troops in time OF
war. SO determined was Germany to keep
these people under her heel and to have 1t
in her power to rearrange the map OF
this part Of Europe as she pleased, that
she had been careful not to arrange 1t
according to ethic limitations, but had
so arranged it that without German sup
port the fabric which she had raised
should fall to pieces he said. He could
not conceive of any peace being tolerated
or assented to by the Entente Powers
which would lave that state OF things
unremedied. If it were unremedied. fu-
Is ture wars would certainly come and the
German power for waging war in the
future would be enormously increased.
Germany in Rumania
German methods also were written In
very large characters in Rumania. Mr..
Balfour declared. Germany not only
forced Rumana to give contributions
to her war expenditures, but she had
seized the industries of Rumania and
held that country under complete mil
itary and economic domination.
Mr.. Balfour told the paCitsts that II
they wished to know the difference be
tween the British and the German meth
DDS they should compare conditions ir
southern Palestine and Mesopotamia anC
the German colonies which Great Britain
had occupied with the conditions of tht
countries which Germany had occupied.
wherever We have gone, security ha!
been assured trade has grown anC
wealth has been increased" he asserted.
Study as he would, Mr. BalfOur die
not see in the actions of the German
Government, in the statements of Ger
man politicians or in the writings o
German publicists the slightest sign o
symptom IIldl lney were SuTlClPntll
close TO their opponents to make the dis
cussion of peace fruitful.
1.-The abyss which separates the 7asso
ciated Powers and the Central Power
Is profound" he said. 1T Is almost i'm
measurable. 1t is so deep that it canno
& be pIumbed. 1t is so wide it hardly ca
be bridged."
Mr.. Balfour asked the pacifsts whethe
they wished to hand back to Germany
as Germany now is, her African Colonie!
The pacifists well knew that would mea
giving Germany submarine bases on a
the worlds great trade routes and put
ting the worlds commerce at Germany
disposal Moreover, they knew that
meant a tyrannical government of Ii
natives, and that Germany would delit
erately set to work to form a grea
black army in Central Africa whic
would make peaceable developments in
possible.
Philip Snowden. Socialist member il
terjected: France has done IL a
ready"
France Hasn't MeDaced Peace
Mr.. Balfour replied to this: "Ce
tainly. but has France menaced II
peace of her neighbor? That is Il
whole point. No greater instrument (,
disturbing the peace of the world ar
Increasing mankind's miseries could
conceiyed than to give 10 Germany Il
great Central African dominions for O
fenses within that continent and an O
Tense perhaps even more perilOus again
the great track arteries that join Il
nations together