New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24
NOW LOOK FOR A GROWING PEACE
MOVE FROM GERMAN PEOPLE.

The Kaiser begins to talk like man
who knows he is beaten. His address
to the German people upon the fourth
anniversary of the beginning of the war
is devoted to a suspicious extent to ex-
pressions of his absolute confidence in
victory. One of the ways of camoufag-
ing despair is to express boundless con-
fidence. This the Kaiser does. He
knows his submarine campaign is fail
ing, yet he asserts it is succeeding. He
admits that great American forces are
already in France, yet declares he has
no fear that Germans, even though out
numbered, can fail to win.
This is nonsense. No one knows it
better than the Kaiser. He has been
racing against time for year to win
the war before American could reach
the field. The reason he raced was be.
cause he did fear superior numbers.
Now the superior numbers are upon
him. As to what kind of men the
Americans are, he can get definite in
formation by communicating with any
of the survivors of the German retreat
from the Marine. These survivors will
hardly contend that the Americans or
any of the other allied forces lacked
spirit. They had enough spirit to turn
a German offensive into forced retire !
1nent. Yet the Kaiser says spirit is what |,
wins and not mere numbers. But what !
If numbers and spirit are combined? /
When the head of state at war
busters about confidence for which there
is no basis it is certain he is trying to
conceal fear. He is trying to fool
somebody. Whom might tho Kaiser
want to deceive? He wants to deceive
the German people He must deceive
them TO continue the war. When hope
is lost the German people will stop
fighting. The Kaiser must try to make
them feel thev are winning when they
are losing. In the face of an army
recently beaten he cannot point to the
army as q certain instrument of victory.
So he couples the army with his sub
marine warfare. The coupling is quite ,
appropriate. since they are both failing.
But the Kaiser declares they are both
winning The submarines are attacking
the vital forces that are steaminR
across the ocean" and are certain of ,
success" The Kaiser knows better. He .
knows his submarines drowned fewer )
:han 300 American soldiers while nearly :.
million and a half others have safely ,
reached France The Kaiser knows that.
Yet he said the other thing.
Why does he misrepresent important )
facfs' Obviously because he dare not !.
admit them. He dare not admit them, :
the facts are ALREADY beginning !.
TO seep into Germany. The German ad-
miralty has officially admitted that il I.
cannot interfere with the transport Of :.
American soldiers to France, giving ~
it, reason that the transports 90 to all
the ports from the North Of Scotland
to the South Of France and that il 10 Z
impossible to tell where they are coming
next and lay for them. This admission
wss made before Kaiser spoke.
The Kaiser 10 beginning to zee his :,
fate. He doesn't like it. He would q
postpone the day Of reckoning. He canl I,
postpone II . little while. Any further !
delay, however brief, il doubtless well {,
come to him. But his day il coming F
and II viii not b @Dsr Tag" to which 1,
hs and his officers, before the war, used =
% fssvsntly TO dfisk. Il win be quite Il
another day. II will De the day Of theI
collapse Of . dynasty. Having staked n
I'll, he il destined to lose all He wanted 81
s'wsltmaeht odeA nisdezkang" (world- :
power OK down fall -and he 10 goingI
10 get the nisdsrgsng. He couldn't let
sAe rsst Of the world live In peace. Hst
mast start something. Now the rest of
he world viii finish him.
The July turning Of the tide has in-I
as6nitsly postpbnsd the grand "psaesI
offensivs" that was scheduled to follow
n sxpsctsd German victory that did
NJ matssialiss. The German govern
unoQty II defeat and retreat, dare mot .
- peace But defeat and retreat are 5
peeeisely the things that may make the y
German people seek pesce. Hjalmar (
Brantlins, the Swedish Socialist leader, q
hsd : word TO cay % TO this when he q
was' II London few weeks ago. "
Dsantling told Of the visits to Stockholm Il
Of Germans disposed toward peace, and Of
Quoted them % saying: We can do q
nothing now while THE offensive, 10 In n
psogssss. but II Il Il defsAtsd, then our y
pins win come" IL,
Tlefs b netAing that succeeds like b
bueess-svsn highway robbsry--snd e
while The German armiss were winninel IL
ne German psople were willing 70 wait II
issd .plundeY. Il l. only when the ie
plundss drops below the horizon that q
t1ey become restless. The Gsfman pso- ID
pls 1avs never clamoysd for psace ex- q
cspt when the military situation looked H
dubious. The Reichstag rsselution Of Ics
July, 1917. was adopted when the out q
look was dark and rspudiated when the lps
situation seemed brighter. I'd