The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
CHURCH CHEERS
DEMAND TO KILL
. GERMAN CHIEFS
DIR. Matthews Would Isolate
Nation From Remainder
of World fer 100 Years.
NO SEAT AT PEACE TABLE
Danish Kaiser and COurt-mar-
tial and Shoot Authors OF
, Sea and Land Crimes.

staid old members Of the conservative
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church stared
in amazement yesterday as applause
and cheers greeted the most heated pull
pit attack on the Kaiser and Germany
that had been made In this city since
the beginning Of the war. They were
no restrained evidences OF approval. The
auditors voiced their feelings with all
Of the freedom that would have marked
a political meeting in a campaign de-
signed to stir the poptlr passions.
Astonishment was openly expressed
at the unusual scene. A New York elder
sald that the congregation was made up
OF visitors frem the West and South. and
that 1t was the out OF town element that
had shaken the traditions Of the instiu-
ton to their very foundation.
The Rev. Mark A. Matthews. d. D.. OF
Seattle, Wash, a minister of national
repute. delivered the sermon that set the
vaulted arches ringing with applause.
He spoke Of the peace terms that the
Allies should impose upon Germany,
consigned the Kaiser to exile, shut Ger
many of from relations with all the
world and demanded the execution OF
German leaders. The speaker called
proiteers Infamous traitors" who
Ought to be court-martialed and shot
Must BE No Negotiated Peace.
Preceding the peace terms OF the Al
1 lies. ten in number. the preacher gave
what he called four preliminary sugges-
tons. They were:
Every peace proposal heretofore
suggested has been German made re-
gardless OF the pious or uniform lips or
pens through which It has been filtered.
There shall never be a negotiated
peace, nor shall the insidious propa-
ganda for a negotiated peace be consid-
cred.
The Vatican shall not have a seat at
the peace table 1t has no right to such
seat unless 1t were frankly to admit that
Il is one Of the belligerents; II on the
side Of Germany-for that reason and
for others, II shall never have a seat at
the peace table 1t Is not an interme-
diary, cannot be, has no right to be
claimed as such.
Germany shall be crushed and made
to submit to terms of peace dictated to
her by America and our Allies. The
German people are just as much to
blame as the Kaiser and his war lords.
Therefore, there shall be no peace except
that which follows absolute victory and
the establishment Of Righteousness
The peace terms prepared by the
minister were:
u. Germany shall not sit at the peace
table. She has forfeited every right to
sit at a table where gentlemen OF in
tegrty and honor preside. She may
watch the proceedings at the peace
table from her seat in the cage Of cui-
prits.
Would shoot German Generals.
20. The peace table shall be preceded
by the court-martial in order forever to
prevent Germany or any other nation
from committing outrages which Ger
many has committed. We must first
ascertain from Germany the command
ing officer In charge OF the submarines at
the time of the sinking Of the Lusitania.
He must be court-martialled and shot.
Who were the officers In command when
Red Cross boats were destroyed, hospi-
tails bombed. nurses killed and Belgium
raped? These commanding officers must
be court-martialled and shot Every
officer in command OF a division or corps
and who had authority TO order or to
prevent the outrages committed must be
court-martialled and shot.
J. Germany shall surrender her
sword, demobilize her army and sur
render her navy
-. Germany shall restore Belgium, re-
pair every injury and repay. in adequate
financial compensation, for every ruin
she has wrought. She must return
Alsace and Lorraine. free Poland. re-
store Rumania. Serbia and all parts OF
Italy and France injured or held by her.
all ri OF 10
and restore to Russia everything claimed
in the recent farcical treaty with Russia
rs. She shall relinquish all hopes of
again possessing her colonies. Palestine
and Asia Minor shall be free of Germany
and the bloody Turk. Constantinople
and the Dardanelles shall be freed from
all German and Turkish power. They
shall be free to all the world.
Must DO Penance for 100 Years.
IS, Germany shall live on herself
within herself and to herself. She shall
remain In isolation, in sackcloth and
ashes for a hundred years. She shall
not have during that period entrance to
the political and commercial league of
nations.
~. She shall be cut off from, the COM
mercial confidence of the world She
shall not be recognized as a trader
among the civilized nations. ANY mer-
chant or any person, n citizen of this
Government or Of our allied Govern
ments, who buys an article made in Ger
many for the next hundred years ought
to be court-martialled and shot as a
traitor TO humanity and righteousness.
il is crime against humanity for a
person to trade with an outlaw
%. Germany shall submit to a pro-
tectorate over her mind and conscience
for an indefinite period-at least for
twenty-five years. or until we have
trained the mind OF a new generation.
Germany organized her present murder
Gus mind through her universities. She
must be saved from herself, and for the
worlds safety.
80. The Kaiser shall be exiIed to Soma
lonely isle. there to spend the rest of his
life, and be permitted to read only litera
ture which tells Of the success, triumph
peace and prosperity Of America and her
Allies.
10. The seas shall be free. The world
'hall enjoy liberty. Militarism shall be
crushed and representative, righteous
government shall be established on the
earth"