New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
News From Germany

n HERMAN pcdSc olIcAoASC - oS
solemn and undertaking as a green jade
god with only two joints walking in
straight line.
In time and space it follows mill
tary offensive.
First the Foreign Minister speaks
from the tribune of the Reichstag, say
ing that Germany wants peace above
conquest and is willing to quit.
All the pan-Germanists and junkers
and militarists denounce him.
Then the Imperial Chancellor proves
that the views of the Foreign Minister
and the prejudices of the military party
are perfectly compatible, but unreason-
ableness hath obsessed all the non-Ger-
man world hence the war must go on
and on, Gott helping.
All of this has happened in the last
fortnight The news has been received
through Switzerland and Holland in
perfect order and sequence, thanks to
the painstaking efficiency and to the
experience of the German Foreign Office.
And now begins the last phase, which
is the one of longest duration. 1t may
last an indeterminate time, or until dis
continued.
The news from Germany Official and
calculated news is to the following
pathetic effect:
"Perverse and war mad world! Will
you not hear the German people? They
ask for peace peace with honor.
Philipp Scheidemann asks this. Do you
know Philip Scheidemann? He is the
leader Of the majority Socialists. He is
bitter enemy of the German government,
"a revolutionist, in fact, who supports
the war only because you threaten to
crush the German people. Hear Philip!
He stands in the Reichstag saying:
There is only one cry-end the war with
honor"
We know Philip Scheidemann not
we'll, but enough. He is the decoy Boil
shevist who led Russia down to Brest-
Litovsk for slaughter.
year ago Germany was conducting
a peace offensive. 1t moved with the
same clumsy precision to the point at
which the new Chancellor announced,
first, that eve shall not continue this
war one day longer to make conquest if
we can make peace with honor; and,
second, "That Germany was weary of
proposing an honorable peace to an un-
reasonable world"
Entered there Philip Scheidemann.
He put through the Reichstag in the
name of the German people that in
finitely dishonest peace resolution which
declared for peace without annexations
and indemnities, and said that economic
and financial violations are incompati-
bic with such peace"
This Scheidemann peace formula be-
guiled the war WEAKNESS of Russia. 1t
was adopted there by the Council of
Workmen and Soldiers. 1t became the
pretext for demand that the Allies
recast their war aims. 1t inspired the
dangerous Stockholm conference, at
which German peace was to have been
prepared by the international Socialists
from all countries. Finally the Scheide-
mann formula, intensively employed as
propaganda, delivered Russia into the
hands of Lenine and Trotzky, who car
ried it in their hands to Brest- Litovsk
and there sold it into bondage and utter
helplessness, pretending to rely unon the
Scheidemann declaration against "eco
nomic and financial violations"
Do we know Philip Scheidemann?
He has been for Germany an invaluable
means to conquest.
And here is an instance of repnarka-
ble prophetic power. In his Flag Dav
address last year, a month before
scheidemann put the peace resolution
through the Reichstag, President Will
son characterized the methods of Ger
man peace intrigue and definitely fore
cast the consequences in these words:
DO you now understand the new in
trlgue, the intrigue for peace, and whv
the masters of Germany do not hesitate
to use any agency that promises to effect
their purpose-the deceit of the natonsa
Their present particular aim is to do
ceive all those who throughout the world
stand for the rights of peoples
Tor they see what immense strenoth TIN
FORCES OF justice and of liberalism arc
gathering out of this war Tbsv
are using men, in Germany and without
as their spokesmen, whom they have
hitherto despsed and oppressed using
them for their own destruction Social
lists, the leaders of labor, the thinkers
they have hitherto sought to silence. Let
them once succeed, and these men. now
their TOOLS Will be ground to powder be-