The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-21
TRoTSKY'S EFFORT
FOR REVOLUTION
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- : few facts that Germany, Win
It's 67,O00,000 inhabitants annons
whom are hardly any llllterate' nau
developed wonderful perieca teen
niuue in these three and nan yea.
of war and that, In proficiency a.
moral value. it surpasses the other
nations of Europe. 18th
"And during this time, IN "hlcn
M costs of war-the logical result
n q miIitarism carried to extremes
rest exclusively on the shoulders =,
the people, while every housenolu
mourns at least one of Its members,
while the nation with it's blood Ieeus
4 multitude of war pronteers' VIZ
charter away the tears OF the poor
for strings of pearls for their Wives
r1tYring this time of misery, WHO
sneaks in the name of the people
"a Jesuit, over seventy years oi
900 a professor of philosophy, con-
servatfye from top to toe, a 1rleno
of the iunkers and of the priests.
ne dares to doubt the love OF peace
Of the Russian proletarlat' ana, eo
doing he reveals his whole hypocrisy;
The German chancellor knows wen
that the government OF the RUSSIAN
laborer loves and wants peace anove
all, he also knows that TINS sofein
uent can again lead the RUSSIAN
people into war if any danger should
threaten the Russian revolution.
."When he pretends to be skeptlcal
as ia the love of peace of the Rus
sian government, he does so only 10
divert the attention OF the German
people from the fact that the Ger
man government offered unaccept-
able terms of peace to the RUSSIAN
revolution. Hertiing did not mentlon
q single one of our protests against
the German conditions. By no single
word did he speak OF the Indignation
which these peace proposals called
forth in Russia. :,
"The imperial chancellor wanted
to make the same speech which,
since 1915, every German chancellor
has made. The fundamental ldea
of these speeches is this: The Ger
man empire in the consciousness OF
Its power, proposes Just peace TO
Its enemies, but the wicked enemies
refuse to conclude this peace ana
this proves that the enemies are
solely responsible for the prolonsa-
ton of the war.
..When formerly the German gov
eminent spoke of the Just peace,
those who followed the German
policy knew at once on how menda-
cious a foundation this policy was
based but the German people in
those days had confidence in its gov
eminent and credited it's explana-
tons.
"But now this fairy tale has for
ever lost its meaning. for lately
when the German peace terms were
made known they read: The people
or Courland. Lithunia and Poland
are to be made slaves of the German
junkers; the Russian nation must
pay war indemnity, thus causing this
poor land to bear the whole burden
of German Imperialism.
sTf the German peace proposals
found no echo among the masses in
France. Italy and England, 1t was
simply and solely because these
nations had long ago seen through
the shameful construction the Ger
man government is capable Of put
ting on the expression a just
peacei'"
The Trotsky statement then goes
on to assail Count Czernins attitude
toward Belgium in his war aims ad-
dress and HertIings speech later, he
says, will SOW suspicion among the
masses"
The Intentional ignoring of the pro-
test by the Austrian peoples against
Germany's peace terms, shows LOW
untenable are the arguments on
which they rest" Trotsky says.
"If Count Hertling does not wish
to see the situation as it really is.
or pretends that he does not see 1t,
this will hardly Danish the dissatis-
faction of the proletariat nor destroy
the want In Austria. This dissatis-
faction and this want Of the Austrian
proletarfat will find an expression SO
much the stronger when it becomes
known how much the German gov
eminent fears the influence which
the Austrian proletariat exerts upon
that of Germany
This is sufficiently proved by the
muzzling policy of the German gov
eminent against the Russian press
in regard to occurrences in Austria
which were everywhere passed over
In silence The chancellor spoke as
IL it were still December 25, 1917, In
stead of which 1t is, January rs,
1918, and behind US lie great events.
And in Austria we approach the ideas
of March"
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