New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-07-16

Ill european WdIcTS Only anu aClaC Jney
were therefore OF no avail to the American
navy.
But these same ships were supposed
to be proof in 1916 that Germany had
long planned a raid upon or shores
Hon. To Save The Peaca.
The people Of the United States did
net go to war for the peace signed at !
Versailles, in the opinion Of Reedy's
Mirror. In an article, by William
Marion Reedy, this paper opposes almost
every article Of the pact. And Mr..
Reedy is not a so-called pro- German
by any means. Throughout the war
he was one Of the staunchest supporters
of the Allies and Americas cause. But
he is very much dissatisfied with the j.
settlement as sanctioned by President
Wilson. In his article, quoted below,
he tells the American people How the
President Can Save His Peace.
.1The opposition to the treaty, says
Mr.. Reedy, is not all that Of mere
partisans opposed to the President in
the hope Of obtaining political advantage
in the next presidential campaign, nor
is it confined to the raving, irresponsible,
irreconcilable impossibilists who wanted
him to bring the millennium home in his
pocket. AS good people as there are
in this world believe that the peace is
one that departs at every point from
the promises made to Germany and to-
the world in the fourteen points the
President formulated in behalf Of this
country and its co-belligerents. These
people are entitled to know why it is
that the conference departed so widely
from the announced peace programme.
If they should be told exactly why the
idealistic had to be sacrificed to the
practical they will acknowledge the
cogeny Of the argument of necessity and
accept the peace, and they will force
the senate to ratify it.
The President should tell the people
why it. was necessary to abandon the.
proposition Of no annexations and no
findemnities: why the peace Of justice
was foregone, for one Of vengeance.
There is no doubt that the peace as
framed incites in Germany the spirit
Of revenge. The action with regard
to the Saar valley and as to Silesia is
annexation, and the failure to establish
a definite amount Of reparation is
equivalent to the imposition of an in
demnity. The exclusion of Germany
from the League Of Nations for an in
/ definite time and the various economic
restrictions upon her commerce and in
/ dustry mean her protracted subsection
/ to foreign rule and incalculable suffering
among her people in order to pay a war
bill with every obstacle. placed in the
way Of producing, the wealth with which
to pay it. It means lengthening out
of the war and that, too, against non
combatants who have, by changing their
\ form Of government at the insistence Of
this country and its associates, complied
/ with our demand that the world be
made safe from military autocracy. The
PREPARATION terms, with the trade restric-
lions and the surrender OF shipping mean
! Ia a0dr after the aUdr, and one as cruel as
auere the German bonsbdrdments Of an
i fortified toacns and the si1alci,,g ..of SHIPS
d Uithout Uarnsing. Germany is to be aid
4 ministered by the Allies The country
is to be held indefinitely under the
menace of occupation to compel the
carrying out Of terms that mean poverty,
disorder and hunger Such a condition
], means that Germany must be a plague
4 spot in Europe. tt means that whole
Il people will plot revenge, that they will
d terminate revolution. It will be neces-
q sary to maintain armies against the con-
! tingency Of her uprising
Il This was not the peace our people and
1 those Of the allied nations fought for.
. It is not peace the common people d
q the world will stand for, because the
u decent onest-hearted folk 81
the world will not consent to stand by
and observe creatures Of their own kind
!. most Of them victims of governmental
deception and coercion, subjected to !:
8 long regime Of restitution and hunger
4 in expiation Of the aims Of q goveranen,
they oyerthrew as soon as they wer.
3! strong enough to do 50, after realizin,
q its iniiquities. The German people diit