New Britain herald., 1919-08-29
SEP ARATE PEACE
 WITH HUN URGED
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as soon as three O1 the great powers had ratified the treaty and that the United States should make her own peace status complete by a concurrent resolution of congress-
 Declaring the foreign relations com mittee had tried in vain to get import ant data relating to the treaty, he said the people arc at last widening to the true issue as the facts about the Yer sailles negotiations leaked out.
 Little by Iittlc," he continued, a"they arc bringing a divuIgencc of the facts connected with the treaty and they may now hope finally to see the whole of the great gaunt tragedy into which those whom they had charged with protecting them were about to betray them.
 rWhat is il about these things that the people cannot know? What is 'there to hide from them? Must we take this thing as the German people must take it unseen? Arc We to be no more advantaged than our fallen enemies?"
 Quoting President Wilson's declara- tions in 1917, that the purpose of the United States in the war was to , overthrow German autOCratC power sand leave the German people free to "choose their own ways of life,' he  mistice i've had accepted the full pur- pose for which we entered the war;" and should have "Quit the war as we entered it. still free and independent, masters of our own destiny
 Pay Tribute to Germans Hcrc
 He paid a tribute to the service ren- dered the nation by citizens of Ger . man ancestry, who fought gladly, he said in the hope that their kinsmen in Germany would benefit in the end. h. stead, he said, peace conditions had been imposed which the German peO- pie never could fulfill
 Calling attention that Russia was not included in the peace settlement, he continlred:
 'Think you Germany-smarting and staggering under the terms of this treaty-will supinely rest content with the. dole of grace and sufferance we are Vouchsafing her, the crumbs from her victors' table? That people will no more cease to plot and plan to re- cover their former higher estate, than did satan plunged into the abyssmal depths of hell. Whether they are in the league if formed. out of it, Germanys agents, secretly or openly, will be at work with her former allies, and with injured Russia, and with Japan. AS flQSSla goes, so Will go the whole Slavic and affiliated peoples. And if Germany succeeds in this, west ern Europe at least must perish.'
 Stripped of it's idealistic phrases, he said, the treaty really was but an al- liance among five great powers, against whom Germany would try to bring a stronger alliance. The real in terest of France, he said. was in gain ing the friendship and not the cnmity of the German people.
 Not Treaty But Truce.
 "The instrument before us," he said. lis not the treaty but the truce of Versailles
 Ut takes Germany's territory, Euro nean and foreign, without compensa- ton; it takes from her practically all of her ocean shipping and a large DOT tion of her inland vessels; it deprives her of all special benefits of treaties and conventions; it takes her cables; it compels her to supply large quan- titles of raw materials; it internation- aliZes her great river syst ems and throws them open to traffic of all na- tiOns on a national basis, as if they were the high>seas: it opens her coast wise shipping to all nations; it Con- pels her to grant exceptional import and export privileges and to accept important restrictions; 1t closes out German interests in practically the whole civilized world; it closes out the interests of that same world in Ger many.
 Puts Too Much Upon Hun.
 Having done all this, it assesses against her provisionally, with a stipulation permitting an increase, a debt of 120,000, ,0OO,00O gold marks, which is in addition to the property restored in kind and to the value of the boats, gold and securities deiiv- cred; if makes her responsible for these damages, inflicted not only by ferself but by her allies, and even by the allied and associated powers themselves, with list of items which includes some admittedly contrary 10 the rules of international law hithe"- to existing; finally and in addition, she is compelled 10 answer 10 her oTn nationals for the value of prop erty taken by the allied and 1ssO- ciated powers
 The United States is bound up in every one of the obligations and duties incident 10 the enforcement of these terms with the great responsi- Utilities attached theretO.'