Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-13
Must Sign Pact,
Independents Say
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aloWeu TO keep MS .teeth, Wnlle MS
claws are hardly cut
Portrait Of Teuton Future
"hll over Berlin we see posters in
tended to arouse a practial love for our
brothers in captivity. They show sad
and hopeless faces behind the prison
bars-that is the right frontispiece for
the so called peace treaty, true por-
trait of Germany's future.
"Sixty millions are behind the barbcd
wire and the prison bars sixty millions
| are at hard labor, for whom the enemy
makes their own land a prison camp.
Should the peace conditions be accepted
Germany no longer could call anything
her own which lies outside these narrow
| bounds.
Germany has ceased to exist abroad.
but il that were not sufficient, her ca %
blcs have been taken from her and her
wireless stations can send only com
mercial kilograms. and then only under
: control of the Allies. This would sep
arate us from the outer world, for what
! business can be done under the control
| of competitors need not to be described.
Peace Principles AbrOgated
but this is far from enough. The
council therefore determines treaties
between enemy countries to be null and
void, except such treaties. whose exccu =
ton is in favor of government of the
Allied powers.
"What does President Wilson SO
aptly say? That the first principle OF
peace itself is equality, equal partlci-
patton in common benefits.
Herr Schcidemann then argued that
this principle had been abrogated in the
peace terms.
The Imperial ministry met yesterday
to discuss the peace terms, but no posi-
five PROPOSALS have as yet been commu =
nicatcd to the Entente. Practical qucs-
tions and considerations relating to ter
ritorial ccssions, which were transmitted
to NJ. Clemenceau, president OF the
Peace Conference, Yesterday by tho
German delegation, were said to be not
of fundamental Importance, but OF al
explanatory character.
It is reported that the German Demo =
cratic and Ccntrist parties have threat
cncd to withdraw their representatives
from the government if the treaty is
signed. The Neuc Freie Pressc. of vi
cnna. declares that Count Won Brock
dorff Rantzau, head of the German
pcacc mission at Versailles. has Informed
its representative that he is making
every effort to secure the union Of
German Austria with Germany.
London. May 13.-(By A. PD-Tht
feasibility of change in the government
of Germany ms a result of the prcscnta
tion of the Allied peace terms is mon
toned by Philip Schcidemann,' German
chancellor at Berlin. according to the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
The chancellor denounced the peace
terms, which he said represented
BRUTAL dictated peace" it is said
, The statement was made to foreign
journalists in the former chancellor
palace and, in part. follows:
"We thought that we Social Demo
Gratis were strong enough to preven
peace by violence. but doubted whethe
the masses in enemy countries coult
support us, because they are les
strongly organized than we. Certain
! circles in England and France arc be
c ginning to advise the necessity OF com
D mon sense. 1t is too comic when Pres
| ident Wilson's fourteen points are con
e trasted with the peace terms. line.
4 do not mention Mr.. Wilson's terms
but are iust n brutal, dictated peace.
7 eft is possible a government nigh
no forrssI which would sign the peac
1 terms, but it is doubtful whether tn
Allies would be satisfied with such
government. The reactionary govern
mcnt is out of all question and a com
munist and independent governmen
, would be acting for the people, of whor
they would represent only a sma
minority. Even if such government
did sign the treaty, it would be just a
: impossible for them to fulfill the condi
tions as it would be for us.