Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-02
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NOT Be SINCERE
HARDEN IS SURE THAT GER
MANY SEEKS ONLY OWN
ADVANTAGES.
BY Arno Dosch-Fleurot


Berlin Maximillien Harden is still
insurgent in Germany, which is try
ing desperately to settle back into
its old self
We are forever talking of Wilson
as our friend" he says. SIS not he
simply just man with vision. realiz-
ing that place must be found for
Germany to live quietly in the family
OF nations without being continually
abused? Have we held him? Have
we made even the first essential
move? We do not even admit we have
been defeated. We scream at every
vague report of what the allies are
goingto do to us. We act as if we
were the most injured people in the
world. We constantly are trying to
put the blame for the war on our en-
emies We are doing everything pos
sible to prove we are the same old
Germany with the same old faults.
Revolution a Failure.
How can the entente believe in our
revolution when we have not great
er faith in it ourselves? What has
become Of our revolution anyhow ?
What has Weimar done? 1t has not
given Germany one thing of new
life or caused one echo in the outside
world.
Our revolutionary government is
composed of men who voted war
credits. Even Leibknecht did that.
If they had been real revolutionists
there could have been no war. When
it comes to guilt for war, is the kais-
er worse than they? I sometimes think
if the kaiser had only little bit of
Bonaparte in him he could still lead
Germany into some new policy"
Everything for Advantage.
eff Germany could only be frank,
but she cannot We do everything
from the viewpoint of advantage. We
cannot believe that some men act
from higher motives, so even Presi-
dent Wilson, whose friendship we
claim to a point of embarrassment, is
watched by us with suspicion"
| asked what was essential to Ger
many in peace. Herr Harden replied ::
Foreign commerce. Germany is
built as huge factory, too big for
home consumption. If Germany is
cut off from foreign commerce
25,000.000 people must emigrate.
Kindly tell me what differ nee it
makes whether Alsace-Lorraine is in
Germany or France The new world
must have such nearly obliterated
frontiers that it will be Indifferent as
to what country holds certain terri
tories. President Wilson has the vi
sion to see that peaceful rearrange-
ment of Europe is otherwise impos-
sible.
Reason for Terms.
Freedom to work and to sell to the
whole world is essential. Then we
can pay heavy indemnities. We must
bring ourselves to that understand
ing. 1t makes me wild the way we
talk about the IA points as if they
were our salvation. They are hard
conditions and when first announced
all Germany hooted at them Then
we scorned, now we cling to them.
Then we were winning, we thought,
now we are lost. That is the reason
why we changed our viewpoint That
is the reason why we cannot get bet
ter peace terms.
eff we could only cease seeing ev-
erything from the viewpoint of ad
vantage and do things because they
are right, then our enemies would be-
lieve that old Germany had gone and
could deal with us as new people,
not as the same people they had been
fighting. But we do everything we
can to prove we are the same Ger
many of the kaiser and the reich
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