Arizona republican., 1919-06-02

people would thus be condemned to perpetual slave labor
 Economic Life Parayzed
 Tn spite of the eXorbitant demands, the reconstruction of our economic life is at the same time rendered impos sible. We must surrender our mer- chant fleet. We are to renounce all foreign securities. We are to hand over to our enemies our properties in all German enterprises abroad, even in the countries of our allies. Even after the conclusion of peace, the enemy states are to have the right of con fiscating all German property. No German trader In their countries will be protected from these war measures. We must completely renounce our colonies, and not even German mis- sionaries shall have the right to follow their calling therein. We must re nounce the realization of all our aims in the spheres of politics, economies and ideas.
 Even in internal affairs. we are to give up the right to self-determina- ton. The international reparation commission receives dictatorial powers over the whole life of our people, in economic and cultural matters. Its authority extends far beyond that
 
 | council, and the reichstag, combines every power within the territory of the empire This commission has unlim- ited control over the economic life of the state of communities and of indi viduals; further, the entire educa tional and sanitary system depends on it. It can keep the whole German people in mental thralldom. In order | to increase the payments due by the thrall the commission can hamper measures for the social protection of the German worker
 Sovereignty Abolished Tn other pictures also, Germany's sovereignty is abolished. Her chief waterways are subjected to interna tional administration; she must con- struct in her territory such canals and such railroads as her enemies wish she must agree to treaties. the con tents of which are unknown to her, to 1 be concluded by her enemies with the T new states on the east even when they concern her own functions. The German people is excluded from the league of nations, to which is entrusted all work of common interest to the world.
 Thus must d whole people sign the decree for it's own prescription. it's own death sentence.
 Germany knows that she must take sacrifices in order to obtain peace. Germany knows that she has, by agreement, undertaken to make these sacrifices. and will go in this matter to the utmost IImits of her capacity
 German Counter Offers
 T. Germany offers to proceed with her own disarmament in advance of oil oth in for fn ShOxt- | she will help to usher in the new era of the peace of justice. She gives up compulsory military service and re- duces her army to 100, 900 men. except as regards temporary measures. She even renounces warshipS which her enemies are still willingoo leave in her hands, She stipulates. however, that she shall be admitted. forthwith, as a state with equal rights into the league of nations. She stipulates that genu- inc league of nations shall come into being, embracing all peoples of good will, even her enemies of today The league must be inspired by q feeling of responsibility toward mankind and have at it's disposal a power to enforce it's will sufficiently strong and trusty. to protect the frontiers of its mem
 bers.
 "Two-On territorial questions Ger
 many takes up her position unreser
 vedly on the ground of the Wilson
 program She renounces her sove- reign right in Alsace Lorraine, but wishes a free plebiscite to take place there. She gives up the greater part of the province of Posen, the district
 incontestably Polish in population, to- gether with the capital She is pre-
 pared to grant to Poland, under inter
 national guarantees, free and secure , access to the sea by ceding free ports at Danzig Koenigsberg and Memil by
 an agreement regulating the naviga
 tion of the Nestula, and by special railroad conventions. Germany is prepared to ensure the supply of coal for the economic needs of France. es , peciaIly from the Saar region, until } such time as the French mines are once more in working order. The pre- ponderantly Danish district of Schles-
 wig will be given up to Denmark on the basis of a.plebiscite. Germany de- mands that the rights of self-deter-
 imitation shall also be repeated where the interests of the Germans in Aus } tria and Bohemia are concerned. r She is ready to subject all her colo nies to administration by the com ? munity of the league of nations, if slsu ; is recognized as it's mandatory
 Willing to Pay Big Sum
 'Three-Germany is prepared to make payments incumbent on her. in
 accordance with the agreed program , of peace, to a maximum sum of one
 hundred billions of gold marks, twenty a billions by May 1, 1926, and the bal ! ance. eighty billions, in annual pay ments without interest. These pay ments shall. in principle. be equal to
 a fixed percentage of the German inn n perial and state revenues. The annual : payment shall approximate to the | former peace budget. For the first Q ten years, the annual payments shat
 not exceed one billion of gold marks a | year. The German taxpayer shall n,-. : be less heavily burdened than the tax d payer of the most heavily burdened Q state, among those represented on the r reparation commission.
 : Germany presumes, in this connec- : tion, that she will not have to make T any territorial sacrifices beyond those n mentioned above and that she will