Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-29

to nets of injustice similar to
that III whicn the President felt
himself compelled to acquiesce
in the case of Shantung."
A state of peace he SAID, actually
would be established in the world
as soon as three of the great powers
had ratified the Treaty and that the
United States should make her own
peace status complete by concur
rent resolution of Congress.
Tried in Vain For Data
Declaring the foreign relations
committee had tried in vain to get
important data relating to the
treaty, he said the people at last
were waking to the true issue as
the facts about the Versailles nego-
tiations leaked out.
Little by little" he continued.
they are bringing a divulgence 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.
What is it 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 1t, insight and
unseen? Are we to be no more ad-
vantaged than our fallen enemies?"
U. S. Accomplished Purpose
Quoting President Wilson's dec
laration in 1917, that the purpose of
the United States in the war was to
overthrow German autocratic power
and leave the German people free
to choose their own ways of life"
He said that with the signing of the
armistice I'VE had accomplished the
full purpose 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
He paid a tribute to the service
rendered the nation by citizens of
German ancestry. who fought glad
ly, in the hope that their kinsmen in
Germany would benefit in the end.
Instead. he said, peace conditions
had been imposed which the Ger
man people never could fulfill.
Calling attention that Russia was
not included in the peace settle
ment, he continued:
Thing you Germany smarting
and staggering under the terms of
this treaty-will supinely rest con-
tent with the dole of grace and suf-
crumbs from his Yictors' table?
That people will not more cease to
plot and plan to recover their for
mer high estate, than did Satan
plunged into the abysmal depths of
hell. Whether they are in the lea
que, II formed, or out of it, Ger
many's agents, secretly or openly,
Will be at work with her former
Allies. and with injured Russia and
with Japan. AS Russia goes, so
will go the whole Slavic and affilia-
ted peoples. And if Germany sue
ceed in this, western Europe at
least must perish.
Striped of its idealistic phrases,
he said, the treaty really was but an
alliance among five great powers.
against whom Germany would try to
bring stronger alliance. The real
interest of France he said, was in
gaining the friendship and not the
enmity of the German people.
The instrument before US" he
said, us not the treaty but the truce
OF Versailles.
1t takes Germanys territory, Eu-
ropean and foreign, without COM
pensation; 1t takes from her prac-
tically all of her ocean shipping, q
large portion of her inland vessels;
it deprives her of all special benefits
OF treaties and conventions; it takes
her cables, 1t compels her to supply
large quantities of raw materials:
it internationalizes her great river
systems and throws them open to
traffic of all nations on a national
basis as If they were the high seas;
it opens her coastwise shipping to
all nations; it compels her to grant
exceptional import and export privi-
leges and to accept important re-
strictions; 1t closes out German in
terests in practically the whole civil
lized world; it closes out the inter-
ests of that same world in Germany.
Z. 5. Completely Bound Up
Having done all this, it assesses
against her Professionally, with
stipulation permitting an increase,
debt of one hundred and twenty
billion gold marks. which is in ad-
dition to the property restored in
kind and to the value of the boats,
gold and securities delivered; it
makes her responsible for these
damages inflicted not only by her
self, but by her allies, and even by
the allied and associated powers
themselves, with n list of items
which includes some admittedly
contrary to the rules of interna-
tional law hitherto existing; finally
and in addition, she is compelled to
answer to her own nationals for the
value of the property taken by the
Allied and associated powers.
The United States is bound up