Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-17
GERMAN OF
r. is ANSWERED..

SOC1dIeO powers WAS mAO0 SpeIIoCCAy
clear to Germany during the war by
fined by President Wilson insahis'
speech OF April g., 1~s18rAnd explicitly
and categorically accepteds BY the
German people q Z principle cover
ing .the peace-'Let everything that
we say, my fellow-countryntenSAvery
thing that We plan and accomplish
ring true TO this response. until the
majesty and might Of u concerted
power shall all the thought ana ut
terly defeat the force Of those who
nout and misprize what We honor and
hold dear. Germany has once more
said that force, and force alone, shall
decide whether justice and peace
shall reign in the affairs men.f wheth-
er right, as America conceives 1t, or
dominion, as she ~conceives It, shall
determine the qestinies~ of mankind.
There is, therefore, but n response
possible from US: Force, force tosthe
the righteous and triumphant force
which shall make the law Of the
world and cast every selfish dominion
down in the dust"
M. Clemenceau, In the letter, also
quotes from speeches delivered: by
Premier Lloyd-George Of Great Brit
ain. himself as premier Of France.
oAIu IA0A4A4CI OGAAuOO O1>1J04ySs al
which it was declared that when vic
tory was won. 'compfomise asz to
peace terms was impossible and Just
punishment should be meted out. and
JUSTICE FOR ALL Is
ANSWER TO ENEMY.
Justice, therefore,, Is the only spos-
sfble basis for tho settlement Of the
accounts OF this terribleSwar. Justice
is what the German delegation asks
Nor n says that Germany has been
promised. But it must be Justice for
all. There must be justice for the
dead and wounded and, for those who
have been made orphans and bereaved
sian d~espotisn. There must be justice
for the peoples who nov stagger under
wal debts. which exceed thirty billion.
that liberty might be saved. There
must be Justice tor those millions
whose homes and lands. ships, and
property German savagery has spoilat-
"That is WV the Allied and ...o.
ciated powers have insisted as A,cardi-
nal feature Of the treaty that Germa-
ny must undertake to make 4repara.
ton to the very utterrnost Of her3.pow-
or, for r~eparation for wrongs inflicted
Is Of the essence Of Justice. That ID
why LHey lnDlSl Ln6I those 1nQtV1Qu4lG
who are most clearly Responsible for
German aggression and for those sacts
Eof bArbarism ana tnhumAnity which
have disgraced the German conduct
OF the war. must be handed over 'to
justice. which has not been meted GU,
to them At home. i
HARDsH1Ps BROUGHT ON
BY HER OWN ACTS.
That. too, is why Germany mus
submit for a few. yearstto certain spe.
ctal disabilities. and akrangehnents
Germany has ruined the industries; thu
mines and the machinery OF neigEbor.
ing countries. not during battle, bu'
with the deliberate and calcllatAd pur
pose Of enabling her own industries
TO seize their markets before their in.
dustrfea could recover from the de,
vaStAtton thus wasftonly inflicted upor
thenn.; IL =
Germany has dsspciled her. neigh
bors Of everything she could make us.
Of or carry away. Germany has de
stroyed the aAipping OF all nations OF
the high seas, where there Was N
chance Of rescue for their passenger.
and crews. -
"It is only justice, that restitutio,
should b made and that these wrong
cd peoples should be eaf1guarded fol
Ia time from the competition Of Z ma,
Kfion whose industries are intact! ant
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