The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-21

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and were given every preference oy
er the Poles, the original owners an
! inhabitants of the land. In 1905, tn
Kaiser built magnificent palace a
Posen. stating that it would be
monument to cement the friendshi
between the Germans and the Poles
In spite of these attempts to Ger
MAMIE them, the Poles have retain
ed their nationality and their lar
! guage, and in justice to them, thei
years Of servitude, and their devoticI
to an ideal that their territory shout
be returned to them. The new re
J public of Poland under the protec
ton of the League of Nations wi
also act as a buffer state betweel
Russia and Germany.
In regard to the last question, tn
return Of one hundred and fort.
thousand mil cows to France and Bel
gium, the Berlin "Lokal Anzeiger'
thinks the surrender of live stock
and especially the one hundred an6
forty thousand milk cows to the En-
tente is one of the most severe con
ditions Of the peace, and asserts that
the present situation as regards live
stock is so menacing that the further
reduction demanded would be ca
tastrophe to the health of the nation,
especially the small children. How
ever, none of the papers say word
about the poor French and Belgium
babies who were starved on account
of the theft of this number of cows
from France and Belgium. There is
only one viewpoint to the Germans,
and that is the German side.
The German government at pres
ent is socialist government, and are
making great cry that all the so
cialists of the world should rise
against the peace, which they de-
nounce as capitalist made peace
The German Independent Socialists
advocate the signing of the peace
treaty as the lesser of two evils. They
hint that universal Bolshevistic rev.
olution will sweep away all existing
States, and their treaties with them.
Below l am giving you transla-
ion of an address made by the Pres
dent Ebert to the German people
he day after the publication of the
peace terms;
1.-The honorable disire for peace
If our greatly suffering people found
is answer in the uncommonly severe
armistice conditions. The German
people laid down their arms and full
lied all the terms of the armistice,
S sharp as they were. In spite of
his, our enemies continued the war
or six months by maintaining the
unger blockade. The German peo-
lie bore all burdens having faith in
he Allies note of November 18th.
hitch promised that the peace would
e a peace of justice based on the Ia
oints of Wilson. What is given to
s now instead of the peace terms.
the note, and is unbear-
BILE by the German people, and i'm !
ossible of fullfillment, even by sum-
loning all our forces. /
Unreasonable power and borders
re wrenched from the German peo-
lie. From such an enforced peace
ew hate must spring up among ma
ions and in course of time new MUIR
ers. Parcelling out and chopping
ut the German people, giving over
# German labor to foreign capital
n an inhuman form Of bondage, per-
nan republic by imperialism of the
'epublic by the imperialism of the
Entente is the aim of the forced
'eace. The German government will
answer the proposition of a peace of
lavery with proposal that it should
ave been peace of justice on the
'asis of its right to have a lasting
eace for its people. The profound
citation that has gripped all Ger
IAN people, stands witness to the
act, that the German government
Expresses the firm will of the German
eople. The German Government
nil strain its every energy to get for I
he German people the same nation ]
! unity and independence and the I
anne freedom for labor in industry ]
nd Kultur, that the Allies want to i
i've to all peoples of Europe, but {
OF to our people.
Our people must save themselves '
y their ouw initiative. In view of {
MS danger of our humiliation the
ierman people must stand by its