Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-16
Hungry Bulk of the People
Taking Little Interest in
Demonstrations and SODer-
y ConCede Must Yield.
RECORD OF PROTESTS
INDICATE REHEARSAL.
Sounds of All Complaints Are
Familiar and Similarity
Shows That They Have
Been Carefully Learned,
by Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York World.)
(Special Gable Dispatch.)


(The New York World.)
Especial Gable Dispatch)
Berlin, May 15.--Partly spontane-
ously, partly skilfully engineered and
inspired, all Germany, with the ex-
ception of the underfed bulk Of the
German people, is bursting into pro-
test demonstrations over the allied
peace terms. Patriotic protest meet
ings are being arranged throughout
the ex-empire, following the protest
sessions of the Prussian and Wurttem-
berg assemblies
Means National Ruin.
A composite phonograph record OF
all German protests today emlts the
following familiar sounds; The
peace terms are unbearabe and un-
| fulfillable and thereto unacceptable.
1t is a dictated peace, peace of vio-
}ence. 1t violates all President Will
sons principles and reduces the Ger
man people 10 slavery, to economic
serfdom, to perpetual pauperism. 1t
| is Germanys death sentence and spstls
| her end as n great power, 1t relegates
| Germany to below the smallest neu-
| trail 1t is a shameful peace. 1t robs
| Germany of honor, makes Germany
| pariah among the nations, ruin. de-
/ Struction and annihilation.'
These protest phrases are incessant-
" reiterated. but there Is not the
slightest indication yet that the Ger
! man people are being carried by them
into demanding a rejection Of the
peace terms, their purpose being rath-
er to impress Versailles into thinking
| 50.
The Germans, however. harbor lit
tie or no hone that rhetorical protests
will soften Germany lot. There is an
| undercurrent OF sober common sense
opinion that Germany cannot do any,
thing but sign. as the specter of cer-
tain death by starvation harnts the
government and nation alike in the
eventuality of rejection.
Government Circles Bitter.
The intense bitterness permeatins
official circles is voiced by ex-Mtn-
ister of Finance Schiller under the
title of "Vae Victis.'
THE Versailles text will have a spe-
cial place In the political literature of
all times and of all people, but no
place of honor" he declares. THE au-
thors are not to be envied for their
glory. 1t requires no deep thought or
subtle analysis to discover the true
character of the allied will for peace
| ana flBll. tOuillItSS anu Culliiih6iy
formulated regulations and provisions
amplify the general principles and In
crease the weight OF the burden and
draw the throttling net still tighter.
There Is no departure from the
straight line of violation. This work
Is the product of one spirt--the spirit
of hate and revenge and fear. There
remains new era where there Is
Justice. equality and liberation from
comnulsion and force.
wherein essentially does this peace
proposal differ from other peace
!. treaties? Could it have looked differ
: emily IL it had been concluded under
the old views and customs so loathed
by President Wilson? Assuredly not
1t has all the earmarks of 'Gewalt-
frieden'-worse could never have been
, imposed on a crushed enemy"
, Example Is Cited
Herr Schiller cites as an example
that If the Saar population votes to
return to Germany after fifteen years
, the return of human beings is made
dependent Son a sum OF gold" since
Germany Is required to buy back the
coal mines in gold within six months.
Herr Schiller sees the sole good conf
; ing from the peace terms in the uni
flying effect on all the German parties
in the solid protest against peace.
THE whole German nation is firmly
united that a peace on such basis Is
unbearable, unfulfillable, and there
fore impossible. Not in battle but
, through the pressure of hunger and
blockade of raw materials the entente
brought Germany to her knees This
chivalrous weapon continues at the
entente's disposal, but 1t cannot make
the impossible-an unbearable and
unfulfillable peace-bearable and full
fillable."
, The peace condemns 2o,O00,0O0
Germans to death or emigration ac-
cording to the embittered view of the
socialist eX-food controller DR.. August
Mueller.
: The German people know its fate
I as prepared by a Wilson peace of
Justice and self determination Your
= neck, poor Germany, and await the
T hangman who will strangle you with
I a practised hand The death verdict
e is not known in all its details as yet.
| We are only partly oriented over the
hangman's moose of economic de-
: mands,"
Sees Nation Dcpopulated
But DR.. Mueller expects the full de-
y tails to reveal "a system of regula-
tions which will reduce the worlds
second nation IN industrial population
E to an agrarian nation of a few mill
| lions. Our complicated economic sys-
tenn, necessitating an immense ship
ping. worldwide banking apparatus
and an armv of merchants travellers.
agents and propagandists abroad, en-
abled US to maintain 100000 more
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