The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-05-29
TERRIBLE BUT JUST
The Heavy Debt Germany Has 10 Pay
For Her Worid-Wide Grimes.
Commercial Appeal.)

Under the terms of the proposed
treaty the corpus of the former Ger
man empire in Europe is reduced
about $4,000 square miles, an area
equivalent to that of Tennessee and
Connecticut. Germany loses more
than one-fifth of its area.
This territory will go to France
Belgium, Denmark, Poland and self
determining groups.
Danzig is to be a free city. A tip
of East Prussia is cut away from the
former empire, but the treaty does
not clearly define what shall become
of it, further than it shall be under
control of the associated powers.
Prussian- Poland is restored and
provision is made for a plebecite in
a district of West Prussia.
The people of the territory ada
cent to Denmark are to have the right
to declare under whose rulership
they shall exist
| Helgoland as fortification is to be
destroyed.
A territory of so kilometers east OF
the Rhine river is to be deprived of
all military forts or aceoutrements
that might be OF advantage to Ger
many.
France takes Alsace and Lorraine
and has control OF the resources OF
the Saar valley
Belgium takes over a small district
about as large as Shelby county.
Poland draws from Germany 1900
square miles. This is an area more
than half as large as Tennessee.
Germany loses all of her colonies.
There is to be reparation for act
ual damage done.
The German army shall number on
ly 100000 men, and the German navy
shall number $4,000 men. Germany
shall have only six battleships and as
many cruisers. She shall have twelve
destroyers and no submarines.
Germany shall have no armed air
forces. Germany must pay for the
merchant ships she destroyed and
the payments shall be in tonnage Of
German ships. Germany must recog-
nize the independence of Russia and
revoke treaties made during the war.
Germany must be content with
whatever is done to Austria Hungary.
The treaty wherein Prussia, France
and England assumed certain guard
ianship over Belgium has been abro-
gated.
Germany must also recognize the
complete independence of the grand
duchy Of Luxembourg.
One may say that there is hard
ship on Germany in taking from her
SO much territory. Alsace and Lor-
raine were taken from France by Ger
many. Schleswig- Holstein was taken
from Denmark by Geramny. Poland
was overwhelmed by Germany. Ger
many is merely losing by the sword
the land she won by the sword.
Germany started out to dominate
the world and the end is that the
world is dominating Germany.
Let there be no maudlin sentiment
about the hard terms. If some one
alleges that il is cruel to carve off the
outer edges of the former German
empire, let that person read the pub
lished German plans of Germany in
1915 and in 1916
Germany, conquerer, intended to
annex Belgium and Northern France,
from Verdun across to Bologne
Germany intended to deprive France
of her colonies. Germany intended
to take India and Egypt away from
England and to force England to pay
her an enormous indemnity.
Germany intended to establish
sovereignty over middle Europe and
to absolutely take over Roumania and
Southern Russia. Germany intended
to ask the United, States for about
$l0.000,0O0,0O0 for the aid we gave the
allies before the war in selling to
them food and ammunition.
Germany intended to saddle the en-
tire cost of the war upon France,
England and Russia.
If the burden of the treaty destroys
Germany, then let Germany perish
as a nation.
Next, what will the allies do with
the German colonies, and what will
the newly created states do with their
own liberty7 The world is yet far