Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-02

with in the territory Of the empire. This
commission has unlimited control over
the economic life of the state, Of com
munities and Of individuals. Further,
the entire educational and sanitary sys-
tenn depends on II. 1t can keep the
whole German people in mental thral q
dom. In order to increase the payments
due by the thrall. the commission can
hamper measures for the social protec-
tion of the German worker.
'Jn other spheres also Gcrmany's
sovereignty Is abolished. Her chief
waterways are subjected to interna
tional administration she must con =
struct in her territory such canals and
such railways as her enemies wish she
must agree to treaties, the contents of
which are unknown to her, to be con :
cluded by her enemies with the new
states on the east. even when they S1tf
Germ her own functions. The Cen h
people is excluded from the league Of
nations. to which is intrusted all work
of common interest to the world.
Thus must whole people sign the
decree for its own prescription, nay, its
own death sentence,
Germany knows that she must make
sacrifices in order to attain peace. Ger
many knows that she has. by agree :
ment, undertaken to make these sacri :
fees and will go in this matter to the
utmost limits of her capacity.
German Counter. Proposals
First. Germany offers to proceed
with her own disarmament in advance
of all other peoples in order to show
that she will help to usher in the new
era of the peace of Justice She gives
~
duces her army to 100 900 men, except
as regards temporary measures. She
even renounces the warships which her
enemies are still willing to leave in her
hands.
''She stipulates. however. that she
shall be admitted forthwith as state
with equal rights into the league of
nations She stipulates that genuine
league of nations shall come into being,
embracing all peoples of good will. even
her enemies of today. The league must
be inspired by feeling of responsibility
toward mankind and have at it's dis
posal a power to enforce its will suf :
hcicntly strong and trusty to protect
the frontiers of its members.
Questions Of Territory
Second. In territorial questions
Germany takes up her position unre =
Servedly on the ground of the Wilson
program. She renounces her sovereign
right in Alsace- Lorraine, but wishes a
free plebiscite to take place there. She
gives up the greater part of the province
of Posen, the district incontestably
Polish in population, together with the
capital. She is prepared to grant to Po .
land, under international guarantees,
free and secure access to the sea by
ceding free ports at Danzig. Konigsburg
and Memel, by an agreement regulation
the navigation of the Vistula and by
special railway conventions. Germany
is prepared to ensure the supply OF
coal for the economic needs of France.
especially from the Saar region, until
such time as the French mines are once
more in working order.
THE preponderantly Danish districts
of Schleswig will be given up to Den
mark on the basis Of plebiscite. Ger
many demands that the right of self
determination shall also be repeated
where the interests of the Germans in
Austria and Bohemia are concerned.
"She is ready to submit all her
colonies to administration by the com
munity of the league of nations if she
is recognized as its mandatory.
Preparations Proposals
"Third. Germany is prepared to make
payments incumbent on her in accord
ance with the agreed program Of peace
up to maximum sum of 100,
600, ,OOO,O of gold marks (S25.