New-York tribune., 1919-06-02

draft treaty of peace. We came to
versailles in the expectation of receiv-
ing aypeace proposal based on the
agreed principles. We were firmly re-
solved TO do everything in our power
with ~asSiew Of fulfilling the grave OBJ
legations which we had undertaken.
We hoped for the peace of justice
which had been promised to us
"We@Swcre aghast when we read in
documents the demands made upon us
the victorious violence of our enc
mics. The more deeply we penetrate
intothe spirit Of this treaty the more
CONVINCED we become of the impossi-
bility of carrying it out. The execu-
tons. Of this treaty are more than the
German people can bear.
Mnst Renounce Own Territory
wi ith a view to the establishment
OF thenPolish state we must renounce
indisputably German territory, nearly
the Whole of the province OF West
Prussia, which is preponderantly Ger
man; OF Pomerania, Danzig, which is
German to the core; we must let that
ancient Hansetown be transformed into
q free state under Polish suzerainty.
We must agree that East Prussia
shall be amputated from the body of
the state, condemned TO lingering
death,~ ,~snd robbed of its northern por-
ton, Including Memel, which is purely
German We must renounce Upper ST.
lesia for the benefit of Poland and
Czecho- Slovakia, although it has been
in close political connection with Ger
many for more than $50 years, is in
stinct with German life and forms the
very Foundation Of industrial life
throughout East Germany
- Must Cede Other Areas
"Preponderantly, German circles
(Krcise) must be cedcd to Belgium
without sufficient guarantees that the
plebiscite, which is only to take place
afterward, viii be Independent. The
purely German district of the Saar
must be detached from our empire, and
the way must be paved for it's subse-
quent annexation to France, although
we owe her debts in coal only, not in
men.
"For fifteen years Rhenish territory
must be occupied, and after those
Afteen years the Allies have the power
to refuse the restoration Of the coun-
try. In the interval the Allies can
take every measure to sever the eco
nomic and moral links with the mother
country and finally to misrepresent the
wishes of the indigenous population.
Penalties Exceed Assets
although the exaction OF tue cost
OF the war has been expressly re-
nounced. as yet Germany, thus cut in
pieces and weakened, must declare her
self ready in principle to bear all the
war expenses of her enemies, which
would exceed many times over the
total amount OF German state and pri-
Vate assets. Meanwhile her enemies
demand in excess Of the agreed condi-
tons PREPARATION for damage suffered
by their civil population, and in this
connection Germany must also go bail
for her allies. The sum to be paid is
to be fixed by our enemies uniaterally
and to admit of subsequent modifica-
tion and increase. No limit is fixed
save the capacity Of the German people
Tor payment, determined not by their
standard of life but solely by their
capacity to meet the demands of their
enemies by their labor. The German
people would thus be condemned to
perpetual slave labor.
Reconstruction Impossible
IN spite of the exorbitant demands,
the reconstruction Of our economic life
is at the same time rendered impos-
sible. We must surrender our mer-
chant feet. We are to rerouncc all
foreign securities. We are 70 hand
over to cur enemies our property in
al German enterprises abroad, even in
the. countries Of our allies. Even af
ter the conclusion of peace the enemy
states are TO have the right Of contis-
eating all German property.
No German trader in their countries
viii be protected from these war meas
ures. We must completely renounce
our. colonies, and not even German
missionaries shall have the right to
follow their calling therein. We must
thus renounce the realization Of all
our aims in the spheres of politics,
economies and ideas.
Even in internal affairs we are to
give up the right to self-dete rmina-
tlOn. he international ISpaIdlloI
commission receives dictatorial powers
over the whole life of our people in
economic and cultural matters. Its
authority extends far beyond that
which the empiret the German Fed
eral Council and the Reichstag com
bined ever possessed within the terri
tory OF the empire.
Economic Life Controlled
This commission has unlimited con-
troll over the economic life Of the
state, OF communities and Of individ
uals. Further, the entire educational
and sanitary system depends on it. 1t
can keep the whole German people In
mental thraldom II order to increase
the payments due by the thrall, the
commission can hamper measures for
the social protection OF the German
worker.
an other spheres also Germany'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 known TO hcr to be CON
Guided by her enemies with the new
states on the East, even when they
concern her own functions The Ger
man people is excluded from the league
Of natiOns to mfct Is intrustrd all