Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-12
URGES GERMANS LABOR
AND FIGHT B0LsHEV|sM
Schcidemann Outlines
futurc Foreign Policy of
Tcuton Government.
SAYS DANGER FROM WITHIN
declares When Peace Is Near and
rood Supply Starts to Grow Citi.
zchs Should SBe Laboring for
Promised Prosperity.
iRv Associntetl Prcss.l


snhe idemann addressing the National
i mro at Weimar on Gcrmany's flu
would be based on three principles:
s.rIet Observance of all treaties, un-
i n,erSsn1s protection of vital German
t'"ieSts and maintenance of spirit
H. nhreseIred Cancellation with the en-
rd ,ierr !, scheidemann said he saw the
.orrelsn policy from within Germany.
w s,heere incessant commissions or unrest.
volt threaten the Whole house with
1i snssp the arres, Of Minister
week and said that sucf occurrences
n,Shl help to break ur the government
ha 70 destroy its credit at home and
Urges Citizens 10 Work.
Dealing with the food situation. the
-hancelor said that when an increase
m the food ration "beckons TO our
no'e Peopi e., SO SortnrGd by underfeed-
ma when tho hunger war is laying
80 ,PT Sn rs arms, hundreds Of thousand
, noo. can provide the, means OF pay
neht. without which there will not be
mound of flour or bacon for the wives
no children OF the workncn
The Chancellor asserted that tho ,ow
stooiotion in Munich, with a Soviet re-
,n5 mere tnere pr9claiminc an offensive
/
SIrian and Russian Soviet, cndany.rs
1eice Just at tho moment when :.wS
3esS 'n .S proof Of our viii for
ana our rcpugnance for any poll
Icy OF tho mailed fist"
Drcnncra Dnrc Wnr.
s, nirea I'm he continued. dare
'sainst nations with whom we desire
omorrow TO Sit at a conference table.
We oppose Soviet republic" con
nnned the Chancellor. not merely on
%o want nj peace without which We
Tn sl,, GhsnceI9S said he did no, seek
% ',fnich would lead to murder and
we want" he dciared. "a great
AN develop freely without the old fet
ers OF ornaments. and without the
Jew burdens OF Boishevis,ic civil war.
Tells OF Lcninc Doast.
That separates us from the ideas OF
-enine who was boosted of having
ecommended that the abolition OF dis
armament should be struck off the
|eocialis; program because the idea
81 overcoming capitalism without civil
*ar was Ctoplan. without disarma-
nent the league OF nations would be
IN empty formula and a perpetuation
-! force. II brute force as a means OF
SETTLING differences between peoples
20 be abolished. We must respect
HTSl III settllnS OlHcTcnCcS between
bur compa triots"
Herr Schcidemann declared tina, the
eachinGs of Lenine. and the Bolshe-
|sists bring war at home and abroad,
|idding:
II keep to the facts. ! call attcn-
Ion to Lanine's advocacy OF civil war,
10 Radek's Indictment Of a common
itrugSle against the entente on the
Rhine, to the alliance and resolutions
|)f the Munich Soviet republic and to
he decision OF the Communist Con-
|yress to carry tho new doctrine of
ialvation. by the Soviets, through the
rorld with fire and sword. call to
he German people to awake and be-
1old the chasm opening before YOU
md your children in the future as
veil
Plan Economic Democracy.
We desire to open the road to an
Economic democracy and Will provide
he necessary organs for 1t. We viii
$50 inaugurate specialization that II
orms a source OF prosperity and not
|,he bacillus of decomposition"
Herr Scheidemann concluded by say
ng the German people must ward off
Ill violent attempts made TO take them
oy surprise. He appealed for help in
,ecing, that the word force" should
disappear from the dictionary and that
{ may not be perpctuatcd In its
worst sense in a mailed INST peace.