The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-15

Germany and her allies. The world win
not permit the commission of similar
wrongs as n means Of reparation and
settlement"J
The German people," President Ebert
continued. us only beginning to awake
from the hypnosis. into which II has been
lulied because OF Its solid faith In the
sincerity and truthfulness Of Mr. will
son's programme and his Fourteen
Points The awakening will be terrify-
Ing. and we all look forward to Il with
sravest approximations In the face Of
the cold, naked realities we still con-
sciously cling to the faith which found
Its epitome in the names OF Wilson and
the United States and the conception Of
the democracy of the League OF Nations.
stilI Has Hope in Wilson.
I'VE cannot believe that this has all
been an Illusion and that the confidence
and hopes OF a whole people have been
duped In a manner unknown to history.
Even now optimlsts are saying, Wilson
VIII not permit II, he dare not possibly
permit IT,"
The German President added that he
and his party could not blame the Pan
Germans for the ''immodest haste with
which they are now digging I'D their
former speeches and editorials In which
the Social Democrats and other Lib
erals were ridiculed for their belief in
President Wilson's programme"
Il and my colleagues" he said in
conclusion, upon whom rests the terrific
burden of the forthcoming decisions
hope and pray the German people who
staked all on President Wilson and the
United States shall not find themselves
dANAiVad he
democracy actually accepts the present
peace terms as Its own, It becomes an
accomplice and an sbettor of political
blackmailers; II surrenders the tradition
al American principle of fair play and
sportsmanship and trails the ideals of
true democracy in the dust.
German Soul Unconquernble.
notwithstanding the night now COW
ering II, / have abiding faith in the
future of the German people and in the
unconquerability of it's soul. This peo-
pie, which has given the world so much
in science. learning and industry must
not go down to oblivion. II still has a
cultural mission to perform and ethical
treasures to bestow."
President ebert closed his statement
by asserting the present government
would hold out to the last" and secuted
the idea that II would make room for
others to accept or reject the treaty.
During his statement President Ebert
said:
The German people demolished the
rule Of autocracy and political men,
dacity at home, but 1t has not under
taken this job in order to enable this
dictate the future of the world in a
grossly exaggerated form.
Germany laid down her arms and
armament when she entered upon this
combat six months ago. Therefore she
Is now all the more effectively armored
when she faces world foes
in defence of those aims She has seized
and unfurled a new banner on which
Is inscribed President Wilson's four
teen points, which the President appar-
emily has deserted. She therefore hopes
that the American people will correctly
grasp and interpret the deeper sig
nificance Of the new spiritual struggle
upon which we are now entering"
Stunned by the Terms.
At another point President Ebert said
the ominous quiet produced by the first
announcement Of the peace terms was
a most characteristic indication of their
For the moment" he continued, I'VE
were all crushed. We had feeling as
II We had been stunned BY blow from
a heavy club, momentarily paralyzing
all mental action. The blow found the
German people unprepared. and there
fore its effect was all the greater"
The President said he feared an out
break OF psychic Juror Teutonicus'
within a few days. and that the wrath
of the soul OF the people when It reached
the boiling point would know no bound.
as result of the deep disappointment
and anger born of fury ard Just indg-
nation.
The peace draft laid before us" he
said, produced an equal feeling Of hor-
ror and revulsion. II not only signifies
distortion. but the complete negation of
the fourteen points enunciated by Pres
ident Wilson. the realization of whose
programme we took for granted-a
faith TO which we were entitled on the
strength Of Secretary of State Lansing's
note of November 5.
Wilson's Message to Senate.
Before me lies a pamphlet discussing
President Wilson and a peace OF Justice
IL deals with his Senate message OF
January 22, 1917. In which he refers
W INC need OF peace without vic
tory. President Wilson says: The
victor must not force his conditions on
the vanquished. This would mean
peace asserted under humiliation under
force and intolerable sacrifice. and leave
nothing definite. 1t would leave a sting,
revenge. bitterness. giving such peace
an insecure foundation. leaving il to
rest on Quicksand. Only peace be-
tween equals can endure"
(Textusily President Ebert slightly
misquoted President Wilson's utterances
but in the main his version OF President
Wilson's address to the Senate carried
the meaning OF President Wilson's
words)
Where Is there TO be found in the
peace draft which President Wilson
Jointly signed with the other allied rep
resentatives the slightest trace of the
exalted ideals he proclaimed?" asked
President Ebert I'm reply to the Popes
note OF August 1. 1917. President Will
son said. Peace. will not he secured II II
is based on political and economic re-
strictions which are calculated to ben
eft new nations and paralyze others +"
president Wilson in this instance also
Is slightly misquoted. having said in
OF the communication
of the Pope: Responsible statesmen
must now everywhere see. II they never
saw before, that no peace can rest SO.
curely upon political or economic re-
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