The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-06-18

O0sAOs SOGNG 10S 1919
lsible basis fof the settlement Of the
accounts Of this terrible war. Justice
hvhatg the German delegation asks
for and says that Germany has been
promised. But IL must b justice for
all. There must be justice for the
dead and wounded and for those who
have been made orphans and bereaved
that Europe might be free from Prus-
sian despotism. There must be JUS
tice for the peoples who now stagger
under war debts; which exceed thirty
billion, that liberty might be saved.
There must be justice, for, those mil
lions whose homes and lands, ships
and property German savagery has
spoilated and destroyed.
"That is why the Allied and asso-
ciated powers have insisted as a cardi-
nal feature of the treaty that Ger
many must undertake to make repara-
ton to the very uttermost of her pow
er, for PREPARATION for wrongs in
fllicted is Of the essence of justice.
That is why they insist that those
individuals who are most clearly re-
sponsible for German aggression and
for those acts of barbarism and in
humanity which have disgraced the
German conduct of the war, must be
handed over to justice, which has not
been melted out to them at home.
H%ardships Brought On By Her
Own Acts.
"That, too, is why Germany must
submit for a few years to certain spe-
cial disabilities and arrangements.
Germany has ruined the industries, the
mines and the machinery of neighbor-
ing countries, not during battle, but
with the deliberate and calculated pur-
pose of enabling her own industries
to seize their markets before their
industries could recover from the de-
vastation thus wantonly inflicted up
on them.
Germany has despoiled her neigh
bors Of everything she could make
use of or carry away. Germany has
destroyed the shipping of all ma
tions On the high seas, where there
was no chance of rescue for their
passengers and crews.
ut is only justice that restitution
should be made and that these wrong
ed peoples should be safeguarded for
a time whose industries are intact and
have v been fortified by machin-
cry stolen from occupied territories.
If these things are hardships for Ger
many, they are hardships which Ger
many has brought upon herself.
Somebody must suffer for the con-
sequences of the wa1. Is it to be
Germany or the peoples she has
wronged?a
Convenient" Place Will Bring
On New Wars.
"Not to do justice to all concerned
would leave the world open to fresh
calamities. IF the German people
themselves, or any other nation, are
to be deferred from following the
footsteps Of Prussia; if mankind is to
be lifted out Of the belief that war
for selfish ends is legitimate to any
state; If the old era is to be left be-
hind, and nations, as well as individ-
uals, are to be brought within the
reign Of law; even if there is to be
early reconciliation, and appeasement,
it will be because those responsible
for concluding the war have had the
courage to see that justice is not
DETECTED for the sake Of. a conven-
lent peace.
1T, is said that the German revolu-
ton ought to make a difference, and
that the German people are not re-
sponsible for the policy of the rulers
whom they have thrown from power.
The Allied and associated powers rec
ognize and welcome the change. It
represents q great hope for peace and
a new European order in the future.
Revolution Came After Victory
Was Lost.
"But it cannot affect the settlement
Of the war itself. The German rev.
olution was stayed until the German
armies had been dAfeated:in the field
and all hope Of profiting by - wal
Of conquest had vanished: Through
.@sgHsrE So II, 81,