The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-14
EBERT TO HOLD
out TO THE END
Declares Peace Terms Con-
template complete ParaI-
ySiS Of German People,"
'HYPNOTIzED" BY WILSON
Ferman President Disdainful
|of Suggestion That His Gov
ernment Will Resign.

Berlin, May 14.-(A. P.)-Declarinp
that the terms of peace presented BY
We allied and associated governments
"a Germany contemplate the 'physi
cav, moral and intellectual paralysis
Of the German people," that Germans
. were "hypnotized' by statements
made by President Wilson; that he,
himself, is looking forward to the
future with "gravest approximations,
E President Ebert said today he still
b hoped American democracy would
not accept the, treaty framed at the
peace conference. He rejected with
disdain the suggestion that the pres
ent German government would re-
sign rather than accept or reject the
Terms, saying the government would
"hod out to the end"
k& When, in the course Of 5000
Years" he asked, was ever a peace
offered a defeated people which so
z completely contemplated its physical,
moral and intellectual paralysis as
do the terms enunciated at Versail-
les?
I'm his message to congress on Dec.
q, 1917, President Wilson said: The
frightful injustice committed in the
course Of this war must not be made
\ good by wishing a similar injustice
on Germany and her allies. The
world would not tolerate the commits
= sion Of similar injustice as a re-
prisal and realignment'
In his message to congress referred
to in the foregoing paragraph, de-
q livered when he asked that a state
of war be declared to exist between
the United States and Austria Hun
gary President Wilson said
"The wrongs the very deep wrongs
committed in this war must be
rghted. That Of course. But they
cannot and must not be righted by
the commission of similar wrongs
against Germany sand her allies"
"The world will not permit the COM
mission of similar wrongs as a means
of reparation and settlement.
Awakening from Hypnosis.
"The German people" President |
Ebert continued, "is only beginning |
TO awake from the hypnosis into which |
it has been lulled because of its |
solid faith in the sincerity and truth |
fulness Of Mr.. Wilson's program and |
his fourteen points. The awakening |
will be terrifying and we all look for
ward to it with graVest apprehension. |
In the face of the cold. naked reali- |
ties we still consciously cling to the |
faith which found its epitome in the
names of Wilson and the United |
states and the conception OF the de-
mocrac yof the league of nations
I'VE cannot believe this has all
been an illusion and that the conf
dence and hopes of a whole people
have ben duped in a manner un-
known in history. Even now optimists
are saying Wilson will not permit It,
he dare not possibly permit it,
The president added he and his
party could not blame the pan-Ger-
mans for the 'immodest haste with
which they are now digging up their
former speeches and editorials IN
which the social democrats and other
li0FTHlS were IlfllNultAl i'l 'll'i' -
lief in President Wilson's program,
last Hope Rests in America.
81 and my colleagues he said n !
conclusion. upon whom rests the
terri6c burden OF the forthcoming {
dccisions. hope and pray the German
neopIe who stakcd all on President
Wilson and the United States shall {
not find themselves deceived. IF, {
however, the American democracy s
actually accepts the present peace 7
torms as its own, it becomes an ac- Y
eomplice and then abettor of politl- t
raI blackmailers; it surrenders the T
traditional American principle of falr |
nlav and sportsmanship and trails the I
IDEALS of true democracy in the dust. I
the night now /
royering it, l have abiding faith In Il
he future of the German people and
Il the unconquerability of its soul. 0
rhis people which have given Che o
world so mach in science, learning o
md industry must not go down to =,
,blivion. It still has a cultural mis- y
sion to perform and ethical treasures +.
d bestow." f,
Scouts Idea of Quitting. =
President Ebert closed his state
nent by declaring the present gov n
,rnment would "hold out to the last" Il
md secuted the idea that it would a
,a,,1yo roon, for others to accept or .,