Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26

tOr q sumclent force TO MAINTAIN Jaw
and order in the transition period
The revised document also contains
a declaration of intention to submit
within q month Of the signature Of
peace a list of those accused Of viola
lions of the laws and customs of a
The German reply had denied the
allies right to extradite and try the ex-
kaiser or any other German citizens.
1t declared Germany's willingness for
an International neutral court to es-
tabllsh the fact of crime, the punish
ment TO be left to the national courts.
Germany's claims regarding Danzig
are rejected. Danzig is made a free
city. Its inhabitants will be autono-
nous and do not come under Polish
rule. Clemenceau's covering letter ex-
plains that the city forms no part of
the Polish state.
Poland, however, by the treaty, has
been given certain economic rights"
in Danzig, and the city itself has
been severed from Germany because
In no other way was it possible to at
tain that free access to the sea"
which Germany promised to concede
to Poland.
The German reply said:
"Danzig, q purely German town,
must remain with the German empire.
To make it q free city and to sur
render certain of it's rights to Poland
would lead to violent opposition and a
continuous state of war in the East"
The Germans, however, offered to
make Danzig, as well as Koenigsberg
free ports.
Covers Foes Sins.
Like a judge who, before modifying
q sentence, wishes to impress upon
the prisoner the full weight of his
guilt and pound into his brain the
fact that the leniency is really unde-
served, Georges Clemenceau, premier
of France, explains the revised treaty
handed to Germany, lashes the van
quished empire with a bitter, singing
indictment, lest its former or present
masters, deeming clemency weakness,
rally once for an attempt to turn
defeat into triumph.
History's most momentous peace
document, now revised beyond revi.
sion, is thus accompanied by the most
aggressive, the most faying diplomatic
note on record. 1t is indeed a "cover-
ing letter, for it covers all thu. sins of
the foe, all his dark deeds before and
during the war and all the reasons
why he has been condemned and must
suffer for those sins. 1t is, at the same
time, a sharp rebuke to the Teuton
peace parliamentaires for utterly fail
ing to understand the position in
which Germany stands today"
This fact, The French premier ex
plains, forces him to open his letter
with "a clear statement Of the judg
ment of the world which has beer
formed by practically the whole civil
lied mankind" Then he enumerates
not under so many headings, but IL
smoother and eloquent sequence, thu
long series of crimes to which, he says
the foe must turn If he seeks the rea
son for the stern justice Of the peace
Germany, he says, tried for year
before the war to dictate and tyran
nize we a s~ubservient Europe.
She taught her subjects the doctrin'
that might was right.
She armed feverishly by land an'
sea and spread the falsehood that he
neighbors were jealous Of her.
She developed a widespread system
of espionage and intrigue all over tn
world.
She kept Europe in a ferment b
threats of violence.
She encouraged Austria to declar
warson Serbia at 4S hours notice, full
aware that the conflict would becom
general.
She conducted the war In a savag
and inhuman manner.
She violated Belgian neutrality an
systematically terrorized that ouI
try's inhabitants.
She was the first to S poison ga
She was the first to bomb and she
de~fenseless towns.
She struck at her enemies wome
and children.
She started the submarine campaigl
"with it's piratical challenge to int
national law"
, She "drove thousands of men, WOE
en- and children with brutal savager
., into slavery in foreign lands"
She allowed barbarities to be- pra
ticed against her prisoners of VIZ
I. "from which the most uncivilized pc
: pie would have recoiled."
She caused the deaths of 7,OOO,O
men, and injuries and sufferings to Y
100000 others.
: Lust for Tyranny.
: She did all this-"to crafty her lui
for tyranny by resort to war;" and HI
: conduct sis almost unexampled in b
I man hictnrvo