The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
Ebert Depends on q. s. DemOc-
racy to Reject Treaty.
Peace Terms Completely Para
lyze Germany.
DENIES REGIME WILL RESIGN
sWe Will Hold Out Till Last
He Asserts.
Peoples Awakening From
"SpelI' viii Be Terrific.

Berlin, Sunday, May II (delayed)
declaring THAT the terms of peace
presented by the allied and associated
governments to Germany "contem-
plate the physical, moral and intel
lectual paralysis of the German peo-
pie; that Germans were "hypnotized"
BY statements made by President Will
son and that he, himself, is looking
toward to the future with gravest
apprehensions." President Ebert said
today he still hoped that American
democracy would not accept the trea-
ty framed at the peace conference.
Will Not Resign, He Says.
He rejected with disdain the sug-
gestion that the present German gov
ernment would resign rather than ac-
cept or reject the terms. saying that
the government would hold out to
the end"
When in the course of two thou
sand years" he asked, was ever
peace offered a defeated people which
so completely contemplated its physi-
cal, moral and intellectual paralysis
as do the terms enunciated at Yer
sailles?
I'm his message to congress, De
cember 4, 1917, President Wilson
said:
Quotes the President.
1.-The frightful injustice committed
In the course of this war must not be
made good by wishing a similar in
Justice on Germany and her allies.
The world would not tolerate the
commission of a similar injustice as
reprisal and realignment'
. In his message to congress referred to
In the foregoing paragraph delivered
when he asked that state of war be de-
claFed to exist between the United States
pnd Austria Hungary. President Wilson
SAID; The wrOEgs, the very deep wrongs.
IA / toll in Is l.
That of course. But they cannot and
must not be righted by the commission of
similar wrongs against Germany and her
plies. The world will not permit the
commission Of similar wrongs as a means
sf reparation and settlement.D
Awakening To Be Terrifying.
THE German people," President
Ebert continued, ARE only beginning
TO awake from the hypnotism to which
1t has been lulled because of its solid
faith in the sincerity and truthfulness
Of Mr.. Wilson's program and his four
teen points The awakening will be
terrifying, and we all look forward to
Il with gravest apprehensions. In the
face of the cold. naked realities 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 democracy of
the league of nations.
I'VE cannot believe that this has
til beeH an llluSlOn ana Lnat the con-
fidence and hopes of a whole people
have been duped in a manner un-
Known to history. Even now optimists
are saying Wilson will not permit it;
he dare not possibly permit it
Addresses Americans.
The president added that he and his
party could not blame the pan Ger
mans for the "immodest haste with
which they are digging up their for
per speeches and editorials in which
the Social Democrats and other lib
erals were ridiculed for their belief
in President Wilson's program"
Il and my colleagues" he said in
Conclusion upon whom rests the ter
rifle burden of the forthcoming de-
cisions hope and pray the German
people who staked all on President
Wilson and the United States shall not
find themselves deceived. If, however
the American democracy actually
accepts the present peace terms as its
own, il becomes an aceompIice and an
abettor of political blackmailers; it
surrenders the traditional American
principle of fair play and sportsman
ship and trails the ideals of true DEM
Ocracy in the dust. Notwit outstanding
the night now covering it, I have abid-
ing faith in the future of the German
people and in the unconquerability of
its soul. This people, which has given
the world So much in science, learn
ing and industry, must not go down to
oblivion 1t still has a cultural mis-
Sion to perform and ethical treasures
TO bestow.'
Hold Out Till Last
President Ebert closed his statement