The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09
THE LUSITANIA IS AVENGED
slime Spent in Farley Not Ex-
cessive'-St. Louis Republic.
Germany Grumbles, but She'll
Sign PIain-DeaIer.

sian power IS crushed.
These are the points empha-
sized in comment by the coun-
try's leading newspapers on the
official summary of the treaty
of peace as made public Wednes-
day.
All the editors unite in the opinion
that the terms imposed on the enemy
are hard but just The New York
Sun alone raises objection to inclusion
of the league of nations in the treaty.
The time consumed Gin preparing
the treaty. was not excessive" COM
ments the st. Louis Republic.
Germany grumbles. of course. but
Plain Dealer. The Lusitania vic
tins are avenged, declares the Mil
waukee Sentinel.
Following is a digest of the COM
ment:
NEW YORK TIMES: TT is a ter
rible punishment the German people
and their mad rulers have brought
! upon themselves.
How great will be their moral and
spiritual suffering we cannot know.
because the world has its doubts about
the German conscience"
I NEW YORK SUN objected to the
! league of nations being interviewer
with the peace terms and said: THE
representative of the American people
in the making of international agree
ments. Perhaps its wisdom and pa
| triOtism will discern a way for
a broad reservation which will meet
here the situation forced upon it by
| the executive"
Will Make for Peace.
| NEW YORK TRIBUNE: THE in
! ternational gibbet is high and within
the blight of its moose hangs clanking
example. The settlement will make
| for peace"
PITTSBURGH DISPATCH: There
is not much left for Germany under
these specifications. OF the old Prus-
sian power there is not a shred"
| PITTSBURGH POST: Every con-
dition of a dictated peace demanded
! by Americans and their associates is
met. There is nothing in the terms to
save Germany's face. Turnout she is
treated as the criminal she is"
Foe Stripped. Says Chicago Post.
CHICAGO POST: LAS one reads
| paragraph after paragraph. one gets
| the picture of a great empire dwin-
ding to insignificance. Power. privi-
/ lege, provinces, are taken from it. A
/ stud ysofstf1e treaty frnpefs one to the
| conclusion that had it not been
! planned from the beginning to create
| a league of nations. the necessity for
doing so would have become manifest
/
pleted."
| CHICAGO DAILY NEWS: What
| the German government and the Ger
| man people will do about the treaty is
| a question that no one can answer
! with certainty. The chances are that
| the treaty will be accepted by both.
| Its terms are hard, but deservedly So"
| ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
/ The most cursory examination should
impress one with the extent of Ger
nany's dicaster. Yet severe as the
terms are, few can say that they are
not necessa rily just in view of the
| colossal calamity which Germany
/ brought upon the world"
Time Consumed Not Excessive.
ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC: The time
! consumed was not excessive. The
agreement which was attained is re-
markable and the result which flows
! from the conference will affect the
history of the world in every quarter
of it for unknown centuries to come,
/ and this is true whether the treaty
works as it is intended to work or
falls
| CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER: "A
! hard peace it is, but not an unjust
/ one Germany saves more from the
wreck than she has any moral right to
/ claim Germany grumbles, of course,
I but Germany will sign"
Conquered Still Ahead?
| SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:
"As individuals, Germans may perhaps
! be better off than they were before.
They are to be completely relieved
! from the horrible burden of militar-
ism, including CONSUMPTION, the erec-
ton and maintenance of huge armies,
navies and Notifications The people
! of the victorious nations, apparently
condemned to groan under their mill
tary burdens. may yet come to envy
the lot of the conquered"
MILWAUKEE, SENTINEL: The
most casual reading of the official
abstract of the terms as published yes
terday must satisfy the bitterest mem
DRY of the lawless act (sinking of the
Lusitania) that the terms spell expia-
ton.
Germany herself by her own stand
ard of terms to be imposed upon a
beaten enemy should now feel herself
estopped from complaining that the
terms imposed upon her are harsh II
is the application of her own princi-
pies and practices"
Hard Terms But just.
'As to the terms, they apparently
were designed to impose all the traffic
would bear They are steep terms,
steep and stiff. They are such terms
as only victors could Indicate and that
none but the vanquished would accept.
The result of the war is written into
every line, and as long as time leaves
lesible records in this world, history
can raise no doubt of its ISSUE
Hard terms, but justi''
PHILADELPHIA EVENING LED
GER: On the anniversary of that
crime (Lusitania). the shock from
which inspired humanity to fight on
until the right should prevail, Ger
many is the suppliant for a treaty
which is the most humilia ting ever re-
ceived in the planets annals"
Breeds World Revolt?
DETROIT NEWS: With the seeds
of a sense of outrage planted in the
minds of 00,00O,000 Chinese; with
200, goo. 600 Russians in such a recep-
tive state of chaos as to invite the ac-
Invites of intensive German intrigue,
this treaty has suggested a common
cause to enough of the population of
the h n, Ia n Lid n -u-o.-Ii