The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-07-29
GERMANY THINKING OF REVENGE

GERMANY THINKING OF REVENGE
The French are grateful to the Ger
mans for showing so plainly in their out
bursts of rage over the Peace Treaty
what their true attitude is toward the flu
ture "They are already thinking Of the
next war, in which we shall not be spar
ed" remarks the Paris Illustration. But
forewarned is forearmed, and ITO speak
truth" it adds, the German outburst "is
a medium of most precious instruction
for us French, provided only that we
know how to read it Alright" This French
editor draws special attention to an issue
of the Leipzig Illustrate Zeitung, which
has also reached this office. 1t is devot-
ed to "a protest against the peace of VOL
ence," and the object of convincing the
German people that the Allied and Asso-
ciated Powers are t%yrannical hypocrites
is clearly the aim in the greater part of
the pictures and the text of this number.
OF the two pictures the contributor to L.
Illustration observes:
Behold these two contrasting figures
at bay One is a being of darkness whose
eye glares with hate, whose ears are
pointed as those Of a demon, and whose
long hair consists of kissing snakes. He
carries heavy chains with which he is to
bind his enemy, who, undoubtedly, is the
naked figure he faces and who is holding
up no other weapon of defense than a bios
sOming branch. The thought seems to be
that conquered Germany though facing
the violence of the whole world, bears in
hand tho oxyp,hnl Of tha f,ttttVo
"In this rather puzzling composition,
the German artist seem to have forgotten
who it was that during the five years of
war and invasion forged these massive
chains and who was bound with them. He
does not realize that he is bringing the
tragic charge against himself and his ma
ton The other symbolical picture shows
Siegfried flourishing his victorious sword
as if about to sever the hand of the in
vincible enemy that is reaching across the
Rhine. Above the Rhine we see a stormy
sky from which flying furies rain down
sulfur and fire. But Siegfried bravely
defends the river and Germania. This ar
chaic and puerile design impels one to
smile and to smile even more when one
remembers that just now is is the Rhine.
AuhuCio eiiCiioCisSS WIN diC ciOutliiS
Hands off to the parasitic officials of
Prussia and Bavaria, to whom the excla.
nation means a curt dismissal"
In the same number of the Illustrirte
Zeitung, Count Westarp, former leader
of the Prussian Conservative party, We
hemently exhorts the German govern.
ment and nation to refuse to surr ender
the ex-kaiser and the German war lead
ers to the tribunal of the Allies. His APP
peal is summed up in these words:
"a people such as German people can
rise from poverty through hard work
They can one day shaks off the foreign
yoke, whether it is military, political OF
economic. German territory and lost Ger
mans can be recovered by fighting fol
them. But the shame that would fling
the German people into the dust of the
earth for centuries were they TO deliver
their Emperor of the H~ohenzollern DIV.
nasty and the heroes of the world wal
to the vengeance of the enemy never could
be wiped out"
Many statements from other promin,
ent Germans also adorn the pages of the
issue, the general theme being that the
Treaty is not at all nice, and, as we are
obligingly forewarned by the chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald, who is held responsible