Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-05-29
GERMANY NOW TO
REALIZE POSITION
AFTER DEVASTATING OTHER
M CUNTRIES SHE SUDDENLY
A'3 LEARNS HER OWN FATE

On May z, 1919 the fourth ami
most revolving of all of Germany's
crimes, that once powerful nation
went under the yoke and now, for
generations to come she must grind
out the price of her wrongdoings.
This she must do because with the
idea of her own omnipotence, she
shook her fist in the face of all hui
manity, and of God Almighty him
self, and said 81 will" where God
says Thou shalt not" And now
all the world, including even Ger
many herself, knows that RIGHT
and not MIGHT rules and will ever
rule supreme throughout the uni
verse.
The national humiliation of
France in 1870 was nothing as COM
pared to the present humiliation of
Germany. This proud, far flung
Empire, which reared its arrogant
head in the remote places of the
earth is now stripped of it's possess
sions abroad and curtailed at home.
By the terms of the treaty she loses
more than a million square miles of
colonial and other territorial posses
sions inhabited by considerable more
than 100000 people Alsace
and Lorraine go back to France;
Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium;
parts of Salesia, Posen, and West
Russia to Poland; Danzig, a city al
most entirely German is to be inter
Mathematical; the Sarre basin. richly
veined with coal, goes to France;
and part of Schleswig. the Bismarck
ian booty of 1864, will probably re-
vert to Denmark.
Abroad the punishment is even
more striking. The ex-emperor
prided himself especially on his for
eign possessions. There is still to
be remembered the famous London
Telegraph interviey;" his masque-
rading asa Crusader ON his trip to
the Turk Sultan. What must be
gen as he reads of the loss of the
African colonies and dependencies,
Togo Kameurn, Southwest Africa,
and Eaast Africa ;of the reversion of
Kiou-Chau to Japan, the yielding up
of the colonies in the Pacific, "Kais-
err Wilhelm's land" so called, Bis
marck Archipelago, the Solomon
Islands, totaling these Pacific posses
sions alone 6,160 square miles?
And besides all this Germany's army
Is reduced to 100000 men, the size
of our standing army before We went
to war, while her navy is restricted
to fleet smaller than that of Brazil
and Argentine. So this is the end,
for the present, at least, of German
militarism and German navalism.
1t is interesting to read the speech
of the German foreign minister
Brockdorff-R antzau, in reply to Pre-
mier Clemenceau. Rantzau Is a
clever man; In his Copenhagen rem
iniscences our last minister to Dem
mark, Maurice Francis Eagon,
speaks of him as possessing the
cleverness of "the devil himself" In
this speech the count appeals to the
principles of President Wilson"
which, he says, demand from us Sc
we're national and economic sacrifi-
ces, but the holy fundamental rights
of all peoples are protected by this
treaty" The count has expressed
himself rightly but perhaps without
a full realization that the holy fun
damental rights of all peoples" de-
mand first of all the humbling of
German might for all time to come.
And this prime object the treaty
now before the German delegates
signally accomplishes. The Ger
mans will sign, they have no other
choice. and thus the counts pious de-
sire for the protection of the fun
damental rights Of all peoples"
will be fulfilled.