The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-16

law"
Attacks Wilson.
THE world has once again lost an
illusion. The nations have in this
period. which is so poor in ideals,
again lost belief what name on
thousands of bloody battlefields, in
thousands of trenches, in orphan
families and among the despairing
and abandoned has been mentioned
during these four years with more de-
votion and belief than the name of
Wilson? To-day the picture of the
peace-bringer as the world pictured
him is paling beside the dark forms
of our jailers to one of whom, Pre-
mier Clemenceau, Frenchman. re-
Gently wrote: The wild beast has
been put in cage on bread and wa
ter. but is allowed to keep his teeth,
while his claws are hardly cut
"All over Berlin we see posters in
tended to arouse a practical love for
our brothers i'm captivity. They show
sad and hopeless faces behind the
prison bars-that is the right front
piece for the so-called peace treaty,
a true portrait of Germany's future.
sixty million are behind the barb
ed wire and the prison bars-sixty
millions at hard labor for whom the
enemy makes their own land prison
camp. Should the peace conditions
be accepted. Germany no longer
could call anything her own, which
lies outside these narrow bounds.
Germany has ceased to exist abroad,
but il that were not sufficient her
cables have been taken from her and
her wireless stations can send only
commercial kilograms and then only
under control of the Allies. This
would separate us from the outer
world. for what business can be done
under the control of competitive
need not be described.
But this is far from enough. The
Council therefore determines treaties
between enemy countries to be null
and void except such treaties whose
execution is in favor of u govern
ment of the Allied Powers.
What does President Wilson so
aptly say? That the first principle
of peace itself is equality, equal par
ticipation in common benefits"
Herr Scheidemann then argued
that this principle had been abrogat-
ed in the peace terms.
Must Perform Forced Labor"
THAT is the jail picture in its eX-
ternal aspects; without ships because
the mercantile fleet passes into En-
tente hands, without cables. without
colonies, without foreign settlements.
without reciprocity and legal pro-
lection, yes, and even without the
right to cooperate in fixing prices
for the goods and articles which we
have to deliver as tribute.
IL ask you what honest man will
Say tHdl tuh
conditions At the same time, as we
shall have to bestir ourselves to per-
form forced labor for the benefit of
the entire world. our foreign trade,
the sole sources of our welfare, is
destroyed and our home trade is rem
dered impossible. Lorraine iron ore,
Upper Silesian coal. Alsatian potash,
the Saar Valley mines and the cheap
foodstuffs from Posen and West Prus-
STA are to lie outside our frontiers.
We are to impose no higher tariff or
protection than existed on August /,
1914, while our enemies may do as
they like at every point in strangling
us at home. All German revenues
must be held at the disposal of our
enemies for payments, not for war
invalids and widows-all as forced la
Dor for products, the prices of which
will be fixed by our customers.
What is a people to do which is
confronted by the command that it
is responsible for all losses and dam
age that its enemies suffered in the
war? What is people to do which
is to have no voice in fixing its obli-
patiOns?"