Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-10
GERMANY IN DISGRACE.

If the German emperor in 1914 had
been possessed of the right kind of
vision he might have foreseen some
thing of the losses his empire would
suffer if he failed to subdue France
and England He had been preparing
for war for fortyfour years, and at
the moment when he struck had his
armies in the pink of condition for the
most prodigiouS war enterprise that
had ever been undertaken by man. At
this time it would seem that Emperor
William was genuine fool not TO
have considered the English navy 1t
had been so long the policy of Eng
land to have and control Il navy great
er than any other two powers in the
world, that with no other fighting
ships than German, he started out with
handicap that any real amateur
should have known all about. True,
he gambled mostly on land victory,
for he thought his armies invincible.
But at that he reckoned without his
hosts. He was really beaten before
he fired shot measured by the war
resources involved even before Amer
lea entered the conflict England and
France could not have been beaten by
Germany alone.
But be this as it may, now that Ger
many has been beaten, and peace
terms declared. there is little for Ger
man pride to boast of. The former
naughty and defiant empire is leVelled
to Il state of absolute impOtency. She
has neither army nor navy, nor air
forces, so that Poland, switzerland,
Norway or Sweden could step i'll and
whip her single handed, with all of her
great population. Humbled in her
pride, made to bite the DUST forced to
discredit herself and her former self
STYLED righteous state, Germany stands
today with no friends and no one to
take her part or to extend her the
hand of good fellowship or sympathy.
There need be no fear about the
peace terms being accepted. There is
no alternative They are based on
President Wilson's fourteen points,
and that declaration made the as
sertion that Germany was to be made
impotent which the peace terms only
make more clear. How the world will
regard the peace offer is of no con-
Germ now. The greatest minds of the
world have formulated the document,
and it must stand as the everlasting
epitome of the worlds sentence upon
people who chose TO rule with Il rod
of iron, and whose ruthless methods of
warfare were unbrdled with brutality
and horrors, liberty and license, and
crimes of unheard of tiendishnesS Ger
many's part in the war has made the
name hated and despised. All honest
men everywhere will be ashamed to
mention it, If the present German
government were wise it would change
the name so that every thought of Ger
many would be wiped off the face of
the earth. The Teutonic States would
be far better than the stigma of Ger
many. Something that has been Spued
out of the bowels If foulneSS is the
thought that will long cling to what
ever is German, of German origin, or
of German descent or association. The
world wants to forget Germany, but it
can never do that for several cen
turtles. Being generous to fallen
foe is all very well, but there is not
going to be much feeling for the jolt
that thunders vengeance in every Syl-
liable of the peace decree, for it is the
sentence of death.