The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-11
GERMANY STILL
UNREPENTANT
AS Indicated By Articles
Published Lately In
German Papers
WILL PUT AMERICA
IN HER PLACE
Germans Still Being Hood
winked BY the Same
Old Game Europe
Believes

We nave got to behave. Germany
gives US fair warning that she mas
put a rod in pickle which on the first
convenient occasion she will lay
about our backs if we do not memo
our manners. Germany admits that
there has been slight accident, ana
.or some unaccountable reason All
ned troops are now keeping the
Watch ol. the Rhine,' but if we think
hat Germany is defeated, we are
greatly mistaken. The "undefeated
army OF the tatherland is bringing
back ''untarnished escutcheons;
hey are told that they have fought
the good fight" that they need never
think Of the war Gin shame" and
| hey are actually being assured that
! hey. were mot really defeated but
only obliged to succumb to the "su-
periority of brute force"
Meanwhile the evident determine
Jon. of the Allies to pay no heed to
| German wines for mitigation of the
armistice terms is making the heath
en- rage ard the German people ina
line vain thing, namely, that they
will "put us in our place" the very
moment they shave recovered from
| his unpleasant little incident. It is
really astounding to discover to what
lepths of depravity all the Allied
statesmen have sunk, save and ex-
,ept President Wilson. With their
curious mental twist for regarding
everything they wish to believe as an
ictual fact, the Huns have got it in
% their heads that the President has
| zone over to Europe simply and sole
| y to save, them from the wicked OPP
preston Of the bullying Allies, who,
rs the Frankfurter Zeitung SO sweet
y puts it, gre indulging in "orgies OF
military Observation-Disclosures. The
frankfort organ-which, by the way.
lis located perilously near the occu
pied zone--is oblivious of defeat, and
nenacingly remarks:
"To imagine that the German ma
ion can again be treated as it was
or two hundred years after the
Thirty Years War is to labor under
terrible delusion. If Germany is
/. 'orced to the. realization that her ruiz
was deliberately contemplated ant
hat the arnistice and peace are tx
ering ner nothing better than down
= all-which she could have accepted
: aonorably if she had caret
; o allow her unbeaten armies il
; france and Belgian to con
niue fghting-then there i
nothing good in sight for Europt
pr for civilized mankind. 1t is higl
= ime that on all sides the orgies O
military swollen-headednes shout
come TO an end and that common
sense, humanity, and justice Shout
come into their own. It is time tina
ways and means should be taken t
= insure peace before the last germ @
International reconciliation is destroy
) ed"
!, Our old friend, the fre-eatin
h Count Ernst zu Reventlow, throug
J. IN unwonted medium, the Berlin Vol
Ie wartz thinks that Germany migf
8 las we'll renew the war. He asks:
Is care there not plenty of men
ar he returning armies who are cage
st to participate in the national defense
ID The Workers and Soldiers Council
isl have now. an opportunity to rende
# Immediate service to the Fatherlan'
ty If they have the courage to decid
m ror action, support will not fail then
,e Clemenceau finds himself in agre'
IS 1lent with those official plotters
I'd London who asesrt that a lastin
ve peace is possible only if Germany
o forever unable to rise from the dus
"t is the robber, the man with Il
an evil conscience, who despoils a d
Mt fenseless victim. England and Fran,
o., have the desire to invade every pa
to of our country, and thereby to crea
M a condition of universal ruin. II
81 Entente desires to see the Worker
III and Soldiers Councils dissolved, al
LET it can not he denied that were this d
q sire gratifed, the enemy Powe
ST. would step i and act with the utmc
ol- severity and ruthlessness.
nj Theodore Wolff, the editor of t
he Berliner Tlgeblatt, plays upon t
nd same string, but in rather more dult
he tones:
M eve rely on President Wilson
1as stand fast to his program, and
,tv are counting on real peace negot
to tons, not dictated peace. We "
an demand that the question Of Asa
rn, Lorraine be decided by a vote of |
are people. We will also demand the
va- dependence of the eastern provin
The lof Germany and of German Austria
ers eve count upon the Entente j
,re Ito lay new economic burdens upon
nav for that viii lead to further hat1
rr,s and if the Entente attempts to
an that Germany-now humble-is pr
arc erless, it will reckon falsely. for 81
ard million PEOPLE can not indefinit
+ha lie down before such threats. 2
~ The pathetic faith that the H
mid possess in the supposed friendship
red- America received a rude lar at
ser- last electors. but they think tt
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