Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-13
Germans Being Fed Upon
Claims of Injustice in
Allied Terms.
SCHEIDEMANN LOSES
THIRST FOR POWER
Says Sole Aim Of People is to Keep
Nation Alive and No. Pursue Ma
tionalistic Dreams-Compiains Be.
cause Hundred Sentences Begin
With Germany Rsnounees' and
Wilson's Points are Ignored.
GBy Associated Press.J

Berlin, May l2.-Philipp Scheide-
mann, the chancellor, in his speech
before the national assembly here to-
day, said that the occasion was the
turning point in the life of the German
people, as the assembly was to decide
the attitude toward what our adver-
saries call peace conditions"
The representatives of the nation"
he continued. meet here as the last
band of the faithful assemblies when
the fatherland is in the greatest dam
scr. Ali have appeared except the
representatives of Alsace- Lorraine,
who have been deprived of the right
to be represented here just as you
are to be deprived of the right to exer-
else by free vote the right of self deter
mination.
And see among you the representa-
tffes of all the German races and
lands. the chosen representatives Of
the Rhineland, the Saar, East Prussia,
West Prussia Poscn, Si,esia. Danzis
and Mcneil. Together with the deputies
OF the unmenaced regions. l see the
deputies of the menaced provinces
who. if the will of our enemies becomes
law, are to meet-for the last time as
Germans amongst Germans. l know
am one in heart with you in the grav-
fty and sanctity of this hour which
should be ruled by only one idea-that
we belong to one another and must
stand by one another and that we are
one flesh and one blood and that who
ever tries to sever US is driving mur-
derous knife into the living body of the
German people.
lose Ihrust Fer Power.
: To keep orr nation alive-that and
nothing else-is our duty. We are
pursuing no natfonalistic dreams. No
questions of prestige and no thirst for
power have a part in our deliberations.
Bare life is what we must have for our
land and nation today. while every one
feels throttling hand at his throat.
Let me speak with practical con-
siderations. The thing which is at the
basis of our discussion is this fit VOL
ume in which 100 sentences begin
Germany Renounces.'s This dreadful
and murderous volume by which con-
fession of our uaworthiness, our con-
sent to pitiless disruption. our agree
ment to helotry and slavery. are to
be extorted-this book must not be-
come the future code of laws"
Says Wilson's Name PaIes.
THE world has once again lost an
illusion. The nations have in this
period, which is so poor in ideals,
again lost a belief. What name OF
thousands of bloody battlefelds in
thousands Of trenches. in orphaned
families and among the dispairing has
been mentioned in these four years
with more devotion and belief than the
name Of Wilson? Today the picture of
the peace bringer pales beside the
dark forms Of our jailers, to one of
whom, Premier Clemenceau, a French
man recently wrote:
1.-THE wild beast has been put in a
cage on bread and water but is al
lowed to keep his teeth while his claws
are hardly cut
"All over Berlin we see posters in
tended to induce love for our brothers
in captivity. They show faces behind
prison bars-that is the right frontis-
piece for the so-called peace treaty.
Sees Germany Prison Camp.
"Sixty millions are behind the
barbed wire and the prison bars--six-
ty millions at hard labor. for whom
the enemy makes their own land
prison camp. Should the peace condi-
tions be accepted Germany no longer
could call anything her own which lies