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what we asked them to do, and they are
dealt with IS il they had refused TO do
so. Millions Of German people are de-
MED the right Of self determi alton, but
more Immediately they are denied the
right to live and the opportunity to work
so as to produce the PREPARATIONS demand
ed. The terms will bring about con-
sequences duplicating those Of the peace
of Paris in 1871 and the peace Of Brest-.
Litoysk in 1918. The peace is full Of
the promise Of more war. It's terms are
calculated, in their severity, to incite
Germany to exactly those activities
which it IS proposed to guard against by
the Presidents promise to ask the
United States Senate to fratify a pledge
to 60 to the assistance Of France in the
event Of an attack upon her by Germany.
They will drive Germany to joining
fortunes with another outlawed people
the Russians. And the economic re-
preston Of Germany will not benefit
other nations. They can only benefit
when Germany is restored to her position
in the world as producer Of wealth, a
buyer and seller Of goods. Most think
ing Americans feel that this country
should have been too proud to join with
the Allies in the imposition of peace
of revenge Of revenge not upon an in-
sane, autocratic government, but upon
a people who supported that government
under compulsion, as the greater number
of people Of the allied nations supported
their governments. So
The people OF the United States did not
90 to arar FOR such peace. They went
to war to end war, and they find that
the peace has prepared the way for
more war. They went to war for freedom
everywhere and they find that there is
to be no freedom for the German people.
Not that only, but they find that they
shall have to maintain armies and navies
and pay heavy taxes to keep the German
people in a condition of exhausted,
Respondent but desperate servility.
They will have to pay what the hard
terms on Germany will prevent the
German people from paying. They
will have to bear the burden Of k eping
under in the heart Of Europe another
Ireland that shall be as expensive and
as deadly to Europe as Ireland has been
to Great Britain. The common people
do not want that. They are protesting
against it in England, in France and in
Italy and in this country. They expect
that President Wilson will explain why
it is that, as a representative Of this
nation, he had to abandon all those
proposals Of peace terms that were the
antitheses of those that have been forced
upon Germany. The President should
tell ug why he yielded che greater number
Of his fourteen points.
The world would like to know why
the secret treaties of the Allies, parcelling
out the Near East among themselves,
were upheld by conference assembled
in the name of the abolition Of secret
diplomacy. An explanation should be
forthcoming Of the recognition Of the
Kolchak faction in Russia. Is it based
solely on the Kolchak promise to pay the
debts contracted by the Gar, to keep
the Russian people in bondage and to
gain control of Constantinople? We
should like to know why the Lenine and
| Trotzky government is outlawed, when
that government offered to refuse to
sign the Brest- Litovsk treaty Of the
!! Allies and ourselves would assure it OF
assistance and supplies, holding the soviet
for four days awaiting the promise that
never came. Why are we warning upon
Russia or upon particular faction in
, Russia when all that those people did
/ was to set up government Of their own?
Why are we setting up the Omsk govern.
ment when we condemn the Bolshevists
for asserting at the lannon's mouth tx
the governments set up in Western
Russia by the German autocracy? Why
1 have we given over China to the rule O
Japan? We have been told that Japar
! will, in time, relinquish Shantung. Lool
at the map and see how Japan has com
pletely surrounded the Yellow sea. Will
Manchuria on the north, Korea anl
Japan herself on the east, Formosa OF
the south and Shantung on the west
both the Y elbow sea and the East Chins
sea are as completely bottled up as w
have bottled up the Gulf Of Mexico
/; Shantung makes the control complete