The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-14
Terms Unacceptable,
 States Scheidemann
 to German Assembly
tContinued from Page one) Members of the national assembly,: The dignity of humanity Is placed in your hands. Preserve it,"
GERMANY's TURNING POINT
By Associated Press

Berlin. Monday. May 12-Phillip scheidemann, the chancellor. in his speech before the national assembly 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 dan ger. All have appeared except the representatives of Alsace- Lorraine, who have been deprived of the right to be represented, just as you are to be deprived of the right to exert in 9 free vote the right of self -determina- tion.
 And I see among you the represen- tatives of all the German races and lands, the chosen representatives of the Rhineland, the Sarre, East Prussia, West Prussia Posen, Silesia, Danzig and Momel. Together with the depu . ties of the unmenaced regions, I see the deputies of the menaced provinces, who if the will of our enemies be- comes law, are to meet for the last time as Germans amongst Germans, l know I am one in heart with you in the gravity 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 whoever tries to sever us, IS driving murderous knife into the living body of the German people
 ASK ONLY BARE LIFE
 "To; keep our nation al!ve-that and nothing else-is our duty. We are pur- suing no nationalistic dreams. No questions of-prestige. and no thirst for power have a part in our delibera- tions. Bare life is what we must have Tor our land and nation today, while every one feels a throttling hand at his throat.
 Let me speak without tactical con- alterations. The thing which is at the basis of our discussion is this thick volume in which 100 sentences begin: Germany renounces This dreadful and murderous volume by which consent to pitiless disruption, our agreement to Helotry and slavery, are to be extorted-this book must not be- come the future code of law.
 The world has once again lost an illu- slon The nations have in this period which is so poor in ideals, again lost d pellef. 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 devotion, and belief than the name Of Wilson? Today the picture of the -bringer as the world pictured him, is paling beside the dark forms of our jailors to one of whom, Premier Clemen- ceau, Frenchman, recently wrote:
 The wild beast has been put in a cage on bread and water, but is allowed to keep his teeth, while his claws are hardly cut
 All over Berlin we see posters intend ed to arouse a practical love for our brothers in captivity. They show sad and hopeless faces behind the prison bars that is the right frontispiece for the so- called peace treaty, true portrait of Germany's future