St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1919-01-15
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 iair warning that she has
put a rod in pickle which on the first
convenient occasion she Will lay
about our backs if we do not nerd
our manners. Germany admits that
there has been a slight accident, and
for some unaccountable reason Al
lied troops are now keeping the
Watch O.: the Rhine,' but if we think
that Germany is defeated, VIC are
greatly mistaken. The "undefcated
Army" o. the Fatherland is bringire
back "untarnished escutcheons; )"
they are told that they have fought
the good fight" that they need never
think Of the war sin shame" and
they are actually being assured that
they were mot really defeated" but
only Obliged to succumb to the "su-
periority of brute force"
Meanwhile the evident determina-
ton 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
gine Il vain thing, namely, that they
will "put US in our place" the very
moment they have recovered from
this unpleasant little incident. 1t Is
really astounding to discover to what
depths CT dcpravity all the Allied
statesmen have sunk, save and cX-
ccpt Prc,itcnt Wilson. With their
curious mental twist for regarding
everything they wish to believe as an
actual fat1, the Huns have got ii in
to their heads that the President has;
gone over to Europe simply and sole
~ to save them from TIE wicked OPP
preston OF the bullying Allies, who,
as the Frankfurtcr Zeitung SO sweet
ly puts it, are indulging in "orgies of
military swollenheadedncss.' The
Frankfort organ-which, by the way,
is located perilously near the occu
pied zonc---is Obvious OF defeat, and
r1cnacingiy remarks:
"To IMAGINE that the German ma
ton can again be treated as it was
for two hundred years after the
Thirty ears War is to labor under
4 terrible delusion. If Germany is
forced to Tho realization that her ruin
was deliberately contemplated and
that the ;'lnistice and peace are to
bring ner nothing better than down
fall-w|llch she could have accepted
honorably if she had cared
to allow her unbeaten armies in
France and Belgian to con-
tinue hehting-then there is
nothing good in sight for Europe
OF for civilized mankind. 1t is high
time that on all sides the orgies of
military. Observation-Disclosures should
come TO an end and that common
sense, humanity, and justice should
come into their own. 1t is time that
ways anil means should be taken to
insure peace before the last germ Of
national reconciliation is Destroy
Cd"
Our old friend, the fire. eating
Count Ernst zu Rcventlow, through
an unwonted medium, the Berlin Vor-
wartz thinks that Germany might
as well renew the war. He asks:
care there not plenty of men in
the returning armies who are eager
to participate in the national defense?
The Workers. and Soldiers Councils
have now an opportunity to render
immediate service to the Fatherland
If they have the courage to decide
for action, support will not fail them.
Clemencaau finds himself in agree
ment with those official plotters in
London WHO asesrt that lasting
peace is possible only if Germany is
forever unable to rise from the dust
at is the lobber, the man with the
evil conscience, who dcspoils de-
fenseless victim. England and France
have the ccsire to invade every part
of our country, and thereby to create
a condition of universal ruin. The
Entente desires to see the Workers
and Soldiers Councils dissolved, and
it can not he denied that were this de-
sire gratiiicd, the enemy Powers
would stcp il. and act with the utmost
severity and ruthlessness."
Theodore Wolff, the editor of the
Bcrliner Tapcblatt, plays upon the
same string, but in rather more dulcct
tones:
ave rely on President Wilson to
stand fast to his program, and we
arc counting on real peace negotia-
tons, not d dictated peace. We will
demand tina. the question of Alsace-
Lorraine be decided by vote of the
people. We will also demand the in
dependence of the eastern provinces
of Germany and of German Austria.
ave count upon the Entente not
to lay new economic burdens upon us,
for that viii lead to further hatred,
and if the Entente attempts to say
that Germany-now humble-is pow
erless, it will reckon falsely, for sixty
million people can not indefinitely
lie down before such threats"
The pathetic faith that the Huns
possess in the supposed friendship of
America received a rude jar at our
last elections, but they think there