The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-21

and were given every preference on
er the Poles, the original owners an
inhabitants of the land. In 1905, tn
Kaiser built a magnificent palace a
Posen, stating that it would be
monument to cement the friendshi
between the Germans and the Poles
In spite of these attempts to Gel
mamie them, the Poles have retain
ed their nationality and their Ian
guage, and in justice to them, thei
years of servitude, and their devoticl
to an ideal that their territory SHOULD
be returned to them. The new re
public of Poland under the protec
ton of the League of Nations vii
also act as a buffer state between
Russia and Germany.
In regard to the last question, ths
return of one hundred and forty
thousand mil cows to France and Bel
GUM, the Berlin "Lokal Anzeiger'
thinks the surrender Of live stock
and especially the one hundred and
forty thousand milk cows to the En-
tente is one of the most severe con-
ditions of the peace, and asserts that
the present situation as regards live
stock is so menacing that the further
reduction demanded would be a ca
tastrophe to the health of the nation,
especially the small children, How
ever, none of the papers say word
about the poor French and Belgium
babies who were starved on account
of the theft of this number of cows
from France and Belgium. There is
only one viewpoint to the Germans,
and that is the German SIDE.
The German government at pres
ent is a socialist government, and are
making a great cry that all the So
cialists of the world should rise
against the peace, which they de-
nounce as a capitalist made peace
The German Independent Socialists
advocate the signing of the peace
treaty as the lesser of two evils. They
lint that universal Bolshevistic rev.
,lution will sweep away all existing
States, and their treaties with them.
Below l am giving you a transla-
ion of an address made by the Pres
dent Ebert to the German people
he day after the publication of the
'eace terms:
"The honorable disire for peace
f our greatly suffering people found
IS answer in the uncommonly severe !
rmistice conditions. The German ;
eople laid down their arms and full :
lied all the terms of the armistice, :
S sharp as they were. In spite of :
lis, our enemies continued the war :
Or six months by maintaining the :
unger blockade. The German .peo- :
lie bore all burdens having faith in !
he Allies note of November 18th.
hich promised that the peace would
e a peace of justice based on the ID
Oints of Wilson. What is given to !,
5 now instead of the peace terms. :
the note, and is unbear- :
BILE by the German people, and i'm :,
Ossible of fullfllment, even by sum- :,
Ioning all our forces. l.
Unreasonable power and borders
re wrenched from the German peo- q
lie. From such an enforced peace o
ew hate must spring up among ma II
ions and in course of time new MUIR {.
ers. Parcelling out and chopping o
ut the German people, giving over
4 German labor to foreign capital o
n an inhuman form of bondage, per- o
IAN republic by Imperialism of the d
epublic by the imperialism of the h
'ntente is the aim of the forced tt
eace. The German government will Il
nswer the proposition of a peace of 81
avery with proposal that it should Il
ave been a peace of justice on the g
asis Of its right to have lasting G
eace for its people. The profound Il
citation that has gripped all Ger 81
ian people, stands witness to the Il
act, that the German government a
Expresses the firm will of the German a
eople. The German Government Il
ill strain its every energy to get for tt
lie German people the same nation n
unity and independence and the Il
lme freedom for labor in industry p
nd Kultur, that the Allies want to il
i've to all peoples of Europe, but a
OF to our people. c
Our people must save themselves v
Y their Ouw initiative. In view of a
lis danger of our annihilation the f
erman people must stand by its a
elected by the people b