Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-15
SPURN SLAVE"
TREATY -EBERT
President of Germany Says
Peace Pact viii Bring
New Wars.
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DEMANDS PEACE OF RIGHT
Executive in Proclamation Says Pact
Would Deliver German Labor to
Foreign apitaIism"-AppeaIs
to People to Stand Together.

4 Wouiu OeIIver German LABOR TO
Foreign Observation-Disclosures
to People to Stand Together.
Berlin, May 10.-Germany' reply to
the terms of peace presented at YER
Failles on Wednesday will be pro-
posal 'for peace Of right on the
basis of a lasting peace of the nations"
according to proclamation to the
German people issued here by Presi-
4 dent Ebert
The proclamation says the treaty
would deliver German labor to foreign
capitalism for the indignity Of wage
slavery and permanently fetter the
young German republic"
The proclamation closes with an ap-
peal to the German people to stand
together, knowing no parties, "and to
! preserve with the government mutual
trust in the path of duty in the belief
of the triumph Of reason and right
The text of the proclamation fol-
lows:
THE first reply of the allies to the
sincere desire for peace on the part of
sour starving people was the laying
down Of uncommonly hard armistice
conditions.
THE German people, having. laid
down it's arms, honesty observed all
the obligations of the armistice, hard
as they were. Notwithstanding this,
our opponents for six months have con-
tinued the war by maintaining the
blockade.
The German people bore all these
burdens, trusting in the promise given
by the allies in their note of November
Is, that the peace would be peace Of
right on the basis of President Wilson'S
fourteen points,
Instead Of that the allies have now
given us peace terms which are in
contradiction to the promise given.
1t is unbearable for the German people
and is impracticable, even if we put
forth all our powers. Violence without
measure would be done to the German
people. From such an imposed peace
fresh hatred would be bound to arise
between the nations, and, In the course
of history, there would be new wars.
The world would be obliged to bury
every hope Of league of nations liber-
ating and healing the nations, and in
5suring peace.
The dismemberment and mangling
of the German people, the delivering OF
German labor to foreign capitalism for
the indignlty of wage slavery and the
4 permanent lettering of the young Ger
man republic by the entente's imperial
ism is the aim of this peace violence
THE German peoples government
Will answer the peace proposals of vio-
lence with q proposal of peace of
right on the basis Of a lasting peace Of
! th nations.
The fact that all circles of the Ger.
man people have been moved so deep
~ testifies that the German govern.
ment is giving expression to the united
will of the German nation. The Ger
man government will put forth every
effort to secure for the German people
the same national unity and independ-
ence and the same freedom of labor
in economical and cultural respects
which the allies want to give to ali
the peoples of Europe, save only our
people"
Our nation must save itself by its
own action. In view Of this danger of
destruction the German nation and the
government which it chose must stand
by each other, knowing no parties.
Every thought and the entire will
OF the nation ought now to be turned
to labor for the preservation and re-
construction Of our fatherland. The
government appeals to all Germans in
this hard hour to preserve with its
mutual trust in the path Of duty and
in the belief of reason and of right
The proclamation, which was issued
/ by the imperial president and the i'm
perial government, bears the signature
Of President Ebert.
The imperial and Prussian govern
ments. in joint proclamation to east
ern Germany, assuring the populations
Of those provinces that the government
will do It's utmost to ward off the dan
gers threateningSthem and enumerat-
ing the territorial changes proposed
In the treaty Of peace declare:
'These Entertainments are entirely
irreconcilable to the principles
solemnly proclaimed by President
/ Wilson,
The Lokai Anzieger states that a
note has been sent to the entente na-
tons requesting that new peace nego-
tiations be begun and that German
prisoners Of war be Immediately re,
leased.