The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-16

or who is watching his adversary
German agents in America saw tho
republican drive shaped itself. That
drive for republican control Of Amer
lean politics made the German atti
tude towards the peace conference
. most sullen, obstinate one. IT made
the daring German admiral sink the
Scapa low ships. 1t made the peace
confereese for Germany resent tn
terms of the treaty with great ardor
and independence. Ii made the Ger
man government refuse to surrender
the ships specified in the peace terms.
It made them refuse to surrender the
great leaders Of the Germany assault
on world independence when the al
! lies demanded them for trial. That re-
publican drive in the United States
senate for control of American poll
tics is more responsible today for the
new revolution in Germany and the
determined effort to return to the rule
Of the monarch than any other thing
in the world.
1t brought forth from the late mill
tary leader, Won Kapp in Germany,
the following expression quoted in
this country only yesterday: "The
government Loyalty will fulfill the
peace treaty as far as it's fulffllment
can be reconciled with German honor
and the country's economic future"
There was no German honor in the
way-no German economic future in
the way, so long as the German enc
my had the proper respect for the
power that sent its armies back across
the Rhine. The day Lodge and the
Republican leaders adopted the pro
gram for their great drive, that day
German respect for American Suprew-
acy faded into insignifcance It will
bring The allies to bloodshed with !
Germany again if ii is not checked.
DO you deny the assertion Ger
many had no enemy in the world she |
feared more at the end of the fighting
than she feared America. There was
not a soldier in the world--not sea |
man under any liag-half so dreadful |
to the German as the man who bore |
allegiance to the American flag. This |
is true assumption When Ertz- |
berger, blindfolded, came through the |
battle lines this new American spirit |
had begun to close in all along the |
front with such amazing and miracu- |
lous bravery and superior fighting, he
told Foch that Germany was at the
mercy Of the Allies, lie believed that |
with all his soul One power-not
the winning power, but the deciding |
foree-the American soldier. made |
Ertzberger admit that to his adverse
ry in the throes of a last struggle |
AS long as that force was represen-
ted in the bristling cannon on that
front. the tramp of the two million |
American soldiers in France. in the |
navy that spoke terror to the urdersea |
craft, German iunkerism knew but |
one thing-to obey those who gave |
them orders to get back into Germany |
beyond the Rhine!
But htings have changed! How |
they have changed! Every German
iunker knows as we'll as every man
Of affairs in America that Senator |
Lodge is working by carefully laid |
program in gigantic drive to return
to power. In Gerwany. that terrible |
drive has had its bad effects, in Eng
land, in France in Italy, in far away
Japan, American prestige thai was
worshipped like thing handed down
from the Infinite has been forgotten.
What the American navy did to SUP
press German raids on world shipping,
what the American army did to tern
the Huns from Paris, made our mon
and arms the one saving, invincible
power. 1t gave us the praise of the
world and brought us an amazing res
poet al the hands of the Germans-a