Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1918 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

When Germany is talking for publication —through the kaiser or his hand-picked chancellor—she speaks a great desire for a “liberal peace." fconquest and tribute are the farthest things from her mind, she says. When Germany is talking to her own people she tells the truth about the sort of peace she wants. Her real terms of peace—the terms the kaiser and his chancellor promise the soldiers they are going to get when they win the war—were found in a trench taken by the allies the other day, and they are quite different from the terms advertised. They were all written out plain and emphatic, and among other things they proclaim that Belgium must remain under German military, economic and political domination. Of course that isn’t conquest. Courland, Lithuania, Livonia and are to be “colonized" by Germany. Neither is that conquest Liberty of the seas is to be established, a “made in Germany" liberty by which the limit of the world’s shipping is to be established, giving Germany and her friends—Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria, 17,800,000 tons, and all the rest of the world —America, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and all—a total of 10,900,000 tons. Nothing like world domination in that; just “liberality." Boumania must “place at the disposal of Germany 1,800,000 tons of petroleum." Certainly that isn’t tribute; just friendliness. , And for America and the other allies this: “Those nations which attacked peaceful Germany must pay all war charges in raw materials, ships, ready money and territorial concessions, leaving Germany with only five billions national debt" Tribute? Certainly not Juki a testimonial of appreciation of Germany’s greatness and goodness—a forty or fifty billion dollar testimonial. And there are still people in this country who pretend to believe Germany wishes to make peace on “liberal" terms.