Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1919 — A FEW PEACE POINTERS. [ARTICLE]

A FEW PEACE POINTERS.

What hath Gott wrought!—New York Evening Post. Well, what Germany wanted was a “strong” peace, wasn’t it? ; —Des Moines Register. Any strike by the map-makers’ union just now would be treason. — Wall Street Journal. “Bring on the Bolsheviki!” exclaitns a German delegate at Versailles. All right, but the bill will be waiting when the spree is over.— Omaha Bee. German .leaders who prefer Bolshevism to- the peace terms may get both.—Wall Street Journal. Whatever else the treaty may be it certainly is a sockdolager.—Charleston News and Courier. ' Germany has the blues. They are Prussian blues. Also, they are fast color, guaranteed.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Germans don’t like the peace terms, but they ought to remember that if they did nobody else would. — Philadelphia North American. The German newspapers assert that the peace terms are a defeat for President Wilson. Well, if the Huns can stand it he can.—Shreveport 'Times. The London Post fears Germany will not accept the treaty save under -duress.. Well, we have plenty of duress left over, if it should be needed.—Omaha Bee. * If the first meeting of the league is held in Washington, the baggage of visiting diplomats will splash when handled.—-Greenville (S. C.) ' Piedmont. ‘To the victors belong the broils.Boston Herald. Clemenceau can be trusted to take the rant out of Rantzau.—Wall Street Journal. The shot that sank the Lusitania sank the German Empire.—New York Commercial. Detroit is to have a world peace exposition •in 1923. The necessity for putting the date that far ahead is, of course, apparent.—Detroit News. Looks as if the peace terms have taken the “germ” out of Germany.— New York Morning Telegraph. Hindenburg line is beginning to look like a rope with a noose on the end.—Wall Street Journal. Germany’s ambition to get all that was coming to her has, apparently, been satisfied. —Philadelphia Enquirer. v The German spokesmen complain of “slavery.” It was their slavery to the Hohenzollerns that brought them where they are. —Troy Times. The world war has cost the United States $30,500,000,000 to date. More reason for making a peace that will last. —Little Rock (Arkansas) Gazette. •Much of this talk to the effect that everlasting peace is impossible is done by people who said a great war was impossible.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. We would feel indebted to Mr. Bryan if he would mail the Berlin government one of his arbitration treaties and remind them that they once turned it down.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.