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SKCKHT H1STOKY?
There is a notable article by the
editor of Pearson’s in the last
number of Pearson’s Magazine. It
is entitled Secret History of Today.
It deals with the suppression of the
Masses by Solicitor-General Lamar
of the Posal Department as un
mailable and accepts it that one of
the articles by Max Kastman
“‘which tries to prove that Presi
dent Wilson has reversed his policy
in the last six months without any
justification” is one that was par
ticularly offensive and caused the
mailing rights to be suspended.
Th rcupon Harris. with what au
thority we know not, proceeds to
show tli it Eastman is wrong in
fact and inference.
The Per men's Article proceeds:
■‘Toward; the end of 1916 Ger
many made definite proposals of
pcac the main points were that
there should lie no indemnities and
no aequi--.itions, and that .vherever
possible th" principle should obtain
that nationuities should decide their
allegiane -. Ambassador Bcrnstorfl
laid these proposals before Presi
dent Wilson, and wat delighted to
find that the President welcomed
them as fair bases for negotiations.
He did more; he •. reared them
upon the British Ambassador as
reasonable, and advised him to take
the mind of his government as ’i*
their acceptance. About the same
tin." the President ttutit his famous
speech belauding ’’peeve without
vi> lory”.
A H".\ days later the British Ani
v.dor informed Pr rddent Wilson
that "in view of Ills strong feeling
tint the German proposal! should
li accepted as a basis fer negotia
tion, His Britannic Majesty’s gov
v.rnmenl could not refuse. It was
further suggested that an armistice
should precede the Per.ce Confer
ence.
On Friday, January 26. all preli
minaries were settled, e.s I wro e
on the r.th of February (which ap
peared in Pearson’s for April):
"One could feel the heating of the
wings of Peace in the hushed n!r:
Our hearts stood . : 1 1: -u 1 -hi us
lire athless”.
President Wilson ai d Ainba->ad or
Bernstorff were at no pains to con
ceal their satisfaction; life, normal
healthy life would soon tie restor e!
in Europe; the dreadful night
mare of war was over.
Ambassador Bei ru t raff cabled the
glad tidings to his government, and
received in reply the curl, notifica
tion that the U-boats would hc
looced to slnugher and that he
mu:.t notify the President of this
change of policy.In
answer President Wilson sent
Bcrnstorff his papers and Berns
torff could only beg til s President
for lime; he besought him indeed
to do nothing until he had seen the
Kaiser. With tare magnanimity
the President consented. Bernstorff
asked for three or four weeks at
the moot; the President gave him
five, and then told Congress that
h state of war existed between the
United States and Germany. Still
hearing nothing, gave him three
weiks more, and only declared war
in April”.
All that need be said about the
Torrgcing is that if theso allega
tions are true how is it that they
have remained secret so long?
They are so totally opposite lo
the facts which the public re
ceived as such that we can only
wonder in doubt that there may
be or may be not a grain of truth
in all of the Pearson article.
As everyone knows the facts they
ware briefly that German submit
ted rather indefinite peace propo
sals to the belligerents. There was
nothing about conquered territory,
there was nothing about indemni
ties, there was everything about a
conference, preferably at the Hagu
,v;.sldering peace terms. Moreover
the. terms, if they eoukl he called
t terms, were punished in print.
They were commented on unfavor
ably by the papers of the United
States as improbable of acceptance.
They were critically commented
upen in the British House of Com
mons and Lloyd George in a state
ment to the Commons indicated
that the Entente could not hut re
gard that these proposals were im
possible.
Moreover they were rejected:
that is a matter of history. They,
were rejected by the Entente Allies
as it was suggested in innumerable
Americ m papers which considered
the ine finite terms too unspecific
and too hadowy to he likely to he
entertained for one minute by ;•
single one cf the Powers.
Esp> . tally wan that feature of the
German peace proposal, as made
open and public by the publication
of the proposals itself, wherein
Germany spoke and acted as a vic
tor in the premises, rejected with I
scorn and anger by the Entente. I
After the rejection of the peace
terms, following a conference cf!
the different Allies at Paris upon
the part of representatives of each
of tin affected Enente nations, the
Kr.isi r declared that they would
force peace with their victorious
armies because of that rejection.
These a.-e all matters that ap
P "red in nl the papers: of ihe time
without exe ptioil. They were mat
ters which were not suppressed in
any way. And the story now told
by Pearson’s Editor is one of the
mort amazing pieces of magazine
fiction ever concocted or t lie entire
nation has for some extraordinary
reason been deluded by the pr<:*ss
and by the government; by the
press in the presentation of an en
tirely different set of facts and cir
cumstances and by the government
in the suppression of the real facts
and the real circumstances sur
rounding the German peace offer.
It is. none the less, astounding,
that Pearson’s Magazine would
publish -in evident sheer good faith
or in evident deliberate intention
10 deceive, an array of allegations
entirely opposite to the fact3 that
were published and disseminated
as news in the papers and by the
officials of the various powers from
day to day.
It is, none the less, astounding
that a set of allegations such as
the foregoing could be published by
the magazine when the public has
come to know better by reason of
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the open manner in which the
whole German peace negotiations
have been carried on.
If ihe statements in Pea- n's
• ngazi .•> contain tin truth wh. i •
tiie American public to thin!: ol
the complete perversion of fact
which it been allowed to absorb as
the true facts and as the true set
cf eircrinstances surrounding this
most critical period in all the war.
I : the first place the story as told
by Harris in Pearson's is calculated
to place President Wilson and liis
government and the American peo
ple in declaring war in such a po
sition of invulnerable right that
it is simply extraordinary that no
such details were before given the
public. It is not true that the ac
tion taken by the government in
breaking oft relations with Germany
is one which carried within itself
the justification for that action. So
serious a step is a declaration ot
war, that no just cause would justi
fy it in itself, and not he the bette;
for making public from end to end
of the nation and from end to end
of the earth the facts which are the
basis for that declaration.
In any event the Public is en
titled to further consideration and
surely the last has not been heard
of this extraordinary article in
Pearson’s Magazine. It is a state
ment which ought to he either
promptly denounced by those in a
positions to denounce it or admitted
as the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. If it is
the truth it places the American na
tion in this war in such a position
ot whole-souled rigmoousness mat
not a single sensible and sane per
son however rabidly pacificist lie
nmy, be but would hesitate to sup
port and approve the position taken
by the President.
II is entirely beside the quesion
that t lie tactic of frightfulness of
tlie German nation at war. of the
autocratic manner of its military
authority and its ruthless lack of
consideration of the rights of others
is ample to justify the war upon
the part of America.
It Is a true saying that thrice
is he armed that hath a quarrel
just; but tlie justice of the posi
tion becomes impregnable to criti
cism when it can set forth such a
series of facts as is alleged in the
Pearson article in justification of
tlie action of the Wilson adminis
tration. it is to he admitted that
President Wilson in the adoption of
his war policy is not quite immune
from the danger of being charged
with similar inconsistent respons
ibility as is outlined in the Kast
m; n article. Many of President
Wilson's most devoted admirers
have admitted that liis change from
pe.cifii to a war policy occasioned
astonishment. It is a change that
is not wholly explained by reason
of the ultimatum in the Sussex
note or the sudden defiance of the
American position by the edict di
recting the ruthless diver policy.
| That may lie justification- enough j
! for the war and in any other man :
| : han Wilson, so dedicated to the |
c ause of Paac? at all costs, it surely
would have been.
| Frankly it is just this uncer- :
j tainty and vague failure to pro
i pcrly : upraise the real meaning of j
j the submarine defiance that occa-1
i wans some doubt as to whether or |
! not the Pearson's article to which1
| reference has been made is wholly
; ,i i, of falsehoods or the clever,
concoction of an over acute sensa
‘ tion loving journalistic imagination.
.Moreover hints have been lot fall
from British statesmen in the re
cent past that there was “a time
when the nations were or. the verge
of peace".
It may be true that there are
more things happening than are
dreamt of in our published diplo
macy.and if there are. that is all
the more reason why the people,
ail the people, should be taken into |
the confidence of a government of j
the people for the people by the j
1 people. It is in this way that the 1
administration will he strengthened
in its policies and it is in this way \
that the nation will be unified and
strengthened beyond words by that
unification.
REPAIRING l»UAI\.
The city was yesterda; engaged
in replacing the dislocated drain on
Barrack Square, one section of the
box having collapsed several feet
to tiie detriment of the drainage
and the street.
TRIANGLE PROGRAM DliKAM.
Tonight pretty Bessie Barriscale
assisted by Frank Mills, will staij
in the great society play “The
| Golden Clan ” a 5 act Triangle
! feature. As usual with all Triangle
| ;>lays this is an elaborate produc
■ t ion. with gorgeous scenes of societj
high life. 'Miss Barriscale is at her
best and with the popular Frank
Mills, made a big hit in this show.
Popular admission of 25 e nts will
prevail.
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