Show Right tl the Wrong o of 1871 J T THE men w who 10 represent the allied governments go at the coming pence peace conference will have ha an to right light one of the tho greatest wrongs of the nineteenth the century century the the wrong that Germany committed on Ull J 10 1871 when hen the treat treaty of or Frankfurt closing the Franco Pru Prussian Franco sian war was signed By Bv that treaty Germany not only appropriated Al Al- Alsace sace baCe and Lorraine provinces that had han been French for almost years ears hut she sIlo compelled her bleeding victim to pay an indemnity of a pillion billion dollars dollar dollars dollars-au all an amount much larger than the war had llad ha cost Pru Prussia sla an nn amount which the Prussians believed it r would strain Frances France's s resources for decades to pay The 1110 treaty also provided that German soldiers should remain in France until a large part of or the indemnity should be paid f Leave e the enemy nothing but their eyes to wee weep with said the bloody body to Bismarck He afterwards expressed ext ex- ex t r pressed regret that France had not been compelled to 11 1 pay ay a n. larger in indemnity He salved his conscience on this point with the comforting thought that no one atthe at atthe I Ithe the time could have e imagined that France would be beable beable beable able to pa pay more In 1871 France was as humiliated bc beyond ond measure The terms which she was compelled to accept were outrageously outrageously outrage outrage- unfair French pride has hag never recovered from itom J I the hurt which Prussia gave it fort forty seven seven years ears ago But ut II time time makes all t things things' even And when the dip J gather about the green table in the near future to decide what hat shall be done with Germany the conscience con- con science of iho the world will cry out to them to ri right slit the tits great wrong of 1871 to 1871 to give France rance back not only y Lorraine Alsace but the billion ut dollars of which she was robbed including including- the accumulated interest President Wilson Vilson and D Diw Solf Soli German foreign secretary sec see are practically agreed on the iho Lorraine Alsace I question but the tho world must reserve judgment until 1 France l has lias ag spoken Is II |