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Show voiiisffiiGir IN PART WITH WILSON Would Have the German People Give Surety to Keep Promises. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 2. The Berlin Vorwaerts, in commenting ' on President Wilson's reply to the pope, says: The American note Is a cautious and clever document. U is a passionate passion-ate indlcttnent to amend the system of government obtaining in Germany, to which it attributes all the world's atrocities. Against the German people peo-ple the note sets forth that America does nor. want to retaliate, inasmuch as it has In the coin se of this war, which It did not want, suffered much. That is undoubtedly a very correct observation, that the German people did not want 1 1 1 i s war and in its course has suffered much. Fear that yet worse might come keeps it awake in defense. The American government has repeatedly re-peatedly declared it does not harbor enmity against the German people, but proof of this assertion has not been furnished. It can only .be established es-tablished in a demonstration of America's will that the German people peo-ple are not to be robbed and made to pay tribute to its enemies. The note cautiously omits reference to this point, which is of decisive importance, im-portance, to the German people. It does not support the indemnity and territorial demands of America's allies, al-lies, nor does it relinquish them. It will be said in France, however, that the note does not mention these things. Only the word satisfaction ; permits a wile interpretation with Germany so long as the present government gov-ernment system obtains. It demands that the will of the people back up government transfers. A section of the German press will bastei to say that it would be un-d un-d ignified for the German people to give such surety. On the contrary we believe it would be undignified to refuse it. The German people are fighting this most terrible of battles , not for the rights of a single family , or a certain form of government, but for its own existence. In this sense and In no other, the German social democracy in Its endeavor to obtain altered constitutional conditions refuses re-fuses to employ methods calculated to weaken the nation's defenses. The social democracy considers it self-understood that governments which conclude peace among each other represent the will of their peoples peo-ples and also that they possess their 1 confidence. The American government govern-ment in principle is ready to negotiate nego-tiate with accredited represent al ives of the will of the German people. The agreement falls because of conditions condi-tions to be negotiated, but it cannot fall, however, on the score of who is to negotiate. The accredited representative repre-sentative of the German people is the relchstag. elected by democratic suffrage. The only t liing lacking is a government responsible tn the people's peo-ple's representatives as it exists in all other countries of the world. Shall it be said of us Germans tha t negotiations with the United States are impossible because we as a nation of helots are incapable of asserting as-serting our own will? Do we deserve this - after years of fighting and suffering, suf-fering, after achievements and sacrifices sac-rifices without measure and number? |