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Show L fill PAPERS 1 CONDEMN NOTE OF PRESIDENT Question of Democratization Democratiza-tion Declared to Be an Internal In-ternal One and Forbid- den to Foreigners. WILSON ACCUSED OF HYPOCRISY Press of Holland Also Comments Com-ments Unfavorably Upon Reply to the Pontiff ! ' at Rome. t BERLIN, via London, Sept. 1 President Pres-ident "Wilson's reply to the pope's peace note was published generally by the newspapers this morning, and in the editorial comment Mr. Wilson is bitterly denounced on the score of the note's toue and tendency. The Lokal t Anzeiger says: President Wilson declines the pope's mediation with the same mass of swollen phrases with i which he has already satiated the J German people. We are told that ,' the war is not being waged against ) I the German nation, but against . ; their ''masters." The absolute mendacity of Mr. ( ' Wilson's phraseology becomes ap- -i- parent when his dictum as to the rights of nations who are capable j of shaping their own destinies is opposed t,o the wish of the Ger man jfeoplc to be governed by these very "masters." Mr. Wilson, therefore, does not intend to give us our liberty, but to deprive us of liberty to arrive at our own de-) de-) visions. ; For that matter this whole mass of words has as its purpose the ex- pression of the intention to prolong pro-long the war at any price. In this resolve Mr. Wilson, who is . fighting for the freedom of man-. man-. v kind, orders peace meetings dis- ; ' parsed and pacifists arrested. ; This war has exposed in its nak- 'j - rdness much that is low and con- ij :; temptible; its remaining task was i 'I to exhibit a hero like this coldly 1 calculating mathematician, whom h singular fate in a momentous k . hour has given the power over one " hundred million people. l |