Show other topas to pcs illo ivonen information is flashed from the neighborhood of the I 1 hotel I 1 atel crillon brillon and echoed from washington that the united states has no thought of handing in a bill to germany on the basis of the same sort of plebiscite behrnd the recent ora cul cil ir announcement that the am people regard it as sacrilege leg ious to alter a word or i comma of the so called covenant it is said ami america rila does not want i cent from germany is is as prodigal as that of clattering ering other people s money who has liven any one authority to say the american people wish nish germany to go scot fret when have they been consulted the te newspaper have not recorded that this question has 1128 been submitted not to speak of direct war expenditures tures and a public debt which amounts to about 1500 1 a family and which it will taki a genera tion s sweat to pay ands of Americ americans ins have bt been een inured b by y germany if the sums are not collected from germany they must be paid out of momy ex trach traced d from the depleted pockets of our masses ma ases the pubic if consulted and speaking in in n or gan td t fd d dav doubtless lias has A right to assume burdens which should be carried elsewhere but has ha an any y one a 1 right to determine such a matter without a d shadow of con tation 9 we almost went to IN ajr ar to compel great brihim to pay the alabina acab inu claims and what reason is thare for being easier oh germany Germ jR which openly opt nty ent sent out submarines than on great britain whose offense was in letting lettin fi a destroyer secretly dodge out of one ot ol her ports and if advertisement of a purpose not to put in a bill is in contempt of self determination it is likewise close tu to an of our allies we imply there is 13 something thina dirty and ion loa in asking an in indemnity we antim tte lie by our trumpeting that we arc are above such nit inniss hire litre is a not calculi calculated ted to make us popular to let an unrepentant offender tree free is scar scarcely eLly a way ay to discourage du courage wars of j ig greb u sion new york I 1 tribune |