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Show I' NO PREMATURE PEACE. Warning America not to allow a premature peaco, Andre Cherdame, a French writer, declares the Germans would come out of the war with greatly great-ly Increased assets, if allowed to hold their present booty. The French officer says that long before the war the s'ecret propaganda fostered by the German government had convinced the whole German people peo-ple that the realization of the Pan-Germanist Pan-Germanist scheme would mean eventual' even-tual' a decided bettering of the German Ger-man workingmen's condition. It -was primarily the expectation of personal and material advantages which they were to derive from the Pan-German economic scheme that decided the great majority of the German Socialists Social-ists to lend their support to the kaiser kais-er nnd his general staff. Before the war the means of realizing on tho booty to be gobbled up were very carefully care-fully looked into. To clto one instance in proof of this,;the Baron dc Wan-genheim, Wan-genheim, German ambassador at Constantinople, Con-stantinople, said to Mr. Morgenthau: "Remember, this lime wo are going to make war ruthlessiy. We shall carry off all the French art treasures belonging to the state and r-cntl them to Berlin." Tho war booly has surpassed all I expectations. Its immensity is at times recognized by tho Germans themselves, who, when they get together, to-gether, cannot help admitting the truth which the official propaganda endeavors to conceal as much as possible pos-sible outside the frontiers of Pan-Germany; Bofore the final terms of peace are fixed, the allies must compel the re- Istoration of all the stolen goods. ! In the United States the sent'nmnt is growing that Germany must be made to feel the enormity of tho orlme committed against civilization and jmust be reduced so that at no time within a century can the Teutons be a serlcms threat against the peace of the world. Not only will the Gcr- jmans bo made to restore Belgium and northern France, but they will be cut off from Russia and a barrier will be ! erected between thm and Bulgaria and Turkey. The German nation will be isolated, |