Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-11-19 | Page 7 | Voice of Alsace

f VOICE OF ALSACE h "I have had my hearts's desire on earth, ' he says. He does not explain what it is. Everybody knows. He is the Abbe Wetterle, most famous fa-mous of Alsatians. For 20 years he was the voice of Alsace, crying aloud the hope of the return to France. As such the Alsatian district of Ribeau-vllle Ribeau-vllle solidly sent him to the German reichstag. He was the famous deputy ot . Ribeauville, but he was the voice of all. The other Alsatian deputies left him the role. Today he is "Deputy of all Alsace to Paris," preparing speeches and articles ar-ticles on "the durable peace." In a quiet street beside the Madeleine he works for the future of Alsace-Lorraine. Prussia and Germany knew him as an open enemy. He had almost as many enemies as fellow members in the reichstag, yet he was by no means is Jr !- ' or - . i ' ' , - w t A k it , ' 1 isolated or powerless. All knew him, and he was welcomed by all. Admir- ably well posted on the facts of German politics, and particularly of siae issues- of witty and flowing speech, a "causeur," as the French say whose conversation becomes monologue because everybody listens, the abbe had always a circle of admiring German colleagues round him.