Life — September 26, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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fritz: To exis, and extremely good to ge from Germany. But Metz is a hard nut to nd Marshal Foch has not dis closed yet how much he y to want es not seem ngs that are heyond his means, or cannot be had at t fair price. Perhaps Metz is not the next thing on his list, but our gentle- men, having assembled in force in that neighborhood, are not likely to put in heir time consuming victuals and play- ing baseball, They seemed to please the French estremely by the St. Mihiel exploit. So far as appears they please the French ways—by consideration, by helpfulness, by kindness to children, hy fellowship generally. Let us hope The more one thinks in many they really do. of France—let alone Belgium and Ser- via and Armenia and other places—the more sure one feels that the Austrian suggestion was premature and that the xood work now proceeding on the Western front has much farther to go before adjournment Nothing will do Germany any per- manent good, except to keep on pound- ing her until she is completely ready to turn out her criminal rulers and turn over an entirely new leaf. One of the great objections to a conference is that it would involve polite communication with the abominable brought on the war, and have con- scoundrels who ALL “ON TO BERLIN” Kaiser: You GON HIGHEST, WHERE AR THIS 1s THE “ON such a way as to cor confer even the angels To would be, in readmit them-into the soc They ought not to he read- The German to avy faces. with those men to ety of decent creatures people. ed; no, never. peo- will, of course, in time, produce new representatives with whom it will be possi confer, but the that cut the Belgian throat and sacked the cities of northern, France ought never again to be shaken, even with the coldest formality, by self-respect- ing people. hands HE Sisson documents disclosing that Lenine and Trotzky were Ger- man agents, are mighty interesting, but the Evening Post intimates that it is not safe to take all of them at their face value. That the Bolshevik revolu- tion was made in Germany is very probable, and some at Icast of these documents that support that supposi- But others seem Post's call imile reproduc- tion must be genuine, doubtful et le: on Mr. Creel for’ fac ast, and th TO BERLIN” tions of the ori al timely seemed The crime th crimes of the Germa great sufficiency wit! bogus criminalities. We can easily b lieve the worst of cither of them, and dibly bad e, but cne h bout liars. that it is i loes not make it incredible es to be fooled with lies eve: The redoubtable John Reed, lately of the Masses, Bolshevik Consul Gen- eral to the United States, 3 leased again on bail after arrest for just re- obstreperous language, professes not to believe these stories about Lenine and Trotzky and their twenty-five mil- lion dollars of German money. But then, John has so limited a hold on the re- alities of Tif nd so limitless a on unrealities that his doubts do not carry complete conviction. The more the papers learn and print about the present horrors of Bolsheviki rule in Russia the more suitable and prudent it seems to be for Jolin to abstain from discourse, and hold up his shaken hands and ery, As for our Bolsheviki, they seem to be far less prosperous than of yore In time of national war private war is waged with increased difficulty, and folks who stir it uw The amiable Debs is the get rapidly to jai latest recruit creet i for our jail army of the ind specch who impede the war. comicbooks.com