WHEN PEACE COMES.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 39, 22 May 1917, Page 8

WHEN PEACE COMES.

A desperate note is struck in the “Berliner Neueste Nachricliten”: “Oil with the nightcaps we have worn so long! On the day when the peace terms shall bo spread out on the fateful round table of diplomacy, we must bang our iron list on it with all our might, and keep the list there without allowing ourselves to be fooled by considerations of future international friendships. ‘ ‘ The war has awakened the German people, it has unfettered slumbering powers, and it has shown the -world and ourselves that if wo wish to bo we may be the masters.

‘ ‘ Are we, then, again to shuffle along timidly lest we tread'on the toes of others? Are we once more to take part in the imbecile comedy of friendly relations between the Powers? Do we want any more princely visits from States who have treacherously attacked us and who tried to murder us? • “Shall we decorate our towns and shout 'Hurrah! ’ when foreigners step on that German soil that they tried to devastate? Are wo again to appoint the kings who have led the most brutal and shameful of all wars against us and our women and children field-mar-shals and generals in the Prussian army? “God forbid! Bather, when the time for peace talk comes, our representatives at the green table must talk in tones so thunderous and overpowering that all the rest of them may be convinced that we mean to stand on our dignity in future, and to be extremely cautious in welcoming in our midst any of the high-placed foreign gold-laced royal and princely parasites. ’ ’