The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-20

empire in time OF peace. and who
knows that this Is to be the end?
AS wrote last week the German
people are ready to make sacrifices,
they realize and admit that as inter-
national conditions In Europe are at
present, it is necessary to be fully
prepared for war in order to be fully
able to preserve peace, but they have
a strong feeling that the government
Is going too far. that 1T, in fact,
weakens the empire 1t wants to pre-
serve in n mosc dangerous manner.
There is no one who does not realize
that when 10000 young men are sud
denly seized by the military authori-
ties for productive service the eff
feet must be felt very strongly by in
dustry and agriculture, as we'll as by
commerce, so much more as in many
directions a shortage OF hands is al
ready felt.
The German people now sternly de-
mand that their representatives In the
Reichstag must do their duty and re-
wise the plans OF the government in
the most thorough and conscientious
manner Tho sacrifices which are alb
solutely necessary must be made, hut
nothing more, is the cry of the nation
who Will not meekly permit the Reich
stag to be stampeded The German
people demand to be shown an urgent
reason for every new sacrifice.
The way in which the government
plans to raise the money is not ac-
ceptable to any German citizen, n prom
inent Berlin paper writes. If only be-
cause not even n pretense Is made to
make good the faults of the financial
reforms of 1909
Promises Not Vet Kept.
Time and again the government has
promised TO reduce the tax on sugar
but nothing Is said as to when this
promise is to be kept. though it Is OF
vital interest to the masses of tho
people. The emission of silver and
paper money to the tune of $1.4O0, 900
and the withdrawal from general cir
culation of an equal amount of gold
must, of course, also seriously affect
the financial position of the country.
1t is reasonably sure to suppose that
the government Will exert all the pres
sure 1t can on all the various pafties
when the budget comes up In the
| Reichstag, and that also threats OF
| dissolving that body will be heard as
soon as it refuses to dance to Beth
mann -Hollwcg's pipe But it is equally
certain that the Chancellor will think
twice before he brings any such threat
into execution. An appeal to the peo-
pie as the people now think would be
apt to have exactly the opposite effect
of what the government desires.
| In the southern states like Bavaria.
where the love of prussian rule has
never been pronounced. there is the
greatest indignation against the gov
| eminent among all classes.
| The suggestion of the government to
put supertax on all capital above
$4,000, that is to say on all incomes
| from capital above $4,000 a year. come
| in for the strongest condemnation 1t
is felt that this suggestion is made
merely for the purpose of lessening
the burdens which must be placed on
| the big capitalists.
| The criticism of the Socialist press
exceeds in violence anything seen be-
| fore, while the part of the press which
has hitherto supported the government
touching the chords of patriotism, re-
mains absolutely silent realizing how
intense Is the general feeling of bit
| terness.