The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-15

1916. authorizes the governors, the
military commanders and the chiefs
Of ACCOMPLISHMENTS to order that the
unemployed be conducted by force to
the places where they must work.
This was already forcible working. al
though in Belgium.
Now it is no longer a question of
forcible working in Belgium. but Ger
many and for the benefit of the Ger
mans.
ITO give an appearance of plausi-
bility to these violent measures the
occupying power insisted in the Ger
man press, both in Germany and Bel
GUM. On these two pretexts: the un-
employed constitute a danger to pub
lie order, and burden on official ben
evidence.
ITO this we replied in a letter adj
dressed to the governor general and
to the head of the political department
on October 10Th, as follows:
"YOu are we'll aware that public
order is in no wise threatened and
that all influences. moral and civil.
would support you spontaneously
were it in danger
The unemployed are not a burden
! on official benevolence, it is not from
your funds that they receive assist
ance.
In his reply the governor general
no longer urges these two first con-
siderations, but he alleges that 'do.es
to the unemployed from whatever
source they may come at present must
| finally be a change upon our finances
and that it is the duty of good ad-
ministrator to tighten such charges:
he adds that prolonged unemployment
| would cause our wOrkmen to lose
their technical proficiency. and that in
the time of peace to come they would
be useless to industry
| True. there were other ways in
which our finances might have been
protected. We might have been
! spared those war levies which have
now reached the sum of one billion
| francs. and are still mounting up at
the rate of 80 millions a month: we
might have been spared those reQui
sitions in kind. which amount TO sew
eral thousands Of millions. and are ey-
hausting us.
There are other ways OF providing
for the maintenance of professiona.
ski among our wOrkpeOple. such as
leaving to Belgian industry its ma
:
terials and its manufactured goods
which have passed from Belgium int
Germany And il is neither TO The
t.uarries nor to the lime kilns TO which
the Germans themselves declare they
viii send our enlrloyed. that our spa
sia1istS will go 10 complete their pro
fessional education.
The naked truth is that every de
ported workman is another soldier FOL
the German army. He Will take the
place OF a German workman. who vii
| be made into a soldier. Thus the SIT
uation which We denounce TO the civil
lied world may be reduced to thes,
terms: Four hundred thousands work
: men have been thrown out OF worl
| BY no fault of their own. and largel,
/. on account of the regime of the occu
: patton Sons. husbands and fathers 0
, families, they bear their unhappy 10
. without murmuring. respectful OF pub
: lie order. national solidarity provide
D their most pressing wants: by din
q of unselfsh thrift and self-denial the
5 escape extreme restitution. and the
r await with dignity and in mutua
J. affection which our national sorrow
have intensified. the end of our con
tt mon ordeal.
J. Groups of soldiers introduce
J. themselves forcibly in the home G
= these people, tearing the young peOpl
out of the arms of their parents, tn
!. husband from his wife, the father froI