New Britain herald., 1917-07-14
GETTING TT FROM WITHIN.

over the cable from (1crnanv is news o1 the utmost importance, if true AS yet the air is misty. It is not clear just what is happening. But where there is so much smoke as the saving goes there must be fire. And if there
 is fire, the kind of fire America trusts
 1t ls and will be, the German Empire will be rocked to it's very depths and the House of Hohenzcllcrn will soon go the way of the House of Romanoff | What has happened in Russia is but q torerunner of what must happen in Germany sooner or later
 First We have the story to the effect that Chancellor von Bethman nn- HollWeg has resigned. Close on the
 heels of this news comes the dispatch telling of similar action on the part of the entire cabinet. The causes leading up to such actions,-if they really happened, too well known
 to bear repetition at this time. It
 was the battle between the Reichstag
 and the Imperial Government that
 brought about the present crisis. For
 crisis it is whether Bethmann-H -Hollweg
 has resigned or whether he still retains
 his portfolio. Crisis it is whether the
 cabinet has resigned in toto or
 whether the cabinet still sits in de-
 Lucrative council with his royal nibs,
 Wilhelm, Emperor of Germany.
 Granted that the Cabinet and the
 Chancellor have turned in their resg-
 has accepted them this news is the
 most momentuous and important news
 received in this country since the
 declaration of the war in August. 1914
 It is far more greater than all the an- nouncements of a forthcoming peace
 discussion. For, these announcements which tell of mere discussion of peace are in the abstract. The resignation of von Bethmann-Hollw and his cabinet friends are.-if true,-con- crete actualities. If not true, they are signs of the times and, as such, in dications of what is coming The handwriting is on the wall for all to
 see, even those who run.
 It is too bad that much fling must be done at this time; but the situation demands it. The American people have learned the futility of jumping at conclusions. They have learned. through the various stages of this war. the extreme value of patti 1 enco. Therefore, they will sit and wait until the true status of affairs in Ger
 many is officially made public Until , that time they are justified in dis secting the case as best they can.
 The German people are at last com ing into their own if internal con- ditions in the Empire are such as | they have been depicted in the past few days And there is no reason to 1 believe that all the news We are re- ceivins is false. If we believed the newspapers when they announced that war was started in 1914 we must be- lieve some of the stories they print about Germany's affairs in 1917. Time has proven they made no false statements in 1914 Time will prove the falacy or the truth of what we read today under European date lines. If the German Chancellor. who has behind him the full power and ap- proval of the Emperor has been forced to resign then indeed is there
 a crisis in Germany. If the German
 Cabinet which has hitherto worked
 hand in glove with the Chancellor
 and which has bowed and scraped be-
 fore the throne of Wilhelm, has act,l-
 ally been forced to throw up the
 sponge then indeed has the Auto-
 cratic government of Germany re-
 ceived d setback at the hands of
 Democracy. The German Chancellor
 was backed up by the Kaiser in a policy of no peace without anncXa-
 tions or indemnity. The mere fact
 that he has gone shows the German
 people themselves are not in sympathy with such a drastic stand. The world
 now but awaits a COntirna ton of all
 that is reported to have happened in
 order to prepare for tn" ro iOicinG that
 must come to Democracy whenever
 Autccracy receives a serious reverse.
 For almc~t three years the outside
 world has been trying to bring Auto-
 cratic Germany to her knees, or at
 least to curb the power of the House
 of EohenzoIlern. Even at this stage
 of the game the task seems almost
 impossible. There are many who be-
 lieve it cannot be done. These same
 folk, however. are willing to admit