New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-05-26

the bread has been secured to
rich and poor alike by the marvel
Gus German organization, the in
ference being that d united PEG
pie were bearing equally burdens
thrust upon them. The inference
is false.
1t is true that the same amounts
of bread and butter, meat and pc
tatoes are allotted to rich and
poor. But it is false. utterly
false, that the rich and the poor.
the powerful and the humble. are
enduring an equal suffering on
! behalf Of the Fatherland. Prices
have placed accustomed food and
clothes beyond the reach of the
wage earnerS. Those rations of
meat, of butter, of milk, and of
eggs that they can not find the
money through twelve hours a
day Of drudgery wherewith to
purchase do not still the cravings
of their hunger nor build up wan
ing strength. The vell-to-do are
not only able to purchase the full
amounts of their food, fuel. and
clothing allotments. but they are
able to purchase also, in any de
sired quantities, fruit, conServes,
venslon, rabbits, game-birds, fish.
and poultry. There remain to
the wage learners. as their wltipn
allotment and as within reach of |
their scanty earnings, potatoes.
war-bread, tutuips. salt, and
herring.
But the inequality of suffering
does not end at the table and the
wardrobe. The incomes Of the
Of the official, and Of the
WeIl-to-do classes have increased
iuring the war, while the incomes
IF the great mass of the people
rave shrunk sadly, Many of the
antilles of wage-earners have
ome to be entirely dependent s
Ipon the pensions, miserable pit f
ances. paid by the Government |
or the scant margin Of existence. =
The women and children of such +
antilles undertake any rough \
york that comes to hand, but are o
able, after the most severe en- f
eayor, to sustain themselves n
pom their earnings. They have a
pent their small savings in STAY D
lg off the wolf, and how they are a
Drced to work early and late and u
, stand in line once a week for r,
ne Government dole in order to Il
scape starvation. te
It has been said that two things e!
re required for a revolution o.
[unger and an Idea. There is m
unger in Germany. The lot Of 81
he workers has become unendur-
bic, and a strong leader might
ven now sweep them against the
1stem responsible for their mis- a
ry. There has been no lack Of I
'oradic uprisings in the past y ar, \
ut all these have been vigorously E
lpprest. The latest, and also v
le most successful, was the mu4 q
itions strike in Berlin and Span n
au, which is still smoldering. a
ere the workmen have won some u
nall concessions. These riots,
,ntinues the article in The
Iorld's Work. are likely to be 81
ore serious than the reports IN
ON Germany make out: bl
There were a number of small I'd
ltbursts Of Indignation in Munich IN
st spring and summer, minor dis ~
'rbances easily quelled by the al
)lice, and then came a very ser sc
us riot in the early part of last 10
ltumn. The newspapers, Of &C
'urse, made hardly any mention nj
tHcSt lIOuDIpS. ut w uIlICu
swspapers carried stories of VI
w lines, telling that a group of "
lruly boys had caused consid- as
able excitement by throwing ca
issiles through shop-windows yt
Id at the police, but that they IL
ere soon rounded up and placed
Jail. | learned details Of this 4
OF later from friend, an officer \
the German secret police, who
Id been present at the time.
The trouble started in one of
e clty's poorer quarters, when -
crowd of thoroughly angry men y,
I'd women demolished a dairy.
hey then proceeded up the street
roaming for food. for peace, for
avarian independence. The mob
.pyv in nnp1 horc o. ovo,x, o4o,, -