Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-28
WARNS US AGAINST
GERMAN REVOLT HOPE

Through IFS exclusive news sources
i'm Europe The International New
Service has just received this inter
estIng ana illuminating account OF 'hH
revolutionary party u Germany
have been expressly requested hy
the German reyoufionarie- with
whom | am in constant communities
tion. % warn the press at the entente
counties, whether capiJafs.- or sn.
ciaIislir. to do its utmost 20 destroy
the Illusion of German revolution.
The German prola0l-iat with tHr
aid OF few ntellelnul-, cannot
pensable is a great measure ut help
make a revolution What IS ndi-
hpensanle is great measure of trlu
from the middle Glasses or thn peas.
ants. or better. urth these classes.
also ii possible military and. with ar
tillery ami officer vino would mead
the movement aui q parliament ~
give the revolution It's moral support
In the Petrograt revolution all
these elements came into forces 80 the
same time
Compare the Russian revolt with
the situation in Germany Do you
see the Reichstag revolving. with the
aged Or kaempt playing tho role of
Rodzianko We uight perhaps ind
a few Engelhardts, my corresponds
ents guarantee the existence in tine
German Officers Corps OF Democrats
Socialists. reyolutionaries and even
Anarchists. But they are a minority
in whom no hope can be placed In
any case. where could We find the
regiments, especially guard regi-
ments, to make the revolt a success
As TO the German middle classes,
without doubt a great majority de-.
sire reforms. but what they want still
more is a German victory. An eN
ception is perhaps formed by the
business men, who fear the effect the
submarine war will have upon trade
with North ana South America and
the far east So eXasperated are
they that they might give financial
support to revolution But apart
from these the middle classes SUN
look out to the battlefront with the
same confidence, ii not with the same
enthusiasm. as they did at the begin
ming They consider the Hiudenburg
or Segfried line absolutely an
breakable That is also the opinion
of the great mass OF people in Ger
many
A fIiudenhurg line that can never
be pierced, a submarine war that will
sooner or later force England to her
knees, a Russian revolution that will
as most people believe end in a sep
arate peace these are the three
props, for the courage Of the German
people during the critical three
months prior to the next harvest
The strike of a million workers in
April was question of stomach;
once it began to take on a political
aspect it was promptly stifed.
German reyolutionaries believe the
best service that can now be rendered
10 their cause is for pacitists and adj
vanced liberals in Eentente count
tries to labor no longer under the
defusion that there is the slightest
chance of a successful revolution in
Germany.
Regarding the military operations |
learn that the battle on the western
front is costing us very heavily in hu.
man lives. Recent calls to men yet
unm0bilized for health reasons have
furnished an appreciable number Of
reserves To replace these men il
was proposed to liberate the older
classes still with the active army,
but it is doubtful whether this will
be done.
The compulsory civil service law
has so far only been applied to the
working classes, but | hear WeIl-todo
people viii now be affected by the
plan.