The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-02
Is THE END IN GERMANY AP.
PREACHING?

PROACHING?
Chicago Post: Our conjecture that
we were doing unwisely in counting a
German revolution as an utter impos
sibility has gained some measure Of
support from minor events Of the last
week
Straws are to be all that we have
to judge the wind by till the day that
it may suddenly develop into a cyclone
70 overthrow the Hohenzollerns and
end the war And little straws or bits
Of chaff have been blowing along the
right way Of late They consist of
stray opinions, new happenings in Ger.
many. a hint from outside statesman
ship, the feel Of the news-or trlres
light as air
The heaviest straw. perhaps. was
Lloyd.George's public statement that
the summit Of our hopes might be far
nearer than anyone in England. France
or Italy knew II is not like Mr.. Lloyd.
George 90 make such a statement un-
less he has something 10 base IL on.
British statesmen are not optimists in
accustomed TO paint things as darkly
as possible in order TO stir the Briton
20 an idea that something ought TO be
done about H. This is the paint which
Asquith and Northcliff and Llovd.
George have been using for three years.
That the prime minister should sud.
deny break all precedents and use a
splash Of the brightest OF all colors-
peace-is so surprising as 10 Z rec the
conviction that the words have some
reality behind them.
This is a word on peace. but i'm its
connotation it was also a word on the
characterization Of Germany. Another
word. more open, more insistent. be.
cause IL came within. was that uttered
by Philip Schiedemann in a speech
before G.O0O South Germans. He de.
clared In uncompromsing phrases that
Chancellor Michaelis and his cabinet
were obstacles to peace and that they
must go. He demanded a cabinet rep.
resentative Of the German people. And
back Of Scheidemann the German press
Of Socialistic leanings has been appeal.
ing 10 the pride Of the people 10 think
that they are the only great modern
nation without representative govern.
ment. Mchaeis. a kaisermade bureau.
crat. furnishes these newspapers with
exactly khe example they need 10 whet
their pens
or purely personal and Unofficial
opinions about the final breakdown in
Germany. the most interesting is that
OF Mr.. Frank II. Simouds. the New
York war expert Mr. Simonds has
steadily refused 20 set date for the
wars end Last week. however. writ.
ing Boo the New York Tribune he avow.
cd his belief that November. 1915. would
see the end Of the struggle He made
hi, deductions simply ON the cold mill.
ary arguments OF the exhaustion of
Germany's reserve man.power by that
time
To the documents iu the case we
would add the remarkable summary of
German popular discomfort made i'm the
current saturday Evening Post by 4.
Curtis Roth lately United States vice
consul az Plauen, in South Germany
HIS closing paragraphs run:
German officaldom is on "a headlonr
course OF destruction. II has strained
the bonds that formerly bound il to the
people until those bonds have broken
The process OF dislntegration. which be
gan after the defeat upon the Nlarn,
has reached such a stage that he VIII,
runs may read the certain story OF i'm
pending revolution. The people lool
with sullen suspicion upon their kaise
and all their present rulers. and the,
are being taught that all their hard
ships would cease. once they can nj,
themselves OF those rulers.
'Seditious talk has been common an,
very pointed for some time in Ger
many. and so widespread were the In
dications OF the approaching storm tina
the aStute Liebknecht believed NOR
than year ago that the time was rip
and sought TO fire the blast by an one
call to revolution made upon a publ
place In Berlin. Liebknecht left out q
consideration the inertia OF a peopl
50 thoroughly disciplined as are IN
Germans. lie failed. but the leader VIII
follows him viii sweep away the pre,
ent regime In a flood OF anger far NOR
destructive than was that flood whic
made Russia democratic.
1t Is not the breaking down OF Ge
many's military power. the attrition d
her men and materials. that will wi
this war. II is the breaking down ,
he German leaders hold upon the pc,
'le that will win Il. And I. for on,
m firmly convinced that Presider
Wilson, by making his wise distinctio
'etween the German government an
he German people, and by his fran
eclaration OF purpose to aid these Ge
'an people to free themselves from IN
1nds OF autocracy has enlisted
psychological factor 10 fight upon III
'ide OF the entente allies OF, more sll