The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-13

supply 7sooooooo bushels. against ordinary re
Europe. and Europe has other source of supply.
The supply Of oats on hand il April 1915 was about
ope get no more oats from us this year
The potato supply is in the worst condition Of all
and the United States produce bush
els Of potatoes Their total production during the past
tatoes in the Spring of 1915 was 4s cents busheL To-
day tho average price is 81
its peoples during the coming months and the United
States spare another bushel There will hardly
AS far as the minor necessities are concerned such
foods milk butter and the like have become lux
ures in Europe out of the reach OF the masses in any
The simple truth is that the civilized world after
three of destruction has food and
less the millions OF men under arms are put back on
that Europe simply hungry. We that it will
sTARvE-that millions of men and women and children
will die of famine.
Referring to the revolutionary spirit, the
American says:
In addition to the food shortage !. and d.
rect result that shortage the of Europe
seethng with revolutionary sentiment. The exam
other peoples The torch lighted in Petrograd has
set fire to all Europe. The peoples of England France
Italy, Spain Germany and Austria are all ripe for re-
They will be in revolution before long if the war
continues. Human nature has reached the limit of its
endurance.
The common people longer reverence their rulers
their privileged classes and what is to the point
they longer fear them Practically every ablebodied
man in Europe is veteran soldier and has arms.
There standing armies the people, because
the people themselves the armies. The spirit of lib
erty abroad whispering fuvely of hope and free
DOM but boldly procaimng the eternal truth of liberty
and equality under the applauding millions OF
who have guns and bayonets with which to make
good their aspirations and purposes.
Nothing is more certain than that this resolve
and this power OF democracy have powerfully i'm.
the rulers and the privileged classes in favor of
peace at any sacrifice.
We this strikingly demonstrated right in
Prussia, where the Kaiser is backing up Bethmann
Hollwegs declaration in favor of democratic political
stuons in Prussia to correspond with the liberal
institutions in other States of the German Empire -
We frequently hear the statement that the German
Empire is an autocracy and the German Emperor an
auocrat but that is far from the truth 1t is
from the truth however when said of the Kingdom
Prussia and the King of Prussia.
The electoral and other political reforms which are
of the German Empire very much counterpart of Eng
lands liberal monarchy ought to render peace much
easier to negotiate if it indeed true that the allies
waging against Prussian institutions.
With the reforms those institutions will auto
maticcaly vanish, and with them will vanish object
OF the If the Allies declarations sincere
proclamation Of liberal government in Prussia fol-
lowed by bonafide invitation to peace conference
might easily meet the approval of all the warweary
governments, and would certainly accordance
with all our declarations and tentative offers.
We suspect that the world will just such
lamaton and such invitation in very few days. and
it will not surprise bit negotiations
der before the flowers of the Maymonh faded
We do, indeed, believe that peace near at hand
And II the preliminary step is the characterization Of
Prussia and of Austria, and the firm establishment Of
free government in Russia, the world may agree that
after all, the war was worth its cost.